It also seems as if there are answers to some questions, they are of a personal opinion and that not only one answer may exist for a question. To make it even more complex, the answers and opinions are always changing?! Can anyone ease my thoughts on this?
2007-09-24 13:45:11 · 6 answers · asked by trphuong 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You just defined "agnostic."
"The truth is unknowable."
g-day!
2007-09-24 14:30:51 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our eastern brethren answered that long ago. Those questions in which there seems to be only opinion is because the answer is a truth which cannot be put into words. That when such a truth is put into a statement, is instantly false. This is because it needs to be qualified, with exceptions and additions forever, precisely because such truths are so immense that it would require an eternity of writing or talking to encompass it completely. There solution was to accept the truth without words.
Example: what is Life? This force, this idea we call life. We can answer that, or attempt to answer that in many ways, but it is not something which can clearly be put into words. And while we are busy trying to explain we are not really experiencing life. That is, experiencing life itself, but instead experiencing our definition of what life means.
2007-09-24 20:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by sirwasik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be kind of frightening if every question had precisely one answer, no more and no less. That's what one would expect from living in a deterministic universe, where the entire universe is basically just one big program with no ambiguities and no degrees of freedom.
It doesn't bother me too much that there are some questions without answers, and even less that there are questions with more than one answer. It just means that we live in a complex universe, which is much preferable over living in a simplistic, computer-program universe.
2007-09-24 20:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm fine with that. Over time, our species is likely to begin answering those question.
The larger obstacle to answering those question is the adherence to beliefs that prevent them.
People born into religious societies are going to be influenced and as such, non-religious explanations of the universe will beyond their comprehension. After all, if they discover the answer, they would be disproving their own beliefs.
I now consider beliefs temporary or impermanent. What I believe is true of today -- tomorrow, who knows?
2007-09-24 20:53:08 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is an infinity of questions we will never know to ask.
2007-09-25 01:49:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my answer: this question does not have an answer.
2007-09-24 20:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by YY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