one of my friends believes that his brain is not being challenged anymore since he is no longer in school, and has asked me to ask him really hard questions that'll give his brain a work out. any ideas?
2007-01-15 17:04:29 · 28 answers · asked by havok636 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Ask him to try to discover himself.
2007-01-15 17:08:48 · answer #1 · answered by Sadegh B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Here is a series of numbers, Which number should replace the question mark:
a) 49,7,9,3,64,8,25,?
b) 32, 25, ?, 14,10, 7, 5
2. Do blondes really have more fun?
3. What happened to Brittney Spear's underwear?
4. What novel by Charles Dickens best typifies Al Gore's stance on global warming?
5. Just where IS Tintern Abbey, and why did Wordsworth write about it?
6. How could Beethoven possibly compose the 9th Symphony if he was deaf? Could an imposter have composed it?
7. How many times is the word "the" used in the Bible?
8. If a=b and b=c, does c imply a?
9. If a train is travelling 60 mph, heading east from San Fransisco to Chicago, and it is carrying 249 passengers, each of whom checked 2 pieces of luggage, what colour are the conductor's socks?
10. Get him to say "Unique New York" 10 times FAST
2007-01-16 02:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by pianogal73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? haha, no, just kidding.
What is the true meaning of a utopia? The dictionary definition describes a perfect place, a paradise. But in truth, isn't a utopia really just a contradiction? Perfection itself is, after all, an utterly ambiguous idea. Have your friend puzzle about utopias, and dystopias. Even better, have your friend try and design a utopia for himself! That ought to be challenging... =)
2007-01-16 01:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by Amaryllis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is on the early state of depression, perhaps he had a better social structure when he was in school, where his intellect was always up to a new challenge, but now he has the challenge back to the real world, what would it be for him now, what would be the one thing that everyone will remember him for? What great mark would he leave us behind for the History Books.
Something to think about.
2007-01-16 03:50:28 · answer #4 · answered by non existance 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
above mentioned answers are more school dropouts i suppose
therefore you can not challenge your friend with those questions
imagination is the source of ultimate innovative ideas but it do have a base therefore it can not act without it.therefore nobody can 1.visualize colour outside PAR(400-700nm).
2.think of 5th dimension in space and time
3.how black holes ultimately dies(as it has already collapsed under its own gravity and already have almost infinite gravity
or try visualization challenge(but complicated ones,many things going on on the same time)
i think that is enough .
2007-01-16 01:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by ISAEINS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hardest question is probably the purpose of man (and specifically the individual) on this planet. Why is your friend here? Is it to contemplate hard questions? If so, then why isn't he a philosopher? But can a philosopher accomplish jack-**** in the modern age?
If that doesn't amuse him, then Mental Floss magazine (and it's daily online quizes) should. Tell him to check it out. Their slogan tells us that this is "Where knowledge junkies get their fix", so who better to entertain a bored brain?
http://www.mentalfloss.com/
2007-01-16 01:14:28 · answer #6 · answered by Emmature 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask him an existential issue:
Who are you? And are you really what you think you are? Have you ever put up a mask on (put up a facade that you're smart and deep and philiosophical and all) in front of everyone else and then forget you had and believed you are what you wished you were? Are you acting with yourself even when you are alone?
Or are your words of wisdom and knowledge simply words of others, manipulated to make you sound like you are somebody? Who are you? What are you?
2007-01-16 02:29:16 · answer #7 · answered by cassaliciousinsanity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HEY KALLIE!!!! is it a hardboiled egg???
anyways, umm... how about asking him whether it is right for woman to abort there unborn children?
- if he says yes its wrong, bring up the idea of how it wouldnt be fair for the child, or the mother, to grow up in poverty, never being able to fully support the child, or give him a chance to succeed.
-if he says no its not wrong, you can either talk about the religious aspect of it, or if you dont want to go their, bring up aristotle and talk about what is good. although it would be good for the mother, you would be destroying life (which he considers an ulitmate good that cant be wrong).
have fun with this debate :)
2007-01-16 05:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by J Balla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When do you have an object. When do some number of x's compose a further Y. Is it when they are close? Always? Never? In what situation can you say those objects make a whole?
2007-01-16 01:22:38 · answer #9 · answered by Lessaware 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell him to come up with five universal truths, end world poverty, and learn and play with Game Theory - all while doing Soduku. If he doesn't give up, he'll win a Nobel Prize
2007-01-16 01:14:25 · answer #10 · answered by makaveli2317 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As him with the exception of science and religion will there have been any other ways men could explained the universe? Re-phase of my question " without science and religion, would men have been able to examine and explain the universe as they do today.?
2007-01-16 02:23:29 · answer #11 · answered by problemsolver86 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