What are some interesting things to ponder about?

Question

I love philosophy and analyzing everything there is to do with life or anything. I come to an epiphany about something just about everyday. So what are some things you've thought about that blew your mind?

Answer 1

right vs. wrong in everyday life

love

life*

our exsistence here on earth*

where we came from*

how my ancestors must have felt like

amazing moments in human history

human nature*

preception of society from a birds eye view" looking from the outside, not the inside

why humans have good intentions, but behave badly*

what is meterial reality

what real;ly exists and wat is made up in the mind of men

i am i really me

what was there before there was existence, before the big bang

am i dreaming

are friends really my friends or actors

am i in a soap opera but brain washed to think its real life

Answer 2

The weather!!

How mother nature tries to balance warm and cold around the whole world.

That someware its freezing, at the same time somware, its boiling!

Cyclones and tsunamis

Fog and clouds

The fact that the air your breathing right now has travelled a far way, even come from a different country!!

History.

Old art, walking in our ancestors footsteps, old eraslike the 80`s fashion just blows my mind lol

One day, one world, different all over.

Truly amazing.

Answer 3

This may sound dorky but Einsteins theory of relativity about time warping and the size of the universe.  I mean seriously without any psychedelic drugs it can blow your mind thinking about how big the universe is (which we don't even know the true size), how long it takes light to travel and that a star you see today is actually an image of it millions of years ago because that is how long it took that light to travel.  I took physics in college and if I understood string theory better that would have been my major...the stuff is fascinating!

Answer 4

Here are some books which present things to ponder:

"The Path of the Higher Self" and "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet;

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov;

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D.;

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer;

"Kundalini West" and "Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton;

"Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi;

"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," Daniel Estulin;

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock;

http://www.carolbowman.com

http://www.integralscience.org

http://www.noetic.org

http://www.heartmath.org

http://www.dreamhealer.com

http://www.dreamviews.com

Answer 5

What existed before existence?

It sounds like an annoying question but think about it.  

What is the sound of pure silence?

What constitutes "sentience"?

The next one requires an explanation.  If aliens exist it's possible that they have completely different senses than we do.  They could have no eyes, evolution could have been completely different for them.  So the question is.

How many senses are there?  

and

What are we missing out on?

Answer 6

It's also how the mind functions into different theories. The sense of analyzing in such unique different ways of each individuals. That the moods and personality reflected at a time in each subject matter in every responses. I ponder on the values of the mind.

Answer 7

The crime and corruption of government and politicians . The raping of America . How are we all going to live in caves again .

Answer 8

The element of time.

What it would be like if u were the last person on earth

What it would be like if u were the last person on earth with the people in the room with you. (like stranded on an island)

your future

the theory of "i think therefore i am"

Answer 9

Just trying to get my mind around the idea of infinity. Is our universe infinite? If its not, what lies beyond and beyond that? Can there be an ending to everything? How can that be?

Answer 10

perception of the world around you . nothing is real until your brain conceves it as such. whats real? is the color green the same to you as someone else? perception is reality to you as anothers perception is reality to them. can you really explain a color? my brain says its green. do you see the same? Idont know?

Answer 11

A sphere has one side, a piece of paper has two sides, a piramid has 4 or 5 faces, what shape/object has 3 sides?

Is there something I can record on my mp3 player where I'll here nothing at all and cancelling out the noise outside my headphones?

Answer 12

I would say mostly my current understanding of universals and particulars; which I don't know everything about, and some of this may ought to remain secret: or that some substantial particular learning is prerequisite; but I am willing to explain everything I know, yet in proper order in an exchange of ideas.

I am wondering about Kant's Antinomies.  Why are the contraditory antinomies equally valid?  Why are the four, considered the cornerstone or the general types of antinomies?  Are the antinomies unresolvable?

