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The four great philosophical questions...

The four great philosophical questions...

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Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the meaning of life?
Where do I go when I die?

I believe my faith has the best answers for these questions...

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Originally posted by dj2becker
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the meaning of life?
Where do I go when I die?

I believe my faith has the best answers for these questions...
What do you mean by "best"?

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Originally posted by dj2becker
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the meaning of life?
Where do I go when I die?

I believe my faith has the best answers for these questions...
who am I? A human called Greg
where do I come from? a planet called Earth...perhaps one of many in the universe that has the conditions for life amongst a much greater number that don't have such conditions and are thus...desolate
what is the meaning of life? to postpone not having it for as long as possible...and to do whatever it is that makes me think this is a worthy pursuit
where do I go when I die? I probably decompose and at some point will be recycled by other creatures

I belief your faith *does not* have the best answer for these questions 😉

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Originally posted by dottewell
What do you mean by "best"?
"Unparalleled by any other."

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Originally posted by Agerg
[b] who am I? A human called Greg
where do I come from? a planet called Earth...perhaps one of many in the universe that has the conditions for life amongst a much greater number that don't have such conditions and are thus...desolate
what is the meaning of life? to postpone not having it for as long as possible...and to do whatever it ...[text shortened]... y other creatures

I belief your faith *does not* have the best answer for these questions 😉[/b]
On what do you base your answers if I may ask?

For starters, do you believe in absolute truth? If so, from whence do you derive it?

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Originally posted by dj2becker
On what do you base your answers if I may ask?
well to no.1) people keep seeming to call me Greg, and I'm pretty sure I'm neither cat, dog, cricket, pigeon and so on...in fact from what I have been able to ascertain...it would appear that human fits best

no 2) People seem to call this planet we live on Earth...so I refer to it by that name. I also figure that if conditions to support life here did not exist well then I probably wouldn't exist neither...since there would be no conditions to sustain it if I did. I am fairly confident that there may be other planets out there...I bet there's a lot of them. In fact I bet that if one of those planets had conditions too that would enable life then there's a pretty good chance there would be life...seems logical to me

no 3) I'm alive right now...but lots of people are becoming not alive and people also suggest that I will end up this way too! I don't really like that prospect and so I'll try and avoid it for now. I try to search for things that make me happy because if I was always unhappy then I wouldn't want to live anymore

no 4) things like chickens, cows, and pigs seem to keep dying and I end up eating them...I also notice that certain things whn they die seem to decompose and my observations of what takes place seems to fit with the idea that other organisms feed on them. I also figure that there is no reason why I shouldn't do the same thing when I'm dead as well!

gonna have to leave this one for now whilst I go to work 🙁

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Originally posted by dj2becker
"Unparalleled by any other."
Well, that really cleared things up. 😕

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Originally posted by dj2becker
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the meaning of life?
Where do I go when I die?

I believe my faith has the best answers for these questions...
Who am I?

This question is meaningless. It's answered by a tautology; I am me.

Where do I come from?

Electrical and chemical activity in the brain.

What is the meaning of life?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=life

Where do I go when I die?

I cease to exist.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
"Unparalleled by any other."
Because they are true, or because they are more comforting?

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Originally posted by dj2becker
"Unparalleled by any other."
according to what criterium?

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Originally posted by googlefudge
according to what criterium?
The Highway Code.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
On what do you base your answers if I may ask?

For starters, do you believe in absolute truth? If so, from whence do you derive it?
You can believe in it without deriving it.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
[b]Who am I?

This question is meaningless. It's answered by a tautology; I am me.

Where do I come from?

Electrical and chemical activity in the brain.

What is the meaning of life?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=life

Where do I go when I die?

I cease to exist.[/b]
This question is meaningless. It's answered by a tautology; I am me.

Do you have any intrinsic value?

Electrical and chemical activity in the brain.

I was refering to the origin of life.


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=life

So the meaning of your life is mere existence?

I cease to exist.

So that is your destiny?

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Originally posted by dj2becker
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the meaning of life?
Where do I go when I die?

I believe my faith has the best answers for these questions...
What about the problem of whether a synthetic a priori is possible?

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Originally posted by Agerg
well to no.1) people keep seeming to call me Greg, and I'm pretty sure I'm neither cat, dog, cricket, pigeon and so on...in fact from what I have been able to ascertain...it would appear that human fits best

no 2) People seem to call this planet we live on Earth...so I refer to it by that name. I also figure that if conditions to support life here did not e ...[text shortened]... when I'm dead as well!

gonna have to leave this one for now whilst I go to work 🙁
well to no.1) people keep seeming to call me Greg, and I'm pretty sure I'm neither cat, dog, cricket, pigeon and so on...in fact from what I have been able to ascertain...it would appear that human fits best

So you are intinsically valuable because your name is Greg?

no 2) People seem to call this planet we live on Earth...so I refer to it by that name. I also figure that if conditions to support life here did not exist well then I probably wouldn't exist neither...since there would be no conditions to sustain it if I did. I am fairly confident that there may be other planets out there...I bet there's a lot of them. In fact I bet that if one of those planets had conditions too that would enable life then there's a pretty good chance there would be life...seems logical to me

I was refering to the origin of man...


no 3) I'm alive right now...but lots of people are becoming not alive and people also suggest that I will end up this way too! I don't really like that prospect and so I'll try and avoid it for now. I try to search for things that make me happy because if I was always unhappy then I wouldn't want to live anymore

So have you found this happiness that you are searching for?

no 4) things like chickens, cows, and pigs seem to keep dying and I end up eating them...I also notice that certain things whn they die seem to decompose and my observations of what takes place seems to fit with the idea that other organisms feed on them. I also figure that there is no reason why I shouldn't do the same thing when I'm dead as well!

gonna have to leave this one for now whilst I go to work 🙁

So you think you have the same destiny as a pig?