YAHOO! PHILOSOPHERS: What do you think about this C.S. Lewis quote?

"All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-- half our great theological and metaphysical problems-- are like that."


--C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

YAHOO! PHILOSOPHERS: What do you think about this C.S. Lewis quote?
a point-blank way of saying, "use your common sense."
Reply:He was soooo sad at the time that he wrote this, he had just lost he wife. It touches on the thought that, thinking on unanswerable questions may be pointless, if not fruitless. Yet where would we be today without asking these questions?





-Back in the day, there was this guy and he said, "the world is round..." and everyone laughed.-





Where did we go from there?
Reply:a grimpin saved is a veeble. an ill gotten fleet saves nine.





wonderful quote. you might like koans. check it out.
Reply:Oh I wish I were an uninvited reader that is what I'd truly like to be cause if I were an uninvited reader everyone would show their lies to me. and I'd get to sort them out from truth. It takes truth to know truth. All who write well have their own expertise. I have my own.
Reply:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_tzu





http://www.wright-house.com/religions/ta...





tao-te-ching
Reply:Sounds like Lewis is talking about category mistakes. One of the oldest fallacies in the world. It is like ascribing blindness to a wall. That would be a major category mistake.
Reply:He was right that many of the questions we ask are completely nonsensical and unanswerable. There have been questions here on YA that are presented as great wisdom, but which are nothing but linguistic soup.
Reply:I think it's a good way to live your life. It makes me think of that song by John Mayer, New Deep... (I don't know why)





I’m so alive


I’m so enlightened


I can barely survive


And not in my mind


So I’ve got a plan


I’m gonna find out just how boring I am


And have a good time





‘Cause ever since I’ve tried


Trying not to find


Every little meaning in my life


It’s been fine, I’ve been cool


With my new golden rule





Now is the new deep


Down with the old me


Talk is the same cheap


It’s me





Is there a God


Why is He waiting


Don’tcha figure it out


When he knows my address


And look at the stars


Don’t it remind you just how feeble we are


Well it used to I guess





‘Cause ever since I’ve tried


Trying not to find


Every little meaning in my life


It’s been fine, I’ve been cool


With my new golden rule





Now is the new deep


Down with the old me


Talk is the same cheap


It’s me





I' m a new man


I wear a new cologne


And you wouldn’t know me


If your eyes were closed


I know what you’ll say


‘This won’t last longer than the rest of the day’


But you’re wrong this time


You’re wrong





Now is the new deep


Down with the old me


I’m over the analyzing tonight


Stop trying to figure it out


You try to figure, you try to figure it out


It will only bring you down


You know I used to be the back porch poet


With my book of lines always open


No and all the time I'm trying


Never gonna find the perfect rhyme


For heavier things

aster