What is your philosophy?

[Lasitha]

Instead of planning so much, why don't we fly higher?

Do all it takes so the day you die you can say you tried your best.

[Sekkite]

Instead of complaining about a problem, break it down and think about what you can do to improve so the problem doesn't arise again.

[Lordwafik]

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[Ankiseth]

Hahahahaha I have seen that on here before but wow did that make me laugh Wafik.

[Parshias]

Just wing it.

[Erebus]

Hooter hooters yum yum yum

Hooter hooters on a girl that's dumb.

[Pyrena]

There's a difference between being outspoken, and being an ignorant bitch.

[Not Kuno]

There's no sex in the champagne room.

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[Septimus]

Hooter hooters yum yum yum

Hooter hooters on a girl that's dumb.

Al Bundy, the thinking man's philosopher.

[Skyylya]

There's no sex in the champagne room

Say's who...



Live today for tomorrow we die.


And I would like to report my findings on an old subject. Yesterday at work for some odd reason the 'birds and the bee's came up in conversation. Now I had never really been explained this as a kid I just always knew the correlation to sex. Well it occured to me yesterday when an co-worker said that:

Birds and bees need to get pollin from one flower in order to pollinate another flower, it struck me....

We are the birds and the bees....and we need to sleep with multiple women at the same time, or at least frequently in succession in order to, metaphorically of course, pollinate them. Polygamists unite!

[merper]

The most powerful fear is the unknown

That covers afterlife too, but applies to a lot of other things.

[Brendam]

Live and Learn

Enjoy every moment in life, You may never have it again.

[DeusNoctis]

Music is the filter through which we smoke our lives.

[BRP]

The most powerful fear is the unknown

That covers afterlife too, but applies to a lot of other things.

If you mean ghosts and such, I see that a relief, not a fear.

And Maddox is win.

[merper]

I mean like other stuff that people are afraid of, like deep water, darkness etc, can all fall under fears of the unknown.

And being a ghost as an afterlife is a relief? What are you going to do after the universe collapses on itself (or ends in whatever way it ends)?

[Skyylya]

I mean like other stuff that people are afraid of, like deep water, darkness etc, can all fall under fears of the unknown.

And being a ghost as an afterlife is a relief? What are you going to do after the universe collapses on itself (or ends in whatever way it ends)?

I sort of disagree with the idea that the only thing to fear is the 'unknown' at least with your examples of deep water and darkness. Because when you think about it there is very little that is in fact unknown.

Take deep water for instance. People are not afraid of deep water because what is unknown about it, people are afraid because of what 'is' known about it. Sharks, moray eels, baracudas, jelly fish etc... these are what drive the fears. Sure there are things we dont know about deep waters, but that isn't necessarily why people are afraid of it.

As for darkness, I can't really agree with the fact that it's the unknown things in the darkness that people are afraid of, it is the known things like the fact that a thug could be hiding in a dark area where you can't see him, or there might be something in the dark you can't see that you might trip on, or hit your head against etc.... It's these knowns that drive the fears.

I know that you could argue that it's still unknown whether or not they are there, even if it's known that they exist. But on the scale that we're discussing i would say that describing the only fear as the unknown would be on a much more grand scale.


As far as ghosts and the universe collapsing on itself(or in some other manner ending) i don't think that it's a problem. Disregarding the fact that the universe is still expanding at enormous rates and there are no signs of it slowing. If somehow the universe did end, it would in essence destroy everything, including supernatural matter (if you even believe in such nonsense). Don't let hollywood fool you into believing that things like psychics, ghosts and the supernatural(in hollywood terms) are real things.

[Erebus]

I saw a ghost once...

[merper]

I sort of disagree with the idea that the only thing to fear is the 'unknown' at least with your examples of deep water and darkness. Because when you think about it there is very little that is in fact unknown.

Take deep water for instance. People are not afraid of deep water because what is unknown about it, people are afraid because of what 'is' known about it. Sharks, moray eels, baracudas, jelly fish etc... these are what drive the fears. Sure there are things we dont know about deep waters, but that isn't necessarily why people are afraid of it.

As for darkness, I can't really agree with the fact that it's the unknown things in the darkness that people are afraid of, it is the known things like the fact that a thug could be hiding in a dark area where you can't see him, or there might be something in the dark you can't see that you might trip on, or hit your head against etc.... It's these knowns that drive the fears.

I know that you could argue that it's still unknown whether or not they are there, even if it's known that they exist. But on the scale that we're discussing i would say that describing the only fear as the unknown would be on a much more grand scale.


As far as ghosts and the universe collapsing on itself(or in some other manner ending) i don't think that it's a problem. Disregarding the fact that the universe is still expanding at enormous rates and there are no signs of it slowing. If somehow the universe did end, it would in essence destroy everything, including supernatural matter (if you even believe in such nonsense). Don't let hollywood fool you into believing that things like psychics, ghosts and the supernatural(in hollywood terms) are real things.

First of all, I didn't say these were the only causes of fears, I just said the Greatest fear is that of unknowns. If I knew there were no sharks or eels or whatever in the water I was swimming in, I would have very little to fear from it. It is the fact that I can't know if this is true or not, that it is an unknown, that makes me fear the water. Same thing for the darkness example.

There are known knowns and there are known unknowns, but there are also unknown unknowns.

<3 boondocks. But anyway, the examples you gave are known unknowns ( you know sharks and robbers exist but you don't know if they are actually in the water or darkness you're in), whereas death is an unknown unknown since no one really has any freaking idea what happens after, which is still a source of fear, though hopefully not as much as a known unknown(say for example if you knew you were going to hell after you died (or heaven, they both sound terrible AFAIC))

And the ghost thing was in response to the guy saying he'd be happy to be a ghost or such after he died. I don't know where you got the idea I believed in ghosts, so that was a waste of a paragraph.

[Ashen]

Ignorance is indeed bliss.

"A man who shows no fear is a hero,
A man who knows no fear is an idiot."

[Sadler]

"Who dares, wins."

&

"Everything starts from nothing"