rogue49

OK...you have 10 questions
About whatever you want.
These are about what's on your mind, or ones you've always wondered about.

Rules:
Do NOT answer the questions...either poster nor reader.
There has to be 10...if you don't have enough...don't post...if you have more...do another post of 10

People can create another thread to discuss or answer, or PM that person to do so.

This is to encourage thought...but you really didn't think it worth it at the time for a thread of it's own,
or you just didn't want to...whatever.

They can be profound, silly, political, sexual, personal, social...whatever.
If you do create a thread on the question,
please do so in the appropriate forum.

Sooner or later, we will get to them in our discussions somewhere,
or they have been discussed, but you still have the question.
Doesn't matter...just list 10 questions.

Ones you are asking yourself.
Here are my 10 for now.

1. Why do women say they want honesty, but aren’t willing to do so themselves?
2. Why do people enjoy others’ pain & discomfort?
3. Why do men feel the need to assert their sexuality or question others, isn’t knowing yourself enough?
4. Why do people say one thing, then do another?
5. Why do people claim they love someone, then don’t go be with them?
6. Why don’t people share or give more, why is it all about them?
7. Why do people expect sex to be clean or perfect? (this in all it’s contexts)
8. Why are people’s expectation of others not realistic or even matching their own results?
9. Why do people judge others if it’s not hurting anyone?
10. Why do people need to feel better than someone, if it’s not a competition?

BTW, they can be Why?, What?, Where?, Who?, How? and When?
Mine just happen to be Why?
Dunno why.

lurkette

1. Is there an afterlife?
2. Do people truly have souls?
3. Is my brother (his soul/spirit) ok and happy?
4. How can I know if I'm living a good life?
5. Is it too late for humans to avoid destroying the ecology on earth?
6. Why do people continue to do things that are not in their own interest?
7. Why do people continue to suffer when they know the actions they must take to find happiness? (corrollary of #6)
8. Why do people feel threatened by difference?
9. How can I leave the world a significantly better place through my own individual actions?
10. Does my brother know how much I love him?

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- Anatole France

wilbjammin

1) What is art?
2) How does one live in Good Faith when confronted continually situations that bad outcomes one way or another?
3) How can I continue to make the most of my existence?
4) What really is failure? ... and success?
5) How do we make government work for the people... rather than some or few of the people?
6) What does a healthy relationship consist of?
7) Where does solitude meet a limit of being able to offer existence anything?
8) Is it possible to love with all of my being without getting hurt (again)?
9) How can I stretch the limits of my creativity to new horizons?
10) Will it ever be ok for her to love me?... or anyone else..?

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lordjeebus

1. Can consciousness exist outside of the body?
2. Is it possible to separate money and politics?
3. Is true democracy desirable?
4. Is world order without war possible?
5. Can humanity survive the next ten/hundred/thousand/million years?
6. How does art/music effect our the way our minds work?
7. What do all people have in common?
8. To what extent have we changed over history?
9. What do all spiritual experiences have in common?
10. How could society best allocate its resources?

ARTelevision

1. what would it be like if things weren’t the way they are?
2. how is it that total delusion is the natural state of affairs?
3. why is illusion as persistent as it is?
4. what would happen if we actually figured something out?
5. why don’t we see our problems are our own doing?
6. why doesn’t it matter?
7. how come things are the opposite of the way they appear?
8. why do people pretend to be the exact opposite of how they are?
9. why don’t we notice when things aren’t working out?
10. why do we think we are more intelligent than other animals?

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Johnny Rotten

1. Are we alone in the universe?
2. Do I cease to exist when I die?
3. Did an intelligent being create the universe?
4. Is this intelligent being benevolent towards humanity?
5. Is there such a thing as true evil and true good?
6. Is my reality an illusion?
7. Are ghosts real?
8. Will humanity overcome its flaws before it destroys itself or is rescued by an outside force?
9. Will I find a good place to live soon?
10. Will I find that special someone?

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lordjeebus

10 more

1. How can I be more self-sufficient?
2. Could we maintain our current quality of life without the concept of "property"?
3. What is the relationship between the use of hallucinogens and non-drug-induced spiritual experiences?
4. How do genes and proteins create language?
5. Was the primary intention of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution to ensure the capability of citizens to overthrow the government?
6. Why do Americans, in general, fear sex more than violence in the media?
7. Should the United Nations have an independent army?
8. Can I change the way I act through insight alone?
9. What should all young people be taught before they become adults?
10. What percentage of our memories are fictitious?

lordjeebus

I guess I'm full of questions: another 10.

