I filled out this very interesting "philosophical" questionnaire to hopefully enhance your typing experience!
1. Is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place?
– The latter is worse. It's better to try and fail. A failure can be turned into a success, or can spawn a success later on. Something from the failure or that you learned from the failure can be a building block of success later on.
– I moved this question "39. Is it better to love and lose or never to love?" here as my answer would be analogous.
2. If you could choose just one thing to change about the world, what would it be?
– Just one thing?! I'd choose one thing that would fix a lot of other things. Some kind of unlimited energy source. Food and water in unlimited supply.
3. To what extent do you shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?
27. How much control do you have over your life?
– I put these redundant questions together. Generally, I shape my own destiny and have a lot of control over my life. There are obstacles (sometimes human ones lol) but I find my way through/around them.
– I do not believe in "fate" per se. However, there is a component of chance or luck. To begin with, I was very lucky to be born in the country I was born in and to the parents I was born to. Even now, there is a component of luck in everything, but it's less than the component that I control.
– In terms of internal vs. external locus of control, mine is definitely internal.
4. What happens after we die?
– I don't see any reason to assume there is a continuation or afterlife, but am open to the possibility. I am religious and such an assumption is not a part of my faith either. For now, I'm fine with not knowing.
5. Should people care more about doing the right thing, or doing things right?
– I don't see the difference. I would consider behaving fairly to be both "doing the right thing" (as in, the behavior you ought to do) and "doing things right".
6. What one piece of advice would you offer to a newborn infant?
– "Maybe we can talk when you are a little bit older because right now you have no idea what I'm saying!"
7. Where is the line between insanity and creativity?
– I don't see an absolute line. They can overlap too: trope of "insane genius" is usually someone considered extremely creative.
8. What is true happiness?
– Unlimited options.
9. What things hold you back from doing the things that you really want to?
– Reality. And my own laziness and apathy. Lol.
10. What makes you, you? & 31. What defines you?
– Lol, I don't have any characteristics that would uniquely define me. To delineate me from everything and everyone else would be difficult.
11. What is the truth?
– Something as yet unknown towards which we are always progressing. The unified theory of everything, the one theory that explains everything.
12. If lying is wrong, are white lies okay?
– Technically, everything is a white lie unless you include the entire universe of potentially relevant information.
13. How do you know your perceptions are real?
– I don't. There is no more evidence that my perceptions are real than there is evidence that my perceptions are not real. So I don't take either position. However, I behave as if my perceptions are real due to the asymmetrical stakes. That is, if my perceptions are not real and I behave as if they are, there is no bad outcome. If my perceptions are real and I behave as if they're not, I may leave a trail of very real carnage and destruction. Lol.
14. What makes a good friend?
– Someone interesting who you can talk about stuff with and vice versa.
15. Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?
– Often people fear the unknown. They see the worst of what could happen instead of the best of what could be.
16. Who decides what morality is?
– Everyone seems to have their own idea of what it is. But lots of people have a sense of morality that is deeply unfair. In acting on this morality, they do blatantly unfair things that they believed they were morally obligated to do. This has occurred throughout history as well. So I don't believe any person or any society can determine what morality is.
17. What is the difference between living and being alive?
– Surviving vs. thriving. Living just to live vs. Living to do something greater.
18. Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?
– No, if X act is unfair then X is unfair in a vacuum as well. But, if "nobody ever knows about it", it's likely that X never affects anyone else. Then it's very unlikely that X is unfair in the first place.
19. Is there a reason to life?
– There are physical reasons, a result of physics. But there aren't any universally applicable spiritual or predestined reasons.
20. How do you know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?
– I don't. I infer from their actions and communication that it most likely is, though. I encounter events/phenomena that would be difficult to explain otherwise.
21. What is true strength?
– To move through/past whatever life throws at you.
22. What is true love?
– No idea. It doesn't have to be unconditional. I have never experienced it though, or if I have, I'm not aware.
23. Is a family still relevant in the modern world?
– Yes. The definition of family has changed to include same-sex couples/parents, stepfamily, unmarried significant others/partners, good friends, etc. It's common for adults to spend time with aunts/uncles/cousins and nieces/nephews/siblings. So very relevant.
– But "modern world" is a meaningless term. At every point in history, people have thought it was a "modern world". Lol.
24. What role does honor play in today’s society?
– Google "honor killings" and "honor-based violence".
25. If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money?
– In theory yes, in practice I seriously doubt it. Though technically it says "no money", not no possessions. So you could have no money, but then have your every material wish provided for by someone else who has money. In that case, yes, you probably could.
26. How should people live their lives?
– However they want to, so long as it allows for pluralism.
28. What is freedom?
– True limitlessness. I can't fully conceptualize it. It's like trying to conceptualize infinity; it's overexciting.
29. Isn’t one person’s terrorist another person’s freedom fighter?
– Sure, one may feel that way, but that doesn't make it so. This is a false equivalence or "both sides" fallacy. One side might be fighting for fairness and the other side against fairness, or advocating for something that is unfair, etc.
30. Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?
– There are lots of identical twin studies showing substantial components of personality are shaped by nature, yet many components are shaped by nurture. I don't know which has the greater influence.
32. What do people strive for after enlightenment?
– I thought total peace with one's circumstances and the absence of all desires (or "craving" as it's often described) was part of the definition of entitlement. Then if one has truly achieved enlightenment, one would by definition not desire anything. So, one would probably not strive for anything then either.
33. Do we have a soul?
– I don't see reason to assume the existence of souls. I don't encounter events/phenomena that are unexplainable or difficult to explain without souls. That is, assuming a soul exists does not explain anything that would otherwise be left unexplained. There is no reason to make such an assumption then. But I'm not closed to the possibility that souls exist either.
– Alternately if we define "soul" as "person" then we are all souls and souls do exist then.
– The question is phrased in an interesting way: "do we have a soul" instead of "do we have souls". It's asking then if we collectively have a single soul. I know of multiple world religions that would answer "yes" to that question. I still don't assume that we collectively have a single soul though.
34. What is intelligence?
– There is no universal definition. Most people are pretty intelligent in their own way. "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
– Intellectual curiosity and diverse interests can be a strong indicator of intelligence, no matter what those interests may be.
35. Do you make your own decisions, or let others make them for you?
– I definitely do not let others make my decisions for me, lol. I make my own decisions and trust my own judgment over the world's.
36. What is reality?
– Everything is reality. All that exists is collectively reality. I'm not aware of all that exists, but whatever exists, all of it together is collectively reality.
37. Is trust more important than love?
– Sure, whatever. IDK.
38. Is it easier to love or be loved?
– Each is difficult without the other, because it can be uncomfortable if you love someone and they don't love you back, or if someone loves you and you know it but you don't love them back.
40. Do aliens exist?
– Probably. The universe is so big, there is so much we don't know. Plus there might even be other universes. So it's statistically probable that aliens exist somewhere in the universe(s).
– But that is defining "aliens" as creatures from other planets or other solar systems or even other galaxies etc. If they exist, they would consider us alien in this sense as well. But alien really means "foreign" in this context, so anything or anyone foreign could be considered alien. There are people here on earth I consider quite alien from my POV. ;) Maybe other species on earth see humans as alien. If you travel to a different country, the locals there might view you as alien (even if you are there legally, or you might even be an illegal alien). So by these other meanings of "alien", aliens definitely exist.
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