The wisdom in asking dumb questions

[thepainterdoug]

do you ever get tired of being so smart, enlightened , a step above the common man so to speak?
what kids have above the majority of us is asking dumb questions.

like why is the sky blue? why is water wet? followed by more whys ?? regardless of the answers they get .

all here at avalon, were all striving for something more than the norm. but we have to remember to still be willing to ask the so called dumb questions if they are true for us. questions that threaten our ego i.e. the need to be right, to be admired etc.

so Ill start. if E T,s have been meddling with our nuclear bases and launch codes et, why did they not prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening ?

why can one go on all the doom and gloom sites like "before its news "and godlike productions etc and realize that if you didn’t tune in for a year, the posts would look the same and you wouldn’t have missed anything? and this is true of sites too numerous to list

how come when predictions are made and come to pass, they make the news, but when they don't, they are not held accountable and immediately forgotten ?

does anyone remember a past life when they weren’t royalty, a queen ? a king or warrior? does anyone remember being a dullard or common person in a past life?

where are the seers , psychics and remote viewers regarding MH 370 missing flight as well as other mysteries?

ok , you get the idea.

I will try to remain real, fallible, human , and completely in the dark if thats my reality.

[Chip]

These are all great questions with zero "dumbness", at least in my eyes. You correctly described flashing back 10 years ago and comparing the BS being spewed then with the very same BS that is going on now. Hmmm, well I'm definitely trying to make heads of it. I am glad someone else is too.
But don't worry we can always look forward to tomorrow, I hear disclosure is going to take place after Putin is announced dead and that the Galactic Federation is now going to be taking over for the IRS, so no need to file now either.
Can't wait

[yelik]

True but we need to remember the Illuminati plan over many generations. For example, the idea of 6 million Jews suffering and dying was spread 20 years before WWII which then became the accepted figure after the war. The Illuminati understand human nature extremely well and can play the majority like a musical instrument through deceptions and a raft of misinformation.

As we try to piece together bits and pieces of information from researchers and whistle blowers who themselves have only partial information which may or may not be accurate we live with the expectation that something big is about to happen when turning the tide on the greatest secrets and lies will take a very long time. Fortunately the internet is accelerating our understanding and hence the change.

The Elites have been playing these games for centuries with the help of highly intelligent beings, they have all the resources to continue their control. Having said that it does appear to me there are some important changes / battles going on behind the scenes which when combined with mass awakening will indeed change the world as we know it.

Unfortunately only a few people are truly awake and have the time to find out for themselves that something isn't right with the Governance of the world, the rest are fully brainwashed citizens that are preoccupied with servicing the Babylonian black magic money system through the debt trap

As the saying goes, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

[Agape]

Who said ( was it 'nuff' ) that there are dumb questions ?

Do you know of any 'dumb people' Painter Dough ?

Maybe you want to say , no no, there are no dumb people in this world . We are all the same smart , or can be made such ( if we are fed the right apple pie at correct times , mums opinion ) , we are all the same ..
is that true ?

How dumb is society brainwashing people to think only one way ?

Every kid also knows that his questions are 'dumb' when parents can't answer them . There may be conspiracy involved in the process ... parents enjoy boasting about themselves and knowing lots more or being much wiser .
Or not , and it's the time for children to grow up and understand that they ( we ) are part and parcel of forming our own 'true answers' .

True or not .

The 'story' about ETs and prevention of nuclear holocaust seems to suggest that they were actually alerted to our current destructive capacity at times of world wars .
It's also when human civilisation , in this civilisation era, started broadcasting themselves to Space ( radio and Tv broadcast ) .
I think it's sort of hard to take in idea , in present era , for me at least ... the planet is set with weapons of global destruction and there are people ruling 'countries' ( be it counties ) who believe there's a meaning in them ,

actually , I think the very logic of investing billions of whatever to building these expensive warheads with capacity they have .. is extremely dumb :

ecologically, economically , biologically, physically , spiritually , DUMB and well ,
they keep them in storage and make an impression of guarding your peace .

Can we sort that out , once forever ? Stop the wars ?


Peace is smart thing on 'my tabs' because it allows life prosper in all its beauty , it allows intelligence to flourish , people to be happy .

Dumb is ..the time when I think we can't sort out anything , anymore .



