I have been trying to figure out what question in the universe is more important than its answer. It sems to me like.. the more important the question.... the more valuable the answer.
2006-10-21 16:56:14 · 16 answers · asked by David G 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What is your purpose in life?
2006-10-21 17:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by spiritualjourneyseeker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(Backstory: a man and his son don't get along at all for years. The man is a workaholic. The son is a rebel. Some emotional event happens, and the son comments about how his father never cared about him.)
Important question --
Dad: Don't you know how much you mean to me?
It's a rhetorical question. The dad doesn't want an answer to it. It's still a question, but its real purpose is to tell the son that the dad loves him, not to find out if the son really didn't know it.
Most rhetorical questions are more important than what the answer is. They're questions which require no answer. If they require no answer, the question is obviously more important.
2006-10-21 17:17:36 · answer #2 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your supposition of an equitable question vs.answer value would be so were it not for the values we add to the equation....We ask questions fro reasons of discernment; to wiegh the facts, so to speaks. We have a belief that in having an arrangement of the facts and thier interplay we can become safe and happy ! These motives for asking factual questions are subjective in nature and askew the original question vs. answer value. An example: I learn of medical test results ...contingent on what I believe about the relative validity of the test, about what "normal" parameters are,and what I believe will be the painful consequences( or lack thereof) of such test results ...I determine to begin a greif process or I go on to the next thing to worry about :) The real problems are in my beliefs; that I might be able, by virtue of knowing, to avoid all pain, or to gain all pleasure and security...when truly these are relative and subjective experiences inherent in living. Absolute science is merely a descripion, a schematic, and accounting. Understanding is base to experiencing in the same way doing is base to being (who I am begets what I am ....the reverse is a hollow experience).
To answer your question in a more personal way then : If your girlfriend or boyfriend were to ask you in pubic and in the company of others whether you'd soiled your pants ......Which would be more important to you in that moment...the answer to her/his question, or the fact that she/he asked ? Trust me on this....What I would care about is that she embarrassed me !...whether or not my pants were soiled.
Incidentally, the appropriate answer to that question is ...."You mean today ?"
2006-10-21 17:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by 58yroldwhtmaleUSA 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what makes us feel?? sorrow,. pain hurt feelings ?? and what are feelings ?? and how did we get them, and how can a person die of a broken heart ?? does that really happen ?? here are some heartfelt questions and where are the answers???
2006-10-21 17:06:12 · answer #4 · answered by lacylane1967 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have already found the question.
The question is...
What question is more important than any answer???
2006-10-21 17:03:51 · answer #5 · answered by AveGirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your statement is not a question. So, it can not be answered or questioned really.
2006-10-21 17:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
how much wood would a woochuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2006-10-21 17:13:09 · answer #7 · answered by Paul Y 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you were God or that "Higher Power", what would you have done differently? I ask this in all seriousness. WHAT would you have done differently, if anything?..............
2006-10-21 17:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by BigDaddySteven2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who am I.
2006-10-21 17:05:13 · answer #9 · answered by charanjeet b 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is that is most important to you about ________________?
After you ask that you can ask.
And what is even more important than that about ________?
2006-10-21 17:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by integrityservices2000 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