1. Is there a limit to technology, or can it progress infinitely?
2. How should a government approach a divisive issue where no compromise is possible?
3. What are the limitations of the scientific method?
4. What should be considered universal human rights?
5. Who are the great thinkers of our time?
6. Are there things we should not seek to understand?
7. How can North and South Korea be unified peacefully?
8. How can Africa achieve stability?
9. How can I best serve humanity?
10. How can I best serve myself?

ubertuber

1. Why go people feel such an urge to categorize or label things?

2. Has this urge given us more or less understanding throughout the years?

3. How many of my desires/motivations/fears etc. are a result of my mind rationalizing instinct or biological urges?

4. Why are statistics so meaningful to people when all any of us knows firsthand is individual experience?

5. Why is it that when I meet someone new or encounter something new the first question I ask myself is "do I like this person or thing"?

6. Why am I so reluctant to change those snap judgements, even though I have been continuously surprised by people I thought I had pigeonholed?

7. How much artistic quality is inherent in an object (sculpture/symphony/poem/performance) and how much is determined by the audience's reaction to it? Can art be artistic without an audience?

8. Can art be created without intent?

9. Why do I seem to spend 90% of my time correcting situations or actions that I knew better about from the start? (This is in reference to relationships, career decisions, etc.)

10. When I am taking the time to "get to know myself" I know that I am actually doing something, but what is it? Who is do the "getting to know" and what exactly is it "getting to know"? Which one of these parties is really me?

Rogue - thanks for a great thread! Got me thinking already, and now there is ready fodder for hundreds (well, there will be) of high quality discussions here!

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Mr. Moe

1. Is there one true religion?
2. If so, would a god punish those that do not follow the correct one?
3. Why do people act less intelligent then they really are?
4. Why does pop culture suck so amazingly hardcore?
5. Why do we choose to procrastinate when there are things to do?
6. What keeps people from making correct decisions?
7. Is history doomed to repeat itself?
8. Will the theory of evolution stand the test of time?
9. Does true happiness exist?
10. Will I achieve it soon?

Mantus

In no particular order here are the first 10 questions that popped into my head:

1.Why are do people always go for the quick fix (that will make things worse in the end) instead of just trying to solve the problem?

2.Why are we more willing to suffer a little over a long period of time rather then suffer allot in short time and be done with it?

3.Why people so damn selfish on a global scale? Since the consequences will hurt their offspring and therefore may kill of their genes.

4.Why can’t we understand infinity?

5.Why can’t we understand the concept of the end?

6.Why didn’t the mind evolve with a purpose for its own being?

7.Is freedom possible?

8.Why do people trust politicians?

9.Why does society encourage monogamous and lifelong relationships when our nature clearly stands against these concepts?

10.How could the some one screw up a sequel to the Matrix with a $300 million dollar budget?

Darkeryet

1: Why does the color of my skin make a difference?

2: Why would someone beleive in God when there is science?

3: What happens to my energy when I die?

4: Is there life out there other than our own?

5: Why do we have 1% of our populations worth more than the rest of us combined yet have homeless and starving people on our streets?

6: Why is it ok to give out sex for free but when you charge for it you are in violation of the law?

7: What is under our polar ice cap?

8: Are there really time travellers here from the future?

9: Am I a good husband and father?

10: Could I make a difference?

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Bloodslick

1) Why do my memories decay?
2) Why does number one happen so quickly?
3) What am I meant to do?
4) How will I deal with having a child?
5) What sex will my child be?
6) How can I master the classic coin palm?
7) Why is life so unfair to my friends?
8) Why do I have it so good in the face of number seven?
9) Just how far does my luck run?
10) When will my favorite band's next album come out?

alpha phi

1.How am I going to make my dreams come true?
2.If the best things in life are free.....Why do I have to work 46 hours a week to survive?
3.Who/What is our creator?
4.Why do I feel like no one likes me, even when others tell me many do?
5.Do vegatarians eat animal crackers?
6.Why does the goverment say it's wrong to kill, only to send solders off to war?
7.Why do religious people say it's wrong to kill, then claim non-believers should die, and burn in hell
8.Does anybody care?
9.Why do I care?
10.Do you care?

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The.Lunatic

* Edited by rogue49 because I ANSWERED the question*

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saltfish

1). Why do we repeat behavior that we know darn well is bad for us?

