Thursday, November 27, 2008

Boob Tube and Big Screen Geniuses - More Pop Culture Philosophers

When you inquire individual about philosophy, they would usually give you stares that screaming 'what the Hell are you talking about?' or would begin blabbing about some very ancient and very dead person who wrote the most esoteric and incomprehensible positions of the human race known to humanity. Though much of our current cognition of doctrine stems from these sorts of people, there is no deficiency of philosophers and wise work force in the here and now-a lot of us just don't cognize it yet.

Eschewing the stereotype that a philosopher have to be a deadening old adult male who prates about metaphysics and cosmology are the dad civilization philosophers of our time! They may be better at cracking ill-mannered jokes, toppling edifices or catching flies with chopsticks than authorship a treatise on human nature. Heck a batch of them aren't even existent people. But the wisdom that these people leave is enough for them to be called bonafide modern twenty-four hours philosophers. Just loosen up your criteria a spot will you.

- The Hulk: Alright so this mammoth greenness monster should may not be the most eloquent, persuasive or intelligent fictional characters around but he makes state us a batch about how our choler should never be contained with is smash-mouth, destructive manner of going about his business. If you follow this philosophy, the best manner to travel about things would be the most straightforward manner imaginable. And to never, ever repress your feelings. Bravo!

- Angus MacGyver: Now this is more than like it. A adult male that not only became an inspiration of an full coevals but even got a term named after him. Nowadays to 'MacGyver' something is to work out something in a very unique, originative and out-of-the-box manner. Not a bad manner to dwell your life, eh?

- Forrest Gump: Whoever said that the simplest of us are in fact the wisest must definitely have got had person like Forrest Gump in mind. It's not only his devotedness to the 1 he loves, the manner he manages life's ups and down feathers and his general good cheer that do him an astonishing philosopher. It's the fact that in the end, it is the simplest and most basic things that really matter. And this is exactly what Forrest Gump personifies.

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