This is similar to our Emotions? post, but what is it that drives humans to mate for life? To chain themselves to only one other person for eternity? It is something that is almost completely specific to human beings. Very few other animals on Earth mate in such a definitive way. So why are we […]
What makes people “extraordinary”? How are those people different from “ordinary” people? Is a basketball star really that much better a person than your “average joe”?
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Seize the day? This is something I have probably heard every day of my life. Yet, I never really thought about what this means until now. Have you? What is seizing the day to you? Do enough people actually follow through? Why?
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Why is it that humans in general have such undeniable needs to please one another? Genetically, physically, and even personality-wise, most humans are totally singular and unique. So then why is it that people strive to ACT exactly alike? How can humans, who count ourselves as rulers of the world, be regularly and plainly compared […]
Why do humans sleep? Why do humans dream? Is the amount someone sleeps regularly related to their “dream-life”? Is that also related to why different people require different amounts and types of sleep? What is dreaming?
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Saular’s Answer
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Balance is a funny thing. Balance in the world is the lack of disorder. Yet ironically balance needs disorder and chaos or it wouldn’t be balance, it would just be the status quo. Does the nature of the world sometimes require there to be catastrophic events to create a more balanced world in the long […]
What is love? Why do people feel the need to express such a complex emotion? Can anyone ever really know exactly what someone else means when they describe their emotions, or just make a guess based on their own experiences? Is it possible for language to express such complex ideas such as happiness, love, guilt, […]
Can reality actually be defined? Is it a self-contained entity? Or is it the confirmation and acknowledgment of human beings of others and their surroundings? Is there something tying mankind together?
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Why does music have the effect it does on people?
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The movie Waking Life poses an interesting question about human existence. Are we alive, awake, real? Or are we all sleepwalking through our lives, completely unaware of our actual metaphysical state of being? Can we ever know? The Matrix also touches on this subject. Are we just figments of our collective imagination? Are we “plugged […]
