questions to think over
i was on facebook, and poetry friend posted a note, and it contained these questions. you may feel free to answer these too, but i wanted to share my answers.
1. What are your beliefs on God?
2. What would you change about America if you could change anything at all?
3. Do you believe there is one person for everyone?
4. What one event has changed you (worse or better) more than anything?
5. Do the things we see only exist because they are observed, or do they exist independent of any observer?
6. Is there life after death? If so, what do you believe it is?
7. Define Love:
8. How do you know what is good and what is bad? What is right or wrong?
9. What is our purpose?
10. Nature vs. Nuture?
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1. I believe He exists, and that He loves me unconditionally.
2. Prior attempts at answering this question, have caused me to consider bashing in my brain. Everything i'd try to fix would have an equal (if not worse) consequence.
3. While i choose to believe that this is true because it gives me hope, realistically i believe that you can be with anyone you want to be, but there is someone out there who is more compatible with you than any other person. whether we choose to find that person, or settle for what we have is another matter. in the end, i choose to believe its true, because something inside of me lightens up when i think about it.
4. I dont think such a moment has occured in my life yet. yes, events have effected me more than others, but i believe they are pretty miniscule. nothing has honestly caused me to change drastically or anything. i dont think i've really changed much since i was a little kid. i've matured, and i've molded, and i've refined, but i haven't changed.
EDIT: thinking about it more, i remember two incidences that have taught me to always be wary of other people. i once had a friend blame me for an incident that he infact did, and i had never been so blatantly betrayed by anyone before. I'm nothing but friendly and respectful to other people because i have a fear of such ugly behavior. I also had a friend who told me that everything i believed about her was wrong. she put up a facade because she needed a friend, and was willing to do anything to keep one. She learned that day never to be ashamed of who she was. I learned that people are not always who we think they are, and to never assume that i truely know anyone. i've become a lot more cautious than i ever have been because of these incidents.
5. a part of me wants to say that everything is independent of any observer, but another part of me drastically challenges that notion. it's really hard to describe. when i was little, i would think about how my existance affected the world, like, i couldn't comprehend how the world existed before i was born. What if the world was created because i was born? What if time started when i was born? How could it have existed before i born? i have little to no evidence to prove otherwise. I wasn't alive to witness time before i was born. What if the world truely "revolved around me"? I'm not you, i cannot tell whether you truely exist because i can only percieve through myself, and not through other people. it gets like fifty times more complicated than this, and this is all stuff i questioned in my head when i was a child. it's kind of in that strain of thought, where i question whether everything other than myself is an independent entity with or without an observer.
6. i trust my instincts more than anything else in the world. i have impeccible instincts, and time has proven that. My instincts tell me that, without a doubt, not only is there life after death, but it's everything i ever dreamed it could possibly be. And i dont know why, but my instinct about this is so strong and intense, there's no denying it.
7. There are so many different kinds of love that i dont think i could do any of them justice if i tried to define any of them. i haven't even experienced most of them. i am pretty sure though that it's something worth seeking out. something worth defining. something worth living for.
8. because your instincts guide you toward whats right. and warn you and guide you away from whats bad.
9. To live, and to learn, and to make our own decisions, and decide our own fate. to work and challenge ourselves to find our way to the end of the maze, and hope it's the right exit. life is a maze. all our choices, decisions, and actions determine our outcomes. what you do in this life determines what happens in the next, because as we learned, i believe in the next life almost more than i believe in this one.
10. both affect and mold us into what we are. neither are more right than the other. infact, i think they both work hand in hand with each other.
1. What are your beliefs on God?
2. What would you change about America if you could change anything at all?
3. Do you believe there is one person for everyone?
4. What one event has changed you (worse or better) more than anything?
5. Do the things we see only exist because they are observed, or do they exist independent of any observer?
6. Is there life after death? If so, what do you believe it is?
7. Define Love:
8. How do you know what is good and what is bad? What is right or wrong?
9. What is our purpose?
10. Nature vs. Nuture?
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1. I believe He exists, and that He loves me unconditionally.
2. Prior attempts at answering this question, have caused me to consider bashing in my brain. Everything i'd try to fix would have an equal (if not worse) consequence.
3. While i choose to believe that this is true because it gives me hope, realistically i believe that you can be with anyone you want to be, but there is someone out there who is more compatible with you than any other person. whether we choose to find that person, or settle for what we have is another matter. in the end, i choose to believe its true, because something inside of me lightens up when i think about it.
4. I dont think such a moment has occured in my life yet. yes, events have effected me more than others, but i believe they are pretty miniscule. nothing has honestly caused me to change drastically or anything. i dont think i've really changed much since i was a little kid. i've matured, and i've molded, and i've refined, but i haven't changed.
EDIT: thinking about it more, i remember two incidences that have taught me to always be wary of other people. i once had a friend blame me for an incident that he infact did, and i had never been so blatantly betrayed by anyone before. I'm nothing but friendly and respectful to other people because i have a fear of such ugly behavior. I also had a friend who told me that everything i believed about her was wrong. she put up a facade because she needed a friend, and was willing to do anything to keep one. She learned that day never to be ashamed of who she was. I learned that people are not always who we think they are, and to never assume that i truely know anyone. i've become a lot more cautious than i ever have been because of these incidents.
5. a part of me wants to say that everything is independent of any observer, but another part of me drastically challenges that notion. it's really hard to describe. when i was little, i would think about how my existance affected the world, like, i couldn't comprehend how the world existed before i was born. What if the world was created because i was born? What if time started when i was born? How could it have existed before i born? i have little to no evidence to prove otherwise. I wasn't alive to witness time before i was born. What if the world truely "revolved around me"? I'm not you, i cannot tell whether you truely exist because i can only percieve through myself, and not through other people. it gets like fifty times more complicated than this, and this is all stuff i questioned in my head when i was a child. it's kind of in that strain of thought, where i question whether everything other than myself is an independent entity with or without an observer.
6. i trust my instincts more than anything else in the world. i have impeccible instincts, and time has proven that. My instincts tell me that, without a doubt, not only is there life after death, but it's everything i ever dreamed it could possibly be. And i dont know why, but my instinct about this is so strong and intense, there's no denying it.
7. There are so many different kinds of love that i dont think i could do any of them justice if i tried to define any of them. i haven't even experienced most of them. i am pretty sure though that it's something worth seeking out. something worth defining. something worth living for.
8. because your instincts guide you toward whats right. and warn you and guide you away from whats bad.
9. To live, and to learn, and to make our own decisions, and decide our own fate. to work and challenge ourselves to find our way to the end of the maze, and hope it's the right exit. life is a maze. all our choices, decisions, and actions determine our outcomes. what you do in this life determines what happens in the next, because as we learned, i believe in the next life almost more than i believe in this one.
10. both affect and mold us into what we are. neither are more right than the other. infact, i think they both work hand in hand with each other.