Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a god?
How does the answer to this question directly impact your life? Foucault talks about being imprisoned in a jail where the guards can watch your every move, but they are hidden so you are never sure if you are being watched or not. The prisoners here may follow the rules because of the Panopticon, because they are trapped by the inability to do bad things in private. On the other end of the spectrum Plato writes about a special ring you could wear that would make you completely invisible. The point of this story is to ask aloud whether anyone is so virtuous that they could resist the temptation to be immoral when the risk of getting caught is removed.
I think there is an underlying element in asking this question in which people just want to know if they need to have integrity or not.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Bad things happen to good people because nature is impersonal. The rain falls on us all.
Interesting though, is that nature is not more chaotic. Physical actions have equal and opposite reactions (cf: Newton) but the moral or ethical value of your actions does not have a predictible reaction. Where in one case we could be sympathetic to an argument for an intelligent design of our world becomes bewildering. Is this an Aristetellian design? Are physical actions governed because they are more important?
What is the point of life?
There is no answer to this question that makes sense to people from first tier country that can also be adopted by people from second tier countries. Conclusion: life is absurd.
Why is life so hard?
Why do Josh Schwartz shows constantly jump the shark? Because without conflict there is no plot development. Your life conflict is probably made up. Like, what percent of your problems would you still have if you had to find food and water everyday instead of hating your entry level job and trying to get a girl’s attention? You have to have some kind of conflict in your life.
What happens after you die?
You probably get to sleep. I’m not sure. See question 1.
