Here's a question that has been floating around in my head for a while:

For those who would call themselves atheists/agnostics/freethinkers - What is the philosophical foundation of your morality? That is to say... why BE good? How do you know what good is? Does good/evil, right/wrong even exist?

If you have a moral system, where does it come from? What justifies it's form and existence?

Okay, so I am doing an ISU for philosophy and I was wondering if anyone could help! Its the evolution of an idea, so I pick a question and basically try to answer it or get new insight at the very least. I chose the question "Do we live more than one life?", so if you have any thoughts to add or would like to discuss then please post! Thanks for your help!

The last time I wrote on this site I was concerned with the “meaning of life." The theme continues in this post, but only because the questions I have been asking myself and others has consistently led back to one answer, despite the variety of questions. I have been asking myself why I believe what I did when I was an evangelical Christian and why others continue to believe what they do - in relation to that which we cannot perceive by the five senses. Granted, there are many of those who simply do not engage in such self-reflection.

The fallacy that we all abide by one paradigm (or at least that we should) has led many Christians, both those of the conservative typology as well of the “floundering liberal” (Falwell’s words, not mine), to believe that non-believers have no ultimate purpose or meaning in life.

Hello WonderCafe friends -

I'm trying to get a biweekly or monthly group together to meet for drinks, and discuss all those things that make us *wonder*.

If you are in the Vancouver area and are interested in attending on a regular basis, contact me or comment on this post with the general area you live in (Fraser Valley, Surrey, West Van, etc.), and what day/time period works best for you. I'm currently thinking of an "after church/before dinner" sort of group on Sundays (2pm - 5pm?) or maybe a random evening like Thursdays (7pm-10pm?).

The purpose of my blog, Notions of Everything and Nothing, is to find the generic notions that account for the varieties of human experience, and to apply them toward the ongoing human conflict between "what should I do?" and "how should I feel?"