Tuesday, February 02, 2010

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Have you ever wondered how many eggs you can feed a chicken before she realizes that she's eating her children? Are chickens capable of realizing such a thing? Do you find yourself spending a lot of time asking yourself questions instead of figuring out answers?

What is an answer? Given that there can be questions without answers, can there be answers without questions? Can you think of an answer without a question?

Have you ever given thought to the idea that life might be a bit easier if we just asked ourselves answers instead? Would life actually be easier or would it just be one long game of Jeopardy where all the categories are things like "14th Century Architects", "Obscure Molecules" or various other things you wished you knew about but go above your head?

Is an answer a solution to a question, or is it actually just another, potentially larger question? If I said, "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" would both possible answers be wrong? Would they both be right? In religion, are there answers that aren't subjective?

Do subjective answers require subjective questions, or is it possible to ask an objective question and receive a perfectly reasonable subjective answer? Do you believe in God?

If God exists, does he/she/it mind that we eat boiled chicken ovulations? If he/she/it came to our house for dinner, would he look at a chicken salad sandwich and cry for the grains that were slaughtered to make the bread? What if God came to your house and said "the only thing that exists in this room is the bread"? Given that God is obviously God and cannot be questioned, would he/she/it be right?

Can you think of the right question that has a wrong answer? When you asked yourself that, did you think "right" meant morally right? Did you think it meant "correct"?  Is there a difference? Does that difference matter in the grand scheme of things?

If I was to tell you that it takes 6 eggs for a chicken to realize that she's eating her children would I be wrong? If God told you, would you be wrong?

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