asking Questions is important in life if you want to live a long life

Many people are afraid to ask questions because they are not brave enough to withstand the answers to these questions.

(Or Philosophy is important because it is the foundation of all the sciences).

I was always taught to ask questions by my valedictorian father (of his high school class). And it has always helped me survive well in my life.

If you are taught not to ask questions (or "You were taught to be a slave who doesn't ask questions") then your life is usually short and you might be gone by 12 to 30 years old. 

Because if you don't start asking questions young enough you likely won't survive it.

It's not that you can get answers to all your questions. But, unless you are "BURNING" with questions there is "NO POSSIBILITY THAT YOU CAN SURVIVE AT ALL INTO ADULTHOOD and still want to be alive ongoing.

So, Asking questions is the real difference between a Master and a slave here on earth.

A Slave asks no questions but "How High should I jump?"

Whereas a person who asks questions might say: "Why should I jump at all? What good is jumping?"

And in some cultures people are knocked down for asking questions. So, being a slave in those cultures is normal.

Luckily, asking questions is how people here in the U.S. got ahead and survived when many other people didn't.

and this is especially true in environments like "COASTAL CALIFORNIA" where it seems all we do is ask questions about everything.

and there was a bumper sticker you saw a lot in the 1960s which was "Question Authority!"

and I find this is important to do also if you want to survive here on earth at all.

Just because someone in authority tells you to do "ANYTHING" doesn't mean that you will survive doing it.

So, Survival here on earth to old age comes from "Questioning Everything" in life and making your own life yourself with or without the help of anyone else.

So, questioning everything (and not necessarily in a paranoid way) but just realizing that people have many problems and in some ways are more like animals than the human beings they pretend to be might keep you alive another moment another day in your life.

In the 1950s when I grew up if you weren't a little paranoid you didn't survive at all what was happening then.

Why?

Here are some actual facts: around 900,000 Americans died in World War II. 20 million Russians mostly died of starvation during World war II. So, even here in the U.S. the friends and relatives of those 900,000 who died were messed up often for life.

So, these people (the walking wounded) were killing themselves and others in their family and friends throughout the 1950s and 1960s A LOT.

So, if you weren't a little paranoid you became another victim of the walking wounded of World War II.

And this also was true of those who survived the Korean War and the Viet Nam War and then the Middle Eastern and Afghanistan wars and others.

Luckily, at least physically, Americans generally speaking were less affected by World War II and many other wars so there tended to be less completely dysfunctional people that were caused by these wars.

So, if you don't ask enough questions in life you can easily be a victim of the walking wounded of wars or people who grew up in ghettos and were forced to be in a gang (with all the problems of that).

So, asking questions (whether you get the answers you need or not) is how you become:

"Captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny."

Otherwise, You Won't.