Strange questions you've pondered.

[otakuapprentice]

Why isn't otakuapprentice answering some of these questions? ???

because this isn't the "Ask Otaku" thread, that's why.

[Sunara Ishi]

Why isn't otakuapprentice answering some of these questions? ???

because this isn't the "Ask Otaku" thread, that's why.

Nor was it a thread to post questions to be answered...

It was asking what the questions were... Perhaps some of us would rather others not try to answer them.... perhaps. XP

If our world was like that of Soul Eater, I wonder if I would already be kishin, a weapon, or something else...

[otakuapprentice]

Why isn't otakuapprentice answering some of these questions? ???

because this isn't the "Ask Otaku" thread, that's why.

Nor was it a thread to post questions to be answered...

It was asking what the questions were... Perhaps some of us would rather others not try to answer them.... perhaps. XP

well, some people are answering questions posted here anyways.

[Jerry]

What counts as a "strange" question nowadays?

are people who attend fanime 'normal' to begin with?

just because 1 boy and 1 girl hang out, does that count as a date?

isnt a date just any day on the calendar?

on a calendar, why are all my days numbered?  :(

What is time?

If I'm the only person who feels a feeling, and no one else is around, does that feeling count?

Why does only the dark side has cookies?

[Gatsby]

What counts as a "strange" question nowadays?

are people who attend fanime 'normal' to begin with?

just because 1 boy and 1 girl hang out, does that count as a date?

isnt a date just any day on the calendar?

on a calendar, why are all my days numbered?  :(

What is time?

If I'm the only person who feels a feeling, and no one else is around, does that feeling count?

Why does only the dark side has cookies?

Up until the last two questions I enjoyed how each question led into the next.

[Jun-Watarase]

Bored, again. Answering for kicks, based on personal beliefs and gathered knowledge in my 17.x whole years of existence.  8)

What it'd be like when the universe contracts?
Are we truly dead and reliving our lives over and over?
What if I become so psychic, that I'd be able to know everything that will be and has been, and get stuck in one place due that knowledge that I am living my whole life while just standing around comatose...
What if one gets stuck in one's memories and really isn't living?
Was I supposed to be human?
If I was male, how would I behave? Would I hit on lots of girls?

yadda yadda yadda....

Interesting. The Universe is supposedly expanding constantly. Thing is, infinity and most 4-dimensional objects like the Universe are beyond human comprehension and my knowledge doesn't offer much of it. :P

Simple. You'd just be so psychic that you would know everything that will and has been, and get stuck in one place due to the knowledge that you are living your whole life while just standing and being comatose. As for what would happen and how you would feel, it depends on where you are at the time, what you're able to do, what you do manage to do, what others do, and whether or not you remain a flawed human being or beyond that. Though unlikely that would happen, you're probably as psychic as you'll ever be. You could probably undergo some sort of primitive training for mental perception, and while it'd make a big difference to you, it'd be insignificant in the Universe.

That's just fantastic, as memories complex enough to generate imaginary conscious individuals with independent thought.

Probably, as you are one now. Depends on what you mean by "supposed to be".

You'd behave depending on your environment. If your male counterpart had similar upbringings as you, friends, family, education, etc, then you probably wouldn't hit on a lot of girls.

Does positive thinking actually alter things?
Is every cruel act a person does to another ever repayed?

Everything you do alters something. It depends on the action itself, as to how much it alters things.

Ditto.

Why isn't otakuapprentice answering some of these questions? ???

Your mom.

What counts as a "strange" question nowadays?

are people who attend fanime 'normal' to begin with?

just because 1 boy and 1 girl hang out, does that count as a date?

isnt a date just any day on the calendar?

on a calendar, why are all my days numbered?  :(

What is time?

If I'm the only person who feels a feeling, and no one else is around, does that feeling count?

Why does only the dark side has cookies?

Anything is considered strange if it's beyond normal, ordinary, or familiar by the most common or personal standards.

Depending on your standards, they either are or not. As a whole, most people are normal, but even the concept of 'normal' is both simple and complicated.

Any social engagement is considered a date by definition, but by today's standards, two people of opposite genders hanging out is not one.

