Will we eventually run out of questions to ask?

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Not as long as we can continue asking the same ones over and over. If you want to see what other people had to say on this question when is was asked in February, click here.

No. and no and no. The crazy poop questions alone will keep people from running out of questions.

I doubt it. When I first joined Fluther, I asked a question on the death penalty (I think), and was immediately told “we’ve been over this so many times on other threads”, but of course my thread brought out some new points on an old issue. The same will probably apply to other questions.

Never with this crowd. loll We have some very creative people here.

No we will not run out fo questions. The questions will be repeated in different ways for years to come and people on fluther will ask the same stupid questions that they already have an answer to and usually ask them to start arguments or just call other people who disagree with them stupid.

Wash your mouth out! How very dare you!! ;-) Of course we won’t…with our constant increasing user base and our uniqueness as individuals and the uniqueness as a collective we will always come up with new and interesting questions. Particularly as the world we live in raises new challenges and issues as the years go by. Constant changes will inevitably bring about new questions. Fluthermore… even the old questions that are re-asked bring about new perspectives and answers, which are in my opinion very welcome x

We will run out of questions only when we stop thinking and maybe not even then.

@YARNLADY
Thanks for proving we won’t run out of questions by showing how I asked a similar one.

You can never run out of questions just like you can never run out of melodies or book titles or
names for cars or towns or animal species names or…

We will run out of questions when we run out of new answerers, which will be never.

@Aster In my town, they have come so close to running out of street names there is an entire development wherein each street is a brand of athletic shoes (Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc.). Personally, I think it is a lack of creativity rather than running out . . .

I can’t understand how a town could “run out of street names.” In my past town, all the streets are named a Spanish name like, “Taco Drive.” So they have the entire Spanish language to use. If a town only used names of athletic shoes they’d run out fast!

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I used to think not but seeing this question come up 10x at least is making me change my mind.

I don’t know.What do you think?

No as long as kids keep getting born…there will be questions and lots of them! And repeated over and over and over….kinda like this thread! ;)

When we run out of creative minds.

@truecomedian Don’t you use that word. You sound like an idiot.

:-O

In order to do that, we’d need to make a list of every word in the dictionary and then generate every possible combination of those words that are grammatically correct and form a question. It would probably take a super computer many, many years to do so.

GA @HungryGuy

Apparently we already have. This is about the fifth time in the last two months that I’ve seen this question. Or does it only seem that way?

Hmm. I wonder if one could get away with that question?

Not as long as I’m breathing. When I stop asking questions (not necessarily here, but in the world), come to my funeral.

Hah! @Jeruba, we’ll probably see little bits of paper with questions written on them emerging from the dirt over your coffin like daffodils in spring.

@wundayatta Just what I was thinking

@wundayatta, if you see daffodils (one of my favorite flowers, by the way) springing up from my occupied cemetery plot, they are the questions. Lean over and whisper the answers, won’t you?

By then I’ll also be able to answer a few things I don’t know now.

@Jeruba you’re so eloquent and have a beautiful way with words

I wonder what pollinates daffodils. Are bees out that early in the spring? Are bees the answers?

Will science run out of things to discover? More than 100 years ago many scientists thought so. Today we know better.

Serendipitous exploration brought me today to this admirable quotation by Edmund Jabès, about whom I knew nothing until I just looked him up:

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. No answer—no matter how persuasive—will ever have enough strength to resist indefinitely the question that sooner or later will come to summon it.