Paul Jansen

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• Paul Jansen answered the question Is there a solution to the current econo …   10 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Ah, I do love this visionary answer, dressed in the clothes of a question. Thanks!

• Paul Jansen answered the question Is it right for an adult to base their c …   10 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Yes, and Yes.

• Paul Jansen answered the question Is the internet a genuine portal to rest …   10 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  The internet is a means, not an end in itself, leaving it usable for many ends.

• Paul Jansen answered the question h190 asked…   10 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Why not?

• Paul Jansen answered the question Is perpetual energy really such a delusi …   10 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  It is not, in fact: perpetual energy is a law-of-nature. I suspect that your question is realy about the possibility to cheat the balanced natural law in our quest to consume specific energy without bothering with balance. That, indeed, is a delusional notion.

• Paul Jansen answered the question linda asked…   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  If you let me, why not? Let me elaborate by asking the following question: “Is it ever acceptable to allow people to make me feel small, miserable and frightened sothat I do what they want me to do for the sake of expediency?”

• Paul Jansen answered the question Karma?   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Karma! Of what little we know (science) the prevailing principle in the universe is balance. And yes, I agree with Jordan, it is foremost a produce of my personal mind. Give me a hammer and I will show you nails everywhere.

• Paul Jansen answered the question What’s the best solution for reducing t …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  While we debate the debatable premise that ‘overpopulation is a problem’ I am quite confident that by the time nature agrees, it will be solved ‘naturaly’. For now the moral high ground would be to better distribute Mother Earth’s resources.

• Paul Jansen answered the question   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  There is a genuine philosophical paradox in your compound question! Say, for the arguement, that the answers to the first two questions would be #1 man, #2 nothing. Would you rephrase the third question? If we understand nature well, species came and went. In that context the third question is redundant. So I ask thee: [...]

• Paul Jansen answered the question thejester asked…   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  The very word ‘ethical’ implies judgement, indeed. Without judgement, no ethics. In the greater scheme of things judgement, and by it: ethics, do(es) not exist. Remember: paradise was before we ate from the fruit of the tree of right and wrong, and ethics were born

• Paul Jansen Asked: thejester asked…   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  A paradoxical question: is judgement ethical?

• Paul Jansen answered the question What do you think should be the purpose …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Knowing what art is (may I suggest: expressing oneself) would rather lead to accepting every human action as art rather then asking for its purpose. Anything not limited by purpose is… art.

• Paul Jansen answered the question If there is a sentient creator to all th …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Answering to you (the sentient creator) my aswers are #1 dont know, pray tell, and #2 are you?

• Paul Jansen answered the question How do you make decisions if you do not …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  You can not. And you, we, I do it all the time. In fact, were we to decide only upon having ‘all the information’ it would be the very end of deciding. This process (how) is called human behavior.

• Paul Jansen answered the question Philosophy of mind. Who makes the bette …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Both.

• Paul Jansen answered the question Julie Plumley asked…   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  A smile is in the eye of the beholder. Not joking!

• Paul Jansen answered the question What is the definition of life (and does …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  As with the (sound of the) falling tree in the forest, the practical answer lies within the one who asks the question. Life is just another word for me being aware (of me). It only gets complicated when ‘me’ starts projecting aspects of ‘me’ on that of which ‘me’ feels disconnected (dead). So, there is [...]

• Paul Jansen answered the question Can formalised education practices act t …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Little else ever did!

• Paul Jansen answered the question If you could choose to be any animal / c …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  I already chose. No regrets!

• Paul Jansen answered the question If the best things in life are free why …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  You just haven’t found the best things in life yet. Keep looking…

• Paul Jansen answered the question Does everyone agree with the statement t …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Absolute power implies the absolute powerless, and corruption implies second thoughts by those who gave away their power.

• Paul Jansen answered the question If you cloned yourself and then slept wi …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  It would be the materialization of self-love, the prerequisite of all other expressions of love.

• Paul Jansen answered the question Is the initiation of the use of force (v …   11 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Just used major force extracting a rusted nail from a beam: it felt right. In a court of law this question would be deemed ‘leading the witness’.