giovedì 7 agosto 2008

Why ask?

I wonder why people teach so much to ask questions, if they then do not respond. So why put yourself out and ask? And then maybe even run after people to force an answer out of them? Somehow I don't feel it's the way to do it..
But then, the ones who never ask, are they not bound to live in their little universe away from the ones around them?

3 commenti:

Žāūčō ha detto...

I guess I had recently examined the other side :). But on asking, I think that it's quite a skill not just to ask, but to "keep the eyes on the price" - maintain your purposes and intentions of questioning to get the answer that satisfies you. But if the other person is Not-responding or won't be fair in his answers, then at least you know that you've taken your best shot.

vienuolika ha detto...

do you really think it is impossible that several people in different parts of the world have similar thoughts roughly at the same time?

maybe you're right about the best shot.. i guess with some people i've tried hard enough and fallen on my face even harder.. but somehow it's frustrating to think that you never know if the next attempt wouldn't bring you what you were fighting for: a fair answer..

so you could say, maybe you didn't try your best then, if you're still able to ask one more time. but then, you probably have to die before you can say you tried hard enough.

Žāūčō ha detto...

If I come about the same concepts once in a while then it's likely that there are loads of people that have the same thoughts especially under the same conditions, stage of life or whatever. But I guess that wasn't what you asked about :).

The biggest problem I've faced about fair answers is that there are very few people that actually expect a fair answer - they get annoyed, disturbed etc - they just can't handle what they asked about. So many people make somewhat shield of hypocrisy - they won't say black or white they will slide in between to avoid any chance of hurting anyones feelings. But the problem is that you can't escape that stage that easy and wouldn't answer fairly even if the other person is demanding for a fair answer and is able to handle it. I hope you got my point in this gibberish :). Actually I had a friend of mine who never said no to any propositions and hardly ever spoke his mind - I got totally pissed off about this once because I really wanted him to be fair - I just had learned which yes of him really mean yes and which yes is most likely no and which yes is no for sure - arguing with him about it resulted in nothing. And I fully understand him - there are just so many people around who just can't respect others being fair to them.

Alles hat ein Ende nur Wurst hat zwei (just wanted to make a use of it :) - people aren't walking databases - if you have a query, you will receive an answer if there is one. It's not that you will come about a well formed query aka set of questions the second end aka answerer would have an answer - there are loads of people who just are too puzzled and haven't settled themselves about some topics and they wouldn't be able to answer frankly to themselves the same question, not talking about the others. There are many things that people just don't know about themselves.

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