Philosophical Questions and their Answers, by Kenza (online member)

What is Time (and do you think of Time the same way I do)?
If you looked for an ordinary definition of time, you’d be given something like, the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. But what exactly IS Time? And how can we think of it? Can we even go forwards/backwards in time? 
I think Time is of course our experiences in life, what’s happening to us now in the present, and what will happen in future (assuming we will still be there). We count Time as it goes by, just as we count numbers. But the mind-numbing thing is that if you go further and further than a millisecond, it’s infinite, and it’s hard to believe how this still goes on as we go by in the present today. Many believe that you can go forwards in Time if you go faster than the speed of Light. But many wonder how this beyond-the-mind thing works. I’ve come up with a theory, but it still doesn’t quite explain how Time works. 
If you look at the stars in the night sky today, you may have heard from someone or from an information book, that the stars that are out there today may have already died millions and millions of years ago. But there’s a reason for this of course; Light is slower than the speed of time, just as Sound is slower than the speed of Light (you’d notice this when there’s lightning). And that’s also the reason why light from the sun takes eight minutes to reach us, since the sun is so far away. So, from this theory, you can tell that Time is faster; the reason is because the stars that you see in the night sky may have already died… with Time! 


What are Colours?
If you were trying to explain to someone who’d been blind all their life, what colours are, you’d have a bit of difficulty. Only a person who’d not been blind at first would understand this matter properly. If you look up an ordinary definition, you’d be given something like, the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light. But this wouldn’t be useful for a blind person, because they don’t understand light, either. 

Instead, you could say that colours can also be expressed as heat or emotions. Like, red for hot, angry or dangerous and blue for cold, calm or sad. And then, of course, yellow for happy, which is also quite common.

Can you step in the same River twice? 
Yes; if I were stepping in the Thames once, stepped out, and stepped in again, I’d still be stepping in the Thames. 
No; the water of the river I’d stepped in the first time would have flowed past, by the time I’d stepped in the second time. Thus, it would be impossibly difficult to step in in exactly the same position as I’d last done, with the water in exactly the same place too. 

Does society need Greed?
Yes; If no-one had a greedy ambition, we’d probably never get anywhere. No-one would want to be leaders. Capitalism wouldn’t exist at all, and there would be no in between. 
No; If we didn’t have greed, we’d have more love and kindness for each other. There would be a lot more friendly people on the planet, and we’d be sharing things a lot more. The rainforests wouldn’t be cut down, and we wouldn’t use others. 
Personally, I believe some need a bit of greed for the world to work, but not too much. I mean, cutting down all the rainforests is over the top, but if we didn’t have greed at all, we probably wouldn’t even have ambitions, a competitive spirit, and we would be weak. 

Why does the same thing make one person Happy and the other Sad?
Different people may see different things in different ways. For example, say one child took a toy from another. In one perspective, the child would be really annoyed and demand it back. But in another, the child would be really happy that the other wanted to use their toy. 
It really depends which personality you have. If you’re a greedy or selfish character, you might be really annoyed if someone took one of your belongings from you. But if you’re a kind and sharing type of character, you’d be quite happy for someone to use one of your belongings. In some ways, you may be classified as an optimist, realist, or pessimist; like in the half-full, half-empty cup example.