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Give your hardest question! :D
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Imagine you’re in a room, 15 feet by eight, and 9 feet high. Where the floor meets the wall, there is an inch gap. Through this gap, water is seeping in, and the room is filling up with water quickly. There are no windows, and the door is barred and locked.
How do you get out?
That is easy.
What is your answer?
Where did the first atom come from ?
Explain infinity ?
Ps when you say “give me your hardest question”.......everything I’m reading suggests that there is no ‘me’.......??
This is a genuine exam question during an Existential Psychology exam a friend of mine sat....
One person apparently wrote 5 sides of paper in answer. My friend wrote 2 words.
It’s interesting because you could write quite a lot detailing your state of mind while the room filled with water. The encounter with the fear of death is very much an existential question.
Explain “what is truth?” Without falling into tautology or using synonyms.
Do all religions and spiritual paths lead to the same destination?
@federica, you’ve got to tell us those two words, please.
Why ?
Well, I shall, but ... can anyone work the answer out...?.
“I die.”
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Nope. It's much simpler than that.
The clue is in the question.
My only thought is that if there’s an inch gap between the walls and the floor, then you could just lift up the walls and walk out. But I highly doubt this is the answer.
I leave it for other minds to solve.
You're absolutely right!
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...It's not the answer....
Ok, like I said, the answer's much simpler... and the clue is in the question.
The guy with the 5-page answer wrote an extraordinary thesis-within-a-response, and gained 40 marks for it.
My friend's 2-word response got 75.
Bear in mind this is an Existential Psychology exam.
her reply?
"Stop imagining."
That is genius. Much respect to your friend ?
truth is not a what
and cannot be explained in such a way
truth is an abiding
the telescoping mirror of spacetime
refracts endlessly over the nonessential
synthesize all times into one
by abiding in the state of truth
where does a circle start?
for webs of ceaseless indication
there is not a simple point of entry
but the point of exit
lives well within
What makes you think you're so clever that you can potentially humiliate others?
You want to buy a baseball and baseball bat. The baseball bat is exactly $1 more than the baseball. Together their price totals $1.10, how much do they each cost respectively?
There is a pond with a single lily pad on it, each day the number of lily pads double. 2 on the second day, 4 on the third, 8 on the 4th, etc. If it takes 30 days for the entire pond to be covered by lily pads, on which day is the pond half covered by lily pads?
Where do the socks go that disappear in the laundry?
@federica how about "I'm a mouse and I go through the gap"?
5 cents and 1.05
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day 29
But i was hoping more for questions that allude to fresh information on reality
How do they get the ships inside the bottles?
What is consciousness and where does it come from?
Same place as unconsciousness, but in the day time....
Then perhaps you should have clarified before presuming everyone would take the question as you intended.
I quite like these quizzical conundrums actually...
I happen to know this....
(I gave the response further up.)
But that would be a good probable response!
As far as I am concerned the most difficult questions about reality for me were all stated as unanswerable by the Buddha.
So I don’t think you’ll be able to help me.
Thanks anyway! ???
Exactly @Bunks
The imponderables are for those playing with their minds and karma. The Buddha provided three solutions: Himself, his teachings and the community.
Answers. Not questions for this crustacean please ... so easy it seems hard ...
Next question: Why was the Alexandrian library burned?
WHY?
OR
What is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
The answer is not 42.
What is the purpose of the OP?
Well it's worked so far....
@Bunks - are you asking us to quiz or are you asking us for info...?
In other words, do you know, or do you want to know...?
It wasn't.
Source.
Thanks for the info @federica
You would not believe, well you would ... how much knowledge and priceless books are eaten by mice, stolen by librarians and just allowed to rot. I used to be a member of the British Library and was very supportive of them scanning everything. When the internet came I found a new source of info. Sadly that is slowly rotting the genuine spread of knowledge and information as we become inundated with vested bubbles of propoganda, exploitation, trivia etc.
Bring back the scrolls
... and now back to the puzzle books ...
So you are saying you don’t have an answer?
Which is pretty much a tautology. In the end all definitions in words come back to tautology or synonyms, it’s the nature of language. But you get bonus points for being poetic, hehe.
I have seen truth defined as “that which is”, which is not a bad answer if you think about it.
I thought it was going to be "wake up", lol.
What is the only true opposite of yinyang?
true yinyang opposite = gnayniy
Now you know nothing useful. That is the real nature of puzzles and hardly questioning.
Everyone knows that the soft overcomes the hard
and yielding triumphs over the rigid
Why then so little faith?
Why can no one practice it?
Daodejing, Poem Seventy-Eight (trans. Jonathan Star)
https://spotnitz.com/soft-weak/
Or as Lao Jes Us put it:
'The Greek will Inherit the Earth.'
Just horrible, lmao. gnayniy.
You want us to give you some koans to play with?
What comes first, the tool or the art?
Hmm a question that may never be answered
..... that's laundry philosophy for ya...
long live quan yin.this can be daozen:she holds a vase and a reed flower. the reed neither bent nor break , but yield to the breeze.the lesson,adapt with change,go with the flow.when the condition change from breeze to no longer breeze the reed is at rest.another lesson be like the reed who is at ease with the element of life whether responding or resting.
the vase is showpiece how beautfull the reed is.if we be like the reed,guan yin sees us beautiful and inspiring.thank you guan yin buddha for the soft lesson.
being numerical cleaver.the answere is:work!
the proof:4 being positive adding 2 equals 6 a religios symbol to do work , a karmaic interdependence(4+2=6)
....maybe at age 42 try to get your shit in order to relax in doing work.
...last numerical cleaver,before going to work.the number 8 stands for work and ease like the curvy hour glass.upright is work on the clock.lay the hour glass ,rest,off the clock.lesson,work and rest,prioritize our time.
.......8 is the walk,reclining is the rest.sidartha buddha taught the way in be-ing.
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What is the hardest question ?