Philosophy Now Forum

I don't believe the religious stuff, but the statement "I breathe so I can tell people that I am getting older" I like, because it is honest and correct. Often when you get asked "How are you" it is only a shallow question, which many people don't expect an honest answer to.

I am going to make an assignment in school. I am thinking about writing how you can get affected so much by watching movies or reading books. I saw this movie the other day, Moonrise Kingdom, and it really got me. I thought about my life and how to live it and so. It is to me a great thing that movi...

I don't know if anyone have said this yet but I'll do it anyway: How many movies or books have you read, which didn't include some kind of catastrophe(death, ruined relationship, war etc.) in the plot? I know very few, but not much = Yes, art/creativity/philosophy has it roots in a world, where some...

Forged in hell: What you seem to describe/quote is power and sadism(if sadism means to enjoy watching other suffer). So you mean power and sadism is really important in life?

Thanks for the replies. I find them interesting. Atthet: I think I can identify with the opinion, that "I before we". I sometimes try to tell myself, that I can only be happy, if I feel that my surroundings are in harmony. If that's true, then I don't have to feel shame or disapointment, b...

Hi. I am a man who seeks inspiration with the question: What is really important? I sometimes think, that everything we feel is important is decided by instincts and not by something else. Maybe it is all right that all I do, we do, is decided by instincts like every other creature, but when people ...