Questions Or Answers: Have Any Ever Captivated, Fascinated Or Held A Power Over You Or Others?

This thread is about questions and answers.

It could be about questions and answers relating to life, or the World. Or your future, past or present. About you, or about someone you know.

So have you ever yearned to know the answer to a question? For instance, what would your future be like in a particular thing?
Or have you been afraid to know the answer to a question you sometimes wondered about.

Likewise, with answers, has there ever been a truth that you hesitated telling people? Perhaps you held it back. Perhaps it was a "gamechanger"? ie something that fundamentally altered the dynamic of a situation.

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I don't think I would ever want to "know" some aspects of the future. In any event, I think little is actually set in stone.

And sometimes, I have been guarded about certain information, because people don't always act properly or honourably on information.

But anyway, the topic of questions and answers is a huge one for me.
What about you?

 

oh sure. but if there's anything i hesitate to tell, it is only because i can easily predict what those who hate logic will refuse to believe, even when its biting them on the ass.

i observe what anyone honest enough with themselves can observe, but few choose to.
and that is neither wonder nor dispare.
reality is a pandora's box of diversity, beyond what no more then a few are willing to recognize or even see.

people would rather believe the universe is picking on them
then observe what their own hatered of logic is screwing up when it turns around and bites them.

its something people teach each other, has nothing to do with our nature or the nature of anything.

its not that there can't be or arn't things we can't see,
its that if you ignore what you can see,
you tend to go around bumping into things and tripping over them.

 

I was thinking of that type of thing too.
In the past, I'd wake up. Not physically exhausted, but mentally. As if my subconscious had been trying to solve something. I couldn't recall the answer, and I couldn't recall the question! But I think it was something about an underlying pattern amongst things and human relations etc. Like waves acting constructively and destructively. The idea randomness didn't exist, but that things were all predictable.

Ofcourse we all want to know the future. UNTIL WE SEE IT!!

Maybe thats why I was always so exhausted when I woke. My subconsicous wasn't battling to solve the problem. It was battling to stop me seeing the answer!

Whats the answer? I honestly don't know. Blinkers?

 

statistics. we all paticipate in creating them. "the answer" is that simple. WE create, collectively, statistically, by our real, rather then ideal or conscious priorities, the markets/incentives, that motivate the policies that create the conditions we then individually experience. there are other things besides us of course. all of human society is only one part of this one planet, that is no more then a tiny speck in a universe, which, even if only one of the planets orbiting each of the billions of other stars, were suitable to harbor life, there would be still billions of them.

and its a good thing reality doesn't give a shit what we believe or want, because that makes it at least one thing we can't entirely screw up. but we can and do screw up what we have to live with. we are just also perfectly capable of not doing so. it just takes being considerate and not hating logic. the obstical is that we're always being told the opposite by those who imagine they have something to gain by doing so.

 

When I think of the Universe right now, I just think of something black, empty Godless, endless. Its funny, I used to know someone who was fascinated by the Universe. Probably because it was as black, empty, Godless as they were.

Thanks for your post themmax : ) Sorry I can't digest all of what you said right now.

 

while there is a lot more space between things then there is "thingness", that doesn't make the universe "empty". far from it. and as for god or gods not being IN the universe (or THIS universe, as their could, and i believe very likely are, quantum parallel universes), only by being outside of time and space, could it/they have existed for ever, or even before 'the' (i.e. this) universe to have created it.

no the universe is not 'empty'. not even. but it is, as a whole, impersonal. intending neither harm nor good, nor having the capacity to 'intend' at all.

as for god or gods, they or something close enough, may very well exist, but as for knowing anything about them, we have only the word of other humans, that anyone ever has or does.