Each day has a certain significance of the Earth's rotation and orbit, and smaller one to the Universe.

For the sake of you keeping track of time, annually. If you want a more in-dept answer, it goes both scientifically and historically. Scientifically, it'd be an explanation of the Solar Systems' order as to how time flows specifically within it. Historically, it'd be an explanation of the solar calendar and its creation.

Time is 4-dimensional, so the course of time would be very difficult to both comprehend and explain to someone who doesn't already have a full understanding of it. In a simple definition, however, it's a measurement of sequences used to measure events and their duration.

Depends on what you mean by 'count'. Everything counts for something, not necessarily someone, but it makes a difference. Emotions have a role in governing your thoughts and actions, so it definitely counts to you in some way.

It doesn't. Everyone has access to cookies, they just vary in taste and quality. The Dark Side originally began carrying them to lure more members so they can invest in having an adequate clubhouse instead of some white kid's grandmother's basement. :)

Up until the last two questions I enjoyed how each question led into the next.

I never stop thinking, not for one moment. My entire thought process works in a chain unto a previous thought constantly. Only in my dreams where my thoughts are less uniform.  :-\

[satanic_mechanic]

is love real, or is it just some chemical reaction in your head that wears off after a year or so, some evolutionary bio-psychological trait that enables us to breed and nothing more?

what happens when we die? is there another plane of existence? is there a God? does our consciousness end, leaving us in a cold, dark void?

if oprah cashed all her money, could she stack it to the moon?

how does one cope with living in a neo-feudalist society? can one change a neo-feudalist society? if so, how?

why is Original Joes so awesome?  oh shoot i already know that.  the prime rib.

[Jerry]

I heard of this expression " I'm just Josh'in with you " Who is this Josh and why does he like to mess with people?

What does " yanking your chain " really refer to?

is it really appropriate to "break a leg" before a show ?

Why are we not allowed to mention "McBeth" in a Theatre?

Why does the Doc say "Great Scott!!!" who is this Scott why is he so great?

Why are misspelled words acronyms being used more often like - Pwnage, Lawls, chezburger, OMG!  WTF? and FTW and ROLFMAO- Rolfcopter.
Whats up with that?

What really Grinds your Gears?- Do people really have gears, and if they grinded, wouldnt they make a sound?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

[Jun-Watarase]

is love real, or is it just some chemical reaction in your head that wears off after a year or so, some evolutionary bio-psychological trait that enables us to breed and nothing more?

what happens when we die? is there another plane of existence? is there a God? does our consciousness end, leaving us in a cold, dark void?

if oprah cashed all her money, could she stack it to the moon?

how does one cope with living in a neo-feudalist society? can one change a neo-feudalist society? if so, how?

why is Original Joes so awesome?  oh shoot i already know that.  the prime rib.

Love is real. Just because it may be a chemical reaction between people, doesn't make it any less real. But life entails more than just loving someone and being loved in return. As for it demoting itself to pure breeding, it wouldn't happen, at least any time soon. The ability to think the way we do, and love the way we love is what makes us human.

You become permanently unconscious, your bodily functions begin to cease, molecular structure begins to collapse, and you decompose-- some of that energy is used and transferred to allow you to use that rot to fertilize plants above you or produce foul smells and feed bacteria. The rest of the energy disperses elsewhere, and the rest is unknown. I doubt you're still conscious, though. The most logical explanation is that your life is energy. Death is that energy leaving your body once it's inadequate to host that energy, and is transferred elsewhere. As cold an unfeeling the explanation may seem, I do like the idea of afterlife, Heaven and Hell, wandering, spirits, whatnot-- it's whimsical and fantastic, but most likely unreal.

Doubtful, but one could make the analogy that she can.

They cope with it by coming to terms with their lifestyle. It's not too hard if you're born into it, in comparison to switching lifestyles from where you are now, into a neo-feudalist society. Anyone able to freely express themselves can change a society, as long as another person is willing to listen. They have to do something revolutionary, most likely, to make a significant difference. But once the change had been made, it most likely wouldn't be a neo-feudalist society anymore.

Gotta have them ribs.

I heard of this expression " I'm just Josh'in with you " Who is this Josh and why does he like to mess with people?

