The future just involves more and more programmed social behavior, where people will become less and less free and not even realize it because they have been manipulated into accepting servitude. — darthbarracuda
I think they do. These are perhaps the most primordial reflective questions our species still amuses / agonizes itself with after some hundred or so millennia. Religion and myth, culture and science, philosophy and politics are rooted in their own peculiar ways in Gauguin's trinity. And every answer attempts to be the final word and bury each question forever; of course, these questions are undead, or glitches in the matrix of human discursive cognition – akin to what Freddy says: "I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar." Grammar = ego (i.e. neurotic knot of atman).'Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?' (Gauguin)
Do they have any relevance for the way we think about our lives? — Jack Cummins
The Darwinists have looked more at the way we have evolved from animals, although the missing link has not been found. — Jack Cummins
Where Are We From? What Are We? Where Are We Going ', is a title of a painting by , Paul Gaugin, in 1897, when he was suicidal, — Jack Cummins
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide — Albert Camus
I find it both exhilarating and also terrifying that if one has to, in a sense, engage in true philosophy one must be willing to descend into the dark and unforgiving regions of the human psyche which are but outposts of Algea & Thanatos. — TheMadFool
Your psyche may be dark and unforgiving, mine is generally lighthearted and easy-going. I'd recommend avoiding Camus and other miseryguts authors. — Daemon
.We must imagine Sisyphus happy — Sisyphus
This may be because the people can explore the dark depths through art. — Jack Cummins
I think that many people do not even stop and consider the question of what are we? — Jack Cummins
Perhaps, philosophy can be a form of helping us to become more consciously aware, because it involves critical discourse and looking behind the surfaces of day to day experiences. — Jack Cummins
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