Discussion What question do you most want to know the answer to?

[amor.dor]

If a genie granted you one wish, and that wish was to answer any question you asked, any question at all, what would it be?

 

[orvreader]

I'd ask them how to feasibly rewind time or make a time machine, probably.

 

[shampoo sniffer]

I would ask what my life would have been like if I had gotten help for my autism at an early age. Knowing that I would have lived a massively better life, I think I'd end up in despair.

So I guess I'll ask who Jack the Ripper was or something.

 

[Unlucky777]

What is the nearest planet/star that has intelligent life beyond our solar system

 

[tarnishedstoner]

How to be happy? No bs tutorial

 

[Spite]

What happens when we die?

 

[amor.dor]

What happens when we die?

Many traditions from ancient times, such as those from ancient Egypt, suggest that at the moment of death, we are able to see our soul (meaning our totality: conscious and unconscious) in its entirety. Perhaps here our ego weakens enough to unite with the unconscious before the dissolution of life.

 

[BlendedHeart]

What is the purpose of life, of existence?

A clichéd one, but in moments of angst and depression, that always comes to mind.

And if the Genie answers with something like "you make your own purpose", I'll beat the hell out of him.

 

[amor.dor]

What is the purpose of life, of existence?

A clichéd one, but in moments of angst and depression, that always comes to mind.

And if the Genie answers with something like "you make your own purpose", I'll beat the hell out of him.

From what we understand, the purpose of life, as in humans and animals, is to expend useful energy, increasingly faster. Every form of seeking satisfaction is due to lack, wear and tear. Hunger serves to make us seek food, otherwise inertia would kill us.
Therefore, deprivation and suffering are the driving forces for life to continue and expend energy, because we will find total stability in the distant future, probably in the maximum entropy of the universe, where no movement will be possible, and consequently no pain either.

 

[Forveleth]

Would my life have been better had I moved out at 18?

 

[Forever Sleep]

Is there a God/ afterlife? Does that count as two questions?... Maybe...

Maybe that would just throw up more concerns though. If they answered there was a God but, not, which one!

 

[avalon_]

I would ask about Buddhism, wether it's true that there are these "residual energies" in our souls that get reincarnated after our deaths. That's the one thing I could never fully accept from the Buddha's teaching, even when I tried my utmost to believe in it.

 

[Spicy Tteokbokki]

Would we reincarnate after death, or perhaps some higher plane, whatever that might be, even if it's a virtual simulation we're in?

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

i'd like to know if my substance to ctb is still good. but there are no genies magic etc.

this thread shows to me i think completely differently from every human including even on this site. another reason for me to suicide asap. everywhere i just read what other humans are saying and i believe something very different.

 

[ScaredCutter]

what started earth? from the very beginning, or maybe, how did the universe come into existence.

 

[amor.dor]

what started earth? from the very beginning, or maybe, how did the universe come into existence.

This is the question I most want to know as well: how did the universe come into existence? Has it always existed? Does it recycle itself or does it end in homogenization?

 

[impossible_victory]

When will i die?

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Winning numbers to the next billion dollar jackpot. Then I can go and know my family will be ok.

 

[FoxSauce]

Why some people suck?

 

[amor.dor]

Why some people suck?

Attachment to life makes people do everything possible to continue living, avoiding pain even if it means stepping on others. I suspect that those who are detached from life and ready to die are extremely good people.

 

[itsgone2]

Why was I made this way?

Some form of autism. Traits of npd and sociopathy. Why is anyone capable of being this way?

 

[TwistedNightmares]

Why did I have to be born into a family that never cared about me and abandoned me?