Offbeat Ponderings

What is meant to make a success of one's life? Earning loads of money, perhaps? Or becoming some famous figure? If the latter, surely no...

What is love? I kind of regard it as being something like a total and complete appreciation of another person's essence, a total empathe...

The evidence from young children who seem to remember a previous life, and even the period between lives, suggests that at least some people...

If our ideas are dictated by prevailing intellectual fashion, and what's acceptable in the academic community, then our ideas will not b...

I'm astonished to hear that many people -- if not indeed most people -- would find it profoundly boring not being in a full-time job as ...

How often do most people sit back and reflect on how utterly bizarre their situation is?? The fact they find ourselves existing... yet they ...

There's 2 possibilities: a) This is the only life there is. When we die, we simply cease to exist. Our lives and the Universe are, in a ...

I'm wondering what I would do if I woke up one morning, and apparently every single other person in the world had simply vanished. Presu...

According to this article, Greenland is the country with the world's highest suicide rate. From 1900-1930, Greenland had a suicide rate...

I don't really like the idea of a job where you're working for someone else from 9 to 5, and you don't find the work interesting...

It's strange when people say something like they don't like reading books. No books whatsoever?? If we consider novels, I probably d...

I remember when I was in the infants (about 5 or 6 years old) the teacher asking me to work out something or other (can't remember what)...