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What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Is there anything that you feel your head just cannot wrap around?

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

How 0.99999(repeating) = 1, and not the smallest possible number just before 1. It's been explained to me before on several occasions, I just cannot compute.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I just heard this for the first time the other day, and it makes zero sense to me, either.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It's simple:

1/3 = .333(repeating)
2/3 = .666(repeating)
3/3 = .999(repeating)

All you're looking at is a difference in notation.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I break my brain on a regular basis thinking about this one.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, this is one of the issues that made me an atheist.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[feotakahari]

Yehuda Bauer once said that if God permitted the Holocaust, he's Satan, and if he couldn't stop it, he's a nebbish. I wouldn't put it in quite those terms, but I agree with the general idea.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Schrödinger's cat. I mean, I get it but at the same time I don't get it

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[vethica]

Well done.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[dethtoll]

snrrrk

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[raspberryrain]

Schrödinger thought it was an absurdity himself. It's meant to be nonsensical, he was mocking other scientists.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[a_potato]

Ah, but how do you feel now that we've all observed you?

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

How anyone can be born into a religion or how they can be a part of it even when they don't believe in it's basic philosophies.

I understand it on a cultural basis but the logical side of me just wants to say, "But why do you call yourself this when you don't believe in this."

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm finding it harder and harder as time goes by to believe that there's any actual 'core' to a religion outside the very most basic doctrine of a religion. Because it seems to me that religions are human institutions and are always going to be shifting around hugely and always have, and there's always going to be a million possible interpretations of a religion.

And the thing is that, from a social point of view, religions only exist insofar as they exist. I mean to say that religions are first and foremost human institutions that exist in society, that people believe in, identify with, and practice within. So, in other words, the structures and beliefs that people actually have - that's the part of the religion that comes first and foremost, and that's the part that actually changes constantly. So rejecting that aspect of things in favor of some specific idealized version of the religion - that doesn't make sense to me, unless you happen to actually believe that whatever version you're referring to is true.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

That's why I'm not sure I should call myself Christian. I believe in Jesus, and I see the Bible as fundamentally relevant, but I'm also incredibly skeptical in what I believe. I see the Bible as more of a set of guidelines and parables than a 100% accurate account of a people's history - to me it simply tells the story of their interpretation of that history, with some truth but also a lot of parable and retelling mixed in. (As for Jesus, He was probably the son of God or at least divine in some way, but that also isn't the... point to me, I guess.) So am I still Christian? Or am I not?

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

genderqueer, genderfluid, etc.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Offside in football. People must have explained it to me at least twenty times, but I can't get it. I mean, I know there's a line and how some players have to be behind that line for a goal to count or whatever, but I can't get exactly what it is to stick.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

People who talk about teenagers needing time for their brains to develop and all this other stuff when... for the first part of human history, teenagers as we think of them essentially did not exist, right? I know there's a lot of generalizations (people didn't all die by the age of 35 and so forth) but still, there were sixteen year old kings and queens. So... the whole argument doesn't hold up for me. I just think that teenagers are less mature now because they're not forced to grow up as quickly in the same way they were hundreds of years ago.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[kallanda_lee]

Infinity. the concept of it.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[kaijinscendre]

That question about if you have two doors (one to Heaven and one to Hell) with two guards. Guard 1 always tells the truth, Guard 2 always lies. You don't know which is which. How do you figure out which door to go through?

People explain it to me, I understand it for like a day, and then I forget.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[herpymcderp]

Torque. Damn it physics. I know how to calculate it but I don't understand what it is.

Actually that kind of sums up a lot of physics for me.

The green grocers apostrophe

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to just guess.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Otherkin. I've tried.

Re: What's something you don't understand, even when it's explained to you?

[(Anonymous)]

in physics, when they talk about something falling at a rate of x "per second per second".