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Anyone else get tired of...?

Questions in the philosophy section such as "Why????", or "What is the meaning of existence?", or "Do you think the things in 'The Secret' are true?"

Also, the amount of HW help (or rather "Will you do my homework for me?") is outrageous.

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting on the porch of The Academy shaking my old-man fist at passerby.

Update:

Brandi: I'm not saying that these questions aren't motivated by legitimate desires for wisdom - I'm just saying that they're horrible ways of expressing this desire. As another answerer put it, they're most often "convoluted to the point of irrationality," far too vague and ill-formed to admit of a coherent answer.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Add my fist, but it is a shaking head at the shameless ignorance and sloth.

    So many of the why questions are convaluted to the point of irrational.

    Wouldn't it be great if we discussed Hobbes and Locke and their impact on modern politics? Maybe when school is out this board will return to philosophy instead and the Books and Authors board can turn away from teen fan fiction. Cheers!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah....thats pretty basic...I always figure it's an individual answer. If you want to be famous, that's the meaning. If you want to be a mother, that's the meaning. And so on.

    I find it's cooler to question things like: What is cute? Cute seems to have it's own emotion attched to it that can affect reason and endorphins...I guess all emotion can, but cute is so odd...Well...you get the idea.

    And I'm sick of HW in the philosophy section, too. It really muddles up the space.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes I hate it when people ask "what is the meaning of life"

    I quit answering those questions, they should have subcategories for the philosophy section of Y!A.

    Also the 'homework help' thing really does get annoying. Who is going to want to spend 1+ hours of their time doing someone elses homework for them and then letting them take the credit. When this happens i simply copy and paste the most known thing on this subject so that they will get in trouble for plagiarism (misspelled)

  • mikk
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    It's shows how many people are bored stiff and lack the creativity to get up off their arses and do something with their lives. Like trying to learn something and get on in life without getting everyone else to do stuff for them.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You go to an academy? Cool!

    I wish people would answer their own philosophical questions sometimes. Once you start doing that, life follows. Kinda cool.

  • 1 decade ago

    some folk just gotta ask these things......

    I get tired of them too but live and let live - thats what I say !

  • 1 decade ago

    What kind of questions should we be asking?

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