That is the question

Written in Thailand 010406 2240Hrs

During my final week in Thailand, I had a lot of reading time. So besides cramming my head for the Passover research I am doing with Dominic I have been reading a book written by Philip Yancey titled "I was just wondering." The book contained a selection of past articles he had written for the magazine called "Christianity Today." In the book, Philip touched on today's social, moral and religious problems but he does not seek to provide a solution or an answer to it. He only asks more questions. Reading the book I wondered whether it was wise to add more questions in what is already a growing melting pod of sociatal woes yet I found the book strangely insightful and a delightful read. It gives you the feeling that someone has the answers if only we know who look for.

So which is more important? Is it the answers or the questions? In the book "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a race of super advanced trans-dimensional beings tried to find the answer to "Life, Universe and Everything." To that effect they spend a huge amount of resources and time to build a super duper computer to compute the answer, they called it Deep Thought. After five million years of computing for an answer, Deep Thought came up with an answer that totally did not make sense. When asked about the answer, Deep Thought said that the answer did not make sense because they did not have the question in the first place.

I guess there is a moral to that story. So which is more important? Is it the answers or the questions? Is the question just as important as the answer? Answers can be wrong, but the only wrong question is the one you don't ask. Wisest is he who knows that he does not know. Should we ask more questions? I was just wondering.