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Post by bigjohnritchie on Feb 1, 2024 21:23:44 GMT
Or Hypothetical ones?
Anything goes?
If you could guarantee your end date would you take it?
What I mean , if " someone " ( the system/ God?) said that you could choose to die at say 80 , would you accept that....or take the chance of living longer?( Old Stokie need not reply).
If you knew your end date/ when your time was up, what difference would it make to how you live now?
Please add any other philosophical questions?
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 1, 2024 21:28:10 GMT
What makes women have an excellent memory (about anything negative) when drunk?
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Post by iancransonsknees on Feb 1, 2024 21:38:18 GMT
Do badgers shit in the woods?
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Post by sticky on Feb 1, 2024 21:38:40 GMT
Not the most philosophical one granted.. but for the next 12 months you can only pick 2 out of the 4 Alcohol Music Football Masturbating Think it’s a 1 and 2 for me.. hope the wife’s going give me hand😁 Although it is the euros🤔 no il go 1 and 3 actually
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 1, 2024 21:40:37 GMT
Not the most philosophical one granted.. but for the next 12 months you can only pick 2 out of the 4 Alcohol Music Football Masturbating Think it’s a 1 and 2 for me.. hope the wife’s going give me hand😁 Although it is the euros🤔 no il go 1 and 3 actually If you can live without any of them you’re a fucking weirdo
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Post by sticky on Feb 1, 2024 21:41:56 GMT
Not the most philosophical one granted.. but for the next 12 months you can only pick 2 out of the 4 Alcohol Music Football Masturbating Think it’s a 1 and 2 for me.. hope the wife’s going give me hand😁 Although it is the euros🤔 no il go 1 and 3 actually If you can live without any of them you’re a fucking weirdo 😂
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Post by iancransonsknees on Feb 1, 2024 21:46:10 GMT
Not the most philosophical one granted.. but for the next 12 months you can only pick 2 out of the 4 Alcohol Music Football Masturbating Think it’s a 1 and 2 for me.. hope the wife’s going give me hand😁 Although it is the euros🤔 no il go 1 and 3 actually If you can live without any of them you’re a fucking weirdo I could easily live without football.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 1, 2024 21:47:58 GMT
If you can live without any of them you’re a fucking weirdo I could easily live without football. Only because we’re fucking shite mate
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Post by atillathehoneybee on Feb 1, 2024 22:03:18 GMT
Why is " dyslexia " such a difficult word to spell...
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 1, 2024 22:04:30 GMT
Did X-Files lead to a shift towards more conspiracy theories?
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Post by iancransonsknees on Feb 1, 2024 22:08:24 GMT
I could easily live without football. Only because we’re fucking shite mate In general, I'm only really bothered about Stoke nowadays and 90s Serie A.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 1, 2024 22:09:05 GMT
Only because we’re fucking shite mate In general, I'm only really bothered about Stoke nowadays and 90s Serie A. And annoying badgers of course
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Post by iancransonsknees on Feb 1, 2024 22:14:41 GMT
In general, I'm only really bothered about Stoke nowadays and 90s Serie A. And annoying badgers of course It's a sport of sorts.
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Post by lordb on Feb 1, 2024 22:36:26 GMT
What makes women have an excellent memory (about anything negative) when drunk? Practice And they don't need to be drunk
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Post by musik on Feb 1, 2024 23:00:05 GMT
Or Hypothetical ones? Anything goes? If you could guarantee your end date would you take it? What I mean , if " someone " ( the system/ God?) said that you could choose to die at say 80 , would you accept that....or take the chance of living longer?( Old Stokie need not reply). If you knew your end date/ when your time was up, what difference would it make to how you live now? Please add any other philosophical questions? Eeh, but ... You mean I have a time to live decided by God in advance and then refuse it and try to live even longer by acting God myself? I don't think it would work.😉 If I want to know? It depends. If it said I died 14 years ago I would have contacted the Tax Authorities to get a refund.
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Post by musik on Feb 1, 2024 23:06:00 GMT
Another philosophical question.
If the state, WHO, United Nations or EU decided noone is allowed to be more than 50 years old and if they already were they had to be shot - due to the environmental climate crisis on Earth - what would you do? Would you contribute with your body?
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Post by wannabee on Feb 1, 2024 23:07:07 GMT
When Dog Food is claimed to be "New and Improved" who has tested it?
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Post by lordb on Feb 1, 2024 23:50:59 GMT
When Dog Food is claimed to be "New and Improved" who has tested it? Dog food testers well paid job apparently
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Post by wannabee on Feb 2, 2024 0:42:46 GMT
When Dog Food is claimed to be "New and Improved" who has tested it? Dog food testers well paid job apparently I relieved to hear that Because I'm opposed to Animal Testing
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Feb 2, 2024 1:32:32 GMT
Not philosophical, but of you could go back to any point in history, when would it be?
