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Q and A

The struggle is shifting.

Once answers were elusive, and knowledge rare treasure.

Not so any longer. 

Now we drown in floods of information.
Now we choke on feasts of facts.
Now we are crushed beneath countless communications.

Now the search for an answer is often quite trivial.

So we must grow wiser.

We must learn to ask the proper questions.
They are the skeleton of meaning
without which we shall collapse.

And the best way to learn is to ask those 
who found the questions themselves,
or passed them down carefully from those who have.

24 February 2023

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John Lawless Date: 2/24/2023 6:08:00 PM Itaught my kids "to question not only the question but the questioner. and why they were asking that questions, in that order, in that way, in those words and what conclusion they were trying to lead to" Login to Reply J. I. Thomas F. Date: 2/25/2023 7:34:00 AM A lot to unpack there! Hard to think that deeply on the fly, especially for someone who's conditioned to providing answers, but I'd like to get there myself someday.

Mystic Rose Rose Date: 2/24/2023 5:55:00 PM I agree with live in an age of information, force fed and desensitized, it is hard to dig deep in the well of authentic truth, we need to be smarter about where to look for the answers my friend, Well said, :) Login to Reply J. I. Thomas F. Date: 2/25/2023 7:31:00 AM Thanks!