Good to ponder these, (see "Critique of Pure Reason"; also a good summary of this is in Bertrand Russell's chapter on Kant in "A History of Western Philosophy")

Answer 13

What is the soul? Is it what is known as an "astral body"? If people have "soul"...is the "soul" fully developed and funtional at birth or, does it mature with experience and become funtional by degrees? If it is not fully developed, does the soul just mature on its own, willy-nilly, without any special attention on our part? Or do we need to make specific efforts in order to become mature souls?

latest epithany concerns: "LIGHT after death"

Answer 14

What can I do for Jesus after all he's done for me?

What would Jesus do?  

These are the best things to ponder about before you do anything.  You have to think before you let your actions ride in.  Just be  you and love Jesus along the way

Answer 15

Why do atoms go in patterns?

Why doesn't god build me a house?

Time is a place.

Something that really blew my mind(Cause I was on mushrooms) Was how everything is very connected with each other in many different ways. Like how cells can be related houses, People related to DNA(It has 2 sides, girl/boy) And possibly pondering about where society is going to go with the idea of it being like a human body.  Like Doesn't a rocket ship seem phallic? while the moon looks circular, like an egg? female/male....It is like the rocket is sperm, Ideally speaking.    Also I figure that people are always looking for a specific connection with each other, because of the DNA idea, thymine with adenine only...So we are looking for a special mate, and when we are there, we most likely do not think about anything else.

Answer 16

If "pondering" is blowing your mind. Read Stephen King's

book. "Duma Key."

How to draw a picture:

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or

canvas. But I feel it should be white. We call it white, because

we need a word. But it's true name is nothing. Black is the

absence of light, but white is the absence of memory. The

color of can't remember.

Answer 17

How do you train to cut diamonds?

i mean, they are not going to let you attempt to cut a diamond with practice and using flawed diamonds may not give the right level of training

Answer 18

A question I just read here will give me a lot to ponder for a good while, "If you could, which would you end, had you the choice, Hatred or Hunger?  There were some very good answers.  I will think about it for a  long time.

Answer 19

How many positive aspects there are about "nothing". Hey, it's weightless, space saving, sugarless, and it makes for interesting conversation and confusing wordplay. 'Nothing is weightless', 'Nothing is sugarless' etc.

Answer 20

How can one person make a difference?

Will my vote really count?

Why is there evil?

Why do the good die young?

What kind of music would John Lennon be making now?

Who ate the first crab?

What attracts you to asking a question like this?

How is it possible for someone to really know another?

Answer 21

think about the fact that right now, someone, somewhere, is dying. and other, ....Now. and another.......Now.

and equally, someone, somewhere in the world, is being born. and now, again. and again....now.

at this point Now, at least one of those newborns is dying.

incidentally, are you familiar with www.postsecret.com?

absolutely amazing x*x

Answer 22

What is "real?"  How is "real" defined?

Start by reading Descartes if you're into philosophy.

Answer 23

The other day I was pondering the perfect sound of Karen Carpenter's voice and remembering listening to it on my plastic record player when I was 6 years old and how she died very young from not eating enough and her heart gave out.Now it has been all these years later and none else has a voice like hers and I wonder what songs she would have sang that we will not hear.

Answer 24

I have thought about a lot of things but some that I repeat thinking about are

What if all the 'mythical' creatures were actualy real?

How exactly did the dinosaurs die?

What religion is right out of the millions?

When cat's wander around outside wher exactly do they go?

What if all human's were the same?

Is the all famous love realy for everone?

Racism, who started it and what were the thinking?

Who thought to invent the little platic tube on shoelaces?

Where to great writers get there insperation.

Answer 25

In life you know your start and you know your ending so make as many side trips as you can to see it all first.

Answer 26

This doesn't really blow my mind, but I know a woman named Ponder and I often wonder why her parents called her that. Her name kind of fits, too, because she's very mellow and easy-going.

Answer 27

The thought that regardless of how bad I may perceive the current state of my life, I must see it from the perspective of all humans who have ever lived.

