How do you Quantify a GQ from just a question?

For me I give a GQ for something that makes me think, amuses me, is topical and from a slightly unexpected viewpoint, and similar cases. Your concert-and-choice-of-shoes question would not get my interest as a rule of thumb, so I would skip it.

Otherwise I give a GQ simply because it seems an appropriate thing for that question.

I find it hard to give a better answer than that and hope my answer helps.

A question about a topic I don’t know about but am interested in, one I’ve wondered about myself but never asked anyone, and something thought-provoking that piques my curiousity and is followed but not necessarily is responded to get a GQ from me.

Something that I have always wondered but forgot to ask.

@Andreas “something that makes me think, amuses me, is topical and from a slightly unexpected viewpoint,” Here is a thought that was put to me, what if God was not a spirit but a highly advanced alien and we (mankind) was placed here as somewhat an experiment. Now I know that do not sit well with a lot of Christians or scientist types, but is that interesting enough to be in running for a GQ?

Short answer: Yes.

I seem to remember hearing a thought along those lines in the mists of times past, to which you would probably get a great circular discussion that could be milked for years, but would never resolve. Much in the same way as, “How many angels can fit on the end of a pin?”

Great for debating, and proposing all sorts of answers, but never ending.

And your answer to that question is?

@Andreas And your answer to that question is? I say that is plausible, and I know my fellow Christians would roast me for it. If one can imagine well enough if I were able to travel back in time or to a planet at the same development as here in the time of Caesar with a lighter, flashlight, iPad, digital camera, and a cell phone and have it all work, I would seem like a god to them. They would have never seen plastic so that alone would be miraculous. Then to have me speak to it to people they can’t see or over great distance, and take and show them moving picture in something that look like a granite slab, I could be a god. Lets say I also have an unmanned drone I can control with the iPad and I have it fire a missile and blow up a hut, I can command them to worship me or be destroyed and they will think me a god. What can look like spiritual miracles could plausibly be very advance technology. Now I know people will label me some wackado or heathen for even having the audacity to think it, but it is plausible.

@Hypocrisy_Central Until the ammo ran out, the power in the electrical gizmo’s ran out, etc.

Then you would have problems.

But aren’t I the pessimist!

@Andreas If one manage time travel or travel over light years in a way or speed it would not take centuries but hours or weeks you could keep yourself supplied. If it were a one-way trip I think you would have a problem but the bigger problem would be why take a one-way trip?

@Hypocrisy_Central I’m stumped. You win. Have mercy!

For me, a great question is a question that either;

A) takes me several seconds of consideration to post a reply to if I can even think of a reply
B) has already generated an interesting variety of answers from the collective

Chances are if I’m answering a question it will automatically get a vote from me or I wouldn’t waste my time trying to answer it to begin with.