2). What is it about instant gratification?

3). What is so important that would keep you from noticing that your turn signal has been on for the past 15 minutes?

4). Why wouldn't you consider the future in every major decision you make?

5). Why are there two completely different sides to every story?

6). You show up every day to class without reading or preparing, and you have the right to say that the class was graded unfairly?

7). How many VCRs are blinking 12:00 right now?

8). Why have you built a wall around yourself?

9). Why are you so picky about what you eat?

10). How can someone be rude/inconsiderate ALL the time?



-SF

rogue49

1. Why don't people read the rules?
2. Why do people promise what they don't intend to keep?
3. Why do people not appreciate when others go out of their way for them?
4. Why do businesses not follow-through if they know you are going to call them on it?
5. How do you make your love count?
6. Why do people don't consider time when thinking about their accomplishing goals
7. Why don't we ever get a break?
8. Why do people think they deserve something free?
9. Why don't people appreciate where they are in life?
10. Why don't we use this as an example of what to do in this thread?

lordjeebus

1. Why exactly 10 questions?
2. When should one use a sans serif font?
3. Why do people react so aversely to farting if everyone does it?
4. Why not coughing, which is just as unavoidable and probably spreads more germs?
5. Why do people derive satisfaction from investing in new expensive technology that will decrease in price exponentially?
6. Why is gambling so addictive?
7. Why is mainstream media coverage of Africa so limited compared to that of the Middle East?
8. Where does poetic/musical/artistic talent come from?
9. Is a national space program justified when so many suffer from malnutrition, lack health care, etc.?
10. How many more sets of 10 can I come up with?

dragon2fire

1. What drives people to do bad things
2. Why dont people think for themselves
3. Will i ever find a woman
4. why dont more women stand up for themselves
5. honestally what is the meaning of life
6. What do you do with a drunken salior
7. Why cant game designers come up with something new and ground breaking.
8. Were have all the good sit coms gone
9.When will i find a job
10. Why is coming up with ten so hard

Peetster

1. Why am I so tired at 2pm at work, but not at 2pm on weekends?
2. Why does time with loved ones seem so fleeting, yet seem to last an eternity at the DMV?
3. Why do fish seem to disappear when I'm fishing, but practically jump in my arms when my gear is in the car and I'm just walking?
4. Why does everything on the menu look good before I order, but my wife's dinner looks better when we're served?
5. Why do the wildflowers in my vegetable garden flourish, while the ones in my wildflower garden wither and die?
6. Why is it that when we are raising our kids we look forward to the day they will eventually leave the nest, but when they start turning into really neat people we begin to dread it?
7. Why won't my cats play with hundreds of dollars of high tech kittie toys, but will sit in an empty cardboard box for hours?
8. Why is it considered "progress" that I sit in this temperature controlled environment pushing stacks of paper around, when I could be out in the glory of nature hunting and gathering?
9. How, exactly, has television enriched our lives?
10. How can six different automobile dealers claim that their cars come with an "unmatched" warranty, when they're identical in every aspect?

Goatezz

First post, here goes!

1. Is there really more of a purpose to life than survival?
2. Is it possible to be selfless?
3. How can I make the world a better place?
4. Why can't I write poetry anymore?
5. Will I ever escape the prison called spoken/written language?
6. Why can't I tear a hole in my reality?
7. If there is a god doesn't there have to be something bigger than a god, because by god existing there must be room for him, thus the room is bigger than he is?
8. Does the former question equal to infinity, and if so how is it possible for infinity and God to exist at the same time?
9. As much as I try to believe otherwise, why is there always something in the back of my head that tells me that there is a greater force at work in my life?
10. Why ask why?

krazixs

1. Does my life have a meaning greater then what it currently shows?
2. Why is money so important?
3. If I am so aware of my faults, why do they continue to be my faults?
4. Can I learn more than I'm able or have I reached my max?
5. Why do people follow my lead?
6. If I'm so confident why do I feel so unsure?
7. If I'm aware of what affect I have with my feelings/thoughts/words and actions why do I consistently screw up what I originally intended?
8. Can I be happier?
9. Why can I not have a better life?
10. What if I really do want someone to answer my questions? After all I didn't pose these questions for nothing right?

