The Importance of Asking 'Why'

@MichaelKnowles

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[EvidentialValue]

Asking questions furthers our understanding on this planet and helps better determine what is good and what is not. I love his point.

[selfcontrol]

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
William Penn

[Detroitstarlight]

That is the most important question! I’ve found that other people don’t like it though . I ask why and they will say just drop it, get over it, just play along, just smile for the pictures, just do your part, just shut up, just follow the crowd, just stay with the masses it’s safer in numbers. It’s lonely asking why, it’s even lonelier when others choose not to see answers even though they are right in front of their faces. Blind bliss-full selfish ignorance is for those who suppress the why’s.

[joyfisher]

My father drummed into my head: "If everyone sticks their hand in a pot of boiling oil, are you going to do it too?" I try to be an iconoclast as a result. Y is my favorite letter.

[naomidaum]

I've been telling my children, "If you don't know why you're doing something, then you shouldn't be doing it." Been saying this for at least 10 years now.

[ironmikekendall]

If you find yourself asking why
The answer for you is its by design

[kenziej]

This is something I raised my children by. God commands us to "test all things" to "test all spirits" to know whether they are of God. He says Himself, that is is the honor of Kings, to search out a matter. You must instruct your children on how to think - teach them to think. School will not do that, society will not do that. If you teach your children to think, you allow them to examine. When they can examine, they can gain real knowledge and wisdom. An equipped mind can be tested, it can be tricked, it can be tried - but it cannot be enslaved, and it will continually build its arsenal off every tactic tried against it.

[MichelleyB-zkeh]

The question used to be " question authority" . Now more important than ever. Love this series, keep it up ❤

[danbeeson]

Friends don’t let friends vote for Obama

[Post-Trib]

Instruct children to know how to think and in some cases, what to think and why.

[jackhammer]

Completely agree.. Almost all oc christanity has it wrong.. Because they are unsaved false gospel spewing ignoramuses.. Christians are CHOSEN by God, GIVEN a new heart.. Given life through Christ.. And it has nothing to do with asking, or accepting.. God doesn't ask.. He does, God doesn't need man's "acceptance" to do what he wills.. And no libertarian "free will" does not exist.

[Antropovich]

Umm, the guy is suggesting that wisdom lies in Ayn Rand books.. no thanks.