The questions

These questions came in to my mind many years ago, I kept thinking about them for many years and hoped to find the answer. It’s cost me nearly 30 years of reading and thinking to lead to my philosophy of life. Many people found that philosophy is very complicated, sometimes this can be true, but from my childhood when I started to read philosophical books (my first book was A thousand and one nights, when I was 12 years old) I used philosophy to ignite my thinking. Mostly I tend towards simplicity in my thinking, our ideas don’t need to be complicated to be good! But they do need to be clear and forward looking so they can evolve into new and better ones.

I consider discussion as one way to learn (knowledge is power, learning is the key) and discussion is only thinking but with a loud voice! Questioning is a good way to start a discussion, to start the thinking process and to discover new things. I hope you will enjoy some of the ideas offered to you here, and they will give you something new to ponder on.

The questions depend on an imaginary meeting with alien from outer space (from Mars for example); please try to imagine this meeting:

Suppose one day you meet up with a man from Mars, and you are the first one to speak with him and to answer his questions: (I hope you will remember that you are speaking with alien from outer space, that means he knows nothing about us, or our life on planet earth. So when you try to answer him you will need to have some universal logic in your thinking, enjoy it).

Martian) "What sorts of beings are on this planet"?

You) your answer, naturally would be........ "There are; living and non-living things".

And because the Martian was so interested in living things he asked more about the living things:

Martian) "What are living things?"

You) “There are two kinds of living things; thinkers and non-thinkers” (non-thinkers are plants).

Martian) "What are the thinkers then"?

You) “There are two kinds, Humans and the Animals.”

Q1: Martian; "What is the difference between the Humans and the Animals?"

A)...............

I would like you to think about the answer. It's not hard, to find the answer think deeply and try just try and find out what it might be, there are many differences its true, but this one answer out from others, because of the logic of it. (Notice, the answer must be one word).

Q2: Martian: "I have been watching you, and I found that you use your hands and your head, I also noticed that you have built amazing civilizations, the question is, did you make this civilization with your hands or in your head?"

A: The Head.

Q3: Martian; "I wonder, since you think that you created all that civilization within your head, what is in your head (mind) that motivated all of this creation, I mean what is the factor that controls your thinking to develop your knowledge?"

A:..............

Q4: Martian: "How can you realize the realm or recognize the things in the life?"

A:...............

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The answers must be logical, reasonable, all humans agree on, short (one word for each question) and understandable for creature with non-earthly knowledge (please don’t panic, just think that you’re speaking with alien) .

So what are the three secret words? Good luck and enjoy the answering.

I put these simple questions as an introducing for discussions about deep philosophical topics; I made it simple and easy to understand. I wanted you to think about these questions and to find the answers by yourself first, but if you didn’t find the answers so you can read its in next pages, but please try to think deeply about its. I hope you’ll not impress yourself to not find the answers because I have been posting these questions on the Internet for more than year by now and no one found the answers. Please think again before you read the answers.

Have good luck.

The Martian