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txlovely

1. What is the common good?
2. Why is it not okay to be not okay?
3. How do we choose who influences us?
4. Why is there child abuse?
5. Why are some people content to live while others live to be content?
6. What happens to us when our bodies cease to exist?
7. Why do people think imposing their will upon others is acceptable?
8. Why is it that all too often the people who most want children are not the ones who can have them?
9. Why can't people choose to be happy?
10. Why do people die before they have a chance to live out their lives?

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SirGoreaxe

1. If I was to look through someone elsese eyes what color would red look like to me?
2. If the answer to life, the univers and everything is 42, then what is the answer to my life?
3. What is the meaning of life?
4. Why is it so hard to understand wemon?
5. Is it hard for wemon to understand men?
6. What is the goverments problem with gays?
7. Why can't the world forgive and forget so that we can have world peace?
8. Why is GakFace, a person with serious psycological problems, majoring in psycology?
9. What is up with the goverment buying old technology at higer than state of the art prices?
10. WHAT WOULD I DO WITH OUT TFP?

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GakFace

1) Why do I slack off in schoolwork no matter how badly I wish to do it early?
2) Why are people more willing to convict MJ than to take a Neutral Stance?
3) Why must the media draw out any act of violence until there are copy cats?
4) Will Diablo 2 get a 1.10a patch out anytime soon?
5) How much time does my uncle have left to live?
6) Is it so difficult in a team-based game, to give someone a ride in a vehicle when they request it and are but 5 feet away (game distance)?
7) How come so many people have to be THE BEST, can't they just be happy being a part of it?
8) Laptop or PDA, which should I get?
9) If so many people interpret the bible differently, (ex: When the world will end) why do people INSIST it is NEEDED for faith, rather than just a tool?
10) Why must people tell me to not go into Psychology, but instead major in Computer Science, must money be everything?

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Welcome to the club! Not that I'm in the club. And there really isn'a a club in the first place. But if there was a club and if I was in it, I would definitely welcome you to it.

anti fishstick

1) will i ever find happiness?
2) will we ever become a less violent society?
3) why are mental illnesses often taboo and socially unacceptable to the point of ostracizing real people who need real help?
4) why are some strengths considered weaknesses and some weaknesses considered strengths?
5) is there such a thing as coincedence?
6) why do i enjoy being miserable?
7) what is the difference between dream and reality?
8) will i ever make something of myself?
9) what is the point of living?
10) what then, is the point of dying?

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Amarth

1. Is it right to accept a life of success without happiness?
2. What's the difference between a vision quest and laziness?
3. Why doesn't she love me back?
4. Why can't we overcome our hippocracies?
5. Who am I?
6. What's the point?
7. Can we find paradise?
8. What is funny?
9. What is the point of hating?
10. What is the point of hurting?

rogue49

1. Why don’t women who are interested in me make the effort to come to me?
2. Why do people allow themselves to be abused or ignored?
3. How can I be satisfied, but not fullfilled at the same time?
4. Despite my good qualities, why aren’t I with someone significant?
5. How can someone who makes things happen, believe it will just happen?
6. How does someone deny what is obvious in front of them?
7. Do you feel sick when you communicate with a person you care about?
8. Why do you want something you can’t have?
9. Why do you push away something good for you that you want?
10. If there is an itch…How do you know when to stratch it?

Bob Biter

- Will I pay a lot for this muffler?
- Will I ever get married?
- Will my book revolutionize the zombie genre as we know it or simply be a part of it?
- How does Guided By Voices remain consistently good?
- Why am I always out of bread?
- Would I win a street fight with my kung fu skills?
- Do Brazilian girls put out more?
- Why must every girl complain about the toilet seat as if it's ingrained in their genetic code?
- Will I ever CHOOSE to have kids or will it be an accident?
- Should we start all over again?

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Cervantes

1. Is there a life after death?
2. Are we concious about the real world or are we just walking in an illusion created by our brain?
3. Do we have souls?
4. Why are humans so hard to understand?
5. Is there life on other places in the universe?
6. What is the meaning of our lives?
7. Why is life so unfair?
8. Is it possible to "make it" without becomming corrupt?
9. What is it about people that makes them belive that they are superior to others?
10. What do I need to become happy?