I live in the USA at a time that I needn't hunt nor gather to survive. None of my 5 children died in infancy or childhood. I have all of the intellectual stimulation that I could ask for and a long life expectancy.

Then think of any point in history and imagine a person in a similar social standing. They too were at the pinnacle of human evolution and had much to be thankful for in the context of history!

Answer 28

Here are some perplexing questions worth pondering::

Why do youth delinquency and crimes never seem to be reduced, year by year?

Why do thousands of shrieking and crying young girls chase and mob some musical bands,like The Beatles, risking life and limbs?

Where is society heading with the young focussed on flashy gadgets, computer games, more daring ways of dressing, and going into p**n careers?

Why are educated people still harbouring racial and religious prejudices and causing riots, killings and untold miseries to thousands, esp in Second and Third World countries?

How would the world be like if there were no borders and no racial or religious tensions? 'Imagine' the ultimate Peace all humans will enjoy!

Would a month's holiday on our Moon, 20 yrs from today,  be an amazing experience of weightlessness and hopping right up to your 2nd level hotel room effortlessly as the gravity is 6x less than on Earth?

What is it that keeps the electrons of the atom moving constantly around the nucleus, just like the planets going around the sun?

What are the ultimate factors and characteristics that would make two persons trust and love each other completely?

In the next 50yrs will technology be so advanced that every gadget and machine will shrink 5-10x smaller, even a foldable and portable three wheeler machine we ride to work?

In the next 50 yrs, will 50% of humanity pursue home-schooling and work from home, widespread inter-racial marriages and men be allowed to marry two wives for economic reasons and scarcity of young men who are always involved in horrific wars?

Answer 29

You could try this.  What is it that you really want out of life?

I mean every single detail.  Make a list and update it as often as possible.  For example, you can`t want a good car.  It has to have a year, model, color, upholstering, number of doors, size of engine, automatic or standard transmission, etc. etc.

Whatever you can think of or find, get more details.  If it is a mate, get picky, the pickier the better.  Here names are no good.  Better if it is someone just like so-and-so, but with this or that just a bit better, with a lot of money or mid or poor.  Details!  Later on is too late to try to change stuff in a pleasant way, so do it now.  Not only Prince Charming or the Queen of the Ball but what color horse or carriage you want them to appear in.  I`m not kidding.  The wackier your dream the more fun you will have when they come a-knockin`.

When I learned this lesson, it did blow my mind and got me out of a dangerous territory.  Cheers!  And thanks for the question!

Answer 30

consider this, the world at large , what we perceive as the world is only a description of the world one that has been taught to you from the moment of birth by everyone who comes in contact with you. this description is only one of an infinite number of possible descriptions.

Consider this, the world is not as concrete or as 'out there' as you have been led to believe.

Answer 31

I like your question.

I did a SEARCH FOR QUESTION and this is "What is Philosophy".  The full answer is in the link below and here is the bottom line to the best answer chosen by the asker named.

The poster "You Ask & I Answer" asked "What is Philosophy...?  He chose "Jack" who said  "...philosophy is just a pursuit or love for wisdom....typical philosophy is categorized into Metaphysics (theory of being,) Epistemology (theory of knowledge,) and Axiology (theory of value.) Generally, you'll find that most subjects in philosophy reduce to one of these general categories."

The poster rated this answer 5 stars with this comment "Thank you. Your response was very enlightening and thought provoking. I appreciate your taking the time to respond. "  I liked the poster's defnition of philosophy as well as Jack's.

For me my philosophical question to myself falls into the category of Epistemology (theory of knowledge).  And that is this.

If man's has knowledge that he has the intelligence to learn.

Why does he have this abiltiy to learn knowledge?  

And if he has this knowledge then what knowledge is the greatest one that is the truth for all man that he should believe in and live by?

And the biggest question of all

Is there a knowledge and truth that existed before man and the universe existed, and that man did not create, that is the greatest knowledge of all?

And if that knowledge is the truth, why don't men believe it or live by it?

Take care.