Forming an Ideology:
By Answering these Questions Thoughtfully, You Can Find out What You Know For Sure and Be A Person of Convictions.
In my ideal world, in what way would people act differently?
How can I be the change I want to see in the world?
What morals are common sense to me that other people don’t seem to get? How can we as a society work together for these higher ideals?
How can I balance your obligations to your body and your mind?
Anything else comes second: family, friends, teachers, bosses. If you don’t have your health, both physical and mental, then you are useless to them.
What kind of people am I attracted to? What patterns and cycles do I fall into?
What are my strengths and weaknesses both personality wise and activity wise?
If you don’t build on your strengths and weaknesses, then you are like a flower that never blossomed, or a caterpillar that never morphed into a butterfly.
What makes me sad about how other people act? Why might that be? How can our society change that? How can I help other people? This goes back to strengths and weaknesses.
How can I express myself? That is, how can I get people to understand me?
And how can I take all of my experiences and build off of them to become specialized in some form of life? This also goes back to strengths and weaknesses. If words are insufficient, how can I act to show people how I feel? Or how can I show people how I care, and that I think about them?
Who was I before I learned how to speak, how to tell time, and other modes of human limitations? Who was I before traumatic and other life altering experiences happened to me? What part of me is just habit? What do I say or do that I got from other people’s rules? What do I say or do that I got from other people’s characteristics I admire? What do I say or do that is only for pleasing other people?
What have I done in the past to other people or to myself that makes me shudder or disgusts me?
In what situations might breaking the law or ten commandments might be excused?
How can I act in a way that will not be misinterpreted?
What am I afraid of? Which of your fears are irrational?
What mistakes have I made? What did I learn from them about myself and my relation to life and the people in it?
What gives me the greatest joy in life?
What about the world is beautiful to me? How can I routinely stand back and take in its beauty? How can I participate with nature? How can I create something beautiful?
What quotes inspire me? What books inspire me? Movies? Music? What is it about it that really speaks to me? What is it saying? What truth am I connecting to? How can I build on these truths? How can I argue them?
Who do I love unconditionally? What degrees of love do I have for my fellow species? How can I show and make love without compromising who I am? What are my passions? What makes me lose track of time in a healthy way? What keeps me going? How can I keep other people going? How can I contribute to the source of my love and passions?
Once you finish, you will have the answer to this question: If my desires imprison me, which ones are more worth my time and which ones? What might I have to sacrifice in order to protect my beliefs? Am I willing to do so? What have I outgrown already? What part of me should I never compromise?
What Insights of Yours Can You Add to Figuring out The Mysteries of Life? Find Out:
What have I taken on a leap of faith?
Whether you're right or wrong, either way it’s a leap of faith. Which direction gives you the most hope? Why?
What do people call God that really isn’t God in the sense it is unexplainable? What does that leave? Is reason more important than intuition? What about what logic can’t answer?
Cosmology: Is there a structured order to reality? What patterns have I found in life?
Ontology: What is the difference between my childhood over-active imagination and the feeling of getting high and hallucinating? How are those two experiences any less real than sober or mature experiences? How are my dreams different from reality in terms of how it affects me?
Human nature: How can I generalize how humans act? Is this an over-simplification? What evidence can I point to? How has mankind progressed? In what areas have they remained the same?
Politics: Are borders necessary? Should the world be “every country or man for themselves”? Do stronger countries have obligations for weaker ones? If we can all agree that nobody wants their country, or their cause (in the case of religious fundamentalists who want their religion to rule the world, and same with communism and capitalism) to be lost, how can we all compromise and respect each other?
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