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- "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.."
- "Religions take everything that your DNA naturally wants to do to survive and pro-create and makes it wrong."
- "There is only one absolute truth and that is that there is only one absolute truth."

battlemouth

1. How would society be without art
2. Do we all percieve color the same
3. Why cant women/men forget about body image and just be themselves
4. Why is sex as an activity so important
5. What is god
6. What is the purpose of religion
7. How much longer till humanity destroys itself
8. Why is the word "respect" slowly fading away
9. Will there ever be peace
10. What if Korea was the size of the US

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duckznutz

1 - why does she say 'Yes' when she means 'No.'
2 - why does she say 'We need' when she means 'I want'.
3 - why does she say 'It's your decision' when she means 'The correct decision should obvious by now.'
4 - why does she say 'We need to talk' when she means 'I need to complain.'
5 - why does she say 'Sure...go ahead' when she means 'I don't want you to.'
6 - why does she say 'I'm not upset' when she means 'Of course I'm upset, you moron!'
7 - why does she say 'Do you love me?' when she means 'I'm going to ask for something expensive.'
8 - why does she say 'Is my bum big in this?' when she means ' Tell me I'm beautiful.'
9 - why does she say ' You have to learn to communicate' when she means ' Just agree with me.'
10 - Why?

Average-Joe

1- Will the human race ever exist without racism?
2- Why does one become a born again Christian?
3- Will natural resources become a thing of the past?
4- Why don’t men throw their old underwear away?
5- Why do they call it minute rice when it takes ten minutes to make?
6- Will I ever become a millionaire?
7- Will there be a nuclear holocaust?
8- If the majority of us have camcorders, why can’t anyone capture a “UFO” sighting?
9- Why does the damn phone ring every time I sit down for a meal?
10- Why are there drive through liquor stores in Texas?

present_future

1. Why can't women make up their mind on what they want from us guys?
2. Is there really a heaven and a hell?
3. Why is it "wrong" or "bad" to be a sensitive guy?
4. If crime doesn't pay, then why are there millionaire mobsters?
5. If we really are the only intelligent life form, then isn't the rest of the universe just a big waste of space?
6. Has anyone actually seen God?
7. How is it possible for a girl to be completely in love with you one month, and then barely talk to you the next?
8. Why do women make such a fuss about leaving the toilet seat up when it's just as much an inconvenience to men to raise the seat after a woman leaves it down?
9. Are chicken mcnuggets really chicken?
10. Does anyone actually read these questions?

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Ustwo

1. Is there a good reason so many people are stupid?
2. Will man ever reach the stars in person?
3. Why am I still hungry after eating a lot of sushi?
4. Why do many fat people get offended if you don't find them sexually attractive when almost all of them could go on a diet if they really wanted to?
5. Why do so few people study history?
6. When will the revolution come?
7. Why do I spend so much of my time posting on this message board?
8. Why do people like country music?
9. What would happen if someone could prove there was no god?
10. Why am I not in bed, its late and I have to work tomarrow?

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rebecca

1. can you ever win without competing?
2. when is love true love?
3. why are boys so mean?
4. why do girls join boybands?
5. can money buy happiness?
6. is knitting contagious?
7. how do you go about decorating people?
8. if i don't know that it's not true am i really lying?
9. when can you stop questioning things and just know?
10. what does it take to get into heaven?

Evil Milkman

1. How many people are having an orgasm at the moment I finish typing this sentence?
2. What exactly is a "moment" that people talk about?
3. Can all 'time' be broken down into smaller sections of time?
4. At what point would we have to theoritcally stop breaking down time?
5. Is there an afterlife?
6. What would said afterlife or afterlives be like?
7. How did the universe begin?
8. Is there truly more than one universe?
9. Why is it that I feel the need to think about sex all of the time?
10. What will I accomplish in my lifetime (whatever THAT means)?

doodah

who am i?
what is the meaning of llife?
is there a god?
how abotu a heaven or hell?
who are my real friends?
why do people want honesty but retaliate in fear and anger when you tell them the truth?
how are you really?
if i could go back in time who i cange anything?
who is my true love?
Why does everythign seem to taste like chicken?

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KellyC

1. Why do we live the way we do?
2. why does igorance, bigotry still exists despite all the efforts to get rid of them?
3. Can one be truly happy with himself/herself being alone forever?
4. How does the human brain work?
5. If people were brought up in a different surrounding, how dramtic (if any) would their behavior change?
6. Why do young people like rap music when it projects such poor images like drugs, hoes and pimps, gangsters and the likes?
7. Does that indirectly contribute to ignorance?
8. Is that why the younger generations are getting dumber and dumber?
9. Why do black people complain about racism when I see comedians like Dave Chapell, Martin Lawrance, Berny Mac always make joke about how corny white people are, isn't it contradictory that they always bring up these subject when they want to get rid of it?
10. WTF???

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