Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What questions do you have that you feel are unanswerable?

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Apart from "What women want?" I think every question is answerable with enough time and research ;)

Comments

[scottishdiva.livejournal.com]

I have always wondered about this and apart from religious people giving me answers that I do not believe - no one has been able to answer it.

"Why are we born, to only end up dying"

From the day we are born, we are a a day closer to death as each day passes....why? why can't we live forever!

[jovi-diva.livejournal.com]

Boobs? What's so fascinating about them? You've seen one, you've seen them all! HAHA! Just kidding! Had to do it!

[jovi-diva.livejournal.com]

Whether or not you believe an answer doesn't mean it's not the correct one.

[bellanna.livejournal.com]

Well this woman wants a good hot shower followed by a pot of tea and a bacon butty.

[babystar620.livejournal.com]

Mel Gibson figured out What Women Want ;)

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

What women need, what women like, what women do with their spare time, why women eat birdfood and why they don't seem to care about the poor birds who need nourishment too... Hell I've got a million of em!

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

the meaning of life

[mysticpickle.livejournal.com]

Did the Matrix not know what things tasted like and that's why everything tastes like chicken?

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

There are no unanswerable questions...only people with lack of answers!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Given one of my last posts, do you really need to ask? ^_^

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

A fictitious work. Not even God knows What Women Want.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Because all things must end. If you think this is not true, please test it. Permanence is a man-made ideal, just like good, evil and straight lines.

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

What men want and why they don't come right out and tell you in plain english rather than game playing?

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

Very seriously, why people are never content with their mate. In all honesty, I am even guilty of this because how torn apart MY heart is. However, you see so many movies and here of the incredible divorce rates and it just amazes me. And I am not talking about true breakdowns or mean people.

I am talking about wandering eyes and cheating spouses kinda of thing. Why do people always want the piece of flesh they don't have and hurt the ones they do?

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it! :D

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

I don't think the origin of the world is something that can be truly answered by any person (at least conclusively). The reason i say this is because one of the main tenants of scientific experimentation is that you have to be able to re-create an event to study it. I don't think we'll ever be able to re-create the beginning of life as we know it, and as such, i doubt we'll ever really know (for sure) how things came to be.

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[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have few troubles coming up with answers.
My problems right now are centered on the fact that I don't know what the questions are.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Which is why it should be called "The Big Bang Hypothesis", not "The Big Bang Theory".

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Sure he does.
Answer: Apples.

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

Yep. This is a very good point. Thank you.


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[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

It's not the boobs, it's the nipples.
A boob without a nipple is just a shoulder without bone structure.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Well said. That's why I am indifferent to dates and times.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Because we would never be able to emotionally or mentally deal with all those Sundays for all eternity.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I think it is a mix of our culture at this time, spurred on by Hollywood's imposed ideals, and the instincts of our race. We are a race of individual herd animals, and whether we like it or not, or prime directive is still the same as all other life- survival and reproduction.
Somewhere, way down the line, we still have the instinct to look for the strongest mates, and that instinct has a horrible brother named "To Hell With Monogamy".
But these instincts have been well buried for ages, and we have proven that they can be dispersed of, so I place the blame mostly on our society. A society which lauds the idea of the "perfect match" and mixes it with a hearty dose of selfishness and instant gratification. Add in the media bludgeoning us with constant reminders of our lack of wavy hair, chiseled jaws, perfect breasts (although, to be honest, I think most actresses are horrendously flat chested and actors are ridiculously feminine, but what do I know?), and all such things and the added bonus of an extremely fast form of communications with faceless strangers (and despite that, communication continues to become more inefficient between actual people) and you have a culture that is incredibly mixed up in the head.
We live in an era we were not prepared for. The Victorian days still clutch at our ragged ends, and we still have moral groupies from our pre-industrialized days following us around, but the times are changing, and have to, considering the amount of information and ideas available to us.
The world is changing, times are changing, the culture is changing, but people are not.
The result? We cling to dreams of perfection and lose the patients to compromise and realize that perfection is a quality invented by man. It cannot be cataloged, counted, or priced and when it comes to people- it cannot be accomplished. Not because man kind is incapable of reaching any level of greatness, no. Simply because we are unable to see that greatness in others.


Sorry, I got to rambling and I don't even think I made a point.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Forgive the spelling errors, mixed up words, and grammatically lunacies.
I haven't slept in four days.
(no, it's not drug induced)

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's an easy one.

Because we're stupid.

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

Now - are you just saying that or is that what you really mean? ;)

[bia22.livejournal.com]

I have MANY!!! But one that jumps to mind is kinda morbid, sorry.

Will my husband or i die first?

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher once who, on the first day of the class, walked in and said, "Now I want all you ladies to remember one thing, if you forget everything else I say- Men are pigs."
All the girls laughed.
"...And guys? Women are the devil."

