All these questions sound stupid?
So many questions !!
Asking questions was not a simple task for me. Maybe because of my lack confidence it frightened's me to ask questions, whenever I try to ask a question regarding a concept that I can't understand, my brain distracts me in another way, it makes me not to ask in front of everyone. Because my brain things there is a different level of questioning it can be an intellectual question or a stupid one. I was afraid to ask questions because what if others think it is a stupid question or what if they judge my knowledge based on the level of my questioning.
I believe questioning will create curiosity, it opens the truth, creates the idea, it also builds our coherence, it helps to improve our personality, creates a purpose for us. But when it comes to reality, I don't want to embarrass myself as stupid in front of others by asking stupid questions.
When I was in school one of my favourite teacher who always impresses me a lot just for a simple and easy question he gives more than one interpretation and makes that simple question more complicate for others to answer next. One day I met him in a coffee shop, I asked him that without changing the aim of that simple question of how you make that question more complicated one by just giving more interpretation? And some of your interpretation doesn't make any sense. He said I will ask you two questions, first ''What do you think about Einstein's theory of relativity ?'', second ''Can you reduce weight by rubbing your stomach?'' now tell me what do you think about those two questions and which question is more complicated for you to answer. I answered him, For me the first question about Einstein and his relativity, it is a big deal need more coherence, if it is about rubbing the stomach it is silly and I told him rubbing the stomach is not an efficient way to reduce weight.
He laughed and said let me tell you the answer for the first question,''Einstein walks into a bar and says to the bartender, " I'll take a beer, and a beer for my friend, Heisenberg."
The bartender looks around and asks, "Is your friend here?"
"Well," says Einstein, "he is and he isn't." after hearing that I laughed and asked my teacher that was funny but is that really the answer for Einstein's relativity? My teacher replied, What Einstein is trying to say is ''places moving at a constant speed relative to each other''. But the answer I gave seems doesn't make any sense of the theory, but that answer is relative to the relativity. And my teacher explained the second question that I thought it was silly. He said, rubbing is a physical activity that burns the calories and it takes time but still possible with a great outcome and it is an efficient way also like belly massage, the mustard oil is widely used for that process. He also explained the molecular motion and frictions that takes place in belly rubbing.
When I heard the answers I started thinking the questions again. Now I started smiling while thinking of Einstein's relativity question, now it doesn't look complicated for me, but the second question made me think a lot about the motion, friction, molecular mechanism. I didn't realize the depth of that question, every simple question have complex answers and every complex question have simple answers.
This made me think in a different way that ''questions are much more important than answers'' the question can manipulate the answers from simple to complex but the aim of the question remains the same. So I believe questions are not only to find the answers, The answers can be anything, it may be simple or complex, and many questions without answers which opens more than one interpretation. So there are no stupid questions. ''By rubbing stomach it reduces weight ?'' Yes, it is possible.
''The important thing is not to stop questioning''
~Albert Einstein
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