Okay I did not want to put in a question mark because important questions should have answers.
If you ask a genuine question then it might not have an answer because this is when you are truly entering uncharted waters.
BUT most questions already have answers built within the very fabric of their design. So the very binary of Q versus A is yet again a false opposition.
Gertrude Stein's famed last words (that might be apocryphal) asked this question: what is the answer?
I think GS sums up my non-question and non-answer.
hi,
" BUT most questions already have answers built within the very fabric of their design. So the very binary of Q versus A is yet again a false opposition. "
Did time had any beginning or not?
How do we define this statement!? In which context?
If you have any exception to the lines in quote above, kindly enlighten us !!!
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We never begin at the beginning...if we ever begin it's usually in the middle and then we work back to the beginning or the end in order to develop a pattern of time that goes like this: beginning-middle-end. This is linear time but time is not always linear. There is also industrial time and look where it's gotten us...there's also seasonal time...well industrial time fixed that one (not!). There are all kinds of time except there is also not.
So yes one can begin once more in the middle of a conversation, in the middle of an argument, or in the middle of a catechism and the questions and the answers can sometimes blur and not be distinguishable.
So what do you think about time? A
What do you think about questions and answers?
What do you think about a kind of time that is circular and unending in its circularity?
And then there is 'literary time' experience as a repetitive Samuel Beckett play.
Or worse there is another kind of 'time' experienced as a form of torture if someone is locked in a dark place and cannot get out and dreads if and when someone or something will take their life or freedom away.
What do you think about all this...there's a lot to think about.
Also some questions and answers are just rhetorical and therefore requiring no more answers and no more questions.
You are of course free to disagree and free to respond and free to not respond too (which is form of response in and of itself...)
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