According to you what is the biggest mystery in the world?

Bermuda Triangle IMO.

Organic molecules forming to create a living, breathing person or animal, and then the conscious and self-awareness that follows.

Organic molecules forming to create a living, breathing person or animal, and then the conscious and self-awareness that follows.

LovePotionNo9

The universe

OT. Can never and never will figure them out even after half a decade. :| :P

Why do my nips stiffen in the cold? Why don't they shrink into my chest, thus reducing surface area and conserving heat?

in this world, the depths of the ocean, the least explored place on earth

What's truly in the oceans. Deep sea creatures absolutely fascinate me.

The Contents of a Chicken McNugget.

Why do my nips stiffen in the cold? Why don't they shrink into my chest, thus reducing surface area and conserving heat?

Oleg_Huzwog

The identity of Jack The Ripper.

What's truly in the oceans. Deep sea creatures absolutely fascinate me.

yokofox33

Bermuda Triangle IMO.

danishkhan

I live in Bermuda. Not only am I slightly offended, it's not even a real mystery. :P

For me, the biggest mystery is the purpose of the silent letter. I mean, really. Why the hell is there a 'k' in knife? And a 'p' in pterodactyl?

Chicken or the egg.

Women...

How the universe started.

Women...

raynimrod

Why can't all people use our full brain capacity. I would imagine everyone would be super intelligent, crime would be almost nonexistant or maybe it would give us more abilities we would never have access to, like telekinesis or clarvoyance. I always wonder what our true abilities could be, if we have them innately to begin with.

Organic molecules forming to create a living, breathing person or animal, and then the conscious and self-awareness that follows.

LovePotionNo9

Women. :|

(western) humans being so egoistic while humans are considered as solidary creatures.

How people act like idiots.lancelot200

Bermuda Triangle IMO.

danishkhan

Edit: For me it's probably consciousness. How does it arise, why does it arise, and why only for certain configurations of matter?

The truth to the JFK assassination.

Why there is something instead of nothing

(western) humans being so egoistic while humans are considered as solidary creatures.

rastotm

Not that many people are narcissts or egotistical. There are a lot of ignorant and self-indulgent people, though.

Life, The Unicerse, and the money pit

Why spider man dose not know how to shot web?

The biggest mystery in the world is how anything simply exists.

Women. :|

TheStarM4n

Why can't all people use our full brain capacity. I would imagine everyone would be super intelligent, crime would be almost nonexistant or maybe it would give us more abilities we would never have access to, like telekinesis or clarvoyance. I always wonder what our true abilities could be, if we have them innately to begin with.

KamuiFei

This seems like a sort of variation on the whole "we only use 10% of our brains" myth. And I've always thought that to be fairly ridiculous.

I mean, giving birth is DANGEROUS. Babies are born with RIDICULOUSLY big heads. If we truly only used a tiny-ass part of our brains, then it seems VERY weird to me that we'd evolve to have such big brains even though it poses such obvious risks. Baby's big-ass heads actually KILL both mothers and babies, so it seems very weird to me that we'd somehow evolve to have gigantic brains if most of those brains were doing absolutely nothing.

It very much seems to me that if we truly DIDN'T use most of our brains, that we wouldn't have so much brain.

How and why are we here in this world/universe. It just doesn't make sense....

[QUOTE="lancelot200"]How people act like idiots.surrealnumber5

Shouldn't be too much of a mystery for anyone who has ever found themselves giving a BS excuse for stupid behavior.

I'm sure most people here have done silly stuff like done badly on a test and then given some BS excuse as to why they deserve to retake it. Or been late to work, and given a really dumbass BS excuse for why they weren't there. Anyone who's ever given a BS excuse has PROBABLY already acted like an idiot, or else they'd be giving a GENUINE excuse rather than a BS excuse. BS excuses are pretty much just attempts to cover up previous acts of idiocy.

And...almost everyone is gonna find themselves doing that at some point. At that point, it shouldn't be much of a mystery. Because once you find that you've screwed yourself into such a bad situation that you have to make up BS in order to get out of it, then you've sort of ALREADY admitted that you'd previously "acted like an idiot". At that point, the normal thing is to ask onesself, "man...what the hell was I thinking?" One then comes up with an answer to that question and says, "I'm never going to do THAT again."

Of course, people often then DO still continue to do it. But the mystery here isn't idiocy. The mystery is how people can identify the ways in which they've been acting like idiots, and still continue to do the same freaking thing.

Definitely the Loch Ness Monster.DanC1989

where we come from?:question: where we are now?:question: whereare wegoing to go? :question:

The human conscious.