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What do you think of "Thought-provoking Questions"?

Asked by tyrantxseries (4722points) January 11th, 2009

Examples of thought-provoking Questions:
# Why there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
# Why you don’t ever see the headline: “Psychic Wins Lottery”?
# Why “abbreviated” is such a long word?
# Why Doctors call what they do “practice”?
# Why you have to click on “Start” to stop ‘Windows’?
# Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?
# Why there isn’t mouse flavoured cat food?
# If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
# Whose idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?
# Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are dead?
# Why brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells are forever?

#Your body temperature is about 300 K. At what wavelength do you radiate most strongly? What region of the electromagnetic spectrum is this? Do you understand now how a rattlesnake can bite you in the dark?
# If you added more water or carbon dioxide to our atmosphere, how would it alter the loss of heat from our planet? Would you expect the Earth to get warmer or colder? Why?
# If you were to look at the spectrum of the gas flame of a stove or the blue part of a Bunsen burner flame, what sort of spectrum would you expect to see—Absorption, emission, or continuous? Why?
# Given that water absorbs microwaves very strongly, can you explain why a Pop-Tart gets very hot inside while its crust stays cool if you heat it in a microwave oven?
# Why don’t atoms emit a continuous spectrum?
I love them, some make you stop and think, others make you stop and think(what did he just ask!?!)

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asmonet's avatar

Honestly, I don’t think they qualify as thought provoking. Most of those have pretty simple answers. I think I found them more amusing as a kid. Now I’m more interested in philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. These just don’t make the cut.

tyrantxseries's avatar

my keyboad is malfunctioning and it asked before I was done

KatawaGrey's avatar

I agree with as, these aren’t necessarily thought-provoking questions. I do enjoy these kinds of questions (the ones listed above) and I do like most heavier thought-provoking questions. However, when someone asks an obscure philosophical question just to be thought provoking, I think it’s kind of arrogant and I don’t like answering these.

Pst, one that may go on your list is why phonetic isn’t spelled phonetically…

tyrantxseries's avatar

these are just general examples (too many different kinds to put in the post)

bythebay's avatar

I find them rather annoying, more so than thought provoking.

asmonet's avatar

The ones you added just seem like homework to me.

tyrantxseries's avatar

lol, I haven’t had homework for 7 years and I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS they are just examples.
http://www.geocities.com/t_ride9/questions.html
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/arny/student/olc/chap03questions.html

DrBill's avatar

I love thought provoking questions, but once your out of the fifth grade you should have outgrown these.

EmpressPixie's avatar

I enjoy genuinely thought provoking questions. I agree that those do not feel like thought provokers to me.

coffeenut's avatar

lol, Tyrant you suck at asking questions…
—you need to stop giving
examples if you actually want the question answered—

KatawaGrey's avatar

lol, coffee you suck at answering questions nicely.

coffeenut's avatar

it’s ok I know tyrant in real life, he knows I’m just messing with him

KatawaGrey's avatar

In that case, I apologize.

tyrantxseries's avatar

@coffeenut ha,ha,ha,ha,ha—you suck—

DrBill's avatar

I wish someone would ask one.

tyrantxseries's avatar

Since a moral rule like, “don’t steal,” can lead to immorality, as in not stealing to feed your child when that’s the only option, is it possible we need a new way to define morality? Can morality be permanently codified in words, or should we use words only to point at what is beyond the definitions, and alter the definitions as often as we come to understand new things about the world and our role in it?

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