Is it because they don't like the question or cannot find a valid retort, so suffice with a silly question as a reply instead?
2006-08-11 06:27:15 · 11 answers · asked by googlywotsit 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do YOU insist on doing it?
2006-08-11 06:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes they need more information to accurately answer the question.
Other times, answering a question with another question is a valid way of making someone reconsider the original question. For example "Would you like it if I stepped on your toe?", "Would you enjoy it if someone stepped on yours?"
Finally, there's a comon technique in English called a rhetorical question. It's one that has such an obvious answer that it's really more of a statement than a question. For example, if someone asked "Would you like a million dollars?", it wouldn't be inappropriate to reply "Does a wild bear poop in the woods?" It's rhetorical, because everyone knows that wild bears poop in the woods, so you've really just said "Yes," but in a funnier way. :D
2006-08-11 13:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is because they don't like/understand the question or cannot find a valid retort, so retort with a silly question as a reply instead
2006-08-11 13:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it depend on the question may be i answer the question to make u c point or something could help u in Ur question .
or even more may be no one know the answer and make up question and satisfy him self that am gr8 i answered question.
human being r different in many many things
do not try put Ur self in cycle y u will lose more than win
2006-08-11 13:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by shemoo00 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right you should not answer a question with a question.
"It has been believed heretofore in the world that there is one devil that presides over the hells; that he was created an angel of light; but having become rebellious he was cast down with his crew into hell. This belief has prevailed because the devil and satan, and also lucifer, are mentioned by name in the Word, and the Word in those places has been understood according to the sense of the letter. But by "devil" and "satan" there hell is meant, "devil" meaning the hell that is behind, where the worst dwell, who are called evil genii; and "satan" the hell that is in front, where the less wicked dwell, who are called evil spirits; and "lucifer" those that belong to Babel, or Babylon, who would extend their dominion even into heaven. That there is no one devil to whom the hells are subject is evident also from this, that all who are in the hells, like all who are in the heavens, are from the human race (see n. 311-317); and that those who have gone there from the beginning of creation to this time amount to myriads of myriads, and every one of them is a devil in accord with his opposition to the Divine while he lived in the world" (Heaven and Hell n. 544).
2006-08-11 13:29:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
May be it's because if you provide a Email contact the Christians send loads of moronic hate mail.
2006-08-11 13:31:29 · answer #6 · answered by oxyman42 Re-Loaded 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah i know what ya mean.
especially the ppl that say something rude
or offensive to one of your questions,
they never have a valid email.
bastard$!
2006-08-11 13:32:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mollerina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes a question actually answers a question.
2006-08-11 13:30:22 · answer #8 · answered by BlueLantern 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i admit i do that alot
many times i dont know what exactly the person was looking for in the first place.
2006-08-11 13:30:14 · answer #9 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
retoricle questions don't warrant an answer
2006-08-11 13:30:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