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Although life is already full of unanswerable questions, like what to watch tonight or what you would like to eat, they are not entertaining in the very least. So, we got this idea to harness these tough questions, dig around a bit more, and find rhetorical questions that are actually entertaining, good conversation starters, and nice topics for deep pondering. Et Voila - our selection of funny unanswerable questions for you to enjoy!

Another awesome thing about these questions with no answers is that they will require you to actually slow down, take a breather, and think about them (instead of thinking about which TV series to choose or why your cat is staring at the ceiling). And these days, everything that allows you to slow down is well appreciated! Also, these inquiries touch various subjects - from material things to travels - so we’re pretty certain you’ll find ones that you’d like to ponder for a while on. Yet, if you’re a fan of unanswerable philosophical questions, your curiosity will also be satisfied in this list. So, as far as questions that are unanswerable go, this is probably where all of them come to in the end. 

Right, so our selection of questions with no answers is just a smidgen down below; you should absolutely check them out. Who knows, picking such a question might even become a nice evening tradition. But before it does, the best questions will have to find their way to the top of this list, and you can help them by giving them your vote!

#1

Why does Tarzan never have a beard?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because a British gentleman must uphold certain standards, and being abandoned by your family in a jungle and raised by apes is no excuse.

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#2

If you have fun wasting time, is it time wasted?

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#5

Why does the Easter Bunny bring eggs when rabbits don’t lay eggs?

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#6

In the word 'scent', which letter is silent? S or C?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd say the c is silent, because the word comes from latin sentire.

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#8

Are child actors in adult-rated movies allowed to watch the film?

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#9

Why do people say that they "slept like a baby" if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?

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#10

Why are bread square and sandwich meat round?

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#11

What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that they think in words if they are literate, and in images if not. Maybe someone will answer with personal experience.

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#13

If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?

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Helena
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are actually trained out of seeing mistakes as a natural part of learning and to see it as absolute bad. Think of grades in school. How many things depend on the outcome of your grades? Every mistake is counted and tallied. Your worth being summed up by a letter. Participation in activities depending on it, likely parts of your home life depending on it. If your grades are bad, you're seen as a bad kid/person. As an adult, if you make a mistake you are seen as a failure. One mistake and you're homeless and others see you as less than. Everyone is one mistake from fired. One mistake from dead. One mistake from ostracized. Honestly, we'd be better as a society if we encouraged trial and error, more scientific method coupled with compassion, less worth measuring by who made the fewest mistakes. That really only encourages people to live so far inside the box they fear touching the walls.

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#14

What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?

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#15

Are there any extraterrestrial beings?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im 99.99% sure there are 1st because the history Chanel says there are lol, 2nd and more importantly because there is no way that in the vastness of the universe there is not another planet with similar conditions to the earth

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#16

Is your glass half-empty or half-full?

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Will Cable
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surley it depends on the state before the fluid was in it. If it was empty and you half filled it, it is half full, if it was full and you drank half then it is half empty.

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#17

How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude.... Come on, bald people wash their face like every One else, i start at the chin and end at the back of my neck.

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#18

Why do we dream and what does each dream represent?

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Bec
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To organize thought, memories, and experiences from our day.

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#19

Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?

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#20

Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can bake anything in an oven if it fits. You could cook cookies in a pan, but not vary many at the same time. The words are just conventions, like cows are living animals, from old english, but beef is from french.

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#21

Can emotions ever be controlled via technology?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In a way, they are allready, if you are depressed, you can get anti depressivos, if you're anxious you can get an anti anxiety pill, só in a way technology allready controls your emoticons.

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#22

To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A very high degree, not 100% but a good 85 to 90% thats why my life is só screwd up right now.

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#23

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spelling is a convention. If other dictionaries have a different spelling, then maybe there is a mispelling, or it may be a different convention. For example, color versus colour.

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#24

Why do we call them buildings if buildings are already built?

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kitten levels tokyo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word “erections” used to be common instead of “buildings”, but it went out of style for some reason.

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#25

Will we ever find a universal cure for cancer?

