What Life Questions Make You Ponder?

October 08, 2019, 01:43 PM

Oh come on, no one has even mentioned the greatest unanswered question of all time:

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Lolly Pop?

October 08, 2019, 01:48 PM

Batty67

quote:
Originally posted by 95flhr:
Why is the Second Amendment treated as the bastard step child of the Bill of Rights?

Compared to, say the language for the Second Amendment supporting the right to bear arms, what is the exact constitutional basis/language supporting abortion rights?

(I support fully a woman's right to choose, but I typically throw the above back at folks who get uppity about parsing the meaning of a "well-regulated militia.")

October 08, 2019, 02:07 PM

Johnny 3eagles

Folgers Classic or Folgers Black Silk?

October 08, 2019, 02:32 PM

darthfuster

quote:
Originally posted by craigcpa:
Oh come on, no one has even mentioned the greatest unanswered question of all time:

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Lolly Pop?

Anyone who ever saw the television commercial from the 70s knows it only takes three.

Why isn't the opposite of overwhelmed, whelmed?

October 08, 2019, 03:09 PM

sigfreund

One concept of the reincarnation of souls is that after something dies it comes back higher or lower on the scale of things based on its previous life. For example, if a person behaves badly, he could come back as a dog, but if he behaves virtuously, a peasant could come back as a rich noble or perhaps a well-off merchant. My question concerns the many people near the top of the hierarchy like rich nobles, princes, etc. who behave very badly and we assume are going to pay for that bad behavior after they die. To have gotten to that high position on the reincarnation ladder in the first place, though, they presumably had to behave well through a long succession of lives as they moved up from one to another.

Not all beliefs about reincarnation include that concept of moving up or down the scale of lives, but some do. My question, then, is why? Why would someone who had behaved well time after time to reach that exalted level suddenly start behaving like a right bastard when he should have the least reason to do so?

October 08, 2019, 03:19 PM

nasig

as crazy as it sounds i often wonder what animals are thinking

October 08, 2019, 03:21 PM

sigfreund

quote:
Originally posted by nasig:
as crazy as it sounds i often wonder what animals are thinking

I don't believe it's crazy at all. Although not at the same level as humans, it's obvious that many animals think, and it's natural, I believe, to wonder what and how.

October 08, 2019, 03:26 PM

rusbro

How do you throw away a trash can?

October 08, 2019, 03:31 PM

Fla. Jim

quote:
Originally posted by nhracecraft:
If the Universe is expanding, then what's outside the Universe?

Just last night watched the SCI channel on Black holes and the big bang "Inflation" theory if I got that right. Says everthing we perceive of as space and matter was in that infinitesimal small point of everything. They don't know what caused it to expand but basically it was stated. All space was included in that original point.So in effect when it inflated in many trillions X trillions of a second it was able to exceed the inside space speed of light in inflation........ The guy stating it says it's hard very hard to imagine.
PS forgot the original question. Whats outside the universe? Nothing at all

Another site of "Theory"

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/uni...e/bb_cosmo_infl.html

October 08, 2019, 03:35 PM

sleepla8er

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Fleas
Mosquitos
Ticks

And the emotional roller coaster women must endure during:
PMS
Periods
Pregnancy

Why Good Lord, why?

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October 08, 2019, 03:41 PM

Sig2340

quote:
Originally posted by nhracecraft:
If the Universe is expanding, then what's outside the Universe?

That's easy.

A whole lot of not universe.

A three of my imponderables:

1. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

October 08, 2019, 03:42 PM

GT-40DOC

I have always had a hard time considering infinity!! One can go straight up and never have to stop going in that direction.......there is no end!!......Really???

October 08, 2019, 03:53 PM

markand

Why do we park on the driveway, but drive on the parkway?

October 08, 2019, 04:00 PM

Unishot

Seek not to know the answers, but rather only to understand the questions.

October 08, 2019, 04:15 PM

egregore

Here's a little more serious one. If an intelligent design created life on Earth, why are there creatures like earwigs, various biting flies, chiggers, scabies mites, mosquitoes, lice, disease-causing viruses and bacteria, etc.?

October 08, 2019, 05:02 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by Tinyman:
If abortion is murder, is wearing a condom kidnapping?

Snerk!

October 08, 2019, 06:44 PM

SevenPlusOne

How do they keep glue from sticking to the inside of the bottle?

October 08, 2019, 06:54 PM

Plasteek

What is life ?

how did God came to be and if he just came to be then on what vacuum did he exist in and who made that vacuum ?

October 08, 2019, 06:55 PM

Plasteek

Life after death ?

October 08, 2019, 07:28 PM

mcrimm

quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
If M&Ms melt in your mouth and not in your hands, what do they do in your armpits?

quote:
Originally posted by nhracecraft:
If the Universe is expanding, then what's outside the Universe?

In all seriousness, I have asked myself this question more times than you can count. Sitting aside a campfire looking up at the Milky Way and thinking to myself, what's outside of this...and what's outside of that...and what's outside of that? Etc....

Sometimes, I guess, there are no answers.

Stephen Hawking remarked in his book, A Brief History in Time, “In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.”

So, what’s beyond all of this?