I started this on a whim, inspired by the "Politics" thread that I spied.

Simply ask a philosophical question or state a deep thought that may fire off a discussion.

A few things to keep in mind:
-Discuss the ideas that are presented instead of attacking the person who presents them.
- No arguments/insults spoken out of competitiveness/spite.
-Please stay away from religion and politics- the former is a rather touchy subject and often brings trouble when discussed, while there already exists a thread for the latter.

Now allow me to blend in with the shadows in the corner as I observe you intelligent people philosophize.

Example of philosophical question please?

Why does the bread always land on the butterside?


(Perenutet: Look at what we've done to the politics thread. Just how do you expect this one to fare any better?)

evillaugh wrote:Why does the bread always land on the butterside?


(Perenutet: Look at what we've done to the politics thread. Just how do you expect this one to fare any better?)

That's not philosophy, it's science. Some scientists won an Ig Nobel for solving it. Article here.

"Aston University's Robert Matthews got a thousand children to conduct 21,000 toast drops."

Exactly how many cookies *did* he need to persuade them to do this? These are the important questions.

21,000 cookies. One for each test.

Sentynel: I know that. Come up with a better question, I challenge thee!

(What have you guys done to my post?)

Haha! This is murder...

Philosophical Question: Why is your mother so fat?

It's the perfect crime, Perenutet.

Another philosophical question: Why did Perenutet expect us to take this seriously?

I still don't get what a philosophical question is. So, what is a philosophical question?

A question with no scientific answer that philosophers torture themselves over just so they can be spoken of when they're dead.

So, does "which comes first, chicken or egg?" counts?

The chicken. Then the egg, then the chick, and then the chicken again.

The answer to that is the egg came first, laid by something that was not quite a chicken.

(Evolution-tion-tion-tion.... *fading echo*)

Then let's change it,
Which comes first the chicken or the chicken's egg

Then it's the other way around, the first proper chicken lays the first proper chicken-egg.

the chicken`s egg of course... Then it hatched and became the first chicken

THANK YOU. Evolution people, evolution.

What is a prehistoric chicken, anyways?
I'm imagining a T-rex with a crest and feathers.

Ehh, sure why not? It`s not like a chicken came directly from a T-rex. Even under extreme environmental stress, changes in complex species are slow. So really, there is no definite line between chickens and their dinosaur ancestors. Just imagine progressively more chicken-like dinosaurs after each generation