How do questions grow?
So many people ask whether there will be an end to questions. I don’t know where that idea comes from. Are people afraid of knowing too much? Could it be that they believe there is too much to know and they don’t want to deal with that? Why would you ask such a question?
Anyway, I wanted to turn that question on its head and ask where questions come from? How are they formed? Is it magic?
I don’t mean this in the scientific sense, where there is a formula for finding out what we don’t know and then trying to fill in that space. Space appears to be infinite, by the way.
It’s more like that way that questions just pop into your head. What is that all about?
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With silver bells & cockle shells & pretty maids all in a ro….....err yeah, I think it’s just a case of inquiring minds being an unstoppable force, kind of.
The question and thw answer are always one.
So there is always an end to questions when you find the link to it’s answer.
Knowing fully well that from the begining the two were already joined inextricably.
I can’t speak for anyone else…but it would seem to me that there would be no limit to the number of questions as the more I learn the more questions I have. The issue as I see it pertaining to Fluther as a Q&A website is why ask the question here at all??
The ones I ask here is because I genuinely am looking for other ideas or feedback on a particular question and that is really the only reason I ask them here. I have asked a total of 96 questions in the year I have been here. Now I think I am kinda smart and got that way from asking questions and I ask more than 96 questions A DAY! But, I get my answers mostly doing my own research and don’t need a forum quorum to give me these answers and it would be a silly waste of time and space here to do this.
So I can see the issue of practicality, function and or need to ask a certain question or type of question that would more of a relevant discussion towards what I believe it is your are asking here and from what I have seen of late from other Jellies that question the questions and/or the questioner here.
How could there ever possibly be an end to questions, unless there is an end to human life? The same questions get recycled in every generation, and new ones get thrown in, too.
China.
Everything comes from China now days.
…better watch your Q’s…..they probably contain lead!
In my messy head, it’s all about a free association kind of thing… I see or think one thing, which leads to another and another and another, until I come across something that makes me say, “Huh. I wish I knew the answer to (or more about) that.” Thus, a question is born. :)
Sadly, this mostly occurs while I’m drifting off to sleep or driving down the highway and I seldom remember the question by the time I’m back on the computer. Bummer.
@OneMoreMinute Wow! Blast from the past! Welcome back!
My questions grow in the stomachs of dragons and are coughed up when the dragons catch cold. If you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it), you’re underneath a sick dragon.
That’s where the phrase, “Living under a sick dragon” comes from. It either means you’re very lucky or you’re annoyingly inquisitive. Sometimes both.
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