"Why Dilemmas"?

Question

So many folks ask whimsical "why?" questions like

why do we love?
why isn't there paradise on Earth?
why do I live and feel?
why did I write this?

Ad infinitum. The only thing stopping you from utter confusion is your imagination, for you can ask "why?" all the time, and to anything. Skip the bullshit and simply ask...

Why?

A practical, common sense answer to this would help MANY boys and girls to move on.

Ohh, and 10 POINTS to the best answer ;P

It would seem to reply "why not" only leads an imaginative one to ask "why why not?" So that's why I feel there's a more practical answer. Thanks for responding!

Answer 1

Compulsory opinion-giving is the formal-rational counterpart to genuine inquiry, which is the epitome of prepensive informality: "to go to the banquet unbidden".

Extraction of opinions, stray thoughts, preferences, as evidenced by the participant's selection of best answers, thumbs up/downs, contacts, fans, ect., is easily quantified and converted into data that may be used to further manipulate and influence the unaware.

When the grifter gives a wink to his shill, that's when you know something other than sincere truth-seeking is taking place. Just start reading drgirishkumarts' conventional hack answers - any reasonably intelligent schoolchild in the 6th Grade is capable of understanding.

Answer 2

There is no answer in the way you expect. No answer can fit all questions.

I am a better person today than I was ten years ago. Today I am wiser. I had questions then to which I now have the answers. I hope, in ten years, to be a better person than I am today. Questions I have today I hope to have answers in ten years. I got answers because I worked to get the answers, or asked others who did work for them.

Philosophy can answer the big questions, or at least those questions from a significant number of students. If the interest in an issue falls below certain threshold, nobody would write about it, or if somebody does, the book would rot in some corner. Remember, it takes effort (or work) to publish knowledge (in whatever form), and it takes effort to locate the knowledge (to reformulate questions, to translate read material into the answers).

Finally, some questions are too specific to the situation of the questioner for anybody else to help with an answer. The questioner would have to work to get the answer himself.

Answer 3

The best answer I can give is that there is no reason why not. If there are no other factors impressing upon the situation, then that is as good a reason for an occurrence or event as any.
So:
Why?
Well, why not?
Not as helpful as it could be, but it seems to work.

Ah. Why why not. Point.
It seems that the question why will continue regardless of the answer into a reducto ad absurdiam situation. Every answer can be questioned and, as with the exasperated parents of over curious children, I think the only "ultimate answer" we may ever get is "Just because, dammit!". There are no unquestionable statements.

Answer 4

Well, why ask why? We love because we are humans, we need love to survive. It's what we do. There isn't paradise on Earth because, well read up on it in Genesis. If there was a paradise on earth, there wouldn't be a need for heaven. You live because your psrents had relations, you feel because you have the sense of touch. You wrote this question, obviously because you didn't know all this.

You can ask why until you are blue in the face, but only God knows the 'why's' and the 'how come's'. We are here to be a better person, to live above the petty issues of life, to make our lives and people we know, better. Instead of asking why, think about what you could do better, how can I make someone else happy, what can I do to make this world a better place. I think this world is becoming more and more self centered, why me. Well, if it isn't you, than who is it going to be?
I think it's just a different outlook on life.

Answer 5

That's how the human mind works i guess.. just a hint : spending time to ask too many questions will prevent you from living the actual things you're obssessed about.. Now that I stop and think of it, maybe some ask because they are afraid of experiencing.. This is only and complete guessing, but if seeking the answer the 'easy way' for some is the solution, i'm afraid the answer is never as fulfilling and personal as when you find by yourself ?

The thing about these perpetual existential questions ( you forgot 'why do we live? ' ;) !! ) is that they can be answered by one single sentence : because it has been like this for centuries... this is very unoriginal and possibly not always accurate.

Usually the 'why' questions involve something over which we have no power, and therefore are scared to seek for our answers.. there are things that no one can discover for us... like battles no one can fight and eventually win for us...

Answer 6

It is the questions of whys and hows that gave us all the great knowledge that we have today. Many times, the whys and hows may be fiddlesticks, but then they will have to be. Let people ask as many whys and hows, and then onl some proper whsy and hows shall make people think, think into some things new, and thus good things, and new things shall keep coming up.

No one could have imagined a cell phone few years ago, the blue chips, lap tops, and what not! They all cam into existence from many silly whys and hows, and when one thinks, the silly whys and hows become serious. When one Philosophises, it changes dimentions!