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In ten words or less, what is a question no one (yet) knows the answer to?

Is there life outside of our planet?

What's a bigger factor in our development: environment or genetics?

Is there any real truth, or is everything relative?

What will the earth be like in 100 years?

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    Adi Gupte

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    Dec 13 2011: If there's a creator, is he watching this now?
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    Harsh Bardhan

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    Dec 13 2011: Why r we going fast bcoz one day I die??

  • Michelle Surendran

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    Dec 13 2011: Coincidence or Faith: the stronger contender in life's crazy mysteries?

  • Anisha Rikhy

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    Dec 13 2011: How can we define our faith ?
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    Gerry Atricks

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    Dec 13 2011: If a man makes a statement. and there is no woman to hear him, does this mean he is still wrong!!!!
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    Thomas Pisarchick 10+

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    Dec 13 2011: Will we make it?

  • wang xiaoling

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    Dec 13 2011: The thing we see is true or not?
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    Mingchao Shi

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    Dec 13 2011: what death is like?
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    VIRIDIAN BARBEITO

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    Dec 13 2011: Who are we and why are we here?

    • Sonu Dhabhai

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      Dec 13 2011: Everything, everybody has a purpose of life but what the purpose is ? we'll have to find out the answer but HOW ?

  • Kerri H.

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    Dec 13 2011: What is the true meaning of life?

  • john shaw

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    Dec 13 2011: Is there life after death and what is it if yes?

  • Charles Chalkin

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    Dec 13 2011: Are we living in the Matrix?

    • Ian Young

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      Dec 13 2011: you are asking your computer that?

      How would you know if any of us, as responders, were not simply feeding you more stimuli?

      And no, because Kung-fu is actually really hard to learn.

      • Charles Chalkin

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        Dec 13 2011: I suppose we can't be sure about anything at all then.

        Kung fu does indeed appear challenging...

  • Sergey Luchkin

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    Dec 12 2011: Nature of high-temperature superconductivity

  • Philip Paterson

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    Dec 12 2011: What is it like to die.
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    Harmon Ye

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    Dec 12 2011: Can anything go faster than the speed of light?
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    Stuart Gall

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    Dec 12 2011: Is the Goldbach conjecture true ?
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    Serge Piguet

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    Dec 12 2011: What footprints will you make in this world with your life ?
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    Valerie Netto

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    Dec 12 2011: Yes you are "right" :) in "you mean to ask why do we have a burning need to have our points of view accepted as right by others?" But could not say that in 10 words or less! So than you for being the first to comment! That was a great help!

  • Gerardus Standervoop

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    Dec 12 2011: Indeed it was, sponsored by the august People magazine.

  • Aindreas Kugler

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    Dec 12 2011: Will this conversation reach over 1000 comments?
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    Philip Sinclair

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    Dec 12 2011: Needs and wants are highly important. When wants become more relevant than need ie advertising and mass hypnosis to buy into the life style of the next product.12345678 endless etc

    This ideology fools us the human into thinking that this is a need. To stipulate quite clearly the difference between the 2 and implement this into the education system and remove all useless brain washing advertising to children will change the perception of thought for human kind for the future.

    To implement it into the "fictitious monetery environment" that benefits the few that control the structure of the system, you will first have to remove there greed that has been inbred for centuries paving the way for ignorance.

    = = = Confusing the 2 (need and want) has created a mass confusion dillusion that has become the habitual concept of thought for the why are we working masses.(slaves to the want) i want more stuff because i am being programmed to think i need it.

    Surley if need was at the forefront for the masses the world and all its contents would have a more = balance

    Finally if advertising is so influentional it should be put to better use ;)

  • JJ Tang

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    Dec 12 2011: No life
    genetics as this relates to environment
    nothing is true, its how we perceive it to be
    modernized or gone.
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    Philip Sinclair

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    Dec 12 2011: mmm If i could only create an "organic computer person" who didnt believe they where programmed so that they would be randomly adaptable to the environment that i have created. lots of memememememememes i love me mu hahahahahaha. i know feel relevant and not so insecure. Oh darn it, its lonley being the creater, i need more creaters but they are different oh no i am insecure again,i need some ice cream but i cant decide which to have(chocolate or vanilla)... its melted oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will just have to single out one of the infinite billion other random options and focus on that for a while dependent on my perception at the time will be how i react to it 1+1 = a window, i think i might climb through that and see where it goes ;)
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    Ram Sidh

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    Dec 12 2011: Is there any real truth, or is everything relative?

    This is the answer to your question Jordan Reeves. There is always a truth, no matter where you go, there is always a single truth. What is truth? It is the realization of yourself as being the only truth! YOU are the world and why it works. The final place or plane of existence where all things are perceived as a part of YOU. Jordan, ancient religions are teaching us that there is no difference between a being called God and you. The moment you realize yourself, your true identity and begin to act upon that, is the time you will stop asking questions and realize the need to not do so, because you are the reason for it. Every person on this planet is a part of a bigger whole but resembles each other intellectually and spiritually in every way, only the physical world and its various crude manifestations have embodied certain social, physical and mental principles in our world which is avoided and destroyed by the sages who seek true self-realization. Therefore the ultimate question is:

    Who am I?

  • Bikash Ratna Tripathy

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    Dec 12 2011: whom did you first see when you were born?

  • Onecae Onecae

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    Dec 12 2011: How is knowledge possible?

  • kayo Tang

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    Dec 12 2011: Is science the new religion? If the universe originated from nothing to everything is true by majority of modern astrophysicists.

  • Ashish Kalbhor

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    Dec 12 2011: How many such questions can we think of ?
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