Philosophy matters

True thing:
If I tell the truth about everything I will offend some people.

False thing:
If I offend some people I must be telling the truth.


From: philosophy matters

If I think therefore I am.

What is my wife REALLY saying when she says I am thoughtless?

@divegeester said
True thing:
If I tell the truth about everything I will offend some people.

False thing:
If I offend some people I must be telling the truth.


From: philosophy matters

That sounds about right. My favorite is:

Wisdom is not like a flower one can pluck from a bush. It is like a mountain that one must climb.

@fmf said
If I think therefore I am.

'I think therefore GM'

Simon Williams GM

One's life is self-referential non-fiction which may as well be fiction to everyone else.

We don't know we are dreaming when we are dreaming.
So how do we know when we are awake and its not a dream.

@The-Gravedigger

I know when I'm dreaming about 80 percent of the time.
I can also wake myself up when the dream gets scary.

I can't run in my dreams.
I just can't seem to master the running thing.

@divegeester

Isn't Philosophy for the dumb kids who aren't smart enough for the real classes so they take Philosophy just so they can stay in school and not grow up?

Now that...is a Philosophical question.

“There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.”

Cicero

@the-gravedigger said
We don't know we are dreaming when we are dreaming.
So how do we know when we are awake and its not a dream.

Because the bits of our brain that filter and sort experience are now awake and available to make the distinction.

(Assuming they are not affected by illness or disconnected by extreme experience resulting in derealisation.)

@lipareeno said
@The-Gravedigger

I know when I'm dreaming about 80 percent of the time.
I can also wake myself up when the dream gets scary.

I can't run in my dreams.
I just can't seem to master the running thing.

Its supposed to be quite unusual to know you are dreaming, it has happened to me 2 or 3 times.

@relentless-red said
Because the bits of our brain that filter and sort experience are now awake and available to make the distinction.

(Assuming they are not affected by illness or disconnected by extreme experience resulting in derealisation.)

You are probably onto something there RR.

@fmf said
If I think therefore I am.

What is my wife REALLY saying when she says I am thoughtless?

So...if I don’t think, I’m not?🤔😲

@the-gravedigger said
Its supposed to be quite unusual to know you are dreaming, it has happened to me 2 or 3 times.

Interesting. I'm going to look that up. I probably have some underlying mental disorder or something.

@lipareeno said
Interesting. I'm going to look that up. I probably have some underlying mental disorder or something.

Perhaps “your” brain just thinks that dreams are of no real concern and has decided that it has more important things to deal with when sleeping?🤔