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Doctor Strange
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, because 'cancer' is not a single disease. The term cancer covers a surprisingly broad spectrum of ailments, with a large number of causes. It is impossible for a single cure to be effective for all types of cancer. The same way we can never cure the common cold, because it is a term for a number of different diseases with similar symptoms.

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#26

Why is a pizza box square when a pizza is round?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Space and transportation... Why are ship containers " square " when they carry furniture or Cars??? Come on....

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#29

Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because the ingredients are mostly light colored. Cream is a light yellow shade.

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#30

Are soulmates a real thing?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you think feelings are a real thing, then, yes. But it doesn't mean there is only one soulmate out there.

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#31

What exactly is consciousness? Are animals also conscious?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One definition could be: an organism that reacts to its surroundings is concious. But plants react to thier surroundings in various ways. I once had a concussion, during which I was walking around, talking with people, but I don't remember any of it. I woke up the next morning not remembering going to bed. Was I conscious during that time? I think conciousness should include the ability to remember experience, but maybe that's too much.

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#32

Can someone blind from birth see in their dreams?

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#33

If a cave has a cave-in, is it still called a cave?

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#34

How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?

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#35

What is freedom and does it really exist?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No One is completelly free, we all have laws, morals, ethics etc, that makes that none of us are actually free, we have some freedoms, but none of us are free.

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#36

If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you wear or are you strong?

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#37

How would you know if time had been altered in some way?

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#38

Will the world be better off with relatively more countries or relatively fewer?

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David Phillips
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More, definitely. Diversity is good, as long as we are all intelligent enough to be interested in others.

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#39

Will we still have today’s style of nation-state countries 1,000 years from now?

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Deborah Harris2
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, 1,000 years from now humans will no longer live on Earth, we would have either destroyed our whole race by then or the planet itself.

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#42

Why are cars made that go faster than the worlds speed limits?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because Germany thats why, imagine if you buy a car in the US or Canadá for example, but later in your life you have to move to Germany, there are zones of the autobhan that don't have a speed limit, i mean, its preety onvious lol ( Im of course kidding, i have no frikking idea )

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#43

Why does the early bird get the worm, but patience is a virtue?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because the early bird got up early and had the Patience to wait for the worm.

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#44

What shape is your field of vision?

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#46

Why do black olives come in cans and green ones in jars?

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#48

Will it ever be possible to communicate with people from the past or from the future?

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David Phillips
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People communicate with people from the future all the time. It's just one-way.

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#49

Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?

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#51

If you can be allergic to anything, can you have an allergy to water?

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Pedantic Panda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes you can, Aquagenic urticaria. Very rare but also very painful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_urticaria

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#52

Is there an end to the universe, or does it just keep going?

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#53

Will it be possible for countries to operate without prisons in the future?

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Justin Trouble
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Easy to answer this one. NO. Never happen here in the US the judicial system is way too corrupt to ever be fixed. They are mostly privately owned for profit prisons with politicians as share holders that basically use prisoners as slave labor, and they will never give up their revenue streams.

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#54

Are animals that don’t live in houses homeless?

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#55

A tomato is a fruit, so why is ketchup not called a smoothie?

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#57

Did Adam and Eve have a bellybutton?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The omphalos question (omphalos is Greek for navel). It was a big theological issue in the middle ages. Some believed that, not being born, Adam and Eve would not have navels; others contended that they would have been created to appear normal. The *actual* answer is, of course, that Adam and Eve didn't exist (mitochondrial Eve is a metaphor).

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#58

Is the world eternal?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It depends on your perspective. When you eat something, the atoms don't dissappear, they just go different places.

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#59

Is there life after death?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, you die and that's it, unless you take the walking dead as a documentáry....

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#60

Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, math is objective, no matter what your fellings are, the math Will always be objective.

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#61

Isn’t the word "queue" just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?

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#62

Are we the only life in the universe?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost certainly not, but we may well not live near enough to any other life to ever discover it.

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#63

Will the world be better off without "bad people"?

