Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24729606-20180913190822/@comment-24729606-20180930135300

I would say that there are a great many questions that we (society, humanity, civilization or whatever one choses to call todays world) either lack the knowledge or insight to ask and/or answer. For example in spiritual circles (with all due respect) there are numerous questions which if one looks at them from a secular viewpoint or that of an outside observer seem at least purely rhetorical if not so esoteric that even if one does find an answer those with the learning and/or insight to understand would be so rarified that it would hardly seem worth the time and effort expended. So too in the scientific world there are many questions that we lack either the means, data, or breadth of understanding to answer. But if nothing else science does have one thing working in its favor. The history of science (at least as far as I understand it) indicates that however long a question takes to answer the wait is usually worthwhile. But this too one should bear in mind. Answering a question (no matter how satisfactory the act itself may be) leads to more questions being asked that are necessarily more specialized yet than those that have been answered up to that point. In addition answering a question does not mean that the answer concieved is the only ansewr to whatever question one was pursuing. Indeed I would submit that pluralism of answers to a question is a positive sign. For no matter how sutlely each of us thinks of even the most basic of questions in slightly different ways. This than necessarily means that each person will come up with slightly different answers if only by virtue of our being individuals with our own individual experience of the world at large.