:tea:

[Roseheart]

I'm always asking questions. I encourage my daughter to ask, ask, ask! There are gifts to be had from this. I feel sorry for those who feel the need to pretend they know everything. Just fear at work and they miss out on so much.
I'm with you on the questions thepainterdoug - they do my head in too. Cheers. Roseheart.

[Selkie]

...if E T,s have been meddling with our nuclear bases and launch codes et, why did they not prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening ?

why can one go on all the doom and gloom sites like "before its news "and godlike productions etc and realize that if you didn’t tune in for a year, the posts would look the same and you wouldn’t have missed anything? and this is true of sites too numerous to list

how come when predictions are made and come to pass, they make the news, but when they don't, they are not held accountable and immediately forgotten ?

does anyone remember a past life when they weren’t royalty, a queen ? a king or warrior? does anyone remember being a dullard or common person in a past life?

where are the seers , psychics and remote viewers regarding MH 370 missing flight as well as other mysteries?

I love your "dumb" questions, thepainterdoug :clap2:

[thepainterdoug]

hi all, my point exactly, there are no dumb questions. there is only curiosity and a hunger to learn and grow or not to.

to believe you have arrived because you think you know something and that something makes you better than others?? this is where we often go wrong.
we are all on a ladder, someone is above us reaching out their hand to help us up , and we do the same and so on.

so there are no dumb questions, so ask away and be brave! now, WHY IS WATER WET? haha

[jackovesk]

Confucius Say - Ask a (Dumb Question) get a (Dumb Answer)...:yes4:

[Pam]

hi all, my point exactly, there are no dumb questions. there is only curiosity and a hunger to learn and grow or not to.

to believe you have arrived because you think you know something and that something makes you better than others?? this is where we often go wrong.
we are all on a ladder, someone is above us reaching out their hand to help us up , and we do the same and so on.






so there are no dumb questions, so ask away and be brave! now, WHY IS WATER WET? haha




There have been so many times that I thought I had "arrived" in my understanding, only to find out later that I was wrong or that what I thought was the whole picture was merely a drop in the bucket. Ultimately, the real wisdom I have gained over the years is that I really know very, very little and being in a place where I feel enlightened or a step above the rest is a very dangerous place to be. I have also realized that pride of intellect has been a huge disadvantage for me. It has shut me off from so much that is out there just waiting to be understood

[Selkie]

Confucius Say - Ask a (Dumb Question) get a (Dumb Answer)...:yes4:

LOL...

Confucius might say that, but I bet the Buddha wouldn't :).

[RunningDeer]

so ask away and be brave! now, WHY IS WATER WET?

Why is the water wet?

Cuz, the sky's blue.
Cuz, there's blue M&M's.
Cuz, the sun took a soda break.
Cuz, you chew your food before you swallow.
Cuz, you put your socks on before your shoes.
Cuz, you don't put your left shoe on your right foot.
Cuz, giraffes prefer scarfs and ant eaters prefer nose warmers.
Cuz, you duck when a pie's tossed, or run for the whip cream.
Cuz, you only wear socks with holes in the heels on Fridays.
Cuz, you don't wear a hat in the shower unless it's a cap.
Cuz, bologna and cheese goes in the inside.
Cuz, ants prefer nuts to peanut butter.



Ba-Dump-Dum ...Ba dum tssshhh
bcYppAs6ZdI

<3

[CD7]

There are never DUMB questions in the land of the blind....the heart will prompt questions that seem senseless to the mind...as the mind is blind. The Heart will cut straight to it---whether anyone realizes or not

[Selkie]

so ask away and be brave! now, WHY IS WATER WET?

Why is the water wet?

Cuz, the sky's blue.
Cuz, there's blue M&M's.
Cuz, the sun took a soda break.
Cuz, you chew your food before you swallow.
Cuz, you put your socks on before your shoes.
Cuz, you don't put your left shoe on your right foot.
Cuz, giraffes prefer scarfs and ant eaters prefer nose warmers.
Cuz, you duck when a pie's tossed, or run for the whip cream.
Cuz, you only wear socks with holes in the heels on Fridays.
Cuz, you don't wear a hat in the shower unless it's a cap.
Cuz, bologna and cheese goes in the inside.
Cuz, ants prefer nuts to peanut butter.