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#65

If God is watching us, why doesn’t He stop us from doing bad things like killing each other?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is called the problem of evil. If god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent then he can and should stop evil things from happening. If he does not stop evil things happening then either he can't stop them, in which case he is not omnipotent; he doesn't know about them, in which case he is not omniscient; or he doesn't care enough to stop them, in which case he is not omnibenevolent. If any or all of these things are true then god, as we define him, does not exist. Most people try to wriggle out of this by appealing to "free will", conveniently forgetting that many evils of the world - such as diseases and natural disasters - are not the products of human action.

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#66

When you forget a thought, where does it go?

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Cihan Ekizoglu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't go away, stay or disappear. You rebuild a thought so that you remember.

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#68

If you are bald, can you get dandruff?

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#69

If anything is possible, can anything be impossible?

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bi mermaid (she/her/hers)
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If everything is possible, it's impossible for something to be impossible, so not everything is possible.

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2 years ago

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Yes...it's impossible to change someone's mind when they are adamant.

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#70

Why are we called humans?

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#71

Why do people have to die?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Biologically, because our cellular processes can't maintain themselves forever. Also, if we didn't die everyone would starve, so dying permits children to live.

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#72

If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?

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#73

Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?

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#74

If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?

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#75

If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?

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Sans Serif
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doing the things we don't like aids in the pursuit of doing those we do. The former, unfortunately, usually thwarts the latter!

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#76

Is there a risk to ever be completely dependent on AI?

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Justin Trouble
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, there is a risk to everything, but personally I hope AI behaves like terminator

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#78

Are there limits to human creativity?

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#80

How far east can you travel before you are travelling west?

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Russell Bowman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You will always travel east ... but, if you travel north you will eventually travel south

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#83

Do we have free will or is everything predestined?

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$cagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If everything was predestined for each individual on the planet, whoever was organising the predestining would need one heckin' big server to store all that data. I certainly wouldn't want to be the IT guy responsible for it.

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#84

What is the purpose and meaning of time?

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#85

What is the color of a mirror?

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Ian Conelley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The coating on the back of a piece of glass which makes it a mirror is called silvering for a reason. Traditional mirrors are silver.

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#86

When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?

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Doctor Strange
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Partly sunny means that it is more clouds with some sun. Partly cloudy means it is more sun with some clouds. So the tipping point is when it is equal sunny and cloudy.

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#88

If you told someone to "be a leader and not a follower", wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?

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Cihan Ekizoglu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Leaders usually follow the instructions of advisors. Follower is not the opposite of leader, you can be either, both, or neither.

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#90

Do today’s technologies make global conspiracies more or less feasible?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Equally unfeasible. Humans are intrinsically bad at cooperating. Technology does not change that. We're all tribalist morons.

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#91

If people were given the option of starting a new country, what features, options or capabilities would make it more valuable than counties today?

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$cagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe suggest that the inhabitants try not to kill each other? It's a start.

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#92

Is there a limit to how smart one person can be?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knowledge is limited by experience, whether personal, or learned from others. Insight is also limited by knowledge. For example, the smartest people in the world would not have understood that viruses inject thier dna into other cells to reproduce, even though they understood that something was being spread from person to person.

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#94

Do we run the risk of becoming too dependent upon artificial intelligence?

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#95

What is our place in an infinite universe?

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Skara Brae
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Earth. Maybe some other planets someday. The universe doesn't care. Our place is whatever we can accomplish.

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#96

What happens if we are stuck in a dream and have no way to come out of it?

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#97

Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?

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Doctor Strange
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time is just how human's percieve events. Even if everything was frozen, events would still happen. Humans are not so cosmically important that things would stop happening simply because we don't percieve them.

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#98

Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?

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#99

When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?

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#100

What happens when an immovable objects meets an unstoppable force?

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#101

Will we ever be able to travel through time?

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#102

What will be the biggest human advancement on planet earth during your lifetime?

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Hypoxia Smurf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Define 'achievement'. An engineering project? Political transformation? Extinction?

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#103

What is the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

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#104

Are there mysterious species hiding from humans?

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Justin Trouble
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you were an different species and saw how humans are wouldn't you hide as long as you could?

