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
6 comments:
I have not counted how many times, but if i had than definitely it would have crossed thousand's your's this shit of relativity(that everything is relative). For one last time i would like to tell you that, this is your assumption that everything is relative and nobody else believes in it. There is one very easy way to make you understand what i am saying, that is, just stop weighing yourself against others. Those are losers who live up to others, always try doing something so that others look up to you. And my dear "Sehwag" try some creative in this blog and don't just copy paste the forwarded mails. I know you have the capability.
Hi Mr. 'Notihng to do',
It really feels nice whn ppl like you not just visit but give their comments because dis is d only way I can make it better next time.
anyways i think you were talking about relativity that was discussed thousands of time and not ideas that were discussed here coz i sincerely assure you they are purely mine even if they were appear thousands of times earlier.Like Newton was not the first who see apple falling down or Einstein who wasn't the first to discuss relativity either,I feel its the idea which should be fresh n not concept or a word like 'relative' or 'absolute'.
And yes i was just checking this where i found this article.I hope this will be of your interest.
http://www.special-dictionary.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein/96271.htm
A perfect example of copy and paste.Thoughts?? :-)
@ 'Nothing to do'
Oh! one more thing i just forgot to pen down here my friend. The blog is about 'questioning everything' and not about relativity.I really feel sorry if it give any such indication.That was jst a part and not to be taken as whole.
And yes i found this really encouraging: "Those are losers who live up to others".
Keep commenting
I totally understand what topic is all about, but what annoyed me the most was which i mention earlier. But when u have started the discussion so tell u something about this blogs, that you are misguided about this "Question! Why???".
The urge should not be of why, because it comes to a level where there is no answers left for the why's. You gave example of newton and Apple falling. It is true that a lot of people would have seen the apple falling and would have asked "why", but the thing different is he didn't asked "why" like others and has the ability to think that there has to some thing which made it fall downward. As every other animal in this world has some specialty, human beings have the specialty of having such a developed mind.
So it comes to the point that the zeal should not be for questioning but finding that which remains unquestionable.
P.S: And i am not a big fan of copy/paste until it involves coding.
Now its really disappointing frm my side and i am feeling sorry for that either i was unable to deliver the idea properly or u really didn't get what i mean.Anyways!!
I think you didn't went through the whole blog but read it in chunks only.
I hope that with the people of your stature it won't be difficult for me to make u understand that each answer is somewhere or somehow result of some question.Now just go to my third point where i had asked for Preacher and I said it could be you yourself(well for u only I pick those line so u will not get confused again: "Who is the preacher(and that also can be you yourself)") so even you can make it possible to get the solution.
Now I really dont want to make it a long thread discussing nothing but confusions.So please this is my humble request to go through d blog first before commenting again.
Hope you will not mind!! ;-)
P.S.:And yes are you sure, you r not a big fan of copy/paste?I thought you liked Einstein's quote that's why it ws in your orkut profile's About Me section(I really dont want to be this much particular but u forced me to do so!!).
I already question every thing in life ... but this has given me a more organized way of going about it :) thank you !!
And thanks for your kind comments on my blog ... but I'm farrrr from perfect in any criteria ...:))
Cheers,
adisha
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