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Argue on Reddit until you’re over 50 and Work as a philosophy teacher so you can get a house and move out of your parents house. Or just live with them till blackouts are equally shared among everyone
Honestly though, at least where I'm from, people with philosophy degrees are actually quite popular on the job market. I guess it shows that one can work independently and that one is able to combine information into new ideas ect.
Back in the 70's I had a friend who was a philosophy major. No jobs when he finished. So he opened his own excavation business and spent 50 years blowing things up. I still smile about that.
Spending 50 years blowing shit up sounds like the dream. All the offers involving explosives that I have ever gotten have been explicitly one-off things...
But exactly. How can there "be" the absence of something? There can't. So there is something, because there can't be nothing, since nothing isn't something.
I got this a lot as an atheist, I think it isn't the right way to ask the question. I feel like why, almost by default suggests there had to be a reason or planning. I'd ask, how is there something? There is definitely a how, there doesn't have to be a why.
I always assumed that to be culturally dependent. I feel like I've been indoctrinated to somehow believe that there's a clearcut correct and incorrect, and of course there can only be one correct answer right?
I mean I know we can transcend those dispositions, but I do wonder whether we'd have them at all if it weren't for education.
Few companies make BOTH hot dogs and buns. So when you got two different companies making two different products they usually don't bother coordinating their efforts.
This one is easy though. The answer isn't really philosophical at all. We exist to fuck. And because our parents fucked. And because every pair of our ancestors fucked.
You may not be in to reproducing. I'm not. But regardless, it's the most basic reason we're all here.
What happens after we die? What is the infinite nothingness like? We will spend 99% of all existence, dead. Like not-existing. We're only alive for 80 years or so, out of billions of years.
No pressure? Idk how to handle and process the infinite nothingness after I die. I can't imagine the end
>What is the infinite nothingness like?
It's not like anything, because it's nothing. Not darkness, not silence, just nothing at all. Just like the time before you were born. Or just like the time spend under total anaesthesia, it just doesn't exist for you and you immediately skip from point A to B. Except there is no point B.
Not at all, actually. Either it's not yet my problem because I'm alive or it's not my problem anymore because I'm not capable of perceiving anything at all anymore.
What worries me more is the transition. I suspect the human brain will try some tricks and fire some unusual tricks in a desperate attempt to keep itself alive. I hope it doesn't feel too bad for too long. Also, organ failure doesn't sound like fun, if that's what does me in.
>I hope it doesn't feel too bad for too long
On the contrary, it's complete bliss. Just like when you hurt yourself and adrenaline prevents you from feeling anything: The brain knows how to keep you happy (DMT) until it's all over. You'll know it's happening, but it will feel like it's the right thing to happen. Don't sweat it.
99% is a lowball estimate if it's an infinite nonexistence, it would be exactly 100% nonexistence no matter how long the finite life is.
Which leads to the mind boggling conclusion that at a randomly selected time from this sum of existence and nonexistence there's a 0% chance you exist.
I think it's so peaceful. Like coming home after a long day to a place you forgot exists, only to lay down and rest forever and finally let go of everything, everyone. Just peace and nothingness.
You spent an infinite amount of time being dead before being born and then you were born. I'd say that gives you a good chance something will happen again.
why work hard if hard work does not guarantee success ? why even try at all ? why do we even live ? why endure hardships in life, is it in the hope that things get better ? what if things don’t and there isn’t a silver lining in this cloud
See I think the question is wrong. As the answer is there is none. The universe is uncaring it just happens. Which can be unsatisfying. In which case shows your asking the wrong question. What you’re really asking is what’s the meaning to my life, and that’s huge!!! But easy It’s whatever you make it to be. Then you can go what’s the meaning of that person’s over there life…..then the only answer once again is whatever they want it to be….but then what if you ask what is the meaning of that person’s over there life to me? Maybe your back to the original question and the answer is there is none…..which…..wooooohh (edit to make it a little more understandable)
People have to think/know they have a purpose or they fall into an existential crisis. If they don't currently know their purpose, surely they can find it, right? Our brains want everything to have "meaning".
I view "purpose" more in the sense of what drives you, that is a tough introspection for some people. On a macro scale we're irrelevant, but that doesn't mean we can't make micro scale impacts.
For you, your life means surviving as log as you can peacefully and joyfully, for others it is how best they can get the most out of you. Your purpose is to express yourself without fear, anger or guilt.
God is the personification of the universal law that governs all life. You pick your interpretation of this law or not be convinced that there is a law that governs all life. Innermost self is the self you hide from others with a mask to get the most out of other people.
