Why?

**Gnerphk** · 08-15-2010, 10:25 AM

Because of the wonderful things I does?

[singing] La DaDaDa Dadada Dah! Hah-huh!
We're off to see the Wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Oz!

**King Alboin** · 08-15-2010, 10:52 PM

WHY, OH,, WHY WHY WHY WHY??? WHY?

YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTON.... NEVER I SAY!!!!!!! NEVERRRR!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGHHHHHH

**SickbyDefinition** · 08-15-2010, 11:03 PM

It justifies learning, and our actions. We ask why? So we must learn the answer. No one else can really tell you why, so in a sense, it drives us all to do things.

Haha jk, i'm not on drugs.

**Revoltion** · 08-16-2010, 12:54 AM

This read gives me a reason to get drunk.

**Gnerphk** · 08-18-2010, 05:45 AM

The thing about this is, of all the people that answered the poll thus far, none have responded "I don't know" or "I don't get it".

"Why?" is one of the questions that drives us, as has been observed before in this Thread and elsewhere. Humanity keeps moving, often forward, as a result of this question; we are compelled to explore, to experience, to learn. Our lives would be empty without questions like this... and we don't know the answers.

Oh, yes; there are religions that will tell us the answers. There are philosophies. But all of these require faith, they need willing belief. Even the new god Science, which can tell us What, When, How and Where (or How Fast but not both) demands belief; all logic is derived from first causes, none of which are self-evident by definition. Newton's Laws have been shown to be... well, more like Guidelines. The scientific method itself relies on the great presumption, "No-one has disproven this yet".

My point is not that religion, philosophy, and science are meaningless; quite the contrary. It is the quest for answers that gives life meaning.

The only proper answer to "Why?" is "I don't know - but I'm working on it."

How ya like them... bananas?

**King Alboin** · 08-19-2010, 02:06 AM

**Soivealagh** · 08-20-2010, 07:58 PM

Well, if someone is asking you why you're doing something, it just goes to show you that they don't know anything of what you're on about, so you should just smack them upside the head for being such a dullard. Common sense, really.