Do you prefer the quiet questions? Do they have more meaning to you?
2007-04-12 06:45:12 · 6 answers · asked by : 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes. I prefer soup questions. We get more out of the soup questions.
2007-04-12 07:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have small questions and big questions, and now we also have quiet questions, this is interesting and even slightly poetic too. I hope by quiet questions you mean small questions yet again, as oppose to big and loud question resonating in the mind without any hope for some comprehensible answers. If this is true, then I would say it is a better way to put it, as no question is, in fact, a small question - may be some questions for some are, but not for all, as people ask question according to the measures of their own good mind. I prefer to ask small, or if I am right quiet, questions. I believe acquisition of knowledge takes place in the grand context of all things big and small; and that we cannot avoid, even for moment, the realisation that we are part of something great and magnificent, may this be a family, a work, some nation, culture, sets of values or our beliefs. And this is for this reason that all that we think of, and inquire about, gains its true significance.
The big questions, however, do have their own role in our mind. The question that we find no answers to, and we know that our knowledge can ask big questions encompassing all our curiosity and sense of wonder, but it cannot find answers to all of them. This is where we learn to be humble in our knowledge and in our knowing in the face of great mystery that this life is, and life is all that we have. And then big questions bring home more wonder to our intellect eventually leading us into acknowledgement of our basic ignorance, and then into a illumination of faith into life.
However, the questions that I find most useful are the ones that formulate at the fringes of our knowledge, at the twilight zone where on one side is our limited knowledge and on the other great unknown. Perhaps then the greatest knowledge that a mind can posses is in its knowing how much it knows, and therefore in its ability to formulate what it needs to know. For this reason I introduce another type of questions – the great questions. The great questions are to me like trees that are rooted into the certainty of the soil – the knowledge – and yet they aspire to reach out and above into the thinness of air, towards the sources of light. Great questions are relevant, thought provoking and precisely answerable within the valid and recognisable intellectual conventions of the day and the age.
2007-04-12 07:29:36 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not quite sure what you mean by a "quiet" question. As long as a question is straightforward and put with enough detail, it doesn't matter if it is small or big.
2007-04-12 06:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by Beanbag 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Questions, big or small, gain importance, as the need for the answer gains importance. In other words...A small question becomes huge...if the answer is desperately needed...or a huge question...seems small when the answer is only a curious speculation.
2007-04-12 07:09:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any question that is neither silly nor express hatred has meaning to me.
2007-04-12 06:52:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they are just easier to understand?
2007-04-12 07:45:27 · answer #6 · answered by kmaro_vip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