Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable?

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.” -James Baldwin
 
juantoo3 said:
I find myself thinking today that Cervantes has it backwards (perhaps intentionally?). People are so caught up seeing the world as they want it to be, they tend to look past what is right in front of their eyes.
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“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” -William James
 
“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.” -Robert Pirsig
 
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