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What sort of questions do you ask?

  • 15-05-2011 2:51pm
    #1
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭


    Do you ask, what is it that defines me? Do you ask whether you exist or whether maybe your existence is an illusion? Do you think about why you prefer that to this? What do you think when you see an event for the first time, and then realise that it could be your last view of it.

    Do you observe the smiles of children? The dog strolling through the park during early hours, free to roam in a green space, an oasis in a desert of brick and concrete? Do you watch lovers exchange their gazes, and wonder why it is happening and why with that person and not with the countless other people living on the planet. Do you gaze at the night sky and ask yourself, will I be there one day?


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  • #2
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Think you may be expecting a little too much from AH here.


  • #3
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    where does a degree in philosophy get you?


  • #4
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    Do you gaze at the night sky and ask yourself, will I be there one day?

    I think you are already there buddy.


  • #5
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Your still pissed aren't you?


  • #6
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    where does a degree in philosophy get you?

    Boring everyone to death in the dole queue


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  • #7
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    why isn't my favourite top washed?

    i left it on the floor as usual. is she getting lazy?

    should i be thinking of a trade in?

    mmmmm beer......


  • #8
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    Can I have a sandwhich?


  • #9
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    deathrider wrote: »
    Can I have a sandwhich?

    The real question is........are YOU the sandwich?


  • #10
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Would you like fries with that?
    Good phrase to know after graduating in philosophy


  • #11
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    I often ask is it too early to go too the pub. I give not a fúck whether the pub truly exists or not or the nature of time, I just check the position of the sun in relation to the yardarm and off I go. Philosophical perfection acheived.


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  • #12
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    Do you ask, what is it that defines me? Do you ask whether you exist or whether maybe your existence is an illusion? Do you think about why you prefer that to this? What do you think when you see an event for the first time, and then realise that it could be your last view of it.

    Do you observe the smiles of children? The dog strolling through the park during early hours, free to roam in a green space, an oasis in a desert of brick and concrete? Do you watch lovers exchange their gazes, and wonder why it is happening and why with that person and not with the countless other people living on the planet. Do you gaze at the night sky and ask yourself, will I be there one day?

    I ask "Why?"


  • #13
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Your still pissed stoned aren't you?

    FYP ?


  • #14
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?


  • #15
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Biggins wrote: »
    I ask "Why?"

    Just because, that's the why.


  • #16
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    Just because, that's the why.
    Why?


  • #17
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    Captain_Generic wrote: »
    The real question is........are YOU the sandwich?

    Nomnomnomnomnom!


  • #18
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Biggins wrote: »
    Why?

    'cos they're good


  • #19
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    'cos they're good
    Why?


  • #20
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    krudler wrote: »
    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

    What is it that you're saying?


  • #21
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Biggins wrote: »
    Why?

    That's the ones, yes. Yes are also good.


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  • #22
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Captain_Generic wrote: »
    The real question is........are YOU the sandwich?

    no the real question is if I don't eat the sandwich, has it still been made?


  • #23
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    I think, therefore I am
    I am, therfore I think
    I'm pink, therefore I'm spam


  • #24
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    There is no sandwich


  • #25
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Biggins wrote: »
    Why?

    Why not?


  • #26
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    when in a shop

    "do you do lotto?"

    "really?"

    "really?"

    for the third one I simultaneously pull an owl out of my bag


  • #27
    18AD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭18AD


    krudler wrote: »
    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

    You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense.


  • #28
    kudos73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭kudos73


    I go to a Banks ATM (an ATM from a bank I don't have the account with).

    How, when I try to withdraw money from the ATM it can tell me I have insufficent funds...

    But if I go to the ATM and ask for a balance inquiry, they cannot because my account is not with them....

    That really bugs me.... for some strange reason.


  • #29
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    stupidusername wrote: »
    no the real question is if I don't eat the sandwich, has it still been made?

    If you make the sandwich, and there's no one around to see you make it.............is it still a tuesday?


  • #30
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    I ask myself do dogs stroll


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  • #31
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Would you like fried with that?


  • #32
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    .


  • #33
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
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    For a greener Boards


  • #34
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    Do you ask, what is it that defines me?

    My friends, family, and personal experiences in life.
    Do you ask whether you exist or whether maybe your existence is an illusion?

    I know I exist, a swift kick in the balls surely proves without doubt you're real.
    Do you think about why you prefer that to this?

    Not really, I like Nutella. I don't care why, it just tastes good to me.
    What do you think when you see an event for the first time, and then realise that it could be your last view of it.

