HEAVY QUESTIONS
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Any fool can ask the big questions, but only a philosopher is capable of finding the answers - Mtsar
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- Why are we unable to rationally and conclusively answer the “who made who” question?
- Why are we unable to know for sure why the universe exists?
- Why are we unable to know for sure why we exist?
- Does God exist?
- Given that it is impossible for anything to exist without a maker, who is God’s maker?
- Why do human beings conceive of a godlike being?
- Does God change, or is he constant from beginning to end?
- Is God in or out of the time continuum?
- Does God inhabit a space in the accepted sense?
- Is God identical with his creation? (Pantheism)
- Is God identical with the creation, developing with it? (Pandeism)
- Is God separate from his creation as well as being its creator? (Panentheism)
- Is human reason capable of knowing God’s nature? (If reason is not sufficient, how can we be sure that God is good, all-knowing, let alone real?)
- If we accept that reason is not capable of proving a Creator’s existence, does it mean that we should make room for faith?
- Will God’s existence ever be empirically proven?
- If God’s existence is proven, what changes as far as humans are concerned?
- Given that God exists, why hasn't he made his presence clearly known?
- Does existence have meaning if God does not exist?
- Why did God not create a more perfect world; free from suffering, evil and injustice?
- Why did God endow his human creations with free will and then immediately punish them severely for exercising it?
- How did reality come about? What engendered the universe?
- Was the Big Bang the actual beginning of the universe?
- If God does not exist, why did men invent him?
- If there is a separation between mind and body, why has no empirically clear dividing line been discovered?
- What is consciousness? How and why did it arise?
- Is consciousness the result of matter?
- Does consciousness do anything?
- Do trees and stars have consciousness?
- Is a cloud doing anything?
- Does a river possess intelligence?
- Where do thoughts come from?
- Why do humans have the capacity to question whether life has meaning or not?
- What is the difference between the statements “is there any coffee?” and “is there a meaning to existence?”
- Is it possible to know everything during a single lifetime?
- What are we absolutely certain about?
- Would space exist if every object were taken out of it - that is, if no physical objects existed within it?
- Would time exist if there were no minds to experience it?
- Does time really move in a circular fashion?
- Do animals experience time as humans experience it?
- Must one know falsity in order to finally know truth?
- Is the body truly separate from spirit?
- Is the world the prison of the soul, as mystically inclined people believe?
- Is there life after death?
- Why do tragic things happen?
- Why do good people suffer?
- Why do people act in evil ways?
- Is there such a thing as "personality disorder?"
- Is man, at his root, a primitive violent being?
- Without societal restraints, would man incline toward good or evil?
- Is man truly a social creature?
- Is a completely independent person conceivable?
- Would a completely independently-thinking man survive on earth?
- Can we imagine living in a world without beauty?
- Does knowing that we are fated to die actually make our experiences more vivid?
- Do we crave freedom, or freedom from freedom?
- Is love a pseudonym for power and control?
- Are we meant to love unconditionally?
- Are we supposed to forgive evil?
- Can we exist without being affected negatively by what others think, say and do?
- How obsessed are we with the needs of other people?
- Do we prefer our ideas about reality to reality itself?
- How do we recognize false spiritual teachers?
- Does enlightenment come after willful questing or solipsistic retreat?
- How do we recognize the frauds of science and scientism?
- How would we change if it were proven that there was no such thing as life after death?
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