So yeah, I meant it. We are stupid. We are foolish, impetuous, often unthinking creatures of habit.
The true tragedy about it, though, is that we are not alone.

I'm not saying that to start a gender war, mind you. But it is an honest answer to your question.
Why do we do things like that? For the same base reason that we fuck a lot of other things up- We're morons, and we make poor decisions based on bad judgment.

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with having two heads - you only have enough blood to run one at a time... and blood flows so much easier when assisted by gravity. :P

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Are Strings real?

Come on Super-Collider! Give us the missing graviton!

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Is that what it is?
Here I thought it was because half my ancestors are female.

*grins*

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree - women are stupid for falling in love and thinking that making a man happy and raising children is a good way to fulfillment... Then they wonder why they bothered, years later when they're old and wrinkly and saggy and alone because the man had no appreciation for her sacrifices and care and took off for a younger model to do it to all over again.

Sad, really. :P

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I can't figure women out either!

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

I think ultimately questions are either answerable, or irrelevant. Any relevant question is answerable. It just may not necessarily be answerable by me

[jovi-diva.livejournal.com]

I see!

As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Oh you made a *wonderful* point. A glorious, fantastic and amazing point, brilliant in its insight and reality. Thank you. :)

In my house it's called "The Big Lie", but you've summed it up reasonably well.

The shorter version is that the big lie is the one we are told from childhood- that there is one and only one person out there for you, waiting somewhere. That all you have to do is find them(and of course, they're just waiting around for you, because you're the only person for *them*, too!) They will complete your life forever after, and you will always want that and only that person and they you, forever.

It's nonsense. At least it's nonsense for the overwhelming majority of people.

The reason the lie is so damned pervasive is because we can all point to someone who has that relationship. What no one is telling you(generic) is that the percentage of people who do is (just to make a comparison, not an actual statistic) about the same percentage of people who are left handed- about 9%. The other 91% are not really going to find it and be happy with what they get. A lot of people stay together not because of anything to do with happiness- it's simply other, more practical considerations and concerns. They agree to detente, as long as it's not outright misery, for the sake of children, money, pets and possessions(and outright social pressure- after all, *they* don't want to be the "failure".) The big lie also makes those 91% feel like failures as people- somehow damaged and broken and less worthy, because they're convinced that they're in the minority- after all, *everyone else* can do it, right? That's what we're taught.

It's crap. And people wonder why I loathe, utterly, romantic comedies and chick flicks.

[patchworld.livejournal.com]

Will I live a long and peaceful life?

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

Your icon cracks me up! LOL :P

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

The real tragedy is that out of that 91% a decent portion of them truly could be happy with each other if people could let go of the gripping drive for instant gratification that is so pervasive throughout our culture. If they could learn to stop, take a step back, and look from the other person's perspective, and more importantly, be able to compromise, let things lie, and be happy with the "good enough", then those 91% might find themselves a bit closer to that mythic "perfection". Of course, a portion of them really are just not right for each other, but that might also be traced to instant gratification in the earlier days of the relationships. The big secret of it all is that happy couple that we all know of have their share of problems, too. Possibly even bigger ones, but just better hidden.
But, hell... Why bother trying to fix a problem when there is this magic, faceless box you can talk to with someone at the other end who "truly understands you"?

Bah. Foolishness.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

And that's what most of us are after, too. Vision.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Well, I know I'm not one of the 9%, or one of the "decent portion of others" so I'll have to take your word on that one.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Hell, I could have been part of the 9%, but Fate doesn't always smile on love, so I am not. But I firmly believe that people loose sight of some very important things when it comes to relationships.
Compromise, loyalty, empathy, trust, and certain concepts that might be hard to come to terms on, such as no one wins a gender war, don't shoot for perfection, happiness is not the end-all-be-all, it has to be constantly worked for, maintained, and re-upholstered, get the finances in order first before setting aside play money, and the biggest one- no matter which path you choose in life, at some point down that road it will turn out it was the wrong path to choose, no matter which path you take.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was never cut out to be one of the 9%. But don't get me even started on those of us who dare say we prefer independence to commitment.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Being as how we are a race of individual herd animals, one has to wonder about those who choose to stand outside of the herd.
Does that make a person evolutionarily superior, or a throw back?
It probably doesn't matter, in the end.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

It makes us evolutionarily irrelevant.

most statistical outliers are.

Re: As applied to our culture, not speaking about others...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

You have a point, there.

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of answers that are unquestionable.

One answer is to find the best home in your budget that is impenetrable by velociraptors. It's good to remember that they have strong hindlegs and can therefore jump really high. A 15-foot high electrified fence around the perimeter would then be a must.