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EternalCowabunga
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Don't ask Why
#14372280 - 04/29/11 11:55 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Asking why only serves to create unfocus in your life
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But why?
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Or, to frame my question less antagonistically, how is "unfocus" created by the questioning of "why"?
Furthermore, what is "unfocus"? What is being focused upon and what instrument is caused to lose its focus on what subject by the question of "why"?
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Edited by Tchan909 (04/29/11 12:04 PM)
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EternalCowabunga
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I don't know
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Asking why seems like a healthy exercise in life. The real problem seems to come when people ask the question 'why?' and accept the first answer they hear without further questioning.
Example:
Bush Admin: War in Iraq now folks! American people: Why? Bush Admin: Weapons of mass destruction. American people: Duh, ok.
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Re: Don't ask Why [Re: SlashOZ]
#14372748 - 04/29/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you don't ask why then your going to go through life a brainwashed idiot, just accepting everything you hear as the truth.
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EternalCowabunga
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When I made this thread I had something in mind.. I was thinking about how weird it was that just because of luck I live in a safe neighborhood, am a member of a wealthy and educated family, etc while someone else in the world is in a shithole starving to death.
But I decided not to question it because if i really thought about it i might lose faith in myself
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It would be very intelligent of you to ask "why" this circumstance is.
Stop short of shaming yourself or guilting yourself, but if the inequity inherent to the situation troubles you, think of how you can take advantage of your uniquely privileged position in society in order to confront the dreaded question of "why" head on, and to arrive at a resolution you find favorable rather than depressing.
And remember that all things take time.
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Quote:
Tchan909 said: It would be very intelligent of you to ask "why" this circumstance is.
Stop short of shaming yourself or guilting yourself, but if the inequity inherent to the situation troubles you, think of how you can take advantage of your uniquely privileged position in society in order to confront the dreaded question of "why" head on, and to arrive at a resolution you find favorable rather than depressing.
And remember that all things take time.
Why do people feel guilty because they have stuff? You don't own stuff, stuff owns you. Why you ask? If you have to ask why you don't have enough stuff.
Cause privilege is a narrow strip along a narrow beam that everyone hopes you fall off of. Jealousy is a bitch, guard your wealth closely lest you create it. If she asks you for a drink and one for her friends, maybe she is not the girl for you. Why you ask? If you have to ask why you haven't been getting laid enough.
And so on.
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To solve a problem you must first ask why is that problem there.
However, I think there is a difference between a fitting "why" and an unfitting "why".
Some "whys" cause improvement in your situation, while others cause your situation to worsen.
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Quote:
Funkadelics said: To solve a problem you must first ask why is that problem there.
However, I think there is a difference between a fitting "why" and an unfitting "why".
Some "whys" cause improvement in your situation, while others cause your situation to worsen.
And why is that?
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Quote:
EternalCowabunga said: Asking why only serves to create unfocus in your life
I like to ask why over and over until I get to the root cause of a problem.
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yours is not to reason why yours is but to do or die
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Re: Don't ask Why [Re: deCypher]
#14373284 - 04/29/11 03:36 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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as simple as this sounds, this is actually a simple way to explain how to get to "enlightenment" the fact is answers are all imagination, the only reality is direct experience and not ideas about direct experience. thats why when "people become enlightened" they say things like, "this is it", "all is one" "nothing is real" etc in buddhism, they say the world is illusion, but it actually means our ideas about the world are illusions. logic only explains how our senses view the world not how it really is.
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Re: Don't ask Why [Re: zoomfan]
#14375737 - 04/30/11 01:19 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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they can ask us why
to no reply
all any one of us has got to do is die
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