04-16-2011, 12:00 AM
When is asking questions impeccable and/or when is it being used as a didactic devise, a prompt, a rebuttal, as support, to the person asking the question? Sometimes when I post and the responder asks me a question, the question feels clean and honest, as though the person really wants an answer.
Other times, when asked a question, it feels leading and insinuating, as though the question is loaded with the posters assumptions.
What to do with "questions"? Answer, ignore, read between-the-lines, counter with another question....
There was a long time in which I felt my prolific question asking was driven by a learning curve. And to some extent that was true. Then I began to see that my question asking served as a shield in order to not really hear any answer that might come forth but to reinforce what I thought anyway. I began to pay more attention to questions....and wonder how others view "asking questions".
Other times, when asked a question, it feels leading and insinuating, as though the question is loaded with the posters assumptions.
What to do with "questions"? Answer, ignore, read between-the-lines, counter with another question....
There was a long time in which I felt my prolific question asking was driven by a learning curve. And to some extent that was true. Then I began to see that my question asking served as a shield in order to not really hear any answer that might come forth but to reinforce what I thought anyway. I began to pay more attention to questions....and wonder how others view "asking questions".