Ba-Dump-Dum ...Ba dum tssshhh
bcYppAs6ZdI

<3

I lurve it. :clap2:

[Earthlink]

maybe water is wet so it can move itself around?

and the sky is blue because oxygen is blue.

and without questions none would be inspired to look for something

qbexOeoH5hg

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

do you ever get tired of being so smart, enlightened , a step above the common man so to speak?
what kids have above the majority of us is asking dumb questions.

like why is the sky blue? why is water wet? followed by more whys ?? regardless of the answers they get .

all here at avalon, were all striving for something more than the norm. but we have to remember to still be willing to ask the so called dumb questions if they are true for us. questions that threaten our ego i.e. the need to be right, to be admired etc.

so Ill start. if E T,s have been meddling with our nuclear bases and launch codes et, why did they not prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening ?

why can one go on all the doom and gloom sites like "before its news "and godlike productions etc and realize that if you didn’t tune in for a year, the posts would look the same and you wouldn’t have missed anything? and this is true of sites too numerous to list

how come when predictions are made and come to pass, they make the news, but when they don't, they are not held accountable and immediately forgotten ?

does anyone remember a past life when they weren’t royalty, a queen ? a king or warrior? does anyone remember being a dullard or common person in a past life?

where are the seers , psychics and remote viewers regarding MH 370 missing flight as well as other mysteries?

ok , you get the idea.

I will try to remain real, fallible, human , and completely in the dark if thats my reality.

I might be able to answer one of your questions.
The one about Hiroshima.

:)

So if Wikipedia doesn't lie (Wikipedia is like, my church on Sunday lol),
it says Trinity Nuclear test was in July 1945,
then
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, ;

going from there to the "first major" UFO sightings that decade:

1947-06-24 Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting north of Mount Rainier, Washington United States The UFO sighting that sparked the name flying saucers. This sighting is considered as the start of the "Modern UFO era".

In mid 1947, a crash of a military Air Force surveillance balloon at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico gave rise to claims alleging the crash was of an extraterrestrial spaceship.[1]



barring time travel it means roughly that the entities who visited mobilized within 2 years of detecting the gamma blasts
no psychic power needed for things that can be looked up!!

but i guess it could be a shortcut for important research? lmao you still need references or people don't care :)

[aranuk]

Hi Tesla, I can't understand how you explained the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs? As far as I'm concerned they were not interested until it was too late.

My dumb question is this: If the illuminati or cabal are trying to depopulate the Earth with pharmaceuticals, poisoning the water, vaccines etc, why am I still alive after 15 years of having a massive heart attack. The hospitals and doctors, nurses have kept me alive with medications and care.

Stan

[Atlas]

"How God was created ?"

"Are aliens real or not ?"

:)

Little Kids. Big Questions.
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How Many Questions Do Children Ask In A Day?
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[thepainterdoug]

thanks all!

aranuk, glad your still with us!
my mom is in a nursing home for 5 years longer than i thought she would survive.she looks better now than years back she's in a bit of a dream world from dementia but is peaceful and ok at 88. somehow all the people in this home make it to 100 years and older!
i ask if they put something in the food to keep them going??
perhaps the cash cow of keeping people going , especially paying customers , runs priority over de population?? we all live and bear witness to so many contradictions.

[Peace of Mind]

Children (all of us) were born with all the knowledge needed, they just seek confirmation to why their parents believe in the things that don’t really make sense. They are confuse to why reality is what people fear instead of what people desire. Unfortunately, many parents contribute to the human demise without even knowing they are. They just train their offspring to be just like them...drones.

I've heard children ask questions similar to the following questions. Too bad many of us "Grownups" lost our minds before adulthood to even grasp such profound intellect. Many grownups have been conditioned to only think inside the box...they are contained and trained.