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Post by auntiegeorge on Feb 2, 2024 1:59:19 GMT
Not philosophical, but of you could go back to any point in history, when would it be? That's a great question, and something I've often thought about in my adult years. Ideally, I'd like a Tardis so I could return to many different times and places in history. I've got a list of about half a dozen time periods, but for now it would be fascinating to return to the late 1700s in Stoke as the ceramics industry was really starting to industrialize and take on scale. The perfection of blue underglaze printing and the invention of bone china in 1799 by the Spodes, father and son, must have been fascinating to observe. The consequences of both were immense on a global level. Did you know that the Spode factory did not have electricity until 1927? All those exquisite ceramics produced under natural daylight and gas lamp. Extraordinary.
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Feb 2, 2024 7:59:28 GMT
To answer the OP.
Yes I would take 80 and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to what I would do at the moment but my 79th birthday day party would last all year.
And by way of passing on the baton....
If god is all powerful and all seeing then he/she knows how your life is going to pan out and whether you are destined for heaven or hell. In effect you have no free will and are doomed/saved whatever you do. Do you find this liberating or depressing or just another good reason to believe religion is just a load of bollocks? Or is there a problem with the logic of the premise?
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Feb 2, 2024 8:08:54 GMT
To answer the OP. Yes I would take 80 and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to what I would do at the moment but my 79th birthday day party would last all year. And by way of passing on the baton.... If god is all powerful and all seeing then he/she knows how your life is going to pan out and whether you are destined for heaven or hell. In effect you have no free will and are doomed/saved whatever you do. Do you find this liberating or depressing or just another good reason to believe religion is just a load of bollocks? Or is there a problem with the logic of the premise? One of the problems with religion CB it is a world wide historical and current fact of being human, liad of bollocking or not. Even people who are not religious in the usual sense of the word have some of the motivations and behaviours of Religious people but from a different source. Unfortunately I do think the battle between Islam and the West ( which I'm going to say incorporates Christian and Jewish foundations( ironic as the roots are in the Middle East)) is one of the major world wide issues.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Feb 2, 2024 8:25:00 GMT
Does God have parents?
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Feb 2, 2024 8:41:03 GMT
To answer the OP. Yes I would take 80 and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to what I would do at the moment but my 79th birthday day party would last all year. And by way of passing on the baton.... If god is all powerful and all seeing then he/she knows how your life is going to pan out and whether you are destined for heaven or hell. In effect you have no free will and are doomed/saved whatever you do. Do you find this liberating or depressing or just another good reason to believe religion is just a load of bollocks? Or is there a problem with the logic of the premise? One of the problems with religion CB it is a world wide historical and current fact of being human, liad of bollocking or not. Even people who are not religious in the usual sense of the word have some of the motivations and behaviours of Religious people but from a different source. Unfortunately I do think the battle between Islam and the West ( which I'm going to say incorporates Christian and Jewish foundations( ironic as the roots are in the Middle East)) is one of the major world wide issues. I was brought up Catholic and am now an atheist but while from a philosophical position I think all religions are fundamentally flawed I do recognise that they are culturally and historically important and play a big part in some people's lives. At root Judaism, Christianity and Islam belong to the same family of religions - the god of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the same god. It is people claiming they have the one true interpretation of what that god wants is the problem and it isn't just a matter of Islam v Christianity v Judaism it runs within those sects just as divisively - there are Shias who hate Sunnis and Protestants who hate Catholics (and vice versa) and history is littered with atrocities between all sides. Family fueds are the worst. Having said that they are millions of people of all faiths who don't want to get sucked into the hatred and are happy to coexist. Every religion has it's arseholes. To answer my own question...I don't think god exists and we are the accidental product of nature so there is no conscious being who sees our past present and future. In fact our future simply doesn't exist until it happens so it is literally impossible for anyone to know what is going to happen anyway. However this does not mean we have freewill- out thoughts and behaviour are the product of chemical processes over which we have no conscious control. Basically shit happens - just enjoy the ride before entropy takes it's inevitable toll.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Feb 2, 2024 9:21:20 GMT
