Questions to Ask Yourself "I want to be consistant with the truth, as it reveals itself to me." -Ghandi For any of us to be fully conscious intellectually we should not only be able to detect the world views of others but be aware of our own- why it is ours and why in light of so many options we think it is our own. Give your essential rock-bottom answers to the following eight questions. Think well and hard on them, be as elaborate, or as simple as you wish.   1. WHAT IS PRIME REALITY- THE REALY REAL? (ex. To this we might answer god or the gods, or the material cosmos, or thought, etc)   2. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF EXTERNAL REALITY, THAT IS, THE WORLD AROUND US? (Here our answers point to whether we see the world as created or autonomous, as chaotic or orderly, as matter or spirit, or whether we emphasize our subjective, personal relationship to the world or its objectivity apart from us.)   3. WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING? (ex. To this we might answer a highly complex machine, a sleeping god, a person made in the image of god, a naked ape, etc)   4. WHAT HAPPENS TO A PERSON AT DEATH? (ex. Here we might reply personal extinction, transformation to a higher state, nothing, etc)   5. WHY IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL? (ex. Here we might say we are made in the image of an all-knowing god, or consciousness and rationality developed as a means of survival during evolution, etc)   6. HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG? (ex. We might say the bible, right and wrong are determined by human choice alone, it is neccesary for survival to know what is moral and what is not, etc)   7. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF HUMAN HISTORY? (ex We might say to realize the purposes of god, to learn, to make paradise on earth, etc)   8. WHAT AND WHO ARE/IS GOD(s), AND WHAT ARE THE ATRIBUTES OF GOD(s)AMD HOW DOES GOD INTERACT WITH THE WORLD? (ex We might say a loving creator, a figment of our imagination, lets us have our own will, etc) pw for aawc 12/02