What does " yanking your chain " really refer to?

is it really appropriate to "break a leg" before a show ?

Why are we not allowed to mention "McBeth" in a Theatre?

Why does the Doc say "Great Scott!!!" who is this Scott why is he so great?

Why are misspelled words acronyms being used more often like - Pwnage, Lawls, chezburger, OMG!  WTF? and FTW and ROLFMAO- Rolfcopter.
Whats up with that?

What really Grinds your Gears?- Do people really have gears, and if they grinded, wouldnt they make a sound?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

'Josh' is actually a verb in the English language that means 'to fool'.

"Your chain" is actually slang for, you guessed it, your penis. It means to intentionally irritate someone. A cleaner explanation would be that "the chain" refers to a leash of a dog, and pulling it would be intentionally irritating it.

Literally breaking a leg definitely is not, unless the show specifically featured injured performers. The cliche comes from the irony to prevent jinxing one's luck by saying "Good luck!"

It's considered unlucky to say "Macbeth" in a theatre because during its original premiere, many of those involved with the play, both on and off stage, were crossed with extreme misfortune almost coincidentally.

The phrase "Great Scott!" is an exclaimation in reference to the American Civil War Hero, General Winfield Scott. It was most commonly found in comic books and old detective movies in the 1940's. I guess it just snowballed from there and became well-known in American media.

Typos that are easily made became typical and common, so it became a natural 'inside joke' between those who frequent the internet and social interaction via typing. As for the bastardization of other words, its because of people who want to appear unique or funny in the way they type tend to almost effortlessly create alternatives that seemed funny or amusing at the time.

It's nothing special-- just another metaphor to describe irritation. Grinding gears means that the gears are irritated and are in need of lubrication to run smoothly.

There are too many variables in lollipop-licking to determine a concrete number, but if just purely licks and no biting, in a wind-resistant room and no pauses longer than maybe 3 minutes, it'd be more or less 450 licks according to people who've actually attempted counting the licks. Try for yourself?

[Mizuki]

Why are lolis so cute and adorable. And why am I fataly attracted to yandere girls?

[Jun-Watarase]

Why are lolis so cute and adorable. And why am I fataly attracted to yandere girls?

This is a question I cannot answer.

But in terms of yandere girls-- it goes either they're batshit crazy psychos or they're just bitches. I think the psycho-ness is sexier.

[Steve.Young]

I think the psycho-ness is sexier.

Amen.

[Sunara Ishi]

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Easy.


Where are the limitations of human thinking? How far can one think in multiple directions before they harm their brain? Is it possible to harm one's brain by merely thinking? Or would one just merely give oneself headaches when they reach their limit?

Do we all have the knowledge of countless generations at our disposal if we can open our thinking in the right way to access it?
Do we all secretly store knowledge, ideas, and language in a collective database that we unconsciously tap? Is it possible to knowingly tap it?
And if we knowingly tap it, how much information is it possible for our brains to hold? Would we overload it?
I wonder how much information is possible, to date, for us to hold? How much has someone been able to do so far? Is there recorded data? Is it possible for there to be recorded data?

When will humanity make a break through to knowingly map the human collective database and/or the flow of time and its influences? When will we invent the teleporter?

Is everything in some sort of loop?

If someone was a mad scientist and created chocobos, would we all buy and breed them?

[satanic_mechanic]

how does one deal with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder?

[cappeh]

so we're made up of molecules and atoms and protons and neutrons and electrons and quarks and alskfjlwesdkfjn, but what is consciousness made of? why are we conscious in the first place?

how did all the matter in the universe get there?

is there more than one universe?

why are honeydew milk teas more addicting than crack?

[Jun-Watarase]

Where are the limitations of human thinking? How far can one think in multiple directions before they harm their brain? Is it possible to harm one's brain by merely thinking? Or would one just merely give oneself headaches when they reach their limit?

