I will be covering the following subjects in philosophy in this journal as I have time to get my writings typed to the computer. I hope that you enjoy my views, but please be aware that these are MY OPINIONS ONLY, and that I am in no way trying to influence or change how you, the reader, think as an individual. I know a lot of philosophers try to convince and change the ideas of their readers and listeners. I am not like that. I merely wish you to know me as a person and one of the best ways to know me as a person is to know where I stand on the great areas of philosophy that have caused great controversy among free thinkers for ages.

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Enjoy.

The Nature of the Universe

• The world in which you and I live was here long before us. How did it come to be?
• Was it all created or has it existed forever?
• Who or what made it? How was it made?
• Are the trees, stars, men, and women really “there”, or are they mere creations of our minds or of the mind of a god/goddess?
• How came this universe to be?
• And what is it made of?

Man’s Place in the Universe

• Is man the destined master of the universe, or is he a “worm of the dust”?
• What is the relation between man and the universe?
• Is man the center of the universe, the goal of all creation, or is he a mere incident of no insignificance than a speck of dust?
• Is the universe friendly, or unfriendly to man, or is it merely unconcerned?
• What is good and what is evil?
• What is the measure of good and evil in the world?
• How can we know whether or not an act is good or bad?
• Is there in the very nature of the universe a code of laws which determines good and bad?
• Or, is goodness and badness a matter of the relation of an act to other acts?

The Nature of God

• What is the nature of God, and how is he related to the universe?
• Is God a person, like man, but more ideal?
• Or is God a name for the force or forces which brought the universe into being and sustain it?
• Can the human mind know God, or is God so far above man that nothing can be known about him?
• What is God’s relation to us?
• NOTE: I am personally a WICCAN, so my writings on The Naure of God will be in retrospect from my personal views.

Fate versus Free Will

• Is man free to mould his own destiny, or is he a mere straw in the wind of fate?
• Do our ideals, hopes, acts, and wills mean anything in the universe?
• Is it true, as some hold, that we come from the unknown, are buffeted around by forces of which we have no control, and a last return to the unknown?

The Soul and Immortality

• Is death the end of known existence?
• Or is there more for man in a land beyond the grave?
• Can we find in man a soul, something distinct from his body, which can survive the event of death and live eternally?
• What can we believe about heaven or hell?

Man and the State

• Is society made for man or is man made for the society?
• Is the state a divine creation which man must not question, or is it a result of a “social construct” among men and subject to change when it no longer serves men?
• How do the rulers get their authority?
• Is revolution justifiable?
• Is totalitarianism or democracy correct?

Man and Education

• Why do we establish schools and pay for them?
• Is the fundamental purpose of education the training of obedient citizens of a totalitarian state, or is it the development of free man in a democracy?
• Shall the church or the state dominate the schools?
• What shall we teach in our schools?

Mind and Matter

• Is the universe actually just a great mind, or is it really matter throughout?
• Is matter mind or is mind matter? If it is mind and matter, what is the relation between the two?
• How can mind influence matter influence matter or matter influence mind?
• Have philosophers found a solution to he problem of the relationship between mind and matter?

Ideas and Thinking

• Whence came our ideas?
• Are they born with us and do they become conscious in time, or do we get them from sense experiences?
• Or does some god reveal them to us?
• What are the laws of thinking?
• How do thinkers of each age go about thinking?