Question thread?
I really like asking questions. I don't really buy into the Western rationale of starting with a conclusion and revealing the rationale there.
I understand that all this requires a small shift in how threads arise and moderated, so I wonder if we can be more open minded towards threads that are devoted to answering questions?
I understand that all this requires a small shift in how threads arise and moderated, so I wonder if we can be more open minded towards threads that are devoted to answering questions?
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Why? I wonder if you see a certain safety in asking a question? As if a question cannot be wrong.
I will venture to suggest that not only can a question be wrong, but that a large part of philosophy (but not all) is a matter of showing just how wrong some questions are.
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Certainly not. Everyone loves certainty and the devil is associated with the question asking as far as I know...
Quoting unenlightened
Good old Wittgenstein comes along and upends the entire field of philosophy by asking obscure and incomprehensible questions. Or in other words, there doesn't seem to be some hard limit imposed on the field of philosophy in regards to question asking of a nonsensical order, or not?
What's the issue here?
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong in asking the wrong questions. After all if nothing stupid was asked, then nothing brilliant would be discovered, or no?
It's your thread, dude; I'm just commenting on what's been said. What you just said that quoted me makes no sense to me. It having a question mark at the end doesn't help.
Not my problem. I didn't speak in Swahili as far as I'm concerned.
Good. Glad to have sort that out.
Incoherent babble. According to you nothing can get sorted out even if the carrot is right in front of you.
That's rich!
How about "lazy questions"? Is that less above your pay grade?
Maybe they make better sense in Swahili, doubtless nothing can be learned from it since we're all Anglo-Saxons hereabouts.
Just let me point out that if there's nothing wrong with stupid questions, then I don't think there should be anything wrong with a lazy one???
Zungumze mwenyewe, mzungu.
Speak for yourself, white, aimless wanderer?
Yeah, I will memorize that.
Since your name change, I'm picking up a defiant vibe. Maybe change your name again and return to the Eeyore thing you had going for a while. It was just as annoying, but the spinelessness kept you out of harm's way.
Lazy questions are bad posts. People can't engage with them, unless they manage to be stupid at the same time.
Sorry that I'm not sorry?
What's a lazy question since it got brought up?
Wait, who is he?
A pig.
Q~uestion->Posty McPostface->Wallows... And, finally my first real name, Shawn.
Sorry for the confusion...
That.
I think the point seems to be more like, what's wrong with asking a lazy question if nobody is omniscient?
And, what about lazy questions are so bad?
You mods need to loosen up or something before Michael goes bonkers again...
You need to tighten up before you go bonkers. Qualify yourself for something. Get a job. I believe @Hanover gives live-in courses in ambulance chasing. He's in Atlanta. You can get there by Greyhound. Do it.
I don't want anyone to take responsibility over a nutcase anymore. One visit in a psych ward in a shitty neighborhood was more than enough to break me down and make me go loony.
*slowly heals*
Foiled again.
It's all been self inflicted my man. But, I'm playing it safe from now on.
Yes, better stay away from Hansover anyway unless you like the view from under the floorboards.
Stop scaring the children.
When did I go bonkers?
I'm not your therapist.
There are several SEMANTIC errors here; it is not that you ask an unanswerable question, it is that you use English words that don't together make any sense, and that is not something what we call "sensible question". No, it is not in Swahili. But no table a turn hibernates congratulationally, either.
You seem to want to equate nonsensical questions with questions that are hard or impossible to answer.
There is a big difference. A hard or impossible question still can have sense, and it can convey meaning and insight. A nonsensical question, such as yours, is void of insight and has no sense.
This may be ONE thing the moderators are squashing.
I haven't seen a sample of your questions already banned, but if they are equally as nonsensical, then I am not surprized they are banned, and you ought not to be, either.
If my memory serves me right, you asked a whole bunch of unanswerable existential quesitons relating to psychiatric diseases, that somewhat resembled the following:
"Why not suicide?"
"Who else around here is depressed?"
"What to do with ennui?"
"I can't exist. Solution?"
And the like.
I don't think they are questions a philosopher can answer, be they amateur or professional. They need to be heard by a psychiatrist.
Yes, I used to be wallows. It is sad, yes? I feel sorry for Shawn being Wallows, and Wallows being Shawn.
Plenty of people suffering psychologically have been helped more by words than by medication.
Psychiatrists offer therapy as well as medication. Either way it's best to seek help from a trained professional, not random losers and one awesome person on the internet.
Jey. That's one awesome stink-bomb if I ever saw any. (-:
And modern psychiatry is based on many beliefs, some of which are false. Philosophy is partly about questioning authorities, yet psychiatry is one authority you guys blindly bow down to and don't like to philosophize about.
Maybe you should philosophize about why you don't want to philosophize about that? And maybe you should philosophize about why you see yourselves as random losers.
Since, He is an anti-realist, nothing he says should be taken seriously. He can keep His false sense of superiority.
Quoting Shawn
There's no sense of superiority or blindness in saying that mental health issues should be addressed by mental health professionals, not by strangers on a philosophy forum.
If you were to encounter someone in mental distress because they are drowning and they don't know how to swim, would you give them a hand, or would you direct them to a mental health professional, because you're a stranger and not a professional and so you can't help them?
Mental health professionals used to see homosexuality as a mental disease that should be treated. But homosexuals weren't suffering because they were homosexuals, they were suffering because of the persecution they endured. Was it the right choice then to direct them to mental health professionals so that they could be cured of their homosexuality? People who didn't see homosexuality as a disease were much more helpful towards homosexuals.
Many people have been worse off after being treated by mental health professionals. Many people have been successfully helped by strangers, or friends, or family. Both can be helpful. Philosophy can be helpful. Exercising can be helpful. All kinds of things can be helpful, mental health professionals do not have all the answers, and they do not always have the right answers.
Refusing to discuss with someone who suffers and only telling them to go see a mental health professional is often unhelpful.
Helping them out of the water doesn't require expertise in mental health. This is a nonsense analogy.
Quoting leo
That these things can be helpful isn't that we should favour these things over health care professionals. And whether or not these things help will depend significantly on what the mental health problem is. Philosophy and kindness isn't going to help treat the paranoid schizophrenic.
I'm saying that if someone has a mental health issue then they should seek professional help. If I don't believe that someone has a mental health issue (e.g. if they are homosexual) then I won't suggest that they seek professional help. So unless you want to say that Shawn doesn't really have mental health issues then this is a misdirected defence.
A philosopher can't reason his way into a treatment or cure for mental health issues. That requires training in medicine and psychology. That you think you might know better than them is the real false sense of superiority.
I don't take you seriously, at all. Keep on trying manus.
I have a doctor's visit on top of the existing medication I take for my schizophrenia. I hope to one day feel normal. Life has been so cruel to me. :(