Weird and Wonderful Questions

this is where you post your weird and wonderful questions.

this is where you come and read about weird and wonderful questions that you may or may not know the answers.

 

feel free to answer those W&W questions.

 

- why is there so many alcohol ads

-why can you see the reflection of the sky so clearly in puddles?

 

Can a blind person understand the concept of colour?

 

Titanium wrote:
Valkyrie wrote:

Can a blind person understand the concept of colour?

Colours will be the last of their concern. they'd want some/any sort of vision..

 

Yes. I know..and I'm not saying it in a 'omgggg, i feel so sorry for them, they must be heart broken' way, I mean it in a 'i wonder' way.

 

 

Valkyrie wrote:

Can a blind person understand the concept of colour?

People who havent always been blind dream in colour.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.

Titanium wrote:
Valkyrie wrote:

Titanium wrote:
Valkyrie wrote:

Can a blind person understand the concept of colour?

Colours will be the last of their concern. they'd want some/any sort of vision..

 

Yes. I know..and I'm not saying it in a 'omgggg, i feel so sorry for them, they must be heart broken' way, I mean it in a 'i wonder' way.

 

If you'd like to find out then close ur eyes and voila.

Yes, except I'm not blind (Alhamdulillaj). And if I was(God forbid), I have seen colour so I do understand it. I'm talking about the people who have always been blind, and never seen colour. I am JUST WONDERING, and always have, whether they would be able to understand it. 

Asdfghjk. 

 

You wrote:

Valkyrie wrote:

Can a blind person understand the concept of colour?

People who havent always been blind dream in colour.

Wink Really? Thats cool. 

Lilly wrote:

- why is there so many alcohol ads

Not only is drinking alcohol part of english culture but it generates approximately £15 billion in tax revenue and costs the NHS £1.7 billion to treat ppl.

In short its a money making scheme for the governement.

The world of a blind person is amazing. No law of gravity and physics stops their imagination. people who have operation and can see again usually become depressed.

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

What does the word word mean?

Death is the end of time. Not the end of Life.

Smile Biggrin

Lioness of Allah wrote:

What does the word word mean?

Hmm.. (what i think-) something which is either a noun, verb or letter?

 

Lioness of Allah wrote:

What does the word word mean?


Noun:
A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown...
Verb:
Choose and use particular words in order to say or write (something).
Exclamation:
Used to express agreement: "“That Jay is one dangerous character.” “Word.”".
Synonyms:
noun.  speech - vocable - promise
verb.  phrase - formulate - couch - verbalize

"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi

why did hitler hate the jews?

research led to scapegoating, jealousy, envy, blaming which led to:

why did europe hate the jews?

googled that justnow.

 

interesting:

It has been said that the history of almost all of the Jewish holidays can be summed up succinctly: "They wanted to kill us; we won. Let's eat." Why has anti-Semitism been so pervasive in so many countries, in so many time periods and for so many reasons? (One begins to wonder. Perhaps there is something wrong with the Jews and Judaism? After all, there is an old Yiddish saying -- "If one person calls you a donkey, ignore him; if two people call you a donkey, buy a saddle.")

Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE - a period of 1,700 years - Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various countries in Europe - an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries.

Historians have classified six explanations as to why people hate the Jews:

  1. Economic -- "We hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power."
  2. Chosen People -- "We hate Jews because they arrogantly claim that they are the chosen people."
  3. Scapegoat -- "Jews are a convenient group to single out and blame for our troubles."
  4. Deicide -- "We hate Jews because they killed Jesus."
  5. Outsiders, -- "We hate Jews because they are different than us." (The dislike of the unlike.)
  6. Racial Theory -- "We hate Jews because they are an inferior race."

As we examine the explanations, we must ask -- Are they the causes for anti-Semitism or excuses for Anti-Semitism? The difference? If one takes away the cause, then anti-Semitism should no longer exist. If one can show a contradiction to the explanation, it demonstrates that the "cause" is not a reason, it is just an excuse. Let's look at some contradictions:

  1. Economic -- The Jews of 17th- 20th century Poland and Russia were dirt poor, had no influence and yet they were hated.
     
  2. Chosen People -- a) In the late 19th century, the Jews of Germany denied "Choseness." And then they worked on assimilation. Yet, the holocaust started there. b) Christians and Moslems profess to being the "Chosen people," yet, the world and the anti-Semites tolerate them.
     
