What Is the Most Illogical Question You Can Think Of?

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The thread explores the concept of illogical or nonsensical questions, inviting participants to share examples and engage in humorous or absurd reasoning. The scope includes philosophical musings, comedic inquiries, and playful language, with a focus on the nature of questions that defy logic.

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  • One participant asks for examples of nonsensical questions, providing humorous suggestions like "Would a black hole be crunchy if I took a bite out of it?"
  • Another participant references a comic that relates to the theme of illogical questions.
  • A participant poses the question "Who created the universe?" as an example that, while seemingly valid, implies complexities about existence beyond the universe.
  • Participants share various absurd questions, such as "What's the difference between an apple?" and "Which is heavier, red or yellow?"
  • One participant humorously critiques the rhetorical question about the French counting, linking it to a fictional narrative about historical revisionism and an innovator named Ooorge.
  • Another participant suggests "Does God love me?" as a silly question, contributing to the theme of existential inquiries.

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Participants generally agree on the humorous nature of illogical questions, but there are differing views on the validity and implications of certain questions, such as the one about the universe.

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Some contributions rely on playful absurdity, while others touch on deeper philosophical implications, leading to a mix of light-heartedness and serious inquiry.

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I was trying to come up with a good example today of a question that would make absolutely no sense to ask. So I pose the question to you all: What is the most nonsensical/terribly illogical question you can come up with or find?

Things Like:
Would a black hole be crunchy if I took a bite out of it?
Would I get better french fries If I used the square root of potato instead?
 
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Who created the universe?
 
Great cartoon!

What's the difference between an apple?

My favorite question is Steven Wright's
What would chairs look like if our knees bent the other way?

But some classical nonsense ones are:
Which is heavier, red or yellow?
Which is happier, a fork or a spoon?
Two people are walking to the store. Which one got there first?
What do feet eat for breakfast?
 
I thought this would be good for some laughs :D

"Who created the universe?" is an interesting one though (also quite funny). It's a perfectly valid question that initially makes sense, but that implies the existence of something both before the universe and outside of the universe.
 
Does God love me?

That's a pretty silly one.
 
Try this...
zoobyshoe said:
The famous rhetorical quetion, "And the French can only count to four?" is not to be understood as a statement about the French. It's specifically a statement about penguin skinning techniques of the natives of Tierra del Fuego, and generally a statement about reverse engineering. Both of which lead to an implied meta-statement about historical revisionism.

The first reverse engineer was, as we all know, the celebrated Tierra del Fuegan, Ooorge. Ooorge was the first human to set himself the task of reversing the act of fire-making. Instead of making fire he decided to unlock the secret of putting fires out. Before Ooorge everyone in Tierra del Fuego was preoccupied with starting fires with the result that the whole southern tip of South America was on fire. Hence the name, "Tierra del Fuego", which means, "Kangaroo".

Ooorge soon determined that neither water nor dirt burned very well. That being the case, he undertook the obvious course, which was to heap baskets full of mud onto statues of the Fire God, Hottssooo, to quench his fiery spirit. Soon the fires of Tierra del Fuego were nearly all put out, and Ooorge was stoned to death by his fellows. His story lives on in Tierra del Fuegan history as that of, "The Idiot Who Brought Near-Antarctic Freezing Cold Back to Kangaroo".

Why is it so many innovators are not appreciated by penguin skinners?
 

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