Some thought provoking questions, or questions designed to make you really think. They are not made up by me, some are classics, some are new. Taken from bloggers here and there. I thought it might be funny to answer them as truthfully as I could.
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1. If you dislike your family, are you obligated to spend time with them? Show up at family functions? Help them out in their time of need? Is a family even relevant anymore – especially when you have a close circle of friends?
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A: Not obligated, show up to the ones you feel showing up to. Depends if it really is "their time of need" and the history you've had. If closest family, siblings mom and dad, sure help them, if further out, don't do it if you don't feel like it. It's relevant for people it's relevant to.
2. Is it better to eat healthily all the time, or should we allow ourselves to indulge once in a while? Similarly, does this argument apply to drug use – even illegal drug use?
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A: Make the homeostasis pattern as healthy as possible, any stray is either an experiment or adventure, and you go back on the path and fuel yourself with what makes you run the best.
3. Why do we call some religions “mythologies” (ancient Greek, Norse, Egyptian, etc.) and others religions? Is this fair? What does this show about how relevant certain ideas are as society progresses?
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A: It doesn't feel imporant, religion, the word of God, saying it, thinking about it has lost all it's power a few thousand years ago. It holds the same value as a toothpaste commerical to me.
4. People often talk about the growing gap between the rich and poor. However, today’s poor (in the United States, at least) are much better off than most people (not just the poor) were a century ago. Does it matter that there’s an increasing gap between the rich and the poor if the standard of living for the poor keeps going up?
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A: It's a travesty that a lot of the brightest minds on the planet spend their time filling their heads with greed, corruption and manipulation. Saw a chart once that 1% in the us had more money than the rest 99%.
The concept of money, compared to sentences, meters, anything else "man made" is flawed in design and not working anymore. (People won't go in a depression if there's not enough meters). No matter if a guy is a genius, he shouldn't be making more than half a country. There should be some regulations, some laws, or something more profoud, even a new system for money. I like the idea where people work to become what they want to be, the money would be the same if you were a guy working on wallstreet, or if you were a fireman, a teacher or an engineer. Or ranges in close proximity.
5. How would you live your life if you had a week to live? How would you live your life if you had 5 years left to live? How would you live your life if you were going to live forever?
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A: I'm not sure.... I might write something on how it feels, then travel or do something extravagant, that seem to be what people usually do.
If I was going to live forever I hope I would just start aquiring as much knowledge as possible, and kept at it and have that as a passion. It's wonderful and awesome to learn, why not do that forever.
6. Is it truly worth it to die for a family member or friend? Yes, you’d be a hero, but that person would feel guilty for your death for the rest of their lives. Is that “brave” act actually cowardly because you’re transferring the guilt that you’d have felt if you did nothing and watched them die to your friend, who has to deal with the guilt of causing your death?
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A: Depends on the situation, if my sister's daughter would die unless I sacrificed myself, I would, but i'd attempt it in a way so she wouldn't find out, and/or if she lives a path filled with agony, despair and depression, have someone contact her and read a letter to her that I have written the last day of my life, from me to her. (That way I could double save her <3)
7. Is a day spent watching movies when you could’ve been working a day wasted or well spent?
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A: If it's a rare occation, it's well spent, unless the movie was terrible, then again if the company was awesome it might go back to well spent. If someone who watches tv 3-8 hours a day spends an evening watching movies it's wasted.
8. What’s more important to a relationship: common values or other commonalities (like tastes in music, interests, etc.)?
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A: The ability to love eachother endlessly and stay faithful but not depend on eachother. So there can be no attachement, thus no love turning into hate when or if the relationship ends.
9. What’s your opinion on love? Are there different types? Can we separate love from infatuation? Are there any qualifiers to make love “true” (rather than “fake”)?
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A: It feels like there's 3 types of love, and all 3 types can turn into something real, something fake or break.
Infatuation is the most common, something that dies out when the "love" comes on a plateau, genuine interest and "love" where it keeps growing adding to what's allready there when it reaches the "plateau" and the feeling of love coming not from an emotion but from within, like peace or joy, which has the best chance of making it, and not turning into anything vicious after a breakup
10. Can we ever be sure that our perception of things is right – without consulting other people? If we do consult others, how are we to know whether theirs is true or if we’re both deluded?
