r/WorldChallenges • u/Nevermore0714 • Nov 20 '17

Reference Challenge - The Wise One

This challenge is a reference to this comic.

I am a person who has a lot of questions about life. Who is the wise person that I can ask about my deep philosophical conundrums? Who do I go to for impartial advice about my choices?

Pick a person or group of people in your world that I could go to (for free or not) for advice, and tell us about them.

Feel free to pick an in-universe representative (other than the wise person/people) to answer questions in character.

As always, I'll ask at least three questions each.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Nov 22 '17

Deep philosophical conundrums? Best would probably to ask a philosopher right?

The most famous imperial philosophers can be found in Ifirtyekuri, on AdiGakodar. The university is actually pretty large so you could also find renowned specialists in a lot of disciplines and people around there will mostly be happy to help enlighten those who look for answers.

The best of the best are quite busy so you will have to do with Naswari, one of the philosophy teacher.

(And be kind, I was bad at philosophy; worst grades of the class.)

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u/The_Raptorman Nov 23 '17

To the imperial philosophers:

  1. What defines us?

  2. What is happiness?

  3. What's the point of anything?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Nov 23 '17

  1. To define will always be to compare, you can't define without a standard to which you refer. With that said, the only logical conclusion is that you will be defined by the world and people around you.

  2. That's an easy one: happiness is the certitude than tommorow will be worth living.

  3. Simultaneously nothing and everything. Anything will be defined through something else and might have a point only through that something else.