Lots of questions in life have answers, but I sometimes wonder if there is some scattergram somewhere that shows a relationship between the more trivial the question, the more clear-cut to answer.
It doesn't take long for a mind, well perhaps a complicating mind like mine, to find exception clauses in even simple question-answers. But that brings stress. Tell me!
Leaping forward to what are sometimes called the big philosophical questions in life… ![]()
Is the question the answer?
With a background in science and prescriptive religion, I often wonder if I am conditioned by society to believe that THERE IS AN ANSWER and WE JUST HAVE TO FIND IT, whereas maybe the best we can do is to state the problem fairly, and then out of this might flow tolerance, stress removal and possibly, yes, even insight.
By insight, I mean insight for me. If this insight is shareable, and it 'works' somehow for others then that is good. I don't need to share it with a sword! Neither do I need others to accept it to validate it.
I wonder if 'truth' that is shared forcefully, is shared out of fear, and shows that the original problem has not matured to bring the benefits I described above.
On validation, the sharing of insight can bring refinement, but this is not always necessary, and perhaps it actually seldom happens. Otherwise, we would be forgiven (interesting choice of word!) for believing that THERE IS AN ANSWER and WE JUST HAVE TO FIND IT! LOL ![]()