Knowledge and the application of that knowledge are the key to progress. All efforts towards increasing knowledge should be used in a way that is beneficial to all people rather than a select few.
Everybody deserves the right to pursue a life filled with happiness and joy. The only stipulation to this belief is that nobody's pursuit of happiness should cause harm to another person and infringes upon that person's happiness. That is the ethical way.
Nobody should ever think that a question cannot have an answer to it. All unanswered questions, when thought about with philosophy and science, have an answer that has simply not been found yet.
Bias is impossible to avoid, but we must not succumb to it by admitting that it will always exist. We must strive to reduce bias in ourselves in order to conduct our lives in a way that preserves reality as it is.
Before we were born, most of our atoms were formed in the cores of stars. After we die, our atoms that composed of us will continue to exist within the universe in some form. This is the beautiful poetry that is existence.
Questions are what increase our knowledge of the universe, and it is through the application of this knowledge that we are able to improve the state of our own lives.
Everybody deserves the right to pursue a life filled with happiness and joy. The only stipulation to this belief is that nobody's pursuit of happiness should cause harm to another person and infringes upon that person's happiness. That is the ethical way.
Knowledge and the application of that knowledge are the key to progress. All efforts towards increasing knowledge should be used in a way that is beneficial to all people rather than a select few.
People are most likely to act badly when angry, afraid, or otherwise not coping well with stress - when simply negligent - or when too passionately committed to fixed ideas. These failings can be avoided, however. In the long run, you will become what you train yourself to be.
In accordance with the guides to improve happiness, all future happiness of all people depend on the state of the world (physical and emotional)...and doing good for others makes us happy. Without a world, it is not possible to pursue the understanding of it. Commandments 1,6,8,9
It is good for us -- both joyful and ennobling -- to be confronted and challenged by the grandeur and ultimate mystery of the universe. A person so moved will not cling imperiously to preconceived ideas, or hate other people for the comparatively tiny differences between them.