    If you're realising "this will be the only / last time I'll see this" then you're not truly experiencing the event.
    Do you observe the smiles of children?

    I hate kids.
    The dog strolling through the park during early hours, free to roam in a green space, an oasis in a desert of brick and concrete?

    It's a dog, it's either just going to piss over everything or start chewing on some rubbish left by some skanger.......or it might just stop on the path and leave a nice meaty shìt cigar. I've no reason to look at one.
    Do you watch lovers exchange their gazes, and wonder why it is happening and why with that person and not with the countless other people living on the planet.

    No, because nobody wants to watch a couple get all smoochy and schmaltzy in public.
    Do you gaze at the night sky and ask yourself, will I be there one day?

    No, I stare at the sky and wish I was waaaay off in the distance of the universe. Won't happen in my lifetime but that's what sci-fi movies are for :pac:

    pmcmahon wrote: »
    where does a degree in philosophy get you?

    Hopefully in the philosophy factory when it opens up :P


  • #35
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭davetherave


    I have often pondered one of life's great mysteries......what is the purpose of belly button fluff?


  • #36
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Contemplating Aristotle


    You may think that questions surrounding sandwiches, pubs and ATM machines are trivial, but you are wrong. To ask a question about a piece of food or a machine in a wall is to question existence as much as to ponder the alignment of the stars and planets and why we have life here on the earth. Each question is important, each questions relates to existence, to question is to be observe and without observation, there is no reality.


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  • #37
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    You may think that questions surrounding sandwiches, pubs and ATM machines are trivial

    Are you off your head?? There are among the most impoprtant questions of all!


  • #38
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    A good troll or really fcuked up?

    I'm still Contemplating, Aristotle.


  • #39
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Contemplating Aristotle


    Duggy747 wrote: »

    Hopefully in the philosophy factory when it opens up :P

    If I wanted to train for a vocation like an engineer or a plumber, I would have done so. Im happy to devote a few years of my life to seeking a greater understanding of the world rather than training to work for some souless greedy multinational.


  • #40
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    davetherave wrote: »
    I have often pondered one of life's great mysteries......what is the purpose of belly button fluff?

    For collecting and bottling in jars, so you can whisper to them on a cold winter's eve.


  • #41
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Crap like this would get the OP banned from the Philosophy forum


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  • #42
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    time to crack open the popcorn now

    *opens*

    or does it open me *contemplates*


  • #43
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    If I wanted to train for a vocation like an engineer or a plumber, I would have done so. Im happy to devote a few years of my life to seeking a greater understanding of the world rather than training to work for some souless greedy multinational.

    How about devoting a few years of your life to the philosopy forum instead of AH?


  • #44
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Contemplating Aristotle


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    Are you off your head?? There are among the most impoprtant questions of all!

    How does one define importance?


  • #45
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    If I wanted to train for a vocation like an engineer or a plumber, I would have done so. Im happy to devote a few years of my life to seeking a greater understanding of the world rather than training to work for some souless greedy multinational.

    yeah, cause there is lots of jobs going at the moment...


  • #46
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Contemplating Aristotle


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    How about devoting a few years of your life to the philosopy forum instead of AH?

    I will get there in time. Does it really matter which forum the thread is based in after all?


  • #47
    Captain_Generic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    How does one define importance?

    Finding a toilet when you're touching cloth is important


  • #48
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    How does one define importance?

    The time I spend in the pub x time spent looking for ATM x time spent seeking sandwhiches = total importance. Or not.


  • #49
    Contemplating Aristotle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Contemplating Aristotle


    Saila wrote: »
    yeah, cause there is lots of jobs going at the moment...

    Are we not happy with sufficient sustenance? Should one desire an expensive car and mansion if they are gained at the expense of happiness, working in a soul destroying job in a world that doesnt care? Is it not better to be happier, even if a bit poorer?


  • #50
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    Are we not happy with sufficient sustenance? Should one desire an expensive car and mansion if they are gained at the expense of happiness, working in a soul destroying job in a world that doesnt care? Is it not better to be happier, even if a bit poorer?

    why would you assume any job that pays well is a soul destroying one, for a soulless greedy multinational?


  • #51
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »
    Are we not happy with sufficient sustenance? Should one desire an expensive car and mansion if they are gained at the expense of happiness, working in a soul destroying job in a world that doesnt care? Is it not better to be happier, even if a bit poorer?

    As opposed to actually wanting to have a job and not be on the soul destroying social welfare? You're painting with an extremely broad paintbrush as if the only jobs out there are high paying ones in evil moustache-twirling organisations.


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