Three Big Questions
It’s very interesting to compare the “Three Big Questions” mentioned in various places.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Why are people born?
- Why do they die?
- Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Another slightly different approach:
- Who am I?
- What is my purpose in live?
- Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don’t get up and go to work?
Bladerunner
- Where did I come from?
- Where am I going?
- How long have I got?
Gauguin’s painting
- Where do we come from?
- What are we?
- Where are we going?
Conclusion
There will be a very special period of time on every party. During that you will be very philosophical and you might even think of death and such things. When that time has come, you might remember the principle to impress the others: The past, the present and the future.