Irony
of ironies. This is my modest collection of the 50
dastardly ironies of life (in question form). The trick is not to think too
deeply about them. Or vex yourself with the statistics. Just take a gander and
see whether you can divine some truth in the lot. Enjoy.
1) Why is the most religious the most
irreligious?
2) Why are the rich the hungriest and the poor
just hungry?
3) Why is it that the more
educated you are
the less education you show?
4) Why are we a monogamist at the altar and a polygamist in the bedroom?
5) Why is the most reckless the most lucky?
6) Why is there no such thing as a conscious
hypocrite?
7) Why are the more interesting people the
most controversial and dishonest?
8) Why is the most helpful the least troubled
by troubles?
9) Why is it that the more depressed you are
the more realistic you become?
10) Why is the most contented among us the
least deluded?
11) Why is the most deluded the most
emulated?
12) Why are the double minded so single
minded?
13) Why is death so inviting and terrifying to
us at the same time?
14) Why does a drop of worry contaminate a
whole river of confidence?
15) Why is our brief existence so full of
strife and why is all that strife so bereft of meaning?
16) Why is an old man so tormented by a
younger version
of himself?
17) Why is a betrayal of the heart more heartbreaking
than a surgery of the heart?
18) Why is the larger the