Some are meant for pure humor I agree. But for the serious ones: Don't they help to expand your view of a subject? Don't they cause you to analyze the beliefs you hold? Don't they allow for a broader understanding of the principles involved? Don't they tear away all of the fluff and get you to think about the basic framework to what you believe?
2007-02-15 02:03:35 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No...I'm not talking about rhetorical questions. I do know the difference, you know. Rhetorical questions are less useful.
2007-02-15 02:16:13 · update #1
maybe: No, I'm not a Christian. (That was humor)
2007-02-15 02:17:10 · update #2
You may be right but understand this, most of the Christians in this forum that behave like that are uneducated fundamentalists. I often won't answer any questions at all or even leave the forum in disgust because of their foolishness. These are the "if your not with us , you are against us" folks. Most of us do not act like that but between them, the militant atheists who behave like that also, and people that mock everyone just to start conflicts, sometimes this whole forum is a waste of time. It is not just the fundamentalists who waste the opportunity to turn this forum into a learning device and a medium for mutual understanding. BTW I am Roman Catholic, a member of the original Christian Church and many of those people also hate us for strange reasons.
2007-02-15 02:17:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, you can think you are a What?, isn't me the one that is in need of help, is me that is trying to do better, to achieved some understanding, don't you think if you continue going against the good flow, you may miss the wagon, where will you be doing next, make you brain work, in something, because when I shew those thing s to you, isn't your experience is me the one is doing the right thing, and not been just an static form of existence, willing to work to hurt and deny the gift of Intelligence. remember that 100% freedom is not entirely good, nor positive for any single mind, person or Individual.
2007-02-15 02:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are talking about RHETORICAL questions..they would be ones that don't need an answer. Hypothetical is an example that you use that doesn't specifically refer to a real event.
Why would anyone, trying to engage a person in dialogue, ask rhetorical questions? (That was a rhetorical question)
2007-02-15 02:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by Cheryl Durham, Ph.D. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because I have answered too many of your questions Meat, lol. A little humor does not hurt, God has a sense of humor...he made us after all. No, the dumb questions do not cause me to analyze or question my beliefs...I am far, far past that point in my spiritual growth.
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2007-02-15 02:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are of course refering to the comment I made, and therein presuming that I am a Christian. Why?
Anyways, hypothetical ideologues and defenses that constiute actually probablities, as those used in Socratic methods, are wholesomely helpful. However, illogical hypothesis based on a will to test theistic response do not help use find answers.
2007-02-15 02:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by Theophile 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i wager the easy answer is definite, yet there might want to wish be a lot more desirable too it. He might want to have had to describe it more desirable than only that the global replaced into (even as it really is) overpopulated, like he might want to ought to describe that he has performed away with all the different commandments about procreation, marriage, no longer enticing in gay sex acts, etc. also, in holding such as your hypothetical it leaves it as a lot because the follower to make certain even as the global is overpopulated and for this reason the guy might want to wish to invite God even as that could want to be. because the global is only not overpopulated (ninety 9.9% in all danger to be the case), then it really is a frivilous or unnecessary commandment, which i might want to then ask God why He might want to provide one of those frivilous commandment. i'm particular His answer might want to be that He replaced into particularly only sorting out human beings and seeing in the adventure that they could use God and His teachings as an excuse for enticing specially habit (or no longer), which he had specially forbidden. i wager there are only too many holes in thy hypothetical. yet, to be sparkling, if God did ask that individuals in no uncertain way that they ought to take someone of an identical sex to be their better 1/2, then i do not have self assurance i might want to disobey, no count how opposite it replaced into to everthing He has ever taught and commanded.
2016-11-03 12:40:47 · answer #6 · answered by lobos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hypothetical questions are healthy, for many of the reasons you mentioned. All sound theories started as a hypothesis.
2007-02-15 02:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you and I use them quite frequently. The claim that the sun was the center of the solar system was probably a hypothetical at first.
2007-02-15 02:07:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hypothetical questions beget hypothetical answers. That adds up to so what?
2007-02-15 02:09:13 · answer #9 · answered by cmw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, rhetorical questions do that. Hypothetical questions accomplish little.
2007-02-15 02:07:44 · answer #10 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