:-)...if you were sitting in a meditation hall on a zen retreat, you would have been smacked with a bamboo stick by now:-).... "m juss sayin" :-) *****
Great collage of all the previous video's. This encapsulates a lot of what you are trying to find out. Asking so many important questions at one time is good, however I have been commenting to much and my transparency thing must be a bit annoying, but seriously I am learning something. I could not verbalise these questions in conversation but may be able to tackle these philosophies and ideologies on paper on in the lexical. Any talk of god generally means just listen and look busy.
questions can be like linear equations with unknown variables, but expressed in common languages.
therefore, a question has some known & some unknown variables.
some equations can find a workable balance simply by generating meta-variables that have unique properties, e.g., gods, magic, secular conventions of perennial systems, etc...
the person who does not ask questions must take every expererience as it happens, forever doomed to a causal association with reality.
Comment well taken. I guess I am wondering if we know what to do with answers once we have them? I am wondering too if we could recognize a question worth asking if it hit us over the head?
Perhaps the better world I seek is one where people have the courage to ask uncomfortable questions, questions that may also require a revision of our entire assumptions regarding who we are, how we should relate to what is around us, what to do, and why we should do what we will do.
The important aspect of this point seems to be that such questions are always primordially destabilizing beyond imagination. These questions emanate only from the site of the Other. In other words, one can not ask oneself the very question one symptomatically avoids via the business of asking questions that only serve to pacify one's deepest anxiety/unsettledness.
Surprise!: We mostly run into what disturbs us in the world, not in thought.
Although I enjoy all your vids, this one struck me as far too utopian in its concluding remark. Are you not attempting to promise a better world by way of universalizing your own subjective position? Utube itself shows that neither questions nor answers have priority in this domain of fundamental antagonisms. Is it not clear that the battle over what constitutes an important question, is just as unrelenting as the battle over just what constitutes a satisfactory answer?
You write: Is it not clear that the battle over what constitutes an important question, is just as unrelenting as the battle over just what constitutes a satisfactory answer?" I agree fully. Thanks. Perhaps we all need to ask: what are the most important questions people should be asking themselves and others?
Wheelis: 'Consciousness is like standing before a mirror asking the person you see in the mirror what the person is asking. You say to the image, "What are you asking?" What, then, is the reply?
The reply is supposedly, sometimes already there. It is a pool of answers , words we already know, but there is thinking that doesn`t happen in real time; in conversation
Of course. Well, at least in my understanding. Let's try this:
Do questions maintain their level meaning in virtue of the answer to be proposed, or are they meaningful in virtue of the appropriated coalescence of each word in combination with another?
So, something like, "If my dog walks while she runs and sits, how will she get anywhere?" is a perfectly meaningful question, though an answer, of any form, doesn't seem apparent (perhaps not immediately).
As far as I can tell, these questions are adequately answered in interaction via pragmatic application.
When you speak with a certain tone, or something is written out a certain way (with appropriate punctuation, etc.), the meaning is derived without problem.
I see no reason to presume ambiguity where there is none.
Most of the questions in this video aren't unanswerable and the ones that are are only so because they are nonsensical.
FlyingFree333 2 years ago
What is a question? Where are the words we are using right now?
Professoranton 2 years ago
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adznruses 2 years ago
K. O.
well, there is always a universal answers that evolution forces upon us: f... off/you/that.
;-}
jogayot 2 years ago
:-)...if you were sitting in a meditation hall on a zen retreat, you would have been smacked with a bamboo stick by now:-).... "m juss sayin" :-) *****
9macrina9 2 years ago 2
Good stuff: A full bowl of snow!
Professoranton 2 years ago
:-)
9macrina9 2 years ago
Great collage of all the previous video's. This encapsulates a lot of what you are trying to find out. Asking so many important questions at one time is good, however I have been commenting to much and my transparency thing must be a bit annoying, but seriously I am learning something. I could not verbalise these questions in conversation but may be able to tackle these philosophies and ideologies on paper on in the lexical. Any talk of god generally means just listen and look busy.
robbwindow 2 years ago
questions can be like linear equations with unknown variables, but expressed in common languages.
therefore, a question has some known & some unknown variables.
some equations can find a workable balance simply by generating meta-variables that have unique properties, e.g., gods, magic, secular conventions of perennial systems, etc...
the person who does not ask questions must take every expererience as it happens, forever doomed to a causal association with reality.
what is "ask"?
matrixcmitech 2 years ago
Comment well taken. I guess I am wondering if we know what to do with answers once we have them? I am wondering too if we could recognize a question worth asking if it hit us over the head?
