Philosophy and Metaphysics

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Metaphysics:
What is real?
Does anybody really know what is real anymore I guess we do. Take that your stung by a bee or something else you feel the pain that is real. However when you go to sleep and have a dream that you and a relative that passed away are fishing or something is that real? It might seem that way at that point but you never really know.
Is the physical world more or less real than the spiritual or psychological world?
I believe that it is all real in some way or the other the physical world is of course real, we feel pain, happiness, love how else we would feel those if it was not real. The spiritual world is real in a different way by that way we cannot see. Here is an example at my old house I would be home alone and every so often I would hear noises upstairs like foot steps to this day I could not tell you what the noise was.
Is there such a thing as a soul? And if so, how does it survive outside of a physical body?
Yes I believe there is such thing as soul how else would you explain heaven and hell. It survives outside the body because our bodies are not yet dead. Just like when you go to bed at night and have a dream about a dead relative that you two are fishing. It’s like your spirit meeting with that person just like if you went to visit a friend.
Do all people have free will, or are lives determined by fate?
I believe that all people do have free will but there are places that you live that you might not though. Take South Korea or any other dictatorship those people that live there sadly don’t seem to have free will.
Epistemology:
How is anything known?
That is a good question and there are probably a lot of answers to this question but coming u...

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