What do you really seek through your questions?

Question

When we look deep into the skies, into myriads of constellations of stars, we are mystified more than anything else. If alive, then we are overwhelmed by our sense of wonder. What worlds might be there, and what people might inhabit them we ask. We know that there is no answer within the immediate reaches of our knowledge, but we still keep asking.

Then we are mesmerized by the spectacle of natural beauty on earth. We look across vastness of oceans and upon along majestic rises of mountains, the perpetuation of life and the sheer variety in creation. We are fascinated by the thoughts concerning life. What is the purpose? What was the beginning, and how long will all this go on. In our wonder we sense something far greater in value and meaningfulness than we could ever comprehend. In wonder we find a greater sense of being alive.

But we are not all too romantic all the time. We could be realistic too. We could be asking questions in the manners of scientists, systematically and patiently, reaching certain conclusion, and then painstakingly recording our findings. We may choose to think like scientists, to act objectively, we cannot escape living the reality of life that is all too wonderful for anyone to ignore.

Our questions here might not be merely for the purpose to find definitive answers, but to deepen the mystery and the intrigue even more, to go furthest into the meanings, to know all things allover again, to ask one questions so that we may have countless more, and just that – then if I must be careful, for if I am not aware, I might be leading myself.

Thanks for your kind thoughts!

Answer 1

An enquiry arises within our minds prompting a need to search for an answer. Primarily we seek within, or we research. Occasionally requesting the input of opinion from others is a good sounding board and source of alternative views one might not have considered.

Asking requires a certain amount of sound knowledge and the ability to provoke the right response. A reader gauges much regarding the asker’s aptitude and the answer will be given partially based upon this information.

On this forum I ask because I was told to ask questions and because accusers consider those who do not frequently ask questions as cowardly in some fashion, which is just not true and so far removed from actuality and to be derisible.

Your questions are always well informed, and to this end the answerers will thank one such as you for inspiring and awakening a maybe tired and bored mind. This leads me to surmise that the human mind is indeed working on only 1% of its full potential and is delightfully revitalised when such inspirational brain waves are activated.

Answer 2

often i ask for confirmation and i receive further insight

.....so mostly to see if the other gets it like me

definitely ditto

to the eternally eloquent

wisdom tormented

Answer 3

Distraction...  from  the    Ultimate  Silence!!

Answer 4

We are a grain of sand in a vast desert

Answer 5

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

-chinese proverb

Answer 6

In asking questions I am looking to find deeper questions, always looking to travel further, deeper, closer, nearer. I ask questions to reduce to the point of expansion. In questions I do not seek an answer; for an answer is a box that limits the truth. Instead I look for another question... I ask questions to look for the true question. Like a child who replies 'why' to every answer, it is not within the answer, but within the question that the treasure is hidden. Thank you for your question.

An answer will take you further away whilst the question draws you closer. Behind the question is what we search for. In my questions perhaps I am seeking confirmation of my existence. It is a kind of game. A question is a mirror: the answer a reflection. An answer is like the splash a pebble makes when falling into a pool. I wonder what lies at the heart of the still green waters but the effort to travel there creates movement and noise, masking the original intention.

We all ask questions because we have the intelligence to sense that we do not know. It is good to ask questions because they are an expression of our wonder of being alive, an acknowledgment of out not-knowing-ness... a humble and beautiful attempt to explore. We do not really seek answers because it is the mystery that creates joy and hope, the sheer delight we can discover in the experience of being alive. In my questions I am really looking for the unanswerable.

Sometimes we ask questions to look for an answer to our hurt and fear - these are perhaps not real questions but rather an attempt to avoid the truth. Such questions are like a blanket to shield us from what we perceive to be pain or disguise our imagined shame. In our questions then we seek encouragement and comfort. But love does not exist in the answer. Love is the unspoken gift that dances in echo of the one who answers to embrace the one who asks.

When love is truly felt and experienced, all questions loose their meaning, for the unanswerable has been discovered. At this point, the question has become the answer and the asker has returned.

Answer 7

I seek to exhaust my habit of asking questions, like Forrest Gump lost his urge to wander during his walkabout. Eventually I will come to feel intellect's limitations.

To dwell in the mystical state of unknowing.

Answer 8

I think seeking perfection is one of our instincts.

that's why we ask too much questions and only find few answers.

that's why we choose the best answer not the RIGHT one.

you will never find an answer to your question.

love

Pluto

Answer 9

We seek to discover who we are as the individual self.

In every person lies a narcissistic way of thinking and is reflected in our questions. We constantly ask our own questions, because in the end---we want to know what it all has to do with the sense of "me"!

If we look into the skies and ponder the possibility of other worlds--we are also thinking why am I here? When we are overcome by the vastness and beauty of earth, we also in turn think what is my relationship with the earth? Does the ocean or mountains sit to please me or is it indifferent to my existence? And is "my" existence indifferent or consequential to my surroundings?

When we ask questions with scientific reason---we are never satisfied with the answer because whatever we discover is never enough to express the very feeling of self consciousness. It's almost as if our self-awareness is a continuous questioning entity of its self.    

Answer 10

uh.....Answers?....(.I can get BS down the road in a barn..all I can shovel.)

Answer 11

Elsewhere, we do ask questions in search of answers.

But Philosophy is the realm of the paradox and conundrum.

Here it is proper to share an interesting question for it's own sake.

Here we happily s***w around with the inscrutable.

Answer 12

well: accordingly to "Philosophy it talks about  Answers

Arts & Humanities  also known Authors & Books also famous

Novel that has been written of course  best choice today "

Answer 13

Innocence. If knowledge is innocence?  Because then with knowledge, you have the wisdom to make the most responsible choice which is what an innocent person would seek if only they had knowledge to make the best choice.