Candy Answers

Author: Stan Nodvik | Category: Misc., Personal Development, Rants and Raves | 02-25-08
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WHY?!!

What happened? Why did it happen? Why did we lose? Doc, I want a second opinion. The facts, madam, just the facts. The weather as a scapegoat. Who did it? What malfunctioned? Why? Why? Why? When, exactly, did he snap? Where was I then at that precise moment? What actually happened on November 22, 1863? Answers, answers, answers, we demand answers!

A plane crashes and after an investigation the public is told all 97 passengers died due to a ruptured hydraulic line. That solves the mystery and everyone except the families can get on with their everyday stuff. Also, everyone in on the know can erase that mind slate and … what? Forget about it! So was anything really learned; what steps were taken to prevent a history of these things happening again and again? Does it matter? Not really. Only being given an answer to why the plane crashed matters. Any answer would have satisfied just as well.

Each person is a great speller (nix spell check) or are they when they misspell the same exact words whenever they misspell a word? Does anyone stop to learn such a word’s correct spelling, work to turn the word from the misspelled groove in one’s mind to a new, learned groove? I don’t think so. We are doomed to repeat the mistake. Why? Because there is an answer here — this particular word is misspelled. We recognize it as such — the word looks funny or someone, in the know, points its misspelling out to us or a computer word processing program highlights the misspelled word with its spell check. The corrected spelling means nothing to us. The answer and only the newly learned fact of its misspelling assuages our initial curiosity and yet that “answer” is it’s misspelled! — this identifies the word’s condition and satisfies us. Not any corrected spelling but the fact of its misspelling. Yes, wrong answers are okay. Any answer will satisfy, even “answers” that are incomplete. Most incomplete answers give us what we want to hear, and most times, all we want to hear.

For some psych reason, an answer to one of a journalist’s 5 W’s and How always satisfies, satiates our hunger, as if by knowing, this cures any and every fear. Such answers satisfy like candy and reset our balance within.

The public is often told partial answers the authorities want them to know. They make up a list of persons for “need to know” answers and hide the rest of the truth. Governments call that “classified” or “secrets”. Yourself? You repress it by telling yourself that something never happened. Or, come up with any “answer” you can live with. And then give yourself and others those programmed “answers”.

What can be done to correct this human event/answer/it’s-okay conditioning? Nothing much, if anything. History repeats itself, so they say, right? Yet we seldom learn from the past. Mankind will always want new answers; mankind refuses to accept things on faith, except religion and God.
In reality, mankind demands answers.

Give me an answer so I can get on with my live, to make mind-room for the next mystery question. There’s nothing wrong with this, is there? Except for the quality and depth of a particular answer. War propaganda … on a scale of 1 to 10, are the government’s answers real/complete or are they really slanted “answers”? A politician’s proposals if elected? On a scale of 1 to 10. Questions are asked, answers are given. Any answer that results in our satisfaction will do. What is the bottom line? Who can ever know? Politicians say: “Trust me on this. Have faith in me.” But as for the complete truth for here and now, ha!

What is to be learned from the above discourse? This: Beware of actual answers and such “answers” which are not the real answer. They do their work to satisfy you and, moreover, this aspect can be used to manipulate you. This quest for answers is human nature, part of our makeup. Our leaders know this as did Hitler. Can anything else be done? Never abandon an issue once satisfied just because you were given an answer. Always take the issue a step further if possible. Try not to be fooled by candy answers. Accept that there’s little to be done about your inborn thirst for answers.

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  • Re the jet passenger liner that plunged into the ocean and re lost black boxes, it looks like we will never get an answer -- this accident is to be another unsolved mystery.

    But ... But we need a Candy Answer to satisfy our curiosity so we can get on with other things meaningful to us. What to do for a Candy Answer in this situation? No one to turn this biz over to, this time, if the authorities are at a loss.

    Answer: we turn it over to ourselves to provide a Candy Answer that’s acceptable to our intellect and to our own logic. You may come up with a Candy Answer better than mine. What is my Candy Answer?

    The pilots knew they must pass by this storm before them. They may have tried to go above the storm; it seems to me they decided finally to go UNDER the storm. Instruments are awry -- they really don’t know their speed, how high they are or that they are lower than they think. A way under the storm is surmised; they go for it, and miscalculate -- they’re far too low -- and plunge nose-first into the ocean.

    I can live with that Candy Answer which is true for me without outside objections, and reject all counter-arguments, if that Candy Answer satisfies me. Does it satisfy you? Good. Accept my Candy Answer and get on with your life unhindered.

    Note: “I think that” means “It is my belief that” and beliefs are a matter of faith, not fact. For your own Candy Answers, where facts are nonexistent, where expert opinion doesn’t wash, choose that which you think will satisfy your curiosity. Then move on.

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  • The King of Pop died today. What the world demands now, right now, is a Candy Answer. We want to know whether his was a clean death or a dirty death. “The circumstances of Jackson's death were not immediately clear.” “Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.”

    If you’ve read Candy Answers (posted above) you’ll know why there must be an answer, any answer, just so we’re satisfied, just so we can continue on with our lives. Of course it would be nice if the scientific correct answer of why Michael Jackson died is discovered. And we pray for a clean death. But with the psychology behind Candy Answers, any answer is okay.

    We want answers! We want answers! We want answers! That’s why there’s a rush for an autopsy with results expect tomorrow (Friday afternoon). I’m not trying to say anything here other than this is a prime Candy Answers example for the posting. With Candy Answers, it’s really not important how Michael Jackson died. What matters is to get the right answer, if possible, and if not possible, then even any answer will do. See the above posing for further discussions and examples for Candy Answers and for more understanding of the psychology behind the concept

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  • The Brazilian Jet Flight 447 that disappeared during turbulent storms on its flight to Paris is a prime and exaggerated example for my past posting called Candy Answers. If you care to reread the posting, click on:

    www.blog4brains.com/2008/02/25/candy-answers/

    Presently, airborne U.S. special radar, sonar, and Gawk-knows-what-kind of secret zoundez echo equipment, as well as spy satellites have been harkened, along with ships on the way to where it’s believed the jet went down in the ocean (or broke apart in the air), with also an atomic submarine summoned, and those miniature subs, camera ready, designed to go miles below the surface to the ocean’s bottom -- yes, all these have been called upon to solve the mystery (What happened?) And as of today as five bodies have been recovered, more special science gimmicks may be used to locate and retrieve the jet’s elusive two black boxes. What a quest!

    I have no argument with the need to do the above-mentioned extraordinary attempts to pursue and find THE ANSWER, nor an argument against the huge effort and expense incurred. What I want to point out is the real bottom-line reason why all this is being done, must be done. Read my “Candy Answers” posting for an explanation of how incomplete answers disturb man’s ever-constant need to know and how nothing can be done to quench man’s inborn thirst for answers, any answers, right or wrong. Give me psychological rest. “Give me an answer so I can get on with my life, to make mind-room for the next mystery question.”
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  • Wall Street and Main Street. We have been given the Candy Answer for what has wrecked the American economy. But right now for our own mental health and welfare, can we accept, forget and move on as with all candy answers?

    “For some psych reason, an answer ... always satisfies, satiates our hunger, as if by knowing, this cures any and every fear. Such answers satisfy like candy and reset our balance within.” -- from this posted article.

    Not so. This time I wonder. In other situations when candy answers fail to do their work, we should turn an overwhelming problem over to a Higher Power. Who is the nation’s Higher Power? Why, the President of the United States. I have faith that with Barack Obama elected President, there is hope the Nation can be led out of this recession/depression. This is why, I believe, you the reader should vote and vote for Barack Obama.
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