If You Had the Answer, Would You Tell Anyone?

"The answer to what?" is the obvious question in response to the question and the answer to that being, "Whatever." Senseless? Maybe. But... The truth is (so to speak) that largely everything we know (I'm being generous here) about our universe, the nature of reality, consciousness (in other words everything we are, were, will be) is based on conjecture, suspicion, theory or some combination of these. Otherwise there would be no more discoveries. No new theories. No ideas or concepts or imagination. Nothing at all.

So, considering that, would you tell anyone if you had the answer? Think about it. Or not. Either way the prize is the same. Thanks for playing

"Knowing" the answer requires a certain state of being. The "answer" can never be given to anyone, they have to reach the state of being required on their own. And upon so doing, they will have no need of anyone telling them the answer, they will already "know".

Knowledge detracts from uncertainty and we need to be unknowing in order to create.

the truth is we dont no the truth and more than likely never going too...

Here's the problem.

Say you were starting to live forever, and everyone around you was getting old. Do you tell people? Would they nationalize your DNA as a state secret, lock you in a lab somewhere, never let anyone but rich people know about it, and you could watch TV on Sundays. Or do you go "vox populi;" become a public figure of derision and endless claims of Hoax, something to be an example of how easily brainwashed people are, and in the end just a political football, probably solved by assassination.

My guess is that he, or she, is out there somewhere and doesn't know what to do. Seriously, try it out. Tell someone that the promise of immortality is real and you're an early example, so keep your chin up. Let us know how it goes.

And this isn't even touching on all the massively overhyped expectations that the priests have been promising for centuries. The worst thing that could happen is that rich and poor people believe you. Limousines driving over miles of wheelchairs, with helicopters colliding in midair overhead raining down on vast starving mobs all looking to be "healed." So that in the end he or she would be a bigger curse than the destruction of a city.

And that's just the western perspective. Imagine all the suicide tributes being made in the east, or the vast middle eastern Jihads to destroy the Dajjal. Aren't the Bhuddists expecting someone who can pull swords out of the sky. And the Christians would probably all want to stab the antichrist to death least they actually hear a word said by them.

Someone probably does have all the answers
but right now silence is golden.


David Grouchy

The "answer" as you put it is everywhere, it's screaming in our faces a million times a second. It's in the things you read on the net that ring true, in the great books and works of art you love, but even more so in nature, the shape of clouds and weathered rocks, spiral arms of galaxies. Market movements and social trends, animal migration patterns, religious ritual, children's drawings...take your pick. Literally everywhere!!!!

Not much reason to tell.

Mostly you would meet skepticism, ridicule, & jealousy.

I agree that everybody has to find it for themselves.

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if you had the answer you wouldnt be able to tell anyone
2nd

In consciousness there are two fields, one is science based on physical facts, the other constructed out of thoughts, based on an idea-theory.
So we can have an answer to certain questions based on actual facts and static mechanical mechanism.
But on the theoretical side, the unseen, we can only assume, believe, take for granted but never have an answer.
An answer according to our believe, would only conflict with other people's believe.

I can neither confirm nor deny...
2nd

I know the answer but i forgot it intentionality and intentionality forgot the reason why i choose to forget it in the first place. answers are overrated for Warlock Brains

reply to post by TravelerintheDark
No. Heck no.

That would be casting pearls before swine.

But tookredpill's answer is the best...

Mostly you would meet skepticism, ridicule, & jealousy.

reply to post by TravelerintheDark


I'd tell. Why not? What I've learned is that if what you've got to teach clashes with what people want to learn, then you can offer the secrets of Heaven and Hell to everyone, free of charge, and no one will bother to even pay attention to you.

Human beings only want to have their beliefs validated. They really don't want to learn anything new. Especially people who have a deep interest in the specific topic being examined. Those people really don't want any new information if it's not a new argument for their own cherished beliefs. They'll actually get angry at your attempt to teach them what you've discovered.

So, sure, why not tell everyone? It's the best way to keep it secret.

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I take it that is a "No". Then again, maybe not. Spring boarding off that... Do we exist without creation? Without the act and purpose of discovery? Would we still be here if we had "the answer"?

The answer is 42.

Many people have a hard time accepting obvious answers that are alternative to governmental, media, and societal 'norms.' If I had the 'Answer' it may be a waste of time to tell anyone.

reply to post by TravelerintheDark

If You Had the Answer, Would You Tell Anyone?

As you have pointed out, knowing the "answer" is one thing, and giving it is another. You must know the question first. Sure,there are many questions to be answered, and as you have pointed out, if they were given, much wonderment and excitment in life would be lost.

Someone once said it isnt the arrival at a destination that is exciting, its the journy that counts. I believe, you were given this life to enjoy the jorny, as we all know our alutimate destination. But would I reveal a answer that is already known by many? Only if it were in the best interest of all.

But in the final equation, no one has asked me to answer a question. My postion is, if the question can not be asked in a honest manner, no honest answer can be offered.

Such is life.

Originally posted by gremlin2011
the truth is we dont no the truth and more than likely never going too...

Not with this mindset you won't. On the contrary, I know the truth and I am going to tell you and everyone else about it beginning on the next line.

Infinity=Nothing

Be enlightened here ---> www.abovetopsecret.com...

I would tell people closest to me to first see how they react.

I have found that most are complacent and really do not want to know anything other than what they believe to be fact. Im realistic in the sense to know that I nor anyone else know much of anything really. What we do know is based on what we think we know. For this reason I think if you told what you 'know" it would cause others to humiliate you and create hostility.

Science is awesome....love it. It is based on theories and usually have someone on the other side of the fence saying something different. This leads me to.....

Human reasoning and it seems to be the "truth" we abide by.

Reality in a sense is an illusion based on what we think we know about time and space...Its mind boggling.

I would have the answer printed out, in BIG BOLD LETTERS, onto yellow T-shirts. I would mass produce them, and ship them all around the world, to be sold for $1 each. However, I would tell nobody that it was true.