  3. Scapegoat -- Any group must already be hated to be an effective scapegoat. The Scapegoat Theory does not then cause anti-Semitism. Rather, anti-Semitism is what makes the Jews a convenient scapegoat target. Hitler's ranting and ravings would not be taken seriously if he said, "It's the bicycle riders and the midgets who are destroying our society."
     
  4. Deicide -- a) the Christian Bible says the Romans killed Jesus, though Jews are mentioned as accomplices (claims that Jews killed Jesus came several hundred years later). How come the accomplices are persecuted and there isn't an anti-Roman movement through history? b) Jesus himself said, "Forgive them [i.e., the Jews], for they know not what they do." The Second Vatican Council in 1963 officially exonerated the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Neither statement of Christian belief lessened anti-Semitism.
     
  5. Outsiders -- With the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, many Jews rushed to assimilate. Anti-Semitism should have stopped. Instead, for example, with the Nazis came the cry, in essence: "We hate you, not because you're different, but because you're trying to become like us! We cannot allow you to infect the Aryan race with your inferior genes."
     
  6. Racial Theory -- The overriding problem with this theory is that it is self-contradictory: Jews are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew - and members of every race, creed and color in the world have done so at one time or another.

Every other hated group is hated for a relatively defined reason. We Jews, however, are hated in paradoxes: Jews are hated for being a lazy and inferior race - but also for dominating the economy and taking over the world. We are hated for stubbornly maintaining our separateness - and, when we do assimilate - for posing a threat to racial purity through intermarriages. We are seen as pacifists and as warmongers; as capitalist exploiters and as revolutionary communists; possessed of a Chosen-People mentality, as well as of an inferiority complex. It seems that we just can't win.

Now we know what are NOT the reasons for anti-Semitism.

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

ValkyrieYo wrote:

Nasheedgirl wrote:

...it was v.touching. Bought tears to my eyes. Its real beautiful!)

Yes!! Someone (I think it was The_Truth) did a blog post about this and I forgot to leave a comment. 'twas amaaazinnggggg! Wink

Oh...just shows how long i've been gone from revvy...! Feels kinda good to be bacckk! Biggrin

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt" - Augustus Waters

Golden Darkness wrote:

Who discovered milk???O_o I mean like, did someone just see some cow udders and decide, "Oooh lets pull on them and see what happens? I bet something white and sustaining will come out"

Lol...that made me smille!! ROFL

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt" - Augustus Waters

so yesterday i went a bit..hmm..insane. I stayed up after fajr and then had caffeine at around 8 so yeah..

 

came up with a a few questions: what is pressure? is pressure force? what is force? why does cornflour go hard when you hit it?

so i was talking abt how after having had caffeine which stimulate me i will come crashing down like:

"a ton of lead with no air resistance and 5g" (5g = 5 gravity, which is a lot of pulling down force) and then i was wondering what wld happen if the floor didnt absorb the shock and what floor wouldnt absorb that shock? a dimaond floor? then my friend said there has to be some kind of absorption coz of Newton's law-> two object exert opposite and equal force on each other.

then i thought, so what wld happen if all that force was sent back through the lead. would it give energy to the lead molecule? and then theres the model of particles with energy solid->liquid->gas. so i thought maybe the block of lead would melt? or SUBLIMATE!!! but then my friend said it would shatter. why would it shatter and not melt? is it because ALL the molecules all at once wld get lots of energy and so melting isnt feasible?

oh my head... im not high like i was yesterday.. i went bed at 1 yesterday...

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

I love your uniqueness! I don't think i've met a person who thinks so deeply about such strange things. Oh and i never knew that cornflour turns hard when you hit it. Why would you want to hit cornflour in the first place? :/

 

Titanium wrote:
Hummus wrote:

I love your uniqueness! I don't think i've met a person who thinks so deeply about such strange things. Oh and i never knew that cornflour turns hard when you hit it. Why would you want to hit cornflour in the first place? :/

Liquid cornflour. It's all to do with starch I think. We used to make slime out of cornflour...

Only one i know of is for the creamy, cheesy sauce in pasta.

 

well..its not really me byw Hummus... it was more a mixture of being up since 4 am, having NOT eaten all day, then taking CAFFEINE on top of that and having whatsapp through wifi sitting in your room waiting for the bathroom. (was i waiting for the bathroom..not sure)

 

so technically..it wasnt me...

 

ive still feeling the aftermath of the ton of lead. im dead tired

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?