1. What is the point in life if it is so short and temporary?

2. What actually comes after death?

3. Was life just a preparation for whatever comes after death?

4. How do people fall in love? Why?

5. How was the universe created?

6. Do fish see water as we see air?

7. Why is money the center of life?

8. Why do we measure time?

9. What really is time?

10. How much 'time' do we have left?

Do straws have two holes, (one on each end), or one hole all the way through? @chainedinshadow

Why do we judge? pick favorites, condemn; make the same mistakes over again...

Who do we speak to? in dialogue, or monologue; who’s listening in...

What do we mean? building monuments; splitting molecules....

When do we or how do we know? what makes is so...

Where are we? ...like right now?

#QuestionsToGetYouThinking #Challenge

*I will respond to each of these is a seperate post throughout this week and post the pagelinks here respectively. Would be thrilled if anyone would be inspired to reply in a poetic phrase or cryptic micro poem! feel free to post into the comments or tag me please from your own post so I can read! thanks for reading and have a wonderful week :)M

*responses:

1... Why do we judge...? https://theprose.com/post/211666/oyster-shell-pearl

2... Who’s listening? https://theprose.com/post/211743/when-something-disagrees-with-us

3... What do we mean? https://www.theprose.com/post/211916/searching-for-meaning

4... How do we Know? https://theprose.com/post/212034/more-questions-than-answers

5... Where are we Right now? https://theprose.com/post/212308/the-busy-signal

1) Why is blue the "sad color"?

2) How do you decide when it's time to stop forgiving someone?

3) What parameters define a person as 'normal'? Which of these are necessary, and which are optional?

4) What would it feel like to be inside someone else's head for a day? Not just in another body, but along for the ride, hearing how they think and feeling what they feel. Do they taste, hear, smell, feel things differently? Is it a relief going back to yourself or would you want to spend more time with them? Would you try the experience again or not?

5) If you could tell someone anything and have them listen, who would you talk to and what would you say?

6) If you could choose a place or object to haunt, what would you choose and why? How would you make your presence known?

7) What 'lines' do we draw to differentiate ourselves from others, and which do we take for granted?

8) If there's vanilla (or vanillin) in chocolate, why are they considered opposites?

9) Do some things taste almost like cinnamon even when they're not supposed to, like coconut items or lemon juice? More broadly, how much does individual perception of the world vary in both sensation and processing?

Thanks to @chainedinshadow for the idea - I don't have answers to all of these, but would certainly be interested in hearing what you all think (particularly on 3&4, because there are certainly days when it feels like I'm on the other side of the glass and trying to figure out what's going on with 'everyone else'). For clarification, 1 is because people will give you the weirdest looks for saying blue is a happy or calm or exuberant color, and I'm not entirely sure if they think of only one specific version (like Crayola blue, maybe?) but I love Copenhagen blue.

What is right and wrong? Who decides?

Isn’t it true that what is considered wrong in one part of the world is the norm in another?

And if that is true, then isn’t it fair to say that right and wrong are subjective?

Is right and wrong a universal concept or merely a result of the society we live in?

Are we really qualified to judge?

What or who dictates right and wrong?

Would it be false to say that right and wrong are what we are taught?

Why doesn't the glue dry or stick in the bottle ?

Is water really wet?

When you think about yourself as an individual, in what way would you say that you are? The reality is that people are walking ecosystems hosting millions of cells, each with their own day to day tasks. The idea that you are a “single” being is just an illusion to keep you functioning and moving. There really is no “I” in fact it would be more appropriat to say “us” when refering to yourself.

If religion never existed, would the crime rates of people increase?

Is religion the cause of a standard of morals throughout human kind?

@chainedinshadow

I sit at my desk

I calcuate profits

I bear much loss

Can't hire professionals

As I am a consultant

But to aim higher

Than cola cola

I did PHD

And I ask myself

Will I ever succeed?

Me: Mama, why don’t you stop smoking?

Mama: I’m addicted to nicotine.

Me: Is that good?

Mama: No.

Me: Mama, why don’t you want to die?

Mama: I’m addicted to life.

Me: Is that good?

Mama: Of course it is.

Me: But it’s the same verb!

#chainedinshadow