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Why bother with philosophy?
What's the point? We've never learned anything useful beyond the fact that we're just self-centered animals who prefer killing to being killed. We're social animals, so we can be lazy and let the society do our killing for us (most of the time), but that's as complicated as it gets.
Why waste time trying to glorify carniverous apes? Learning for its own sake? No such thing. We learn to be better than other learners because we're just big, egotistical baboons flexing our pects at each other. Everything we do is just the activity of animals fighting each other. We glorify it because it makes what we're doing seem more glorious than what other fighters are doing.
This is a waste of time. We are a waste of time. The universe will get along fine without us because we mean literally nothing compared to the rest of it.
The sooner the better. I hate all of it. It's complete and utter bullshit.
7 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
- 1 decade ago
Philosophy guides your day to day. You can't change the World, but you can absolutely chang yourself. And it's good advise, because all that rage your feeling makes you not only unhappy, but in a long term sick.
Spend some time in Nature and see how beautiful trees and flowers are. Take some time to do something you like, there must be something.
The world couldn't be a 100% perfect or else we wouldn't notice the beauty and the love, in comparison. You have to accept the cold and the hot; the light and the dark; the pain and the pleasure; the yang and the yin.
I'm sure you'll overcome this fase as long as you stop feeling pitty for yourself. Others have to struggle with the same or even worst problems.
Don't worry, be happy.
- TempleLv 51 decade ago
My goodness!
You certainly have your philosophy.
Philosophy is important because it is from thought that comes action.
Hitler had a philosophy and the action was devastation.
The Mahatma had a philosophy and it freed a nation.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a philosophy and it freed a nation.
Philosophy matters because it results in action.
Do not be deceived.
Philosophy matters.
- 1 decade ago
You see without philosophy we would have beeen simple animals.Doing whatever comes up and not giving anything a second thought.
But humans are civilised.Their actions are put to second thought by themselves or others.
The universe will go without us but we can't live without the universe, right? So we live according to some morals and cultures. That's it.
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- 1 decade ago
Dear unhappy person, you need,seriously, to read Ayn Rand's works on philosphy. You are the epitome of what she couldn't stand. Read her and maybe your nilism may end and you will become enormously happy and confident. It might save your life, literally and figuretively.
- CapriciousLv 41 decade ago
philosophy glorifies the epitome of all that you wrote......
It provides us with facts of how beautiful the human mind is......we are lazy and useless, but we can at least look back at the people who actually were humble and tried to make this world a better one.....