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A: Only your mind can be sure, but that's just the identification of yourself being sure so doesn't hold any real meaning. Atleast I think it don't. Not sure if we can be 100% sure as an absolete, but I think the more knowledge and more in depth we come to whatever it is we're percieving, we can be more sure.
11. Would your life be better or worse if you knew the day, time, and place that you were going to die?
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A: I don't know, I do know roughly when I'll die, give or take a few decades.
12. What is honor? Does honor matter anymore?
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A: It matters more for some than others.
13. Is it reasonable to have a sense of delusional confidence in your abilities, or would you rather build confidence by performing well in the past? If you choose the latter, doesn’t that mean that a single bad performance can shatter your confidence in yourself?
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A: It's dysfunctional to have a delusion, I would have neither. I try to dwell or spend as little time as possible in the past, and when I do it's only for a brief moment, and then I return to the present.
14. What should be the role of sex in society? Is it a big deal? A small deal? Somewhere in-between?
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A: Natural thing which we don't embaress over, but then again, something important and dear which we don't flaunt.
15. Would you be a martyr and give up your reputation amongst your peers to do what you know is right? Or is it better to be pragmatic and sit and do nothing?
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A: Probably do what you know is right.
16. Would you rather be insane in a functional society, or one of the people running a profoundly dysfunctional society?
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A: At the moment I'm considered insane in a functional society, but feels like most of society is dysfunctional i'm the sane one. This question confuses me, I don't have a propper answer.
17. Could you be persuaded to kill? If your answer is no, then how much money would it take to get you to change your mind?
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A: I wouldn't have to be persuaded to kill, and it wouldn't take any money. But i'd only commit the act in severe circumstances weighing a life up against another or certain circumstances. (Like I know a murderer would murder again, and only I could end it type of scenario's).
18. If saving the human race required the sacrifice of yourself and everyone you love, who would you choose to save – you and your loved ones or humanity at large?
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A: I'd sacrifice myself and everyone I love.
19. What if your God doesn’t exist?
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A: Man is God, we do exist.
20. Are the stories we tell ourselves about our past true, or do we bend the truth so we can create our stories? If the latter is true, than what worth is there in the stories if they aren’t true?
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A: No story ever told is true, something is added or substracted. The worth is what we make it.
21. What is true strength?
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22. What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life? What would that look like?
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A: Like someone swimming upstream, quite bizarre.
23. Some say that striving for perfection is unhealthy. What if striving for perfection made you improve faster than you would have if you had lower expectations for yourself? Which way would be better?
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A: How can you strive for perfection if you've have low expectations for yourself?
24. Would you rather live for 10 years in excellent health, or 30 in “average” health, assuming that period started on your 18th birthday?
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A: Depends on my surroundings, if I had kids, family, obligations I would live 30, if It was just me I'd be selfish and take the 10 years.
25. Is open-mindedness really a virtue if truly destructive ideas are spreading in society?
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A: Truly destructive ideas aren't spread by open-mindedness.
26. What would crush you more: seeing the love of your life die by getting hit by a car, or getting the call from your doctor that told you that you had cancer and had 6 weeks to live?
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A: I guess seeing myself die getting hit by a car would be worst.
27. How do you think of yourself – hero or villain? Is the worst identity to have not the villain, but the person who is powerless?
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A: Continue on the path of justice was one of the best compliments I've ever gotten. So i'll go with hero.
28. How much control do you really have over yourself?
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A: Not as much as i'd like, as most people on the planet I still suffer a great deal since i'm still a bit of a slave to my mind, because I subconciously identify myself with it. But i'm entering more and more into the present for everyday that goes. So i'm gaining more and more control.
29. What do you think of white lies? Why do we tell others them? What if we went without them?
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A: I think white lies are great. It can be for kindness, to save face, for fun and various other reasons. Ugh, wouldn't be all that fun without them
30. Who are you? Names, nationalities, and virtually any other socially-defined attributes do not count. Deep down, who are you?
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