In six pages five philosophical questions on the past resembling the future, goal setting and attainment, atomic facts, philosophical analysis, and believing in God are answered. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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it will, or must you merely assume that it will? We can only assume that the future will resemble the past. The
sun has risen every day for eons, but the fact that that has occurred in the past constitutes no guarantee that it will in the future. There is no
guarantee of a future in physical existence at all, so that there will be a future is the first assumption that has to be made.
Assuming that there will be a future, we can further assume that it will resemble the past in several broad respects. Of course technology and standards of
living are greatly advanced over those which existed a century ago, a millennium ago or even in prehistory. Methods by which we organize and govern ourselves change very little,
however. Groups - civic, political, religious, kin, national, local or any other collection of individuals based on one or more common characteristics - form, grow in influence, encounter resistance
and ultimately either change in response or eliminate the resistance movement. People operate according to the dictates of evolved norms until those norms are no longer workable for them.
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round of crisis, solution and equilibrium. The
settings and reasons change, but the general pattern remains largely the same. 2. Suppose you set a goal for yourself and then achieve it. What do you do then,
set other goals and achieve them? Why bother? In his article "Time to Kill," author Steven Muller asserts that Europes perpetual high unemployment