Asked by:How do we get men to discuss their health and mental issues? All men would be better off if we were able to do this.
Why does it take something to happen to ‘you’ before one shows compassion to others in the same circumstance or before one ‘understands’?
Would you take a drug that induced happiness with one side effect; the following day, you remember being happy but not what had happened?
Knowing ourselves seems to be the foundation for everything. It is important to question, and be critical of the thoughts, actions and beliefs that resonate with us. Such contemplation is crucial to continual self-development and sanity. Thus, madness can be partly seen as obliviousness, or in history it was highlighted as forgetting. If we forgot what had made us happy, are we mad?
The world has plenty of food and wealth for everyone. What is keeping billions poor and hungry?
I have a tiny sponsor child in Bangladesh. In an ideal world, she wouldn’t need to be sponsored and I wouldn’t have to worry about her reaching adulthood…
Is the Australian gun control system working or are we over regulating honest individuals and industry to pander to an emotive argument
Millions of dollars are spent every year regulating firearms ownership for no obvious measurable or verifiable benefits. Has it stopped massacres on Australian soil and are the increases/decreases in crime related? Also with the claims by the government that lone wolf terrorist attacks are becoming increasingly more likely do we need to rethink self defence? To quote David Leyonhjelm are we “a nation of victims”
If the human race is descended from apes … then why do we still have apes?
Google has not satisfied me. I asked a gorilla and it had no response.
Asked by:How can democracies remain democratic but become (a) less adversarial (b) more efficient?
Democracies have little value unless the populace participates. I (probably like many others) am put off from active participation and my cynicism is fed, by the cumbersome nature of government and the lack of cooperation between parties. Does a ‘party system’ have to translate into the circus that we witness in our parliaments?
Asked by:Why does anything exist, rather than nothing at all?
Although I was raised as a strict Irish-style Roman Catholic, after many years of deep thought, I am now an atheist, humanist, rationalist and sceptic, and have come to the conclusion that this is the most important unanswered philosophical question. I do not believe there is any need to postulate a creator, because belief in a creator god leads to the obvious next questions of who or what made god, and who or what made who or what made god, and so on indefinitely.