What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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TimeSeeker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:12 pm
Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:11 pm I never ask that question.

I am not a seeker.
But you do ask questions and so... you seek something.
To repeat, I am not a seeker.

To repeat, your answers are the basis of response, which shapes according to your capacity.

Do you think her cause of impoliteness really was because she was raised in a barn?
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Lacewing wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:14 pm
Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:06 pm I was going to try out the most important question but I figured just saying “How?” to people could be misinterpreted in this PC climate and someone might think I’m imitating a TV native American aboriginal, a mouthful that may, or may not, be the proper PC label these days.

So I asked “How are you?”

Like you, everyone said fine, and some asked me how I am.

And of course I said I’m fine, too.

The question doesn’t seem very important.

Do you think I'm using the question the wrong way?
Ah, I see. You are asking "How is it that I am (i.e. have come to be)", correct?

So, very honestly, I am not interested in such a question, myself. All I know is that I am here. In that way, I belong and I am a part of what is.
Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:06 pmyou're impolite if you're referencing me in the third person what with me being here and all
YOU want to school me on being polite? :lol:
I agree.

How doesn't seem very important.
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Why is how the most important question?
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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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So, Walker, you're playing your stupid head games (that somehow appeal to you), and being an ass (which you can't seem to help), so this discussion has devolved into nonsense within your playpen, which I have no interest in.
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How is only important if you care about answering questions.

If all you aim to do is to ask them. Then all of the questions are the most important question!
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Lacewing wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:24 pm So, Walker, you're playing your stupid head games (that somehow appeal to you), and being an ass (which you can't seem to help), so this discussion has devolved into nonsense within your playpen, which I have no interest in.
I'm trying to see if there's more than nonsense to the mirror.
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Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:26 pm I'm trying to see if there's more than nonsense to the mirror.
You pre-suppose you can tell non-sense from truth.

How do you foresee yourself escaping Dunning-Kruger if I were in fact more knowledgeable than you?
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TimeSeeker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:25 pm How is only important if you care about answering questions.

If all you aim to do is to ask them. Then all of the questions are the most important question!
True enough.

Some folks think philosophy is just asking questions.

Quite common here.

Lacewing rarely has answers.

Lot's of unsupported opinions.
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Basically - we are testing whose bullshit detector is more finely-tuned.

I don't think your bullshit detector has had any contact with applied (to reality) science. So on that alone I appeal to my own empirical authority.
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TimeSeeker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:27 pm
Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:26 pm I'm trying to see if there's more than nonsense to the mirror.
You pre-suppose you can tell non-sense from truth.

How do you foresee yourself escaping Dunning-Kruger if I were in fact more knowledgeable than you?
Straight honest dialogue is all that's required.

You're missing it with your inspector assumption and your lack of comprehension as displayed via feedback of content, and that's the objective crack in your mirror, to match the other one, where you're been talking out of.

(Pretty good if I do say so. Can you mirror that?)

Come on. What are you going to do about it?
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Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:33 pm You're missing it with your inspector assumption and your lack of comprehension as displayed via feedback of content, and that's the objective crack in your mirror, to match the other one, where you're been talking out of. (Pretty good one. What have you got?)
To match (recalibrate?) myself to the other one I first need to calculate the knowledge-differential. Then I need to adopt your language (which means translate in my head). Then I need to figure out your criteria for success/failure.

Without knowing what your goal is I can't pass judgments of "right" or "wrong". I only know "better" or "worse".

And so - that is why insist on such transparency. Otherwise it is futile babble.
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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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Pro tip.

Just be honest, and speak truth.

You're really not clever enough for deploying all that interpretation of yours.

And you're not original.

Trust me, I can see it.

Maybe she thinks the most important question is when to gossip?
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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:38 pm Pro tip.

Just be honest, and speak truth.
Why do you think I don't?

Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:38 pm You're really not clever enough for all that.
You don't really get to decide that ;) Reality provides ample feedback when I make mistakes.
Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:38 pm And you're not original.
I know! Some of the ideas I find USEFUL can be found in The Bible. And even before that!

Pro tip. Instead of using the phrase "word soup" say "I don't understand" ;)
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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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Just look at where cleverness has gotten you in life.

How that happened won't do you much good now.

But to answer the most important question to you, which is simply, "How? ..."

Just be honest, and speak truth.

That's how.

You'll get the hang of it, 42.

Good luck with your seeking, for all those lesser questions than your most important!
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Re: What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?

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Walker wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:52 pm Just look at where cleverness has gotten you in life.
And where might that be ? :)
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