People Asking Experts Unrelated Questions

You’re going to get get silly answers

With the advent of the internet connecting the world. If you ever need some advice about life all you have to do is get on YouTube, click “No Thank You” to a free trial of YouTube premium, type in your questions and drown your self in a sea of videos that relates to your specific inquiry.

Not long ago people actually went out to stores where they sold books and walked around and found the self help section and then bought a book. Then they actually had to read it hoping it will have some answers. Now you can get answers while doing your dishes and have a video playing in the background.

Technology might have changed but we as humans don’t change much. One thing I noticed as I watch these videos is that people seem to pick someone they like and then ask them about everything. Some of the questions asked are so far out of the realm of expertise of the people they’re speaking to. That’s when you get some funky answers that range from hilarious to just plain awkward.

Here are some of the silly things that happen when experts get asked questions to which they cannot possibly relate.

Yup, people ask monks “What do I do” questions about their sex life constantly. Instead of searching for someone who would be better suited to answer such questions like maybe a therapist. They send their sex related questions to monks who are there to help people meditate.

This inevitably leads to some monks to begin recalling their sex life before entering the monastic life. They tells stories and try their hardest to pull an answer out of those stories that can relate to the questions and often it just ends up being very awkward.

Some spiritual gurus out there only ever teach one aspect about spirituality. Yes they are experts in their field. It is something that has fundamentally changed their lives and they have practiced that aspect of spirituality for a very long time.

So for the some reason people think it’s productive somehow to bombard them with all of life’s questions.

What ends up happening is that all the different types of questions are given the same answer albeit with a slight twist.

Got problems with coworkers? Let go of the desire to always be right by letting go of the ego. Cat making a mess of the furniture? Let go of the desire to control another being by letting go of the ego. Not satisfied with how life has played out? Let me guess, let go of my ego and try to live in the now?

Yup!

Would you ask a vegan for the best place to get a 30 oz steak? No, you would ask a friend who you know to be a meat lover. Or Yelp if you have no friends.

Would you ask an artist the quickest way to make a huge fortune? No, they’re starving to death and don’t have the energy to form words.

Similarly you shouldn’t ask a celibate man who lives alone so he can meditate all day to help you with issues you might have with your spouse or children. Or a religious teacher on what kinds of food you should or shouldn’t eat.

No one would go to the your local Starbucks and order a grande caramel muffler repair. Then why do they ask a former Navy Seal about racial politics?

It’s like going to your local grocery store and asking the checkout cashier for the cure to depression and anxiety.

Like going to your doctor and when they ask you where it hurts and you tell them your roof is leaking.

Or if you walk into a nursery and ask them how much the tuition is for a nursing degree. Can I get financial aid?

You get the drift.

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