If a voice shouted down at me as I lay on my deathbed "what do you want to know?" I'd be stupid enough to answer "who do I have to ask?"

how about:

<b>are we doomed to never fully comprehend and resolve a lot of questions because the construction of our brains makes it impossible to do so.</b>

I would risk answering no to that
Naturally though it depends on the "lot of questions"

Sometimes I think we/I cant figure out a lot of stuff cause we keep turning them over in our minds (is that the same as our brain?!? close enough I'd say) - i.e. we give the [conscious] mind (far?) too much importance in the scheme of things.

Think of all the discoveries that were made when people had given up on ever finding the solutions/answers. I remember reading something Einstein said along those lines, I think he may even have credited [someone/thing else]. Me, I'm not too well up on my science history but believe there's a bunch of other very famous discoveries/solutions that were found "by accident" or as said when people had either given up or simply given up thinking about the problem. *

Naturally I'm not saying we shouldnt think   So far, I'll just say that "we give the [conscious] mind too much importance in the scheme of things"

* although it's very often like that also with people who want to have kids but are unsuccessful - when they give up "trying" .. eh .. out pops a kid 9 months later. So I guess that's related to being relaxed when trying to find a solution?

EDIT: added [stuff in square brackets]

What women want???

I just can't understand them... 
But I think it is better this way, we don't get bored.

What women want???

I just can't understand them... 
But I think it is better this way, we don't get bored.

Send me $1000 and I'll give you a few clues

Quote from: bgd77 on October 08, 2008, 08:24 AM

What women want???

I just can't understand them... 
But I think it is better this way, we don't get bored.

Send me $1000 and I'll give you a few clues

From my experience, I've found that just asking usually works best.

P.S. Carol: $1K. Love it!

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

'Oooohhh, I love it!' when it makes contact with my girlfriend's (bare) bottom.  

(Sorry for cheating by asking a self-answering question.  A dirty one too.  Hey, if God can self-create, well...and there's no one dirtier than God.  He's the one who made us with dirty parts and dirty minds.)

Er... the expression "the sound of one hand clapping" does a have "dirty" connotation, but it usually refers to "Self-abuse" (to put it politely).

Well, now I'm buying a car, so I am in short supply of money. Maybe one or two clues for free, please???

Cheapsakate - that's why you don't know the answer already 

What's the secret for eternal life?

Quote from: jgpaiva on October 07, 2008, 03:39 PM

<note as moderator> Please let's be careful not to let this go into the field of religion </note as moderator>

Are logic and religion no longer science? Yes, dangerous science, but science anyway.

I have spent the last fifteen years of my life asking all sorts of impossible questions, and believe I have had some of them rightfully answered - not by fools like Richard Dawkin, but by that heavenly voice that turned out not to be a thunder in the storm but a whisper in the breeze - but at the end of day (life), the question is not from me, but to me: What did you do?

Religion is not science and does not lend itself to scientific exploration. This is not in any way meant to invalidate religion or to denigrate the followers of any religion, it's a simple statement based on definitions... That's not why I'm posting, though. If I may, I think João was merely trying to forestall the kind of rancorous debate that could easily flow from posing these kinds of questions. I think that's the emphasis, not restricting peoples' right to express their views.

I may of course be VERY wrong 

my joke was hillarious, how come no one is laughing about it? 

Sorry Mouser, I thought it was funny but then "what women want", "one hand clapping" and "religion and science" distracted me.

So, for the record...

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If you had the choice of having any question answered before you died what would it be?

"Can I speak to a supervisor?"

What's the secret for eternal life?

Joh 17:3  And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (English Standard Version of the Bible)

I know I may risk moderatorial wrath - but the question posed is inevitably, inexorably a religious question. Ponderings upon the nature of reality, whether there is a beginning or an end, the existence or otherwise of a Supreme Being, the limits and comprehensiveness of the scientific method to ascertain truth (and the nature of truth), whether there is life after death etc. are all religious questions. The answers given are all religious answers whether couched in metaphorical or scientific language.

Where there are differences among us I trust they can be expressed politely.

David