Why have people stopped asking "Why?"

[hellas1]

Hello everyone,

It seems to me, from my perspective, that MOST people I've encountered do not ask the existential WHY? question but are more concerned with HOW?

To me, fundamentally, without asking "why", the "how" becomes a meaningless end in and of itself.

I posit that Secularism and a Materialistic paradigm has crippled and brainwashed most people. The rare individual who is NOT a specialist in a particularly rigid field such as in classical physics or mathematics does venture outside their world to discover and ask poigniant questions.

WHY? just doesn't matter. It seems as though a collective shift in consciousness is happening along the lines of a "HOW?" rationale.

Comments or Concerns?
Please elaborate.
hellas1

[Playfishpaste]

meh, I kind of don't see it that way, though that could very well be the case. I grew up into both fields, arts and sciences, so I got to the Why as well. Though kids entering science these days might be much more interested in the how. Oh well. All it takes really is just waking up one day and staring at your hands.

[Chaigidel]

I think it matters alot to most people, just that most people put it away because it is such a difficult question, and since the benevolent ass-wiping god isnt available they dont want any part of the uncaring perfect god.

but I think you cant help but ask this, and it is why your information is critical to the whole process--- despair, joy, do whatever it is you want to do when you cant find the answer; it is all in line with what must be.

it is a question we all run from, because it hurts to ask and to not know, but the void is the why, and it is in this nothingness that one will truly find oneself.

[Yaga Shu Ra]

Seems to me wondering "how" can be accompanied by uttering a "why" (or vice versa). I don't see how one excludes the other. There's sort of a synergy between them.

[Chaigidel]

well why is a question of reasons

how has nothing to do with reasons at all

[Yaga Shu Ra]

Aside from providing insight to the reason.

[Chaigidel]

why does lightning flash?

[Yaga Shu Ra]

How does lightning flash?

[Chaigidel]

the how is easy to answer-- but it has nothing to do with the why, why requires thought, how is a process you can observe.

[Yaga Shu Ra]

The conclusions of wich can lead to an explanation of the why.

[Chaigidel]

no the why has to do with a reason-- how only ever leads to more how

how is how

why is why

not how is why
and why is how

:O

[Yaga Shu Ra]

Except when there is nothing more to why than what how can explain.

[Chaigidel]

then there is no why only how---- but yet we question why, rather than just how.

[Yaga Shu Ra]

And so we expand our knowledge, one less why that remains unanswered.

[Chaigidel]

hoooray-- but for some it remains.

[Yaga Shu Ra]

hoooray-- but for some it remains.

The deluded or willfully blind?

[redirflow]

If you want to know, you ask. If you want to learn, then you should ask "why".
People never stop asking "why" but some people in this world stopping the others asking "why".

[Broken Pope]

When you know how lightening flashes, you then know why it does. When you know how a bird came to fly, then you know why it came to fly. When you know how humans came to be, then you also understand why they came about (insofar as there is a reason).

If what you are really saying is, why do lightening /birds / humans exist, that is something else we will learn by examining how everything came into being. That is what the scientists at Cern (for instance) are working on.

Personally, I am more of a 'so what?' man.

[Tiwaz]

Why is so imperfect question. It assumes there is reason behind everything.

There is rock in the beach. Why is it there? Or... Is there any reason for it to be there?

How is much more certain to contain some answer, and in knowing how we often also discover why. If we do not discover why through how, there is good chance that there just is no why.

Because can you tell why rock is on the beach if you do not know how it came to be on that beach? Or has it always been on the beach...

[Rich86]

People ask why all the times - sometimes we simply don't know - the difference is we're quite happy to hold our hands up and say "We don't know yet!"