Hey guys, do any of you still read this? I made a survey, and I hope some of you will be interested in filling it in when you have time. It's just for curiosity's sake
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５．How should an individual interact with other people? However it suites them, as long as they don't infringe on the other person's rights. Don't do something to someone without their consent basically. That doesn't mean that you can't do things that someone might dislike, they just have to have the option to walk away and do their own thing.
６．What is your view of religion? I've really gotten to the point of near athiesm. It's hard not to grow up beliving in whatever religion your surrounded by, but if you ever start questioning it that leads to looking at other religions, and at least in my case that leads to a feeling that it's really all arbitrary reflections of the cultures and times the religion came from and is in now. It then comes down to beliving in something with no evidence, but which is in direct conflict in many cases with actual evidence, and even then, because it's based on nothing but faith, something that is again arbitary, or beliving that there's something that you just can't ever know, or beliving that there's nothing past the mundane physical world (which is a pretty interesting place anyway). I'm somewhere between the last two leaning towards the third.
７．Where does morality come from? A mixture of personal development, cultureal and societal beliefs, and inherant traits developed for the survival and propigation of your genes and your species. I'm such a romantic ;)
８．What is the cause of all good and bad events in our lives: our own efforts, fate, God, chance, something else, or a combination of those? A good portion we don't have any control over, it's the aggregate of interacting with 6 billion other people to variying degress along with all the other things out there. We have some control over our reactions to this, but it mostly falls into ranges created by our genes and our development. This doesn't preclude change or moments of relization and determiniation, it's just a framework. Think of it like physical prowis: while we can work out and train, there's still a limit imposed by factors beyond our control.
９．What happens when we die? I want desperatly for there to be something, anything, but I honestly doubt it.
１０．What is the worst possible thing a person can do? Probably something worse than we'd ever expect, and something that we'd never think was going to end as badly as it would when it started.
１１．What can a person do to be truly happy? I think that's different for everyone. It would incredibly nice to have a simple blanket phrase that would tell us exactly how to be happy, but it's not something someone else can tell you.
Do you mind if a barrow this? I'm curious to see what other people say.
６．What is your view of religion? I've really gotten to the point of near athiesm. It's hard not to grow up beliving in whatever religion your surrounded by, but if you ever start questioning it that leads to looking at other religions, and at least in my case that leads to a feeling that it's really all arbitrary reflections of the cultures and times the religion came from and is in now. It then comes down to beliving in something with no evidence, but which is in direct conflict in many cases with actual evidence, and even then, because it's based on nothing but faith, something that is again arbitary, or beliving that there's something that you just can't ever know, or beliving that there's nothing past the mundane physical world (which is a pretty interesting place anyway). I'm somewhere between the last two leaning towards the third.
７．Where does morality come from? A mixture of personal development, cultureal and societal beliefs, and inherant traits developed for the survival and propigation of your genes and your species. I'm such a romantic ;)
８．What is the cause of all good and bad events in our lives: our own efforts, fate, God, chance, something else, or a combination of those? A good portion we don't have any control over, it's the aggregate of interacting with 6 billion other people to variying degress along with all the other things out there. We have some control over our reactions to this, but it mostly falls into ranges created by our genes and our development. This doesn't preclude change or moments of relization and determiniation, it's just a framework. Think of it like physical prowis: while we can work out and train, there's still a limit imposed by factors beyond our control.
９．What happens when we die? I want desperatly for there to be something, anything, but I honestly doubt it.
１０．What is the worst possible thing a person can do? Probably something worse than we'd ever expect, and something that we'd never think was going to end as badly as it would when it started.
１１．What can a person do to be truly happy? I think that's different for everyone. It would incredibly nice to have a simple blanket phrase that would tell us exactly how to be happy, but it's not something someone else can tell you.
Do you mind if a barrow this? I'm curious to see what other people say.
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