Perhaps the better world I seek is one where people have the courage to ask uncomfortable questions, questions that may also require a revision of our entire assumptions regarding who we are, how we should relate to what is around us, what to do, and why we should do what we will do.
Professoranton 2 years ago
Re:"Courage to ask uncomfortable questions.."
The important aspect of this point seems to be that such questions are always primordially destabilizing beyond imagination. These questions emanate only from the site of the Other. In other words, one can not ask oneself the very question one symptomatically avoids via the business of asking questions that only serve to pacify one's deepest anxiety/unsettledness.
Surprise!: We mostly run into what disturbs us in the world, not in thought.
notonewhit 2 years ago
Although I enjoy all your vids, this one struck me as far too utopian in its concluding remark. Are you not attempting to promise a better world by way of universalizing your own subjective position? Utube itself shows that neither questions nor answers have priority in this domain of fundamental antagonisms. Is it not clear that the battle over what constitutes an important question, is just as unrelenting as the battle over just what constitutes a satisfactory answer?
notonewhit 2 years ago
You write: Is it not clear that the battle over what constitutes an important question, is just as unrelenting as the battle over just what constitutes a satisfactory answer?" I agree fully. Thanks. Perhaps we all need to ask: what are the most important questions people should be asking themselves and others?
Professoranton 2 years ago
More non-questions like your first statement.
You aren't asking questions you're imagninig them, there is a difference.
That is an answer, but you don't have to stop imagining if you don't want to, no one does.
Perfect knowlege is a situation not a question and that situation will either exist at some point or it will not.
early2it 2 years ago
Oh. O.k. whatever you say. I am sure that you're right.
Professoranton 2 years ago
No..You are sure that you are right that is the problem not what I said about things.
All I did was point out where I disagree and why.
But ..whatever??? on that we agree...
early2it 2 years ago
Your first question is not a question at all it is a ridiculous assumption and assertion.
I certainly don't believe it is possible to ask a question that we will never have an answer for?
The truth always becomes physically self evident it is impossible for it to do otherwise.
For that reason there will come a point where their is no longer any unanswered questions remaining.
At some point once again perfect knowledge is all that will be available.
early2it 2 years ago
funny as i was about to think about quest-
tions, i thought it includes making up tasks,
but i came down to a slavic word for qeustioning which is , intendet,
PITANJE=asking/questioning.
full circle really.)
Realizalize 2 years ago
When I ask, in all earnestness, "Who am I," who is it who wants to know?
Professoranton 2 years ago
it is a self description,
like a self-portrait.
from left to right.
Realizalize 2 years ago
Wheelis: 'Consciousness is like standing before a mirror asking the person you see in the mirror what the person is asking. You say to the image, "What are you asking?" What, then, is the reply?
Professoranton 2 years ago
The reply is supposedly, sometimes already there. It is a pool of answers , words we already know, but there is thinking that doesn`t happen in real time; in conversation
speed.
Realizalize 2 years ago
Are you looking for any form of answers for these questions, or are they rhetorical, merely food for thought?
JasperAvi 2 years ago
Answers that are more questions?
Professoranton 2 years ago
Is there anything else?
Though, a furthering of the number of questions doesn't necessarily mean deeper dive into some realm that lacks answers.
JasperAvi 2 years ago
There are answers, but old people die and babies are born everyday.
Professoranton 2 years ago
Can a question make sense if we can't imagine the form that the response would take?
Professoranton 2 years ago
Of course. Well, at least in my understanding. Let's try this:
Do questions maintain their level meaning in virtue of the answer to be proposed, or are they meaningful in virtue of the appropriated coalescence of each word in combination with another?
So, something like, "If my dog walks while she runs and sits, how will she get anywhere?" is a perfectly meaningful question, though an answer, of any form, doesn't seem apparent (perhaps not immediately).
JasperAvi 2 years ago
The answers are in questions such as : Is it an ambiguous first clause? Are the words "while" and "anywhere" ambiguous or most appropriate?
Can a single word be a question? Don't we need a sentence, or at least a clause, to raise a question?
or at least some kind of framing device such as voice, posture, or movement?
Isn't there a frame that lets us know a question is a question?
When isn't a question a question?.
Professoranton 2 years ago
As far as I can tell, these questions are adequately answered in interaction via pragmatic application.
When you speak with a certain tone, or something is written out a certain way (with appropriate punctuation, etc.), the meaning is derived without problem.
I see no reason to presume ambiguity where there is none.
JasperAvi 2 years ago