What if....

then this thread would never have been started. :D

What if....

What brevity of speech!

If you're aspiring to make the shortest post on the forum, I want to remind you that the inhabitants of Laconia still, supposedly, did better. ;)

lol. Then I would be really frigging bored.

...then... there'd be no more questions.

ok

catch 22

If there were no hypothetical questions, then every being and form of life would innately possess all knowledge of everything!

Hence, there being all knowledge, there would be a lack of questions;)

If there were no hypothetical questions, then every being and form of life would innately possess all knowledge of everything!

Please explain. There would still be questions and still be lack of knowledge wouldn't there be? Just no more hypothetical questions. There would be a whole heck of alot less philosophers.

then I would be very tired of living. eat, sleep screw, crap.....tv? actually, are fictional TV shows "hypothetical situations"? would they no longer exsist? would TV be 300 different Discovery and TLC shows?

is any form of creativity based on a What If I Did X? then creativity would disapear, if the questions did. Wow this world would suddenly be really boring.

Originally posted by Quigly
Please explain. There would still be questions and still be lack of knowledge wouldn't there be? Just no more hypothetical questions. There would be a whole heck of alot less philosophers.

Hmmm......actually you're right. That isn't the only possibility.

Another equally valid possibility is that there would be no more self-aware beings (as those are the only type which can question anyway). In other words, the only types of beings living would be things such as plants and mushrooms. (I am, of course, assuming that plants and mushrooms are not self-aware. Being that I am neither plant, nor mushroom, I cannot verify this 100%;))

Another assumption I am making is that it is not possible for questions to exist without hypothetical questions to exist. Hence, in both scenarios, there would be no questions. (In the one, because all answers were innately known, and in the other, because no being has the intelligence to even think about or comprehend any sorts of questions whatsoever)

If there were no hypothetical questions, hypothetically I'd stop existing....

What if there were only hypothetical questions? How would I find out what is for dinner?

Then you eat hypothetical food.

then this thread would never have been started Exactly :D

then this thread would never have been started Exactly :D

Hypothetical questions are not neccessarily useless (and I get the feeling people consider them to be so). Hypothetical questions allow us to think, as you have written, 'what if...' and from there we can consider other variables, and we can then know what the answer is. Without any 'what if's' then we wouldn't be able to know the counter argument (or even the couterside) of anything, and hence with no 'what if's' there would be no free will and probably no existence.

Sorry if that's a bit deep.

You're fired:p

this thread really cracked me up. :)

If there were no hypothetical questions, spoken or unspoken, we would not be able to project into the future. So most likely, our advances as a civilization would stop and all new threats to our lives would not be able to be handled, unless something was accidentally stumbled on, but we would not be able to improve it. Science, philosophy, medicine are all advanced by hypotheticals. We would become stagnant.