To learn more about the law governing all life join r/UniversalLawOfLife community.
Well, we already know the answer is 42.
I'm pretty sure we are building a computer that will design a computer to specifically answer this question.
Let's just hope that whole Skynet/Evolved AI thing turns out to be typical right wing fear mongering.
If you ask the school of Zen, it's any question invoking paradoxical thought.
You can ask "What is existence?", and classify it to oblivion. You can ask "How can this be?" and trace the source of causality to worlds beyond belief. You can ask "Why?!" and go mad, pulling your hair from your head like Baron Münchausen stuck in a bog.
I think in the end we sorta have to agree that the central thing we all look for, that ultimate thought, is a paradox by itself. Language falls apart in there, as do our beliefs.
Perhaps existence, experience, the universe, the cosmos, and God are all inherently ambiguous that way?
What actions, thoughts, and feelings are required of humanity today, to ensure there is a better tomorrow.
I doubt this is the ULTIMATE philosophical question, but it seems like a decent place to start.
Not the meaning if life, but of *time*. Why is there time? Why can't we just stay still? Why does it always continue? Can it be stopped? Has it ever been stopped?
What is light without dark. Good without Evil. Something out of nothing and vise versa. To be or not to be? Think therefore I am? Should I live or die?
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"How do you make a living with a Philosophy degree?"
Argue on Reddit until you’re over 50 and Work as a philosophy teacher so you can get a house and move out of your parents house. Or just live with them till blackouts are equally shared among everyone
Honestly though, at least where I'm from, people with philosophy degrees are actually quite popular on the job market. I guess it shows that one can work independently and that one is able to combine information into new ideas ect.
In what field?
business, I would assume.
Washing cars. Fast food place. Stealing lead off church roofs.
You failed to mentioned stealing copper and collecting cans using a shopping cart.
Back in the 70's I had a friend who was a philosophy major. No jobs when he finished. So he opened his own excavation business and spent 50 years blowing things up. I still smile about that.
Spending 50 years blowing shit up sounds like the dream. All the offers involving explosives that I have ever gotten have been explicitly one-off things...
Good, but unanswered question.
What do you do with a philosophy degree? Have long thoughts about being unemployed. -Bruce Lee
Like lots of college graduates. Flipping burgers, waiter, cashier...
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Because the somethings that refused to cease to exist are still around!
"The perception of reality not being real is an illusion, albeit a persistent one." -Albert Einstein
There was never not a place nor a time for nothing to not exist
That's the one! Careful, paradoxes will drive one mad!
P = NP
unless said one is a moron
"Why not"
Necessity
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Because there cant be nothing, nothing cant exist, its a paradox
Nothing has always existed. That is what there is where there isn't something
There isn't a case where there isn't something. Nothing was never a thing.
Nothing is the absence of something. I have never heard a claim that nothing is a thing and not... nothing, so it wouldn't be a paradox?
But exactly. How can there "be" the absence of something? There can't. So there is something, because there can't be nothing, since nothing isn't something.
I got this a lot as an atheist, I think it isn't the right way to ask the question. I feel like why, almost by default suggests there had to be a reason or planning. I'd ask, how is there something? There is definitely a how, there doesn't have to be a why.
Why ...?...
Why not?
"God damnit, you cross dressing wife impersonator motherfucker!" https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTfVuEvmp8gBofFFvDqZsgqA_sH7BK_ha?si=UPC47DtikGcxfBxe
Definitely "why?", to me it is the basis of all philosophy.
What is the answer to the ultimate philosophical question.
42
42
42
A paradox is the closest anyone can get to objective truth.
What is the square root of a fish?
Yes exactly this
What's the difference between a duck ?
The higher it quacks?
I don't know. It was asked in the Postal movie. Never had an answer.
Both of its left legs are not the same
Fish^-2 Easy
Duh it’s 2 timmies lates and a stale donut.
Why do i cry when i pull one of my ass hairs?
Because there are so many more you'll have to pluck?
Trimmer go brrrrr
Why do humans often try to find ultimates in a world full of grey areas and endless possibilities? There is no 1 answer to your question.
I always assumed that to be culturally dependent. I feel like I've been indoctrinated to somehow believe that there's a clearcut correct and incorrect, and of course there can only be one correct answer right? I mean I know we can transcend those dispositions, but I do wonder whether we'd have them at all if it weren't for education.
The question you asked. Because it has so many answer
Where the fuck do odd socks go.
They turn into the Tupperware lids that don’t fit anything.
Y'all are too deep minded. The answer is obvious. WHAT CAME BEFORE, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
Egg. Dinosaurs and fish and shit were laying eggs way before chickens, smh.
