Philosophical Questions: Remembered

[ysabetwordsmith]

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

How long will you be remembered after you die?

That depends on whether it's personal memory (the remaining lifespan of people who knew me, so maybe 50 years or so) or my writing (which depends on its popularity, but could potentially be thousands of years).

Comments

tried some out..

[svnsettia]

"Is there a meaning to life? If so, what is it?"

to me, the meaning of life is whatever's stopping you from killing yourself. if we really believed that life was meaningless we would all have ended our own lives. we persist for some reason, and that reason is the meaning of life.

"Why don’t we as a species take more advantage of the fact that we have almost infinite knowledge available to us?"

because deep down we know that ignorance is bliss.

[tarasacon]

There’s a quote from Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett, that soothes me sometimes when I think about this.

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”