Question:
FOR REAL PHILOSOPHERS OUT THERE,can you answer these questions?
albus severus
2010-11-18 21:10:20 UTC
can you give me a reasonable answer and give a realistic explanation?
here they are:
1. If two opponent boxers pray the night before the fight,whom god will hear?
2. Is there a view from nowhere?
3. I have a pen right now, prove to me that it does not exist.


please?sure 10 points for the answer with the most plausible answer and with the most realistic explanation.
thanks in advance:)
please,this is urgent,thanks in advance again:)
Nine answers:
2010-11-18 22:32:43 UTC
1) God will hear both of them... but I think he's listening for gratitude. The winner is the man who's contented with whatever results he's about to get and the other is the one who doesn't feel... contented. A battle, any battle... isn't always about the end. It's about receiving blows, falling and standing up again. And when you fall, and realise that you can no longer stand, you accept defeat and give credit to the other.



Success is a journey, not a destination. Somehow, it's the middle part that matters most.



2)There is a view from nowhere. A view is all about perception. From one place, at one direction you may not see anything, and yet from another direction, you will see something. Incidentally if you are standing at the oxymoron known as nowhere, you should be able to see somewhere... since you are at nowhere.



3) Somehow I believe your third question has something to do with "Cogito ergo sum"(by Rene Descartes), which means "I think, therefore I am". A pen cannot think, thus it ceases to exist in more senses than one. A pen doesn't ponder over it's existence, it doesn't question its creation... it cannot dream, nor can it assume it's physical body, thus it ceases to exist to itself, nor to its surroundings. See everything, exists in our heads(or more precisely our mind)... thus if we do not have a head, we cannot think... and we don't exist. See there is a possibility of you being a Martian who dreams of living a human life.



Hope I made enough sense.



Cheers!!!
2010-11-19 08:52:05 UTC
1. God doesn't hear anyone. It's all a chance of probability. God won't have anything to do with the match. If you prayed to a famous movie star same chances would happen if you prayed to God. It's all in probability.



2. God can be a view from nowhere. But maybe not. Does God exist? If you're alone and no one is watching you, then there can't possibly be a view from 'nowhere'.



3. If it's in your hand isn't that proof enough? If it's a dream then wasn't it still real in your dream?
Vandite
2010-11-19 06:01:04 UTC
1. If two opponent boxers pray the night before the fight,whom god will hear?

2. Is there a view from nowhere?

3. I have a pen right now, prove to me that it does not exist.



1. Neither, because no one will be able to prove either of the supposed God heard either of the boxers, and a simple victory of one of the boxers couldn't prove that either.



2. Perhaps with the aide of imagination, the bending of reality, and by immersing yourself in absurdity, one can believe there is a view from nowhere. In realistic terms though, nowhere cannot be defined, thus cannot be associated with anything besides cinema-like statements, such as "Oh my, we are in the middle of nowhere!".



3. I need not prove, for nothing in this universe is deemed real, whether it be Mathematics or the most complex of sciences, everything in the universe is made up, thus obsolete in the minds of most logical thinkers. One can go on believing whatever they desire, whether it be a panther who meows songs written by the Beatles and happens to be the supreme being of the Universe, or a belief that ketchup has spiritual properties, anyone can believe anything.



One can submerge himself or herself in the most powerful tool he or she has, his mind, and be universally correct for every statement he makes and action he goes forth with.
2010-11-19 05:19:56 UTC
1.) Both because God is one who does not pick favorites.

2.) There is no such thing as nowhere because nowhere would be required to have a location. There for, nowhere would have to be somewhere making a contradiction of itself.

3.)Imagine your self in a state, then a country, then on an earth in a solar system in a milky way floating around inside a never ending universe of the unknown. Now imagine you pen being a single electron in an atom making up cells making up an elephant. You are not entirely sure if it is truly there, you just go by what others say and what you think you see. Now tell me, is it a pen or is it even really there?
Jon S
2010-11-19 07:01:32 UTC
1. If two opponent boxers pray the night before the fight,whom god will hear?



It depends on your interpretation of god and prayer.





2. Is there a view from nowhere?





If there is view nowhere, then nowhere is there a view.





3. I have a pen right now, prove to me that it does not exist.



It is impossible to proof the non existence of the physical matter that comprises the pen since it is self-evident. However, your concept of a pen is reliant completely on your brain and psychological constructs.
nameless
2010-11-19 07:07:06 UTC
1. If two opponent boxers pray the night before the fight,whom god will hear?



~~~ God will hear both. Each hears himself. What we hear, god hears. WHat god hears, we hear! There is no difference between 'God' and the complete Universe, Reality, 'Self!', Consciousness, etc... etc...



"God cannot know himself without me." - Meister Eckhart



"The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same." - Meister Eckhart





2. Is there a view from nowhere?



~~~ Other than as a word on this monitor, there is no such existence as 'nowhere' or 'nothing'! If it is not perceived, it does not exist!

Existence = the complete Universe = Reality = Consciousness = Truth = 'Self!' = God = Brahman = Tao ...

ALL INCLUSIVE!!

Everything exists! All inclusive!

Everything is Real! All inclusive!

Existence/Reality is all inclusive!

That which is perceived exists. All inclusive!

That which exists is perceived. All inclusive!

Not a thing exists (notice that I didn't say that 'nothing' exists, 'cause it don't! *__- ) that is not perceived. All inclusive!

Not a thing is perceived that does not exist. All inclusive!

There is no, nor can there be, any evidence to the contrary!



"The complete Universe (Reality/Truth/God/'Self!'/Tao/Brahman... or any feature herein...) can be defined/described as the synchronous sum-total of all Perspectives!" - Book of Fudd

ALL INCLUSIVE!!!





3. I have a pen right now, prove to me that it does not exist.



~~~ Everything exists!
Uncle Remus 54
2010-11-20 02:54:34 UTC
1. God answers the prayer of both fighters. He alone knows who will win and who will lose.



2. Only blind people have a view from nowhere since they do not have the sense of sight.



3. The pen may exist because you say it does. I am not there to see it and I am thinking you are not lying to me.
2010-11-19 05:13:48 UTC
1. make peace not war (LOL)

2. YOU CANT BE NOWHERE

3. can you write with your pen?
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2010-11-19 05:11:36 UTC
there is multiple choice because there is more than a single philosophy.


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