Dumb Questions on a Bright Saturday Day

There is a difference between asking a dumb question and a dumb question. Its amazing how often both are confused.

Carl Sagan, in his work The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, said: “There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”

But what if one asks a question that makes no sense? Is one dumb for asking it or dumb not knowing there’s no answer?

I came across an interesting website the other day — Breathe To Inspire, described as “an inspirational blog where passionate individuals like thinkers, readers, feelers, dreamers, bibliophiles, visionaries and aesthetes gather to endure the complexity of this existence and begin to educate their perspectives by thinking better in the aim to create a better future.” 

The topics are wide and varied and quite entertaining, such as,  Can you be your own soulmate?, 100 Dirty questions to ask your boyfriend to make him laugh, and 350+ Never have I ever Christmas questions (winter holidays game edition) for family, friends or office party.

I myself like categories like 500+ Stupid questions on different topics to ask (Funny, tricky, dumb, deep, random), 250+ Nonsense Questions to ask and think about (funny & weird), Dumb and Stupid questions that cannot be answered, and 50 Questions you can’t answer (Thought provoking, powerful & funny).

You know me.

So for your weekend enjoyment, here are a few wonderfully dumb questions I came across:

• If you sneeze with your eyes open, do they come out?
• Why is reality real to me but not real to everyone else?
• Why do we have five fingers on each hand but not twenty five?
• Do fish fart bubbles underwater?
• Why do my fingers smell bad sometimes, but my nose doesn’t?
• Why do I often hear a ringing in my ears, but I can’t find the source of the sound?
• How can you tell if a woman is wearing high heels?
• What is the best way to lick an envelope?
• If you were to ask me something that I don’t know, what would it be?
• How do you know when the sun is tired?
• Why is it so hard to make a bird laugh?
• Why do we have five fingers on each hand but not twenty five?
• What makes up nothing
• Which day comes after someday?

And the greatest question of all –

• What would happen if everyone who lived on Earth jumped up and down all at once?