Got An Unanswerable Question?
 

Add your own serious but unanswerable questions.

• What did you look like before your parents were born?

Reference:Zen

What if this werent a hypothetical question?

What's the difference between a duck? ;)

five

Why Does Everything Happen?

What do people really think about you.

no question mark, not a question , doesnt count.
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ok thats nonsense :p
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hmmmmm....

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Is Dan Hill really the greatest vocalist in the history of the universe or are all of you motherfuckers just crazy?

1. The following statement is true.
2. The preceeding statement is false.

Is statement 1 true or false?

There's always "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

There you go.

Whats the meaning of life? Someone had to say it...

What is a .3 draft?

...and if anyone feels that they "have" to incorrectly respond to this question with an incorrect answer which is a certain number which happens to be 6 times 9, I will be highly unimpressed.

There's always some smartass who fails to be funny whenever this question is asked.

Well, it was 7 times 6 last time I read the book...

Honey, do you think I'm fat?

The old standby: If God is all powerful can he make a rock so big that he, himself, cannot lift it? - George Carlin

I guess a double refference is too much for people...

...read its sequels.

I always knew that there was something wrong with the universe.

I dind't look like anything yet, but some caracteristics off me was stored in the genetic material of my grandparents. (answer to the topic starter)

I there life on another planet?

This is a good question to ask a vegetarian. Would you eat a piece of chicken if I threatened to kill another chicken if you didnt?

Why do women think the way they do?

Who am I?

Badly phrased (for the sake of a joke), but hardly unanswerable.

Omnipotence could be defined as "power without limit", which would suggest that any rock that can be made, can be moved by the omnipotent.

More importantly, what does Blue taste like?

then god is not all powerful if he can not create a rock so heavy that even he can not lift

I thought scientists worked it out..... 32!

How big is the universe? What is beyond it?

Is no the answer to this question?

Yeah I would say got is a pretty unanswerable question.

There is an answer...now whether the answer is correct or not is the real question.

I wish upon you, sir, a slow and painful death.

To get outa' Texas

Why is the United states run by three guys named Bush, Dick, and Colon.

what is the last digit of PI?

Now that's a good one!

Here's mine:
what came first, abstract thinking or mental illness?

The answer to everything in the universe is 42, by the way

(Hitch-hikers guide to the universe)

Anyways...

If i dropped a penny, from the empire state bulding, how many chickens would lay eggs as it falls?

What is a Woman?

What are the unused portions of our brains really for, if they're never used?

Mental illness. An organism can have a brain incapable of abstract thought, but can still go haywire (unless you're not equating neurological illness to a mental illness (ie "mental" in the sense of the "mind" as an abstract-thinking-thing)).

In either case, take a peek at Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," which contends that auditory hallucinations (which would be considered a "mental illness" today, but was supposedly a function of evolutionary advantages sprung from language, negating it's classification as an "illness") preceded and subsequently spawned consciousness. Heavy shit.

But in all cases, your question seems to be very answerable :P

Are they really questions if they don't have an answer?

-Lasereth

Before you finish this sentence will end.

30 bucks
 

three people check into 3 seperate hotel rooms
each room is ten dollars
they give the desk thirty dollars
the manager remembers todays special after they go to the rooms...five dollars off when renting three rooms
he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the customers
the bellhop decides to make it easy on himself and give them each one dollar back, keeping two
each customer has now paid nine dollars per room
the bellhop has two dollars

9+9+9=27
27+2=29

where is the other dollar?

What was i just thinking of just now?

also, can we be sure of colours?

i see red as red, but if you could look thru my eyes and see red, you might see red through your eyes as green, or purple.

colours look that way to you but it might look TOTALY different to anybody else.

The sound of one hand clapping is "hello"

Do you walk to school, or carry your lunch?

Re: 30 bucks
 

not very unanswerable!
You don't add on the two the bellhop still has, you subtract it, to see how much the hotel recieves.
They paid: 9+9+9=27.
Bellhop kept $2 of this 27 for himself.
27-2=25
hotel manager gets $25.

pwnt.

The problem with that is, there aren't any unused portions ;)

That crap circulating a few years back about humans only using like 2% or whatever of their brains was extaly that, crap.

Functions have been attributed to every cm of brain tissue :)

I can answer that one! YES!! Didn't you see the "?" at the end? ;)

No it isn't nonsense, it's more zen, or perhaps more accurately, nonsense-zen. Anyway, any fool knows that the difference between a duck is that neither of its legs are both the same.

Here's my question:

%!£$^ %^*%^&* £$%& *)&*:@}{_ ~+ ';,.] []=-#=-?

Flawed logic there John!
MacGnG's stated that:
All questions end in a question mark.

He did NOT say:
Everything that ends in a question mark is a question.

how would you describe colors to someone blind since birth?

would he dream in color? (not really unanswerable, but i want to know the answer)

How do we know we're alive?

If you turn on the lights fast enough, can you see the dark?

