How do we limit our misuse of new technologies?
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    @kenbaumann
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    Why are people rejecting Christianity?
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    Asked by:
    Malcolm Pollard
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    What can western cultures learn from other cultures about the grieving process?
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    I currently have a family member who is dying from cancer… and I recently had a friend who died prematurely. Our rituals are so brief. Other cultures morn for days, weeks and sometimes months in ritualistic ways. Is it the threat to economic functioning or is it truly better to just get on with it?

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    Sophie
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    Why is blasphemy so satisfying even though I’m an atheist?
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    Goddamit.

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    @Tim_Sinclair
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    Can people change?
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    Asked by:
    @doctorshan12
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    What’s it all about, Alfie?
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    I have always found it to be a most poignant song/question and I wanted to ask it again in a milieu where it would be wrestled with a tad. With the 24 hour news cycle constantly informing us yet increasingly we have no clue as to what is really going on in the world.
    is viewing events the best way for us to understand the world? Or should we be looking deeper?

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    Tess Maskell
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    Can suffering be alleviated by recognizing a resistance to what is happening?
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    Asked by:
    @stevenadams52
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    Why won’t Labor and the Greens get over it and form a coalition?
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    Because I’ve never heard a satisfactory answer.

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    @ThatPickering
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    What should we be explicitly teaching the next generation that we’re not?
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    I’m curious as to what others wished they had learnt in school and what they think our young people need to learn to cope/thrive in the future. I work as an educator and constantly question the relevance of what I’m teaching. What do we assume (most, some, all?) kids will naturally learn, but in fact they’d all benefit from explicitly being taught?

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    M Graham
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    What are the causes of the increase in rates of anxiety and depression, especially among young people, and what can be done to reduce them?
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    Despite increases in living standards and access to technologies, like the internet and social media, measures of happiness haven’t increased. Is social media making people feel connected but actually making them more isolated?

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    Annette
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    Why after the fifteenth century philosophers de bunked religion and with all the trouble in the world to-day why does the establishment promote it
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    It matters to me because of all the killing that has been done in the name of religion

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    Gerry
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    Is it true that men get more conservative, but women get more progressive, as they get older?
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    Asked by:
    @reallykazcooke
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    How can we increase collective responsibility?
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    Because our individualism and increasing inequality is a huge concern

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    Kerryn
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