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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Gary wrote:<br>
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<div>I'm not a big fan of "why" questions. I think "why" is just
an excuse for not wanting to admit that we don't know "what"
in sufficient detail. To misquote Yoda, "There is no Why.
What, or what not.".</div>
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My framing of this is that "a well enough posed question has a
self-evident answer". I *like* "why" questions but only insomuch
as they are about subjective, human-value relevant topics. Even
there, deeper inspection (e.g. meditation) seems to degenerate to
"what" with "why" being variously an illusion or a highly subjective
self-evident tautology (e.g. "because I want to").<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:09
AM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com"
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"Friam on behalf of glen∈ℂ" <<a
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behalf of <a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
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It reminds me of the quote I think highlights the
individualist's arrogance: "I don't know why we're here.
But I'm pretty sure it's not to enjoy ourselves."
(attributed to Wittgenstein)<br>
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