Why are we born into organized slavery if we are suppose to be the most intelligent life form on the planet?
Why do we allow ourselves to be ruled when we don’t want to?
Why do some people think aliens exist if no one has ever verified their existence?
Why do people fight each other over things we actually have an abundance of?
Why do people grow up to become cowards, but pretend to be brave?
Why do people talk so much about nonsense yet disregard the matters of true importance?
Why do parents always tell their children to be the best, and then place limits on their growth with fear, disinformation, and disempowerment?
Why do so many people leave this world without cementing a legacy?
Why are so many grownups complacent?
Why do people think they are something they are not?
Why do people hate themselves to the point that they choose to augment/mutilate their bodies (temples) with plastic/ink/piercings/poisons/etc…?
Why do people kill/sacrifice other animals for their own personal gains?
Why do people kill other species but have a Hugh problem with someone/thing wanting to kill them?
Why do humans refuse to live up to their true potential, yet have the audacity to set standards for others?
Why do people follow/trust in things that they themselves cannot in anyway authenticate is real?
Why do people like to fabricate a story just to get someone to agree with them?
Why do people exaggerate, are they not confident?
Why do people like regurgitating fallacies, but are afraid to represent/support/spread factual undeniable information?
Why are people afraid to die when life is short and death is inevitable?
Why do people complain about injustices yet they allow the injustices to continue?
Why do people harness fear when in fact fear doesn’t even exist?
Why do grownups preach responsibility and respect, but display very little of it to the world and all its inhabitant’s?
Why do grownups disempower their children by training them to be brainwashed followers just like them?
Why do so many people have no problem with being blind followers?
Why do most grownups talk about change for the best… when most of the time they support non-change by the ways of their actions?
Why did you bring me here mommy and daddy?
Why are you here?

Peace

[aranuk]

thanks all!

aranuk, glad your still with us!
my mom is in a nursing home for 5 years longer than i thought she would survive.she looks better now than years back she's in a bit of a dream world from dementia but is peaceful and ok at 88. somehow all the people in this home make it to 100 years and older!
i ask if they put something in the food to keep them going??
perhaps the cash cow of keeping people going , especially paying customers , runs priority over de population?? we all live and bear witness to so many contradictions.

Yes Doug, I am happy your mum is doing ok. I was treated by the NHS so I could in a sense be called the opposite of a cash cow. I am a liability I suppose. I cost the system now as I collect a state pension. Big Pharma despite the bad reports seems to be able to keep me alive. I am thankful of that.

Stan

PS I am thinking of another dumb question to ask.

[Selkie]

Permission to be human and fallible? Granted.

http://humoropedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Funny-Dumb-and-Dumber-Quotes-5.jpg

@ the painterdoug: "...so Ill start. if E T,s have been meddling with our nuclear bases and launch codes et, why did they not prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening ?"

Just a thought, but maybe the ETs aren't any smarter than we are? I mean honestly, what do they ever do but cause trouble? And the more we become like them, the deeper into trouble we get ourselves. Seems to me, anyway.

[thepainterdoug]

peace of mind/ love the dumb questions!

why do people who so want to see their maker do everything they can to avoid dying? you fill in the religion of your choice!

[Selkie]

Maybe irreverence is a kind of antidote to sanctimony? Just a thought.

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:becky:

Sorry...I had a troll dad.

[Roseheart]

thanks all!

aranuk, glad your still with us!
my mom is in a nursing home for 5 years longer than i thought she would survive.she looks better now than years back she's in a bit of a dream world from dementia but is peaceful and ok at 88. somehow all the people in this home make it to 100 years and older!
i ask if they put something in the food to keep them going??
perhaps the cash cow of keeping people going , especially paying customers , runs priority over de population?? we all live and bear witness to so many contradictions.

So much greed. So little time…

[thepainterdoug]

"The biggest coward is the man who awakens a woman's love with no intention of loving her." Bob Marley

btw does that quote have its opposite?? maybe something like;

the biggest conniver is a woman who awakens a mans "generosity" with no intention of loving him?

i can tell ya stories!

[Cristi Copac]

I am the person that asked ""dumb"" questions always and was considered dumb and wierd and inadequate. But there is a catch to it. This is at the beggining of the game. At the end I'm usually the all time winner in that game I entered. If you want me to explain why dumb questions are important I can say this. Assumptions can and always will be replaced by something better. Theories even the most important ones are and forever will be assumptions that worked in the past but in the future no one knows for sure. It's like constructing a tree house and to be sure that the tree is going to sustain the house that you're going to build on it you must first digg for the roots. Usually people have build a tree house on the tree. But they just assume that the tree is going to hold it because it never craked. Digging for the roots allows you to see if the tree is going to continue to sustain the tree house in the future and if so then you can continue to build something far much better than the previsious version which is going to amase all the previsious competitors.It can tell you also that it's not a good ideea to build there even if the whole planet is exalted of the idea because you know for sure that the roots are rotten. Digging for the roots of things allows you always to see on what you're going to stay on in the future. People assume that if they never fell in the past than that means that in the future this won't happen. Sky is blue? The question is why and since when. Because if you know why then you will not be surprised when the planet changes to purple or red or black for some unknown yet phenomena or better yet if it will be toxic or not.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Hi Tesla, I can't understand how you explained the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs? As far as I'm concerned they were not interested until it was too late.

