Weekly Philosophical Questions #1

[Joshua Farrell]

I decided that I am going to start a weekly Philosophical questions thread series. Every week I will post a new thread with series of questions that should make you think a little. Because of this, you can take your time to answer, answer them at once, or just pick which you want to answer.

So, here are the questions:

Q: What harsh truths do you prefer to ignore? Care to explain?

Q: Is free will real or just an illusion?

Q: Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?

Q: Is the meaning of life the same for animals and humans?

Q: Where is the line between art and what could be considered as not being art?

 

[Jon]

Joshua Farrell - So, here are the questions:

Q: What harsh truths do you prefer to ignore? Care to explain?
A: How much we waste and under appreciate clean water.

Q: Is free will real or just an illusion?
A: Free will is more within yourself, not so much the laws in the area surrounding you. A free mind is possible, so no, free will is not just an illusion.

Q: Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?
A: Yes, to reproduce(if possible) and make the world your children grow up in a better place than you had and the generations before you. Love and be kind.

Q: Is the meaning of life the same for animals and humans?
A: I believe there are similar aspects, they are a crucial part of this cycle and even they strive for a good life.

Q: Where is the line between art and what could be considered as not being art?
A: Art is sugar to the eye, an exciting pupil-growing vision. Art is no longer art if any person, animal, or thing, is harmed in the process of creating it.

 

[Cosmic]

Ooh questions 😱

Q: What harsh truths do you prefer to ignore? Care to explain?

Q: Is free will real or just an illusion?

Sam Harris wrote a pretty good, small book on this called Free Will. I think most of life is deterministic, in that things play out by themselves with little to no external input. But I think we're also a little bit more than that, even if only just a little bit. Maybe we just have about 5% free will, and the rest is wetware?

Q: Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?

There doesn't seem to be an official one, so only the meaning we give it, I think.

Q: Is the meaning of life the same for animals and humans?

Animals aren't very intelligent compared to us. They aren't really capable of philosophical thought. Even if you look at what Koko the gorilla was able to say, which may or may not just be trained responses, the things that she said didn't really make sense as sentences. Just asking for bananas and such.

Q: Where is the line between art and what could be considered as not being art?

Art has meaning because we give it meaning. It's mostly things we create and we like. I suppose beautiful scenes in nature can be seen as at too, but only th scenes that we decide collectively are beautiful.

 

[Jason76]

Is free will real or just an illusion?

I think people have a free will, but in the end all will be reconciled to God - so at least it's a happy ending. The time frame? Could be millions of years!

Q: Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?

It's a test I think.

 

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Q: Is free will real or just an illusion?
Can't write anyway. But it's 100% FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Q: Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?
There is no meaning in this life. You have to create your own meaning, that's it. If you wont, you will suffer, that's it. You don't exist, you exist, you don't exist again, that's it, there is no meaning. You can create one, but you don't have to. I would advise you to create one, or the existence in this world will be painful for you. Trick your mind that there is meaning, it will help you. You can´t control time and death. From this simple fact, you can deduce that, it is all just choice, whether conscious one or unconscious, still it is your choice how you live life. Your choice to suffer or not to suffer. Some people, however, don´t even have that, unluckily for them.

Q: Is the meaning of life the same for animals and humans?
I as human being feel I live to small and are being made fat as hell to be butchered and eaten in the end.

Q: Where is the line between art and what could be considered as not being art?

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