One of the problems with religion CB it is a world wide historical and current fact of being human, liad of bollocking or not. Even people who are not religious in the usual sense of the word have some of the motivations and behaviours of Religious people but from a different source. Unfortunately I do think the battle between Islam and the West ( which I'm going to say incorporates Christian and Jewish foundations( ironic as the roots are in the Middle East)) is one of the major world wide issues. I was brought up Catholic and am now an atheist but while from a philosophical position I think all religions are fundamentally flawed I do recognise that they are culturally and historically important and play a big part in some people's lives. At root Judaism, Christianity and Islam belong to the same family of religions - the god of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the same god. It is people claiming they have the one true interpretation of what that god wants is the problem and it isn't just a matter of Islam v Christianity v Judaism it runs within those sects just as divisively - there are Shias who hate Sunnis and Protestants who hate Catholics (and vice versa) and history is littered with atrocities between all sides. Family fueds are the worst. Having said that they are millions of people of all faiths who don't want to get sucked into the hatred and are happy to coexist. Every religion has it's arseholes. To answer my own question...I don't think god exists and we are the accidental product of nature so there is no conscious being who sees our past present and future. In fact our future simply doesn't exist until it happens so it is literally impossible for anyone to know what is going to happen anyway. However this does not mean we have freewill- out thoughts and behaviour are the product of chemical processes over which we have no conscious control. Basically shit happens - just enjoy the ride before entropy takes it's inevitable toll. CB I agree with that....the major world religions are simply ideologies thst have been more successful than others. The bit perhaps I don't agree with is freewill, but that might be semantics and definitions. As you say anything can happen in the future...." we" can decide BUT " we " have had no control over our genes, history and ( to a large degree) our environment.... so are our choices, in a sense, predetermined? We could get to a stage where no one is responsible for anything....because it was our brain's fault ( I'm thinking here, in a court if law for instance...." it wasn't my fault your honour, it was my brain"
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Post by Eggybread on Feb 2, 2024 9:29:59 GMT
Does an afterlife exist?
If you could press a button and receive ten million pounds, but one person would die, would you press the button and who would be the person?
If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money?
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Post by frasier37 on Feb 2, 2024 9:56:46 GMT
As of today I'd say I don't want to know but, I remember as a 9yr old making a pact with God....give me a good life until I'm 60 and ill be happy because any older and life will prob be shit. Today I'm 59
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Feb 2, 2024 9:59:53 GMT
I was brought up Catholic and am now an atheist but while from a philosophical position I think all religions are fundamentally flawed I do recognise that they are culturally and historically important and play a big part in some people's lives. At root Judaism, Christianity and Islam belong to the same family of religions - the god of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the same god. It is people claiming they have the one true interpretation of what that god wants is the problem and it isn't just a matter of Islam v Christianity v Judaism it runs within those sects just as divisively - there are Shias who hate Sunnis and Protestants who hate Catholics (and vice versa) and history is littered with atrocities between all sides. Family fueds are the worst. Having said that they are millions of people of all faiths who don't want to get sucked into the hatred and are happy to coexist. Every religion has it's arseholes. To answer my own question...I don't think god exists and we are the accidental product of nature so there is no conscious being who sees our past present and future. In fact our future simply doesn't exist until it happens so it is literally impossible for anyone to know what is going to happen anyway. However this does not mean we have freewill- out thoughts and behaviour are the product of chemical processes over which we have no conscious control. Basically shit happens - just enjoy the ride before entropy takes it's inevitable toll. CB I agree with that....the major world religions are simply ideologies thst have been more successful than others. The bit perhaps I don't agree with is freewill, but that might be semantics and definitions. As you say anything can happen in the future...." we" can decide BUT " we " have had no control over our genes, history and ( to a large degree) our environment.... so are our choices, in a sense, predetermined? We could get to a stage where no one is responsible for anything....because it was our brain's fault ( I'm thinking here, in a court if law for instance...." it wasn't my fault your honour, it was my brain" I'm talking of freewill as it is conceived in the monotheistic religious traditions where "you" is your soul which is independent of your body and through freewill tells your body what to do. It is the soul that supposedly survives death and goes to heaven or hell. I don't believe the soul exists - "you" are a manifestion of biochemical processes in your brain which are influenced by your genes, history and environment. There isn't a "you" that is independent of the physical processes going on in your body and "you" aren't this incorporeal thing that tells your body what to do. However this bodily manifestation is still "you" and in a legal sense it is still this "you" who is responsible for your actions. There isn't a separate "you" that can claim it wasn't "you" that did what you did. Who did what you did was "you" even if it wasn't the product of an incorporeal soul with freewill.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Feb 2, 2024 10:00:11 GMT
As of today I'd say I don't want to know but, I remember as a 9yr old making a pact with God....give me a good life until I'm 60 and ill be happy because any older and life will prob be shit. Today I'm 59 Keep going, just remember, at least you are not Felonious
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