My dumb question is this: If the illuminati or cabal are trying to depopulate the Earth with pharmaceuticals, poisoning the water, vaccines etc, why am I still alive after 15 years of having a massive heart attack. The hospitals and doctors, nurses have kept me alive with medications and care.

Stan

Hehe :)
no problem!

No, what I meant was,
if we look at the Manhattan project timeline etc,
considering the dates bombs were tested and dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki,
then consider the dates UFO sightings happened (Mount Rainer 1947 and Roswell 1947),
it does paint a rather compelling picture of us having been contacted or at least observed by a race not too far beyond ours technologically but perhaps more advanced morally.
hence their interest in nukes but inability to do much.

also time travel is too dangerous to just use for something like a war observation mission.


p.s. your question about health in general and the supposed global depopulation effort is a good one. considering your age tho and your race, you know the answers.

younger kids and kids with differing genes might not react the same way to vaccines we tolerate... also considering we were exposed *hopefully* to fewer enviro factors than our kids during this crucial development period, we're just healthier. thank your doctor and yourself i guess, or god. not sure lol.

even sitting in a car on a busy highway every day on the way home from daycare impacts your health, it's oxidative stress that people in past generation did not suffer (i assume)

[Selkie]

"The biggest coward is the man who awakens a woman's love with no intention of loving her." Bob Marley

btw does that quote have its opposite?? maybe something like;

the biggest conniver is a woman who awakens a mans "generosity" with no intention of loving him?

i can tell ya stories!

Generosity is not love. A man can be generous to a woman without loving her in the least. And if he is psychologically and emotionally abusing her at the same time he is bestowing his "generosity" upon her, then I would say that his "generosity"...even if it is lavish...is nothing but a display of his narcissism. It is a kind of lie. It is a trap. It is a gilded cage. His "generosity" may even be a mechanism by which he denies to the woman, himself and others the reality of his abuse. Such "generosity" would be highly confusing to the woman, who is liable to mistake such ostensible "generosity" for love, when it is no such thing.

Btw, when a fisherman baits his hook he is not being generous to the fish. That is merely the way the fisherman obtains his food supply. That kind of "generosity" is actually a form of predation.

an addition: So I guess I don't see that your formulation "the biggest conniver is a woman who awakens a mans "generosity" with no intention of loving him?" as being the opposite of the Bob Marley quote. The opposite would be, "And the biggest conniver is the woman who awakens a mans love with no intention of loving him."

Not to trivialize any stories you could tell, btw :sad:

another addition: If a man is generous to a woman, and she is not a conniver, then she will feel gratitude toward him for his generosity.


grat·i·tude

/ˈɡradəˌt(y)o͞od/

noun
noun: gratitude

the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness

[Pam]

Hi Tesla, I can't understand how you explained the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs? As far as I'm concerned they were not interested until it was too late.

My dumb question is this: If the illuminati or cabal are trying to depopulate the Earth with pharmaceuticals, poisoning the water, vaccines etc, why am I still alive after 15 years of having a massive heart attack. The hospitals and doctors, nurses have kept me alive with medications and care.

Stan


As far as the illumanati/cabal goes there is more to be gained by keeping you alive if you require frequent medical care There are huge profit margins on treatments and medications. As a nurse, I don't think there is any goal at the level of caregivers to conspire against anyone. At that level I am sure their are folks that generally care about your well being

We ( the medical profession) have been duped by the system just like everyone else. It is really painful to discover that a lot of what you thought was honorable in your profession really isn't. But no one can rob you of compassion unless you give it away.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Hi Tesla, I can't understand how you explained the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs? As far as I'm concerned they were not interested until it was too late.

My dumb question is this: If the illuminati or cabal are trying to depopulate the Earth with pharmaceuticals, poisoning the water, vaccines etc, why am I still alive after 15 years of having a massive heart attack. The hospitals and doctors, nurses have kept me alive with medications and care.

