The Importance of a Good Question

What's the meaning of life? Does God exist? Is human nature good or bad? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Does the universe have a beginning, an ending? ETC. ETC.

Some questions philosophy and religion have been trying to answer for several years... most of us would come to agree that is no one true answer to those questions. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think there isn't and never will despite our increasing knowledge of the world.

BUT I think past these existential questions is a more interesting questions, because it concerns the way the human brain interacts with it's environment.
What makes that these questions cannot be answered?

Ok, I'm not expert in neurology, but roughly, the brain learns by collecting examples with it's senses, then forgetting the examples and creating a generalisation rule out of it. It then labels these generalisation into concepts and words, and language is born.

Think of this. Words ARE NOT what they represent and they don’t represent everything. Language is dualist. There’s a word for ‘’good’’ and ‘’bad’’, but none for the infinity of in-beetweens. So language is flawed. It’s only an example and it’s kinda obvious, but it’s important to keep it in mind when asking a question about reality.

So, back to the question, what makes that existential questions cannot be answered?
Maybe we were all wrong. Maybe these arn’t good questions.

What actually makes us think that these concepts are exact? That the brain didn’t make a mistake when creating concepts such as God, good, bad, beginning, ending, a meaning, a purpose? Maybe we were wrong.

MAYBE these questions actually arn’t useful at all in the discovery of reality. Mmm, no, actually they teach us that human conceptualisation is far from perfect.

I think this is important to keep in mind when talking about philosophy.

 

I don't even know what questions to ask.

 

Haha...

 

The only question that really needs to be asked in a lifetime is are you complete in and of yourself. Which means are you happy with yourself the way you are? Do you appreciate yourself? And first and foremost do you understand who you are? If a person can answer this question then all the questions of life are answerable to him/ her

 

I agree.

 

To know God is to have no further questions.

There is no more shuttling between question and answer. There is an equalization of forces that occurs that leaves behind only pure conscious awareness. Like a pond surface that is mirror smooth.

Mental activity becomes silent except when spoken to. Same for ego. It no longer runs the show. It sits quietly until needed.

Human identity becomes a pet on a leash.




x

 

sometimes i really love how you put things, xexon.

 

Just remember that we are feeling creatures that think.. not a thinking creature that feels.

Amygdalae ...aka ... Amy makes the call where things go and she adds a little flavor to things.

Everything you absorb gets a emotion assigned to it ...it's the way we are wired

 

We both, and more than that, but yeah, I agree.

 

On language: Yes, it is flawed.

Language is a tool to express the things in our mind, but every language on earth is incomplete in that it can not express every single thing that pops into our mind. Nor will it ever be able to.

We have a curious nature, and we seek to learn everything, especially these abstract concepts which are so hard to put in words properly. But because of the flawed nature of language, in the end, discussing these "good questions" might bring us closer to understanding, but will never get us all the way.

Like x said, to know God is to have no further questions. I agree completely. We can never reach true understanding by discussing with others, true understanding must be found by yourself because that eliminates language from the equation.

 

yes, it is interesting to consider how limited language is as far as expressing our thoughts-and even more interesting to consider the impact langauge has had on the way in which we think.