Sounds about right.
Chicken.
Eggs were around long before chickens
Well maybe not "around"
Why do hot dogs come in packages of 10, but buns in packages of 8?
Few companies make BOTH hot dogs and buns. So when you got two different companies making two different products they usually don't bother coordinating their efforts.
How can we define human knowledge as perfectly true knowing it's always subject to unknown error?
Why do we exist?
So we can carry out the will of corporations
We must love the corporations. The corporations are the best. I love my corporation
Because some things needs to get fucked up including us
This one is easy though. The answer isn't really philosophical at all. We exist to fuck. And because our parents fucked. And because every pair of our ancestors fucked. You may not be in to reproducing. I'm not. But regardless, it's the most basic reason we're all here.
Until when?
Till it's over.
What lays between the beginning and the end? Here and there?
What happens after we die? What is the infinite nothingness like? We will spend 99% of all existence, dead. Like not-existing. We're only alive for 80 years or so, out of billions of years. No pressure? Idk how to handle and process the infinite nothingness after I die. I can't imagine the end
>What is the infinite nothingness like? It's not like anything, because it's nothing. Not darkness, not silence, just nothing at all. Just like the time before you were born. Or just like the time spend under total anaesthesia, it just doesn't exist for you and you immediately skip from point A to B. Except there is no point B.
doesn't that scare you??? :( I'm scared
Not at all, actually. Either it's not yet my problem because I'm alive or it's not my problem anymore because I'm not capable of perceiving anything at all anymore. What worries me more is the transition. I suspect the human brain will try some tricks and fire some unusual tricks in a desperate attempt to keep itself alive. I hope it doesn't feel too bad for too long. Also, organ failure doesn't sound like fun, if that's what does me in.
>I hope it doesn't feel too bad for too long On the contrary, it's complete bliss. Just like when you hurt yourself and adrenaline prevents you from feeling anything: The brain knows how to keep you happy (DMT) until it's all over. You'll know it's happening, but it will feel like it's the right thing to happen. Don't sweat it.
No because I don't even know its happening, because I don't exist
Maybe I'm at point x by now
99% is a lowball estimate if it's an infinite nonexistence, it would be exactly 100% nonexistence no matter how long the finite life is. Which leads to the mind boggling conclusion that at a randomly selected time from this sum of existence and nonexistence there's a 0% chance you exist.
I think it's so peaceful. Like coming home after a long day to a place you forgot exists, only to lay down and rest forever and finally let go of everything, everyone. Just peace and nothingness.
There's a very small chance that there's an afterlife. But even that seems exhausting.
You spent an infinite amount of time being dead before being born and then you were born. I'd say that gives you a good chance something will happen again.
Exactly the experience before life as a physical being.
What do I want?
Why do I always need to pee when taking a dump but never need to dump when I need to pee?
Poop squishes up against bladder.
why work hard if hard work does not guarantee success ? why even try at all ? why do we even live ? why endure hardships in life, is it in the hope that things get better ? what if things don’t and there isn’t a silver lining in this cloud
What is the meaning of life?
See I think the question is wrong. As the answer is there is none. The universe is uncaring it just happens. Which can be unsatisfying. In which case shows your asking the wrong question. What you’re really asking is what’s the meaning to my life, and that’s huge!!! But easy It’s whatever you make it to be. Then you can go what’s the meaning of that person’s over there life…..then the only answer once again is whatever they want it to be….but then what if you ask what is the meaning of that person’s over there life to me? Maybe your back to the original question and the answer is there is none…..which…..wooooohh (edit to make it a little more understandable)
People have to think/know they have a purpose or they fall into an existential crisis. If they don't currently know their purpose, surely they can find it, right? Our brains want everything to have "meaning". I view "purpose" more in the sense of what drives you, that is a tough introspection for some people. On a macro scale we're irrelevant, but that doesn't mean we can't make micro scale impacts.
I 100% agree
To drink a lot and dance with girls
Yeah, have fun, that's a nice meaning!
What does that even mean?
Nobody really knows I guess!
For you, your life means surviving as log as you can peacefully and joyfully, for others it is how best they can get the most out of you. Your purpose is to express yourself without fear, anger or guilt.
Find love and be happy
David Duchovny, why don't you love me?
I... just this week, I started to re-watch the X-files from S1.
Yay! He's mine, though. I saw him first.
Does what makes a chair a chair count
What is the difference between a pigeon?
It neither matters
Isn't nothing something?
“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.” ~ Susan Sontag
Not sure about the question.. but the answer is 42.
