I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.

[bisonbison]

Why do dreams include actual people from my life, yet I have no control over who it is and what happens in the dream nor where it takes place?

Dreams are grist for the mill.

The mind needs work, and dreams are the mind working at a level above the threshold of perception and sometimes memory.

The mind drafts the recent topics of it's day, and pulls a few random coincidences out of the crowd and puts on a show. A show that inevitably ends in you eating your own armpit of deep, stupid insight.

By the way, the proper term for a dream or brilliant idea that's slipped your mind is cock-[censored].

[bisonbison]

Why do all these glorified wrappers for self-replicating strands of DNA keep yapping on when they should be recombining?

Sometimes an all-encompassing discussion of the totality of existence seems safer than talking to a girl you find moderately attractive.

[bisonbison]

Are there turtles all the way down?

Dope is for dopes.

[bisonbison]

if there are really more dimensions than 4, we can't directly sense them. If so, could there really be a monster (in one of the possible other dimensions) that hid in my closet as a child? And could it "get me" if it is in said dimension?
Or should I just stop licking my new pet toad?

On penalty kicks, the No beat Yes 3 - 0.

[bisonbison]

Do all dogs go to heaven?

Sure. Their sufferings are relieved and they are not lost.

[bisonbison]

Why is it wrong to kill?

Cause it causes suffering, ends a life, destroys a part of the social fabric and is almost never necessary to protect the lives or well-being of others?

Also, messy.

[AceofSpades]

Bisonbison,

Considering I don't believe in a personal God/Christianity anymore, how open or expressive should I be about my beliefs when I know people assume/think I'm a christian?

Also, should I go to christian groups because friends are there or I enjoy meeting new people when I know because of that I will be assumed to have values or beliefs I do not have or thought to be a hypocrite?

[Freelancer]

Are we really thinking persons or just meatballs that respond to events that happend in the past or present?

I mean if you take on person and put him in a black box, give him food/water and you take another person who is a exact copy at the beginning and give him the exact same food/water/black box (up to molecular level) would they respond in the same matter when the conditions change? (for instance a voice starts speaking to them)

And another one;
If I would earn 1 million dollars now with a lotery under 1 condition; I either don't touch it for 50 years, but when released will be such a large amount that its impossible to spend in your remaining life (think trillions off dollars, a huge return). Or I get the 1 million now, but I have to spend all off it in 1 year. I have the age of 20 right now. (all hypothosis offcourse)

[Will.]

[ QUOTE ]
William Burroughs states in the book Naked Lunch that the "root of all evil" is total need. He went on to say that heroin junkies are in total need of junk and will do anything to get their hands on it. This seems to make logical sense to me.

Let me just repeat that middle sentence for you:

Heroin junkies are in total need of junk and will do anything to get their hands on it.

This I pretty much agree with. But evil? No. Need is the root of all need.

[/ QUOTE ] I think this is false, because evil has a defined meaning that is dependent upon specific actions. So in this case need can be the root of evil, because evil is defined by what the need can make us do. however, evil may not be wrong and I think this is where you got lost.

[bisonbison]

Am I in the body, or is the body in me?

Your body and your mind are suffused with you, but you are not of your body or of your mind.