What is Phenomenology? - Page 3

**Stonnewolf** · 02-28-2006, 05:57 PM

Well i've seen many people say "WTF IS THIS SHIT" and "WTF?!" and many other ones, so i decided i would spell it out for you all.
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phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy - n

phe·nome·no·logi·cal (-n-lj-kl) adj.
phe·nome·no·logi·cal·ly adv.
phe·nome·nolo·gist n.

1. A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.

2. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
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So any questions please feel free to ask me.

Lucifer · 05-18-2006, 09:19 PM

Dark Star by John Carpenter. It's an old one, but definitely worth searching out and watching. I especially like when they teach the super-intelligent bomb phenomenology.

**Chad** · 05-18-2006, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by I'm a hero

Seems as if the whole lot of you must have skipped over existentialism in high school. Assuming the owner of this forum actually believes in the ideals he is repeating, then he is at a state of realization that most of you will never feel.

On the contrary, the whole bit about napster is confusing and allusions to this being just some gig that is reaping the gold off of a demographic with extremely unique interests, seems quite fitting. So yea, here I am. Here I am with all of the other lemmings; guard down, looking for a solution.

lol, the napster thing is a joke. BeastToast was not a nock off napster. (I just changed the banner to fit the site a little more...)

The Tyler · 05-18-2006, 10:10 PM

whats the point?

05-19-2006, 09:08 PM

I'm new here, I know you're probably thinking "What could a noob possibly know about the underpinnings of this site and it's purpose for being?" but I'm gonna take stab at defining it anyway

To me, this site seems to be a place to deconstruct our day to day, static, meaningless, mundane, white noise... so on and so forth. Which, let's face that is exactly what a lot of us need, an escape from all the entanglements of humanity, all the drama, and this place is somewhere we can all just BE... and that is pretty damn comforting to know that there is a place we can go to do that and even more so that there are other people in this crazy miexed up world that actually have their heads on straight and value things of this nature, well it makes me feel a little less insane, but that's just me. We're here to escape through the miracle of coincidence and to be astonished by the wonderous things we create when two strangers' exsistences collide, corolate, harmonize, diffuse, and overlap...

I can tell this place is full of brilliant people, teeming with those questions that don't get asked anywhere else and will most definitly catch on, and I'm proud to be a part of it !!!

Sorry if that doesn't make sense, I tried my best.

I'm a hero · 05-20-2006, 10:49 AM

Great attempt. You were correct, but in the true sense of the underlying purpose proclaimed, glorification should be nonexistent. You can not earn your scouts badge in realization by simply joining in on the fun. Decay your own destruction by way of understanding the pain of being.

Guidelines are also nonexistent; no one can help you reach realization. This is not a test, but if you cheat then you will not understand. I am not talking of this website alone. I am speaking of the idea that this digital domain represents. The masses here are just congregating on the basis that there is one stronger than them to lead on. Follow untill you fall off the path and then you will never want the crown again. Realize.

06-18-2006, 09:02 AM

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reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.

does this mean that this site is trying to get people to figure that reality as we know it is just as we wish it to be? is there a way to alter our reality? or am i just being a stupid noobie talking about what i have no idea about?

I just have ideas about it i guess. I started to watch What the bleep do we know?! at school once. It's kinda about this type of thing.

08-25-2006, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Goldy Nation

I am a philosophy minor at the best school for philosophy in my city, houston. Phenomenological is pretty easy to understand if you can explain it in simple terms:
It is regarding a philisophy based upon experience itself as a method for developing and determining philisophical, universal truths. So every day you wake up and brush your teeth, then you eat your breakfast, and go to school or work: this is a phenomenological experience, but it would be one more so if you were immediately aware of your eperience. Aristotle, who was an immediate sense realist said that everything within the supernatural realms, this is the subject of metaphysics, could be understood through ordinary experience. it is one of the most important things to understand bc there are ppl out there, philosophers ofcourse, who have all these radical claims like nothing exists.... we do not know anything.... skeptics will be deluded be those radicals and those innocent, those who are unaware of their fallasies toward a downward spiral of nihlism.

well, since you're getting a minor in philosophy, i'll be sure and listen to everything you say, especially your claims about aristotelian philosophy. more than that, i'm so glad you just pulled the rug out from under skepticism by saying aristotle wasn't one, and, of course, he's the end-all and be-all of understanding, so all those guys and girls who question things, including the notion of consciousness itself, clearly must have fallen prey to fallacious (note that 'fallacy' has a 'c' and not an 's') thinking. i sure hope they listen to you with your vast knowledge and avoid the dangerous downward spiral of nihilism that threatens their misguided souls.

08-29-2006, 08:16 AM

i dont get this site and i never will. im challenged in these areas. but i do like to figure out wat seems impossible to me. so im still gonna say.... HELP!

08-31-2006, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jennyjones

So: I think, therefore I am. Not: I am, therefore I think.

Descartes had something to say on the subject. Perhaps existence implies thinking. If one can think, they seemingly exist. If they exist, they seemingly think. Maybe it is just, "I think, therefore, I think I think." Nothing more. I'm not fully convinced a human being is capable of truly "thinking" about ontology without steping out of the self metaphore and attacking the question from a standpoint other than what they are used to.

10-14-2006, 10:56 PM

Hey look, I learned something today!