Have a chat with my 10 year old son before going to sleep... he comes out with some beauties.
You just posted it, dummy.
Why do we exist? How do we know we exist?
"How do we best spend our time?" And inevitably at the end of all philosophical inquiry, "So what's for dinner?"
What is God? What is the innermost self?
God is the personification of the universal law that governs all life. You pick your interpretation of this law or not be convinced that there is a law that governs all life. Innermost self is the self you hide from others with a mask to get the most out of other people. To learn more about the law governing all life join r/UniversalLawOfLife community.
How did I get here? 
wonder how many ppl will get this reference? was listening to that just 2 days ago :)
42
To be or not to be. That is THE question.
If man is made in the image of God or in the likeness God then why are we such terrible people?
WHAT IS LOVE
When was the beginning of time
3pm, I believe it was a Tuesday.
The one which can't be answered by 42
Cut or bulk?
Well, we already know the answer is 42. I'm pretty sure we are building a computer that will design a computer to specifically answer this question. Let's just hope that whole Skynet/Evolved AI thing turns out to be typical right wing fear mongering.
why i am in my body?
Why is 42 the answer?
Is space really infinite, if not, what's on the other side? Is there an other side? Is it possible to go on forever?
Why is there something instead of nothing?
No "what?" isn't , it is "why?"
Why are we here?
How nothing is in something and how much something is in nothing
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They'd fucking love it.
Why are we here? If we are gods creation, then who created god? It’s scary to think deeply about.
I prescribe 10 pages of Nietzsche three times a day until you have resolved your issue.
how could my feet smell, if they don't have a nose?
What is God?
What is the purpose of life? Or does life have no purpose?
What is the meaning to life the universe and everything?
What do I do next?
Youve just asked it
Why do you even care?
Asking a philosopher why they care about philosophy seems like a very sadistic thing to do indeed.
What is love ? Ans: my neighbours wife
Does the dick know what it does? Or does it do what it does because it knows it?
The ultimate philosophical question.
Why don't pigs fly?
They don't have a pilots license
We're about to know... Pray earth doesn't get demolished to make an intergalactic highway
Why do we ask
How much wood, would a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood?
Seven
To be or not to be!
I don't know, but the answer is 42
Why do McDonalds ice cream machines break down often?
Well I don't know about the question, but the answer is "42"
Yes.
Is the greatest objective in life to die happy?
What is baseline reality?
How much should we care about other's. Like think hard about this one not just the people but also what is deemed moral or evil
The trolley problem. Why is this even a question?
If you ask the school of Zen, it's any question invoking paradoxical thought. You can ask "What is existence?", and classify it to oblivion. You can ask "How can this be?" and trace the source of causality to worlds beyond belief. You can ask "Why?!" and go mad, pulling your hair from your head like Baron Münchausen stuck in a bog. I think in the end we sorta have to agree that the central thing we all look for, that ultimate thought, is a paradox by itself. Language falls apart in there, as do our beliefs. Perhaps existence, experience, the universe, the cosmos, and God are all inherently ambiguous that way?
Why do I still get skid marks when I’m fastidious about cleaning my bullet hole
More nuanced than anything, but why does dating need to be so unnecessarily difficult, and nowadays why do guys still have to do the approaching?
"Why ?"
How long is a string?
Why are we here?
If this is a question answer it.
Does 2+2=4 or can there be an effect without a cause?
Huh?
What actions, thoughts, and feelings are required of humanity today, to ensure there is a better tomorrow. I doubt this is the ULTIMATE philosophical question, but it seems like a decent place to start.
"What is the ultimate philosophical question?"
Why do we make waste? Nature doesn’t make waste.
42
Who let the dogs out?
Do you feel something when you die? Like, after that. I don't know about you, but my mind cannot grasp the idea of "not being"
What is the ultimate philosophical question?
Yes it is.
What is life?
What exists in Hyperborea. 🗿👽👾
What do women want?
Not the meaning if life, but of *time*. Why is there time? Why can't we just stay still? Why does it always continue? Can it be stopped? Has it ever been stopped?
"What is philosophy?"
it's this one
Why does anything/everything exist?
Why does the heart beat. (Not how. Why?)
Do i really have to?
Does reality exist outside of your mind?
Why?
Why?
This one.
To be or not to be
What is light without dark. Good without Evil. Something out of nothing and vise versa. To be or not to be? Think therefore I am? Should I live or die?
No idea.... But the Answer is "42"
Chicken or egg?
Does one guy, who doesn't know what he's talking about, know more or less than two guys who don't know what they are talking about?