dumb questions

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, Rebecca

<rbkellam> wrote:

 

> Gosh, you know, since I joined this group, I've seen so many

>people preface their questions with something like you did " this

>may be a dumb question... " I wonder why that is?

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It probably means that the questioner feels s/he already should know the

answer.

This reminds me of Uncle Milty's sleight of mouth hypnotic statement;

" There is something that you know but don't know that you know, and when you

know what it is that you don't know that you know then the answer will come

to you " .

rusty