Have you ever looked back on all the questions you asked on YA and think...?

I'm here for a bit of both.

It is sometimes said that the best way to learn is to teach. I often don't know answers to questions so I am prompted to find out. At one point I decided to keep track of all the things I found out, parts of some of my answers, and so on. That document is now 572 pages long. And growing (just like me, I hope!).

It has also been observed that a thing which is not used tends to go away. I know many people who have spend time educating themselves only to forget everything they knew. Languages, science, literary knowledge. That saddens me... and I certainly wouldn't want to suffer the same!

So yes, I deeply appreciate being able to exchange ideas in this way, even if it does consume a fair amount of my time and sometimes evoke reactions that I'm not too happy with (that's an opportunity for developing too, I suppose). I would hope it's the same for everyone here. Peace.

Yes. After doing so I even asked the same exact question you're asking now. I've looked back at my questions and feel almost embarrassed...most of those things I could have solved on my own now. No, actually, most of those things I wouldn't have found significant enough to ask a question about now. But I guess in a way I shouldn't feel so bad - I try to see it as a good thing; in 2 years time I learned a lot, and there has to be something commendable about that. I come to Yahoo Answers, to be honest, only to test myself on how much I know. It's kind of cool, the philosophy and P&S section is almost like taking personality quizzes, and you have no idea how much better I come to know myself when I answer something I had never given thought to before.

I unfortunately do not see much change in my answers over the past year and a half. Most change involves apologizing for saying things wrongly, or not appreciating the fine points of an argument. Once or twice my view on small issues has been changed, and almost always that has been by people in YA whom I communicate with separately. I don't much trust what strangers have to say, and I am here to express ideas more than exchange them.

The real sad story is how I went from asking questions I was enthused about to playing little inbred political games with people with people in YA who want to shut me up and say I was just nasty to them because they can't hear the difference between calling and IDEA stupid versus calling a PERSON stupid. In other words, Yahoo is turning me into a schoolyard brawler and the pseudo-intellectual I walked in as has vanished.

Now I am depressed. Thanks.

they don't seem to be loopy, nicely the Chris Brown guy perhaps and the female has a mattress wetting project, however the different guy is perhaps purely enjoying you. that is their immature little experience of humor that we lack to work out. i replaced into acquaintances with somebody on Y/A! who made a narrative up that she had intercourse, she being 18, along with her 14 365 days previous brother and his buddy. She went into all this element and on and on with regard to the intercourse and that i replaced into purely thinking, the flaws human beings do while they are immature and bored. I purely ask severe questions and that i comprehend in case you're able to be able to ask a question approximately mattress wetting once or twice yet continually doing it? additionally yet another buddy i had on Y/A! would not quit asking questions approximately her weigh down. it may well be daily 5 variations of a similar question and then the following day each and every time she had him look at her or chortle at her or nicely known her there she may well be asking do you think of he likes me, is he fascinated, and all those issues. It purely makes me think of the two they are obsessive, out of their right minds, immature and fooling around, or to them "common" and down right loopy.

Most of the time I ask a question I get a bunch of ignorant people giving ignorant answers but a few people actually give great answers!

I look back at my questions and read the answers and think

1. nobody really answered to my satisfaction

2. did I express myself well? my communication skills must be awful

3. thank god some people actually got it

4. thank people for taking the time to answer.

5. pray for the people who answered.

I am here because this is a sick addiction over which I have control but make the conscious choice not to apply. I choose to be the R&S junkie that I am!!!!!!

Haven't asked that many, but nope. I feel as stupid as I did when I started. It's just that now I know that most people feel the same way.

yes.. i am so disappointed about myself that all those questions(most of them anyway) only points out to the ironic expression of my frustrations of a caricature trying to trick my mind..this the reason why i don't normally ask questions anymore..