My name is Benjamin and i’m 13 years old and a half. I’m an atheist and i live in Montreal. My first language is french and my second is english. I have a disease called hemophilia since i was born. Its a disease that makes your body more vulnerable to injuries. That means that when i’m hurt, it will hurt more longer and it will take more time to recover. I’ve been hurt to my ankle a lot so now i’m in a wheel chair and i can’t walk for a long time. I am a sportive guy and i love sports especially hockey and football. because of this i cannot play the sports i love. I didn’t even learned to skate. When i started school, i was obligated to have someone to look for me. She was women and she used to humiliate me and scare people. I’ve had less friends and less liberty. it’s been going on for 6 years up until middle school. It was going worse and worse after each year. my teacher even began to hate me and the class to reject me even if i wasn’t doing anything really bad. when i got to middle school i thought that my problems where all gone but i was wrong. I began to love science. i began to ask myself many philosophic questions like why are we alive, what was before the big bang and what happens after you die. This is also how i became an atheist. My grades even got lower and my parents were putting pressure on me. The only positive things were that my class wasn’t rejecting me, the teachers didn’t hate me and i had more friends. i’m doing a lot of depressions these times because of my parents putting pressure on me even if it’s vacation and because i ask myself more and more philosophic questions. i am going crazy. please help.
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A big part of my old job was teaching kids who thought they were stupid because they didnt do well i school. Your grades may not be the best but for a 13 year old to be asking and tackling the big philosophical questions you are is quite impressive and shows that you are quite smart. Grades can be poor for lots of reasons, I usually blame the teachers as they never seem to spot these and put it down to kids not trying hard enough or not being smart enough. You are smart and really brave for going through what you are and you should be proud of yourself.
It’s not a bad thing to ask philosophical questions. The only problem is there are only theories as answers. Try to explain your parents how you feel and maybe they will understand and won’t put pressure on you. If you love science try to keep your grades up high and you might end up with a really good job as a professor or teacher. Do you still have someone looking after you in school?
There are some things we just can’t know. We can make observations and consider available evidence, and we can approximate almost everything… but, ultimately, it all comes down to what, and /how/ you decide is the most correct answer.
My best answer to “what was before the big bang?” would be “a singularity existed. We really can’t be sure what else, if anything, might have been.”
We don’t have any evidence to tell us that anything at all happens “after we die.” It could be nothing. Or, it could be something we can’t understand, until we encounter it ourselves.
I’ll echo what motion said.
Study your questions at a reasonable pace, until you’re satisfied with your own conclusions. If you conclude that satisfactory conclusions cannot be appropriately reached, then that is also acceptable. Either way, don’t work yourself into a frenzy over any of it, because it’s very likely that you have stumbled onto some of the questions that may never be fully answered. The human capacity for knowledge and understanding, does indeed have limits. I think it’s often better to work with what you have, instead of losing yourself in pursuit of something you can’t reach or find.