The Eternal Questions
I've had a text file by this name sitting on my desktop for a while. It's a big list. Here's an excerpt:
- love and hate. how do you explain them? what inspires them?
- humility and selflessness, and evil, sin, and pride
- knowledge, and wisdom
- what is god? christianity, spinoza/buddhism, hiduism, taoism and pantheism
- faith as something reassuring
- free will and determinism
- redemption and salvation
- suffering and misunderstanding
- epistemology: what is the foundation of logic? does every epistemology making a negative claim contradict itself? what axioms do we start with? do we take in everything, or a subset?
- desire
- can we overcome confirmation bias?
- what can we do? for the starving? the hurt? the egotistical?
- interdependence and independence: is one an illusion?
- do we have an essensce? why do we feel like we do?
- morality/shoulds/"supposed to". origins and humanism
- the nature of time. cosmological origins and the present (is time an illusion?)
- evolution
- the brain and consciousness
- government and anarchy
- originality and newness
- naivete and optimism
- sincerity
- do people change? what causes people to change?