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#105

Why do we make exceptions to rules if we all should follow the rules?

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Doctor Strange
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because the universe is far too complex for any rule to be able to account for every possible contingency. Rules form the guidelines, but exceptions must be made for situations not planned for when the rules were created.

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#108

What are dreams?

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Nezuko_Chan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep.

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#109

Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?

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Justin Trouble
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you think a victim ever made a conscious decision to be assaulted?

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#110

If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?

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#111

What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?

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#112

Where do they put the Bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?

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#113

Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?

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kitten levels tokyo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. Which is why it is totally ok to tell a woman that her “facial hair looks good today.”

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#114

Do prison buses have emergency exits?

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#115

If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?

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kitten levels tokyo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe the fountain of youth rule is “Drink before you drown, have a night on the town. Drown before you drink, you’re as dead as one might think.”

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#116

Who was the first person to milk a cow?

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#117

Will it ever be possible to "replay events" that happened in the past?

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#118

Will the advancement of today’s technologies yield a positive or negative result?

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#119

If someone altered your memory, how would you know?

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Sans Serif
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't but, you can bet my ex wives would be all over that!

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#121

At what point is a genetically enhanced human no longer human?

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#125

Why do people squint their eyes when they can’t see? Wouldn’t that just make it less space to see out of?

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Sans Serif
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it rounder, which helps light properly reach the fovea."

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#127

How do you know that you are not hallucinating?

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RoanTheMad
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, as a schizophrenic, sometimes its hard to tell. Even the pinching/biting method isn't foolproof (I have tactile hallucinations alongside visual and auditory hallucinations) sometimes i just have to reach right into myself and tell myself it isnt real. It's difficult.

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#131

What is the purpose of death?

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#132

When does the future begin?

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Myriad Dunes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There’s no past,present or future,only an eternal now,and if one can’t live there,one can’t live anywhere else.

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#133

Who decided what’s right and wrong?

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#134

If data scientists had the ability to accurately predict who was more likely to commit crimes in the future, how should society respond to that information?

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David Phillips
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They already can. The problem is the word "likely", and the fact that society doesn't want to spend the money.

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#135

Will people still own their own cars in the future?

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Stephen Ferris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, some cars you don't technically own now. Sales are considered an "extended lease" and are still owned by the company.

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#136

Will we ever have an ability to measure artificial intelligence the way we measure horsepower?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given that we can't accurately measure human intelligence, it's reasonable to say that any sufficiently advanced AI to actually be called "intelligent" would be too complex to measure according to a simple scale.

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#137

How did the universe begin and why did it exist in the first place?

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#142

Which came first: the sun or the earth?

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Paulo Freitas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sun....Come on..... These are supose to be " unanswerable questions... This One is in most science books from the 9th grade....

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#143

What came first: the seed or the plant?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the case of an individual plant, the seed. It is the same organism as the plant it births, and it came from a different one. In general terms, however, plants came before seeds. The oldest plant families, like mosses and ferns, reproduce by releasing spores. Seeds are a more recent evolutionary development.

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#144

How do you learn about something that doesn’t exist?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same way you learn about things that do exist: you read about them or somebody tells you.

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#145

If the truth is different for each of us, how can we call it the truth?

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David Phillips
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It isn't. False premise. Just because you believe something doesn't make it true.

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#147

Can you cry underwater?

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#148

Can God create a stone that is too heavy for even him to lift?

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#150

Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?

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#152

A thousand years from now, which things will be possible and which ones will not?

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Yuffa Kinazzo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You will be able to work but won't be able to have physical money in your possession.

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#154

Will we ever have a definable form of measurement for the concept of truth?

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David Phillips
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Things are either true or not. There is no measurement, and there is no such thing as "alternative truth".

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#155

Why do we keep time if time is endless and everything happens in its own time?

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kitten levels tokyo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Keeping time” is simply a construct of the human Id. In multidimensional hemisphordal planes the entire notion of keeping time is actually quite ludicrous.

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#156

If you hate a hater, do you hate yourself?

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#157

What forms of government will be better than democracy?

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