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		<title>Can you prove to me that this does not exist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy Joke (Existence and Simplicity)


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		<title>Plato, Desire and its Unrelenting Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love is often argued to be the most powerful and moving emotion. It drives us. Whether for sex, wealth, greed, power and/or for any other selfish need, we rely on this false ideology of love as being beautiful, untouched and selfless to claim our actions as permissible and out of the best interest of our


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		<title>A Shark Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would not be amazed if someday some angler caught a large shark, cut it open, and discovered inside was a whole person. Then the angler cut the person open, and inside was a smaller shark. And, although it would be incredible to see another human inside the smaller shark, there wouldn’t be, as the


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		<title>The Basic Conventions of Moral Philosophy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 09:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moral philosophy is the study of ethics in relation to the ultimate questions of morality. There are two main branches of thought being Metaethics and Normative Ethics. Metaethics: Question: What is the nature and methodology of moral judgement? The study of Metaethics studies the nature and methodology of moral decision and judgment and asks questions


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		<title>Why put off ’til tomorrow what you can do today?</title>
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		<title>Why are fools and fanatics always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met a girl the other day at uni who asked me my view on this question. A personal conviction is easier to formulate if you have lesser knowledge about a given topic. Our world is outside absolutes. The actual possibilities are relative to constant variables and factors that influence all aspects of the impossibility.


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		<title>If you eliminate the impossible, must whatever remains be the truth?</title>
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