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Questions?
There are more questions than answers
I would question that, thinking it’s questionable
Questioning the number of questions is a question
Possibly a question that has no answer the inverse
Is impossible or so I used to think I mean how could
There be more answers than questions, but their could
A question could have multiple answers that are correct
If I have a question and you don’t have an answer then
You’re just not trying, even if you don’t know then just
Say ‘I don’t know.’ I don’t know becomes the answer
So, there are more answers than question as there are
No questionable questions that can’t be answered with
Any or all answers.
However we are moving in a scary direction.
It is vital that we should all have the right to question
And I mean question anything. Seems like I am a minority
How can we learn if we don’t ask questions seeking answers
There are so many things now you are not allowed to question
Your question becomes questionable and because you asked
The question you are insulted or shut down for questioning
Ask and you will receive/ really? – receive what?
Attacks on your character on your morals
What’s the point of asking Jeeves a question
What’s the point of asking Google a question
What’s the point of asking on Facebook or Twitter
What’s the point of asking the media a question
All of these are involved in questionable policies
Questionable practices and unfair censorship
And of course they are corporate liars
Ask a question loose your account
Ask a question and you get shut out
Ask a question and the truth is hidden
Corporate moralising censors choices on answers
Your question and answer must fit their narrative
From search engines to history books
The truth is a question that no one wants to answer
I had a question
I tried to research that question
In this information age there was no answer
Not because there is no answer
But because I was not allowed to
Ask or see the answers
I know your question
What was my question
I tried to get information
And statistics on white slavery
Apparently a question you are not allowed to ask
Published 24th Sep 2017
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If you were real you probably could've asked anything. As for white slavery. Thats how they rope chicks into that game. Keep you misinformed. Keep fucking with their heads. Got them so twisted they run straight to the enemy for help. Because loved ones and friends were stupid enough to play this game till the end. They don't know real from fake. Loved ones practice the art of alienation. They lose their self worth, magnify it with trauma and abuse, a freight train falling apart. Does this help?
24th Sep 2017 4:58pm
does this help, honestly no. The poem isn't necessarily about the question - it's about having a lesser need for questions because a balanced history or reporting is being done - which it isn't. we shouldn't have so many question in this day and age - the information, unbiased should just be there and it's simply not that and that is by design - there are more slaves today than ever before - now is that true or is it a myth? In 1870 according to the census 20,000 black slaves had black slave owners, again is that the truth or a myth - good luck with all these types of questions if you want to try and research them - alternatively you could post these questions on Facebook and see how long your account lasts before getting banned - does this help?
Anonymous
24th Sep 2017 1:31pm
I think if we stop questioning, we stop growing. That question mark is wired into our brains from birth for a reason. But there are some questions it's more difficult to get answers to than others. Deep thought read this early morning. Sending many many hugs your way, no questions asked. ☺
24th Sep 2017 5:07pm
like the kid that is always asking why? I listened to a youtube interview with Jim Goad - I watched it twice - the first time I was half way between shocked and thinking this has got to be bullshit. second time I watched it I took notes on his claims and tried to research them - spent over two hours trying to research slavery in all it's forms - black slavery and sex slavery has thousands of videos and web sites There is a handful of info spots on white slavery and black and arab involvement in slave trafficking and it's not that it was a lesser problem, it wasn't - how come I was never taught this? shit another question :-) hey all answer any questions you have on Hugging :-) Huge big hugs :-)
24th Sep 2017 6:28pm
"How can we learn if we don’t ask questions seeking answers"
Two possibilities ( with more I'm not thinking of I'm sure ). Firstly, we've grown up in an environment that conditions its young not to ask. But, rather, to believe. Thus, some do. Secondly, we've grown up in an environment that labels us stupid or ignorant for not knowing. Thus, some are afraid to ask.
That you ( or I ) are strong enough to ask despite environment certainly isn't an indication others are. Thankfully my father encouraged seeking our own answers and supported a wide-range of reading. So to this day, I have no problems asking or challenging bullshit.
Sometimes to my own detriment, but so be it.
Good thought provoking read, David.
Two possibilities ( with more I'm not thinking of I'm sure ). Firstly, we've grown up in an environment that conditions its young not to ask. But, rather, to believe. Thus, some do. Secondly, we've grown up in an environment that labels us stupid or ignorant for not knowing. Thus, some are afraid to ask.
That you ( or I ) are strong enough to ask despite environment certainly isn't an indication others are. Thankfully my father encouraged seeking our own answers and supported a wide-range of reading. So to this day, I have no problems asking or challenging bullshit.
Sometimes to my own detriment, but so be it.
Good thought provoking read, David.
24th Sep 2017 8:57pm
Yeah I do get that there are those who feel powerless to ask - It might be genetic but I have been a pain in the ass all my life, in the main for asking too many questions got beaten for it often Now I ask even more than ever :-) I remember the free speech debate we had - that was great - I really enjoyed that :-) (lol)
24th Sep 2017 9:11pm
24th Sep 2017 9:30pm
Anonymous
24th Sep 2017 8:10pm
I love the line "Ask a question and loose your account "
Spot on David :-)
Spot on David :-)
24th Sep 2017 9:00pm
I have had my Facebook account threatened a countless number of times for poetry that asks questions and challenges conventions :-) what's the world coming to? thank you for the comment it's appreciated a lot :-)
8th Oct 2017 4:00am
Ah, those dirty little questions! ;)
I found it fascinating that while attending a college course in Portland, OR, I was given "resources" for finding answers (to such questions as you sought to answer) through archived "scientific journals." Honestly blew my mind to think that simply because I was in the system to obtain a "healthy American education," I was granted access to such "articles of modern scientific analysis." I thought... shouldn't this information be completely accessible, especially in a place like America? We may not be "censored," but it's clear to see that there is important information out there that is extremely hard to access. I admit, I discovered that I could subscribe to said scientific journals even if I wasn't attending the school- for a hefty fee of $69.99 a month! Nothing says, "Let freedom ring!" like a profit margin!!
Gotta pay-up for such sensitive questions David! xD
I found it fascinating that while attending a college course in Portland, OR, I was given "resources" for finding answers (to such questions as you sought to answer) through archived "scientific journals." Honestly blew my mind to think that simply because I was in the system to obtain a "healthy American education," I was granted access to such "articles of modern scientific analysis." I thought... shouldn't this information be completely accessible, especially in a place like America? We may not be "censored," but it's clear to see that there is important information out there that is extremely hard to access. I admit, I discovered that I could subscribe to said scientific journals even if I wasn't attending the school- for a hefty fee of $69.99 a month! Nothing says, "Let freedom ring!" like a profit margin!!
Gotta pay-up for such sensitive questions David! xD
8th Oct 2017 4:24pm
My dirty little question was also inspire by a lecture by a history writer I went to ,about the 'red legs' in the West Indies - who were white indentured servants most of them died from the heat as they were not used to it, most of them didn't make it to their 7 year release date - they were treated worse than black slaves, as somebody said at the time white slaves are worth nothing they are only temporary - black slaves are for ever. It is strange how when slavery was outlawed some of the red legs remained - they were treated by the black community exactly the same as the black community were being treated in north America - people will be people and power is always misused :-( history is a lie :-) - thank you for reading and your wise words :-)
8th Oct 2017 4:47pm
Fascinating lecture!! Thank you for imparting the often untaught version of history ;) Namaste my friend!