Stan




As far as the illumanati/cabal goes there is more to be gained by keeping you alive if you require frequent medical care There are huge profit margins on treatments and medications. As a nurse, I don't think there is any goal at the level of caregivers to conspire against anyone. At that level I am sure their are folks that generally care about your well being

We ( the medical profession) have been duped by the system just like everyone else. It is really painful to discover that a lot of what you thought was honorable in your profession really isn't. But no one can rob you of compassion unless you give it away.

You are a very amazing person :)

Reading this makes me feel bad!!!
There was a nurse in one of my autism (yahoo groups) support groups,
I left the group over the NAA/Chili's thing where Chili's cancelled a charity luncheon; the NAA (national autism association) supports vaccine injury awareness --

the women in the group had a quarrel and were asked to stop discussing the Chilis thing by moderators; I asked them to remove me rather than give up freedom of speech regarding this.


I got into it with a nurse and we had the same convo kind of, in your quote, where I said I was sure her heart was good and in the right place, but that did not make her an expert on microbiology!

there were tears and anger on both sides, but I pray she researched some of it.
only the doctors and nurses can really help us considering the authority society attributes to their opinions..

a 'nut' could tell you the truth but it doesn't have the same ring ;)

[thepainterdoug]

thats it silkie to be exact. your rephrasing of my quote is on the mark. for all has its opposites

[Ikarusion]

so Ill start. if E T,s have been meddling with our nuclear bases and launch codes et, why did they not prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening ?

bashar mentioned that hiroshima was allowed, to show the devastating powers of nukes so we'll learn from them and are more conscious of their effects.
it should be in one of those videos: https://www.ecosia.org/search/videos?q=nuclear+bashar+&orderby=relevance

sorry, im currently unavailable to hear the videos, hence you'd need to check yourself.
the best i got on this.


regards

[Nasu]

There is much wisdom in asking dumb questions and looking at situations through the eyes of a learner or as a child might.

Here's my dumb question, if we all accept that our government needs to print money to shore up the bond market, billions each month, why do they need a large percentage of yours and my efforts over the past year? Surely they could just print it, as they do, why do they need to slow our growth, our progress, within the system?

How fast would our economy grow this year if the government chose to print what it took in taxes, rather than taking back their old print from us???

Control is my only conclusion, do you have a better idea?

No one has ever answered this question to my satisfaction. The fact that no one ever has, has driven me on a evolutionary journey of self discovery. In order to get out of something we need to go through it. For me, this is an example of some answers that drive us to change ourselves and or the whole of society.

The unanswered dumb questions can drive us forward...x.... N

[araucaria]

The wisdom of dumb questions lies in the opportunity to peel away dumb answers, especially generally accepted ones, and get to something more substantive. A typical example might be “Why is the emperor wearing no clothes?” The really dumb answer is of course “He isn’t”. The smart answer being “So he is; we’ve been had!”

I don’t consider some informational questions to be dumb in this sense, but they do question things that we take for granted, such as the definition of words. Water is wet because it is a fluid, and differently wet than paint because it has lower viscosity. Those are the two parameters in the meaning of the word: water is at the wetter end of the spectrum (you have wet clothes that drip) and at the other wet paint which at its stickiest is almost dry. “Why is the sky blue?” (because light is scattered more at that shorter wavelength: http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/ ) is not really a dumb question at all, simply the sign of an inquiring mind exploring everyday situations.

[Earthlink]

yes, the visible light spectrum does go from infra-red to ultra-violet, the red side having the longest wave lengths, the violet side the shortest, so it was logical at the time to form the theory that the sky is blue-ish because shorter light waves bounce around more, making them more visible than the longer ones. that makes perfect sense as a theory, however the visible light spectrum doesn't go from red to blue, it goes from red to purple, so, the sky should be purple, according to this existing theory. Oxygen boils at -188 degrees, and so is always in gaseous form, and as a gas it is hard to discern colour, and it wasn't until we had gathered it as a liquid, and then spilled some of that liquid, did we see that it is a deep blue, almost a deep sky blue, in colour.

the flaw in the original theory isn't in the colour, it is the belief that we can see colour in light in the first place, (somehow our eyes act like pyramids and break down white light into individual colour?) because that theory does require us to see more blue light than red light, to be true.