Dumb Questions
-vs- Smart Questions
It has recently (
? ) occurred to me that Some of The Ancient Questions are Dumb Questions.
Generally; A Dumb
Question is one that is Obviously Solved,
With what is
generally assumed to be, A Disagreeable Solution.
e.g. : Is Life /
Existence Meaningful? ( No.
e.g. : Is
Freewill Possible? ( No.
e.g. : What is
Good? ( What is Profitable for Me.
If we allow that
These are not at all profound, but simply stupid,
Then We are
forced to allow that The Disagreeable solutions,
Which can be
proved or easily reasoned out,
Must be
Axiomatically Asserted or Demonstrated as True.
And from These
Axioms; Go on to Argue all The Other Things.
Of course :
However / This means that all The Smart Questions are Dumb as Well.
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Are there really any Smart Questions?
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Given that there
are No Smart Questions;
( And Further : That Logic & Reason are Bunk )
How should an
Entity that desires to live A Moral & Ethical Life Proceed?
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“The UnExamined Life is Not Worth Living.” Pat Sajak
What is The
Opposite of The UnExamined Life?
Is An Ant’s Life
Unexamined? And if so; Pointless?
This seems wrong.
Plus: The
greatest television fathers have examined The lives of their families,
relations & neighbors aplenty, and has anything been decided that gives our
lives more meaning; Or do we discover that in The Very Next Season of New
Television Programing, Those Questions that have been thoroughly discussed and
resulted in Humiliating Fiascos, Again & Again, And Will be Considered All
Over Again.
These Questions
have been rehashed & molded into The Life Stories of Every Superhero in
every Comix from The 1920’s and None of The Solutions seem sufficiently
Satisfying to Finally put them to rest.
Every Child is
Raised as if these Elemental Questions are as Mysterious Today as they were by
our Great Grandfathers that made all their own tools from chipping away at
river stones.
Is this because
children never listen to their parents, or that every reasonably attentive
fifth grader can see how ridiculous The Solutions are that their parents
provide for them. The Simplest School Yard Dispute seems to refute All The
Wisdom that has accumulated over The Last 25,000 years.
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On a Slightly
more Established Foundation; Isn’t it curious that after 25,000 years, or
12,000 or 6,000 or 2,000, or 200 years; The Supreme Court of The United States
is still Bickering & Reaching only a Majority Consensus over a wide
Spectrum of Petty & Obvious Concerns that are Redecided every few years.
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