I think the limits vary between people. Human beings are able to do an immense amount of thinking. Limitations are created by physical attributes like the amount of healthy brain cells that govern the brains' ability to store information adequately, the person's will to learn, and their own skill in terms of thinking and rationalization. People's ability of storing information is measured by their IQ-- keep in mind that an IQ isn't the amount of knowledge or a measurement of how smart someone is, rather, it's a measurement of how much one is ABLE to store. Think of it as a tank of water, and the information is the water filling it. When a limit is reached, it probably would only harm it through strain, and strain on anyone mentally can be hazardous to one's health.

Do we all have the knowledge of countless generations at our disposal if we can open our thinking in the right way to access it?
Do we all secretly store knowledge, ideas, and language in a collective database that we unconsciously tap? Is it possible to knowingly tap it?

Well, it was once claimed that the brain only utilizes 10% of it within humans. Though, each part of the brain operates a different function. When it comes to information, it'd probably be possibly but unlikely to 'tap' into it outside extreme adaptation and generations of evolution. Who knows? I'm definitely not an expert on this, but these are my thoughts.

And if we knowingly tap it, how much information is it possible for our brains to hold? Would we overload it?
I wonder how much information is possible, to date, for us to hold? How much has someone been able to do so far? Is there recorded data? Is it possible for there to be recorded data?

I don't know if it's possible to overload the brain, rather, it'd probably just reach its limit and stop. I don't know how it'd affect the body if a limit has been reached, but if it came to that, it'd be difficult to acquire newer information. But if one manages to gather that much, then all necessarily functions would hopefully already be stored. As for how much people have been able to do so far, you look into people who are born with genius or those who are motivated enough to go through great lengths of studying. Knowledge deteriorates, so keep that in mind as well. It's not as if we remember every single thing we learn throughout our entire lives.

When will humanity make a break through to knowingly map the human collective database and/or the flow of time and its influences? When will we invent the teleporter?

That depends on humanity and the technology built to perform that function, and as I don't have a good grasp on how efficiently human perception is done and recorded, I have no clue as to when they'd be able to create a full-fledged database. As for understanding time, I don't think humans would exist long enough to have a complete understanding of it, and when it comes to teleporters, it goes in hand with understanding time. To be able to transfer every cell of the human body from one position, from one place to another, without any complicatons well... that's beyond me.

Is everything in some sort of loop?

Loop? What kind of loop?

If someone was a mad scientist and created chocobos, would we all buy and breed them?

I don't feel that it's impossible for humans to create synthetic life-forms. It'd probably market well to FF-fans, if its fandom lives to that era. :)

how does one deal with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder?

People with narcissistic personality disorder don't handle shame very well, so a harsh approach would most likely cause them to avoid you. Appear welcoming enough that they'd feel comfortable approaching you, and after that, you can either accept them for who they are and disregard it completely, OR you can put them in their place and drag them down from their pedestal. It might make them miserable, but whether or not that concerns you is up to you. But when it comes to this, I refer to those who actually have the disorder as opposed to just being arrogant. Put yourself in a position where they won't feel superior to you, and have them humble themselves by being around those who are clearly 'better'. Slap a sense of reality into their heads and have them know that their delusion of grandeur is petty and thick-headed. Sympathy, is entirely up to you.

so we're made up of molecules and atoms and protons and neutrons and electrons and quarks and alskfjlwesdkfjn, but what is consciousness made of? why are we conscious in the first place?

Because we have brains, and the brain is an organ that allows us the phenomenon of being conscious. It lets us think, adapt, store information, feel emotions, operate our bodily functions, and ponder about things we question. Animals with brains are conscious, whereas organisms without them (e.g. plants and bacteria) are not. It's not made of anything. It's a neurological function. The only thing it could possibly be 'made of' would probably just be the energy that allows us to do any other action.

how did all the matter in the universe get there?

is there more than one universe?

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why are honeydew milk teas more addicting than crack?

Don't know, but I prefer the powdered flavorings over the natural honeydew milk teas.

[protocol7]

Where did I lose that box of glowsticks at Fanime 2005?

[Jun-Watarase]

Where did I lose that box of glowsticks at Fanime 2005?

You have been forsaken. :V

[protocol7]

Where did I lose that box of glowsticks at Fanime 2005?

You have been forsaken. :V

!! You know where they went/whose room I left them in!

[Mister_E]

Where are the flying cars dammit!?