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   Humanist to All   
   Re: Philosophy doesn't make any sense !   
   12 Jul 04 00:52:07   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy   
   From: x@y.z   
      
   Paradox:If human thinking is worthless, then the conclusion itself is   
   necessarily flawed. The clueless cannot recognize his cluelessness and   
   remain clueless. But in all fairness, paradox is "justified" if the   
   assertion "the situation is meaningless" as Sir Frederick, Jeff Relf and   
   others have stated in this NG.   
      
   Philosophy... thinking about things outside our everyday context, does   
   change things. Everyone does it. Some more than others: someone who has   
   just survived cancer for example will have a lot to think about. Or   
   maybe a scientist after a discovery like determining the age of the   
   universe or the Aspect experiment. We humans can't help pursuing this   
   part-time activity. It also affects our thoughts and our world-view,   
   reconfiguring our minds and necessarily influencing our actions as a   
   result.   
      
   I think you're also saying that we should only engage in activities that   
   (directly) produce things? All engineering and no research? All   
   carpentry and no geometry? All work and no play?   
      
   Philosophy does not make any sense, nor does anything at all.   
      
      
   In article <89ec59b9.0407111507.1caf607d@posting.google.com>,   
   maya_egg@hotmail.com says...   
   >   
   >   
   >Nobody in the whole universe cares about what a few pathetic humans   
   >think IMO.   
   >   
   >I think we should stop philosophy now, it has no purpose at all,   
   >because thinking is worthless and philosophy cannot change anything.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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