The short answer, ant, is everyone experiences existencial crises. Existential crises have to do with how we define ourselves. Who am I? What is the meaning of my life? What is the meaning of life in general? What will I do now? How can I live without him/it? Am I doing what I should be doing with m...

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johnson I just finished watching The 6th Day. I'm impressed, that was a much better movie than I thought it would be, what with Ahnold and all. It actually poses and gives its own answers to some of the questions we've been talking about. What would it feel like to exist besides yourself? How would ...

A best book may be onethat has an impact and an impact that has longevity. We readers are fortunate to have so many. I think that's a good definition for "best book" Suzanne. How about it? What if we turn this into a fun little inquiry into what we believe the most influential books in th...

Actually, much of which you have written about has been used in science fiction novels, movies or television. I'm a huge star wars fan, or was when I was a teenager. One of the first book series I read was this series by Timothy Zahn in which, basically, a functioning cloning facility is made opera...

Have you guys ever seen The Prestige? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gHCmTQDVI Consider the implications of teleportation as you've described it. The technology itself actually implies two (and possibly three) different mechanisms: one that disintegrates and reconstitutes a body, one which can cop...

Suzanne, I'm curious about your opinion on Don Quijote, I've read both volumes and I've gotta say I liked it, but it wasn't the life changing sort of thing I was expecting it to be. I mean it's good, you feel for this guy. In a way it's easy to see that we all have our own Don Quixote inside of us, ...

I think DWill's got it right, you get pseudoscience when someone follows an unscientific method to reach a conclusion which is then termed scientific. But there are scientific studies around the paranormal, extraterrestrials, etc. Should these studies be termed as unscientific because their hypothes...

youkrst wrote:i just read the first bit of book one

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Thrasymachus finds the Socratic method quite testing...

it's like arguing with Interbane

Jowett's introduction is really interesting, thanks for that.

…You must have known Chaerephon; he was early a friend of mine, and also a friend of yours, for he shared in the recent exile of the people, and returned with you. Well, Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whet...