If I Could Ask God Just One Question...

[fivecats]

Sundial Sun
December 2005 Chapel Hill, NC
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If you could ask God just one question, and be guaranteed a full and honest answer, what would it be?


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* The Creator, the Great I Am, Gia, Buddha, Who and Whatever, You Know What I Mean.

Comments

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

And an extra five points goes out to the first person who (without searching online) gets the musical reference.

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[fupher.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't catch the musical reference, but it reminds me of something like the doors would sing, lol

I'd ask if I could borrow $10. Ok probably not, I don't think I'd want to ask anything because I'm sure that if I thought about it and came up with a good question I'd be too upset by the answer. Just because I'd have the answer doesn't mean I'd be able to do anything about it or people would believe me, lol.

And I can come up with my own answers for the rest of the stuff that I'd be happy with.

[fupher.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, lol is it that one chick with the nose ring? What if god was one of us? I forget, Joan something?

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

That would be Joan Osborne and "What if God was one of us."

And, sorry. But thanks for playing our game. :-)

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[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Steeeeee-rike Two!

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[kristenlou.livejournal.com]

Ya got me on the lyrics, though for some reason it made me start singing "If they asked me, I could write a book..." in my head.

As for God, off the top of my head, I would probably ask his/her view on organized religion in today's society. What is the logic behind spawning many different religions which are bound to conflict and causing alienation and in some cases war?

[vorno.livejournal.com]

What else don't I know about myself?

[smileyfish.livejournal.com]

Nature or nurture?

[vavaverity.livejournal.com]

Boxers or briefs?

:P

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

Paper or plastic?

[ladyamybug.livejournal.com]

on lump or two, mr camel?

i was thinking alanis morissette......?

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Why am I talking to myself?

[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that unicorns exist too?

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

Mandy Moore & someone or other

[sakkijarvi.livejournal.com]

What question would you ask?

(and I'll use my all purpose answer to any music question I don't know the answer to (as in 99.2% of music questions): reference is from The Tuff Darts' "Your Love Is Like Nuclear Waste")

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

"Your body is a danger to the human race
They should stamp "Contaminated" all across your face
Your love..."

Great song. Not the one I had in mind, but still a great song. :-)

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[sakkijarvi.livejournal.com]

(First, a blog etiquette question: do entries have a shelf-life when it comes to commenting? How far back might I roam and comment before it is considered ill-mannered?)

Just wanted to add that I was unable to come up with a question. Then thought about why that is. Came up with an analogy that seemed to capture some of my difficulty: it seems to me that we mere humans live in, if you will, an algebra world and that God's world is a calculus world; we have lots of algebra problems that we grapple with and algebra and calculus share math-ness but a calculus primer is of limited utility in solving algebra problems. (My apologies to anyone who has real knowledge of math if it turns out that calculus might indeed be very useful in solving algebra problems).

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

"(First, a blog etiquette question: do entries have a shelf-life when it comes to commenting? How far back might I roam and comment before it is considered ill-mannered?)"

I don't know if there is a Standard Etiquette answer to this question. Miss Manner's one entry on blogging says nothing about this. Personally, I like the idea of people commenting on old entries. There's something about the idea that people are interested enough in something I've written -- whenever I've written it -- to leave a comment that appeals to me. (In turn, I've left comments at lj entries that were several years old)

The notion that a blog is simply an online journal is only a part of the equation. It's also an online record of history, to a certain extent. As a historical record I consider it to be open and accessible at all times, regardless of how old it is.

So, if you're asking about my journal, comment away. I value your comments and opinions. Always have; always will.

Your Algebra/Calculus analogy reminds me of a part of the end of Flatland where the two-dimensional character interacts with a three-dimensional character and can't understand how the three-dimensional character is able to do things, can't understand certain explanations because they're explained from a completely different set of reference points.

To that point, it really is a foreign language.

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[(Anonymous)]

what color are you?

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

thought I'd come back for a tic. I'm reading Spinoza at the moment, so to ask *God* {or whoever} at question right now is a little problematic as his take is that there isn't "any one" to ask, since it's {*God*) everywhere.

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

n retrospect, I probably should have reworded the question. Running through my mind, at the time, was the song listed in "Current Music" tag: "Someday We'll Know" by New Radicals from the album "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" (an extremely catchy, upbeat song which features the line "If I could ask God just one question/Why aren't you here with me?").

The question probably should have been more along the lines of "If you could have one of Life's Mysteries answered in it's entirety and to your satisfaction, what would you want to know?"

We re-watched one of our favorite movies from last year again over the weekend, "What the Bleep Do We Know." It's a presentation of various Quantum Physics theories loosely tied together with a story to give it some sense of fitting in with Life. It's a fun film, intentionally teasing the brain with some very Red Pill/Blue Pill ideas.

While I was watching it, I thought about my question and realized it might not have been phrased quite as clearly as it might have been.

God is, indeed, everywhere. :-)

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[velvetink.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look out for that movie on Quantan physics, sounds interesting. btw being down under I have no idea what you mean by "blue pill/red pill" - I'd have a guess but sure it would be way off the field.

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

That would be a "The Matrix" reference. Haven't you seen it as well? :-)

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[velvetink.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say I have seen it, but have no memory of that phrase. Darn, now I have to watch it again.