Oh the irony. I didn't actually see that MacGnG had said that, therefore I had not made the logical error you refer to ( I believe it's called 'asserting the antecedent' for future reference). If I had made such an error, I would have made that post, but making the post does not mean that I made the error. Ergo, you have in fact asserted the antecedent in accusing me of doing so.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

My question was not the small-minded bit of pedantry you assumed it to be, but in fact an attempt to post an unanswerable question which was not one of the tediously predictable reams of 'this statement is false' variations which this thread seems to have provoked. It was supposed to illustrate the importance of form and the requirement for information to be communicated in order that it be requested. The question with no meaning is a member of the set of questions with no answer and therefore a valid response to the thread title.

ahem. Just saw the post of mine that you were replying to CS and your error was completely understandable. Ergo I am an ass

:o :eek: :crazy:

So, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Hurry! We've got controlled chucking trials going on in the lab at this very moment, and we'll have the answer shortly... until then, its most certainly unanswerable :D

Which is worse, insatiable penguin lust or mockery of the queen of geckos?

(saw that on alt.humor.oracle back 5 years or so ago)

Nefir: He could cut a quart of conifer if you gave him a quarter for every quart he cut.

How many boards would the mongols hoard if the mongol hoardes got bored?

-calvin

When exactly am I going to die?

a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

If nothing is impossible, wouldn't it be impossible for something to be impossible?

If there are alien out there, what would they look like?

I don't think I saw it stated... if I'm wrong let me know...

But I can answer EVERY question with "Q"... just.. Q.. ;).. You never said the unanswerable question with the correct answer.. just unanswerable... I answer every question now with

Q!

imagine a color outside of the prism of human imagination.
what does it look like?


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quien es?

because the dick had a bush around it and the colon was just a pain?

What is the correct way to write the spoken sentence "There are three too's in the english language"?

help yourself to a three toed tree toad

Are there odd perfect numbers? Are there infinite perfect numbers?

If God is allpowerful then he can create a rock that he cannot lift. Then being allpowerful he can make himself stronger to lift it.

My question: Since all i do is goof off on the computer all day, why havent i been fired?

Why is Celine Dion popular?

where are my pants?

dude, where's my car?

Isn't that flawed? How can we imagine something outside our imagination?

Koans make my head hurt ;)

who dropped the last donkey?

I don't Know.....
but here comes the cow...

>>><<<<mmmmmMMMMMOVEANYMOUNTAINNNNNNN>>>>>>>>>

Move Any Mountain...

So... what is it?

There are three to/too/twos in the english language.

Actually I think "There are three 'tü's in the english language." would fit quite nicely.

more of a statement:

Don't read this sentence.

yes, but can god make a wall so tall that even he cannot jump over it?

No, probably not since your eyes always have to adjust to light inable to see.

I Don't Know.

Because.


How much does money cost?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

If 7-11 is open 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called a cargo?

What's the color of pain?

why does a husband's erection cause a wife's headache?

If there are no absolute truths.....isn't that an absolute truth?

Yes.

Who wrote the book of love?

They always say its in the last place you look? and if so why didnt you look there first?, and of course it is in the last place because once you find what you are looking dont you stop looking.

They say no two snow flakes are the same , how do they know is someone out there checking each one.

If god could do anything could he make a rock he couldnt lift?

If God could do anything, could he make a rock so heavy even he could not lift it?
and variations such as crackprogram's wall dilemma.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No and here's why.

1. It's impossible.

When people talk about God's omnipotence, it is generally agreed that God is still limited to the laws of logic. That is to say, God cannot create a square circle, since such a thing is logically impossible, a square by it's very nature cannot be circle and vice versa.

If God is omnipotent, then there is nothing to heavy for him.her to lift.

Thus, your question when formulated as such reveals a logical contradiction: 'Could a being for which nothing can be too heavy create an object too heavy for it to lift?' Of course, this means that the creation of such an object would require God to negate his/her essential nature.

Such a statement is not logically meaningful, and thus, has as much meaning as 'Zama dama ding ding dong', or' Give peace a chance' as Homer Simpson would say.

2. Even if it were possible, No.

If one were to ignore this fact and assume that it was a logically meaningful statement, the answer is still no.

If you say no, this seems to suggest that god is no longer omnipotent. however, once you look into this, it is clear that in fact yeilding to this suggestion does not have any effect upon God's power. Saying that God cannot do this simply means that God cannot exceed his ability to lift rocks when he creates them. god's ability to lift rocks remains infinite, and as a corrolary, so does his ability to make them heavier and heavier, so long as he can lift them. Thus, God's omnipotence remains untouched by such an admission.

So in conclusion: No.

Also, you may wish to remove that from your signature now since there is in fact an answer.

For the record, I am not a theist, I just read Mavrodes.

ok, it doesn't seem like people are answering questions. but i have one of my own that i heard on conan.

whenever u want to. if ur searching for death. go to google, type "suicide". :eek:


no,yes


she's not


from a christianity stand point, the chicken, becuase why would god create a egg, and let it develop? it takes more time, the chicken is much quicker in populating the world

here's a question
:):):)