At one point, all of us would have asked at least 1 of the questions on the list below.
You can print it out, stash it in your back pocket for those long bus trips towards SPIRITUALITY...
You can answer them today and check a year later just to see if your views have changed.
THE 10 QUESTIONS
1. What is the nature of the universe?
Where does it come from, and how did it come to exist?
Of what is it made? What is its purpose?
What is the cause of, and the process of change?
Is it evolving or devolving or neither?
Does it function by itself or would it degenerate into entropy and chaos without some kind of
intelligent control?
2. Is there a Supreme Being?
If so, what is Her nature?
Did S/He create the universe?
Does IT continue to control it personally and if so, at what level and to what degree?
Is it possible for people to have a relationship with the Deity, and if so, what kind, and how? Does S/He intervene in the affairs of people?
Is the Deity Good?
Given that that which causes or allows Bad things or events is Bad, if S/He is Good and allpowerful, how can evil exist? (I love this classic twist!!! --- Magus)
3. What is the role of humans in the universe?
Are human beings the highest fruit of the universe or are they just an insignificant speck in
infinite space—or something inbetween?
Does the spirit of a person descend into matter from higher spiritual realms, or has it evolved
from matter?
Is the universe conscious or unconscious of humans?
If it is aware, is it warm and friendly to them, or cold and indifferent,or even hostile?
Given all the real estate in the universe can humanity be alone: would the Creator create the
cosmos for one planet of life alone?
4. What is reality? What is illusion?
What is mind?
What is thought? Is thought real?
Where do ideas come from?
Are there laws that control thought?
Which is superior: mind or matter?
Has mind created matter or has matter evolved mind?
Can matter affect thought; can thought affect matter?
Does thought have any importance—does it make any difference in our lives—or is it just
fantasy, or is life predeterminedand it makes no difference what we think?
5. What is Truth?
Is there a universal Truth, true for all people forever, or is Truth relative or individual?
How can we identify Truth?
What is the relationship of Truth to reality?
What is the relationship of Truth to beliefs?
What is Knowledge and how is it to be mined or discovered?
6. What is good and what is bad or evil?
What is moral?
What is ethical?
Who decides good and bad, right and wrong; and by what standard?
Is there an absolute standard of good and bad beyond one’s the personal opinions?
Should good and bad be determined by custom, by rational law, or by the situation?
What if the decisions of others (society, authorities, laws, etc.) determining good and bad are
contrary to one’s personal beliefs or freedoms?
Moreover, if we do not have free will but are ruled by outside factors, what difference does good
and bad make—we have no choice.
7. What determines the life and fate of each individual?
Is a person a creator and mover of their life, or do they live at the effect of forces over which
they have little control?
Does free will exist or are our lives determined by outsidefactors—and if so, what are
those factors?
Is there a Higher Power that intervenes in our lives; or is everything predetermined from the
beginning of time; or is life just random, full of coincidence and accident?
Why do bad things happen to good people, and good things to bad people?
8. What is the good life—for the individual and for the many (society)?
Why are things the way they are?
How should things be ideally?
What would a Utopian society, a heaven on earth, be like?
Is it even possible to create a Utopia?
If so, how?
Would not a Utopia assure personal freedom?
What, then, should you do with those who don’t cooperate?
9. What is happiness? What causes suffering?
What are the emotions?
Where do they come from? What causes them?
How can it be that for any given event or situation, some people suffer and others rejoice?
Is it really happiness, if a person is up at one moment and suffering the next?
10. What happens at death?
Is death the end of everything or is there a soul in people that continues to exist beyond death?If so, is that soul immortal or does it too eventually cease to exist?
If the soul does continue to exist after death, what is the nature of that existence?
If there is an existence after death, is “good” rewarded and “bad” punished?
If so, how do you reconcile reward/punishment with the concept of predestination and therefore
the absence of free will?
From: http://www.psycanics.org/
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