Few days back one of my friend sends me this mail. It had the great appeal and I really get moved while reading it. It was with the heading "You should question everything!!!" and had few link that referenced to examples which really questions some very obvious things that we consider as 'Universal Truths'. The mail was send with an intention to create an awareness among masses to ask question for everything before accepting them as it said: 'Questioning is the prime reason for the constant growth of human civilization'.
Its not that this didn't occur to me earlier but I was forced to step back; some time because being under confident and at other because of not getting a proper channel to seek answer from.I realized that questioning in itself is really good but what make it fruitful and great indisputably depends upon other factors. Like:
## Questioning is not great till the rationale behind it is not rational enough:
You can ask question.Everyone ask question, even an insane can, but the fact that matter most is the logic behind it. Question in itself is never be a rational or irrational but the intention behind it is; and here is the whole point.When you ask question, you must have enough reasons to stand for it.A sixth grade student can ask the same question as a scientist would, but with different logic in mind and who knows if that logic ways toward the correct answer.
## Who is the listener(and it involves your own conscious too):
It really matter that what's the podium you are using to spill out your mind because opposite to that podium is the mob who is listening to you and who will be deciding the faith of your question. And off course when you are asking this silly question, your own conscious might be there somewhere in between the mob to question you. So, see why you should be sane enough to question(because it may be you too who can question the authenticity of your question itself).
## Who is the preacher(and that also can be you yourself):
Just an extension of the previous one because it is someone from the listener who might take your question seriously and start digging inside.
& finally
## Not only 'Why':
Just don't question 'Why' but try to question 'What' and 'How' too(and please i am not talking about 'When','Where', etc.; they might be questions in literature but not here!!). Why? because 'Why' comes up with the tailor-made platform to ask question. Don't try to question the existence(Why) only but try to question unpredictability(What) i.e. something new and try to question procedure(How) too.
and while writing all the crap here, this weird thought occurs to me that if 'question' is the only Absolute then 'answer' is really a relative term since there is nothing like permanent answer(sorry for using 'answer' again but i am still void to fill this place) as everything can be questioned and there is no stable solution. Either we should remove the word 'answer' from dictionary or should change its meaning altogether.
Anyways these are few links you would like to go through to get the feel of questioning the most obvious:
Magenta Ain't A Colour
http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html
Scientific orthodoxy says that human evolution stopped a long time ago. Did it?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123440723977275883.html
Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=was-einstein-wrong-about-relativity&print=true
