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What metaphysical concept should I write about?

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ohmythugaim
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I have a paper due yesterday, its for my metaphysics course. My prof has given 0 guidelines, says it can be an essay, a story, a poem, a play etc. about anything to do with metaphysics ranging between 1,000 and 100,000 words.

I'm bored of identity but open to suggestions. Time travel seems played out and almost pointless to discuss due to obvious paradoxes etc. Thoughts? Maybe something about consciousness?
Dec 8 2012 3:48PM
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ImRawAsFucc
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ur paper due yesderday....tht means its late....rite bout whatever the fucc u want cuz u gon get a bad grade ne way
Dec 8 2012 3:52PM
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HWW
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Write about dark energy and what you think it has been doing hiding away the last 13 billion years.
Dec 8 2012 3:53PM
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Puns
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first write a 50 word essay explaining what metaphysics is
Dec 8 2012 3:54PM
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panojibber.
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The self organizing principle! Very cool, often overlooked.
Dec 8 2012 3:56PM
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Spinoza
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wtf kind of class is this lol. that seems like an odd assignment.


and write about time travel duh. the grandfather paradox
Dec 8 2012 3:57PM
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ImRawAsFucc
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write bout december 21 2012
Dec 8 2012 3:59PM
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ohmythugaim
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Can you provide more detail? I understand the basic idea, not sure what I could really write about here. I just want to have a few beers and ramble away at my keyboard for a while.
Dec 8 2012 4:01PM
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ohmythugaim
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Prof. teaches logic and is good at it, but for some reason also teaches metaphysics and doesn't give a shit. The grading for the class = a presentation on anything to do with metaphysics marked only by classmates, and this paper. Easy A and I probably went to 4 classes all semester.


Time travel would be easy, but what is there to say? You can't go back in time because of paradoxes... I'll probably end up writing about this if I can't think of anything else interesting.
Dec 8 2012 4:03PM
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ohmythugaim
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"Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world,[1] although the term is not easily defined.[2] Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:
  1. What is there?
  2. What is it like? [3]

The metaphysician attempts to clarify the fundamental notions by which people understand the world, e.g., existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into the basic categories of being and how they relate to each other. Another central branch of metaphysics is cosmology, the study of the totality of all phenomena within the universe."

Dec 8 2012 4:04PM
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Spinoza
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i did a paper last year on the paradoxes of time travel, and i almost actually enjoyed writing it.

the website is basically the most reliable and informative source for just about all topics of philosophy.
it looks like theres some good stuff about time travel there. if youre interested.
Dec 8 2012 4:09PM
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ohmythugaim
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Seems likely that I will do this. My presentation was on the paradoxes of time travel presented in the simpsons and futurama so i have something to go off of.
Dec 8 2012 4:16PM
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Puns
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cool thanks

I am always interested in free will/determinism, I think that falls under this category
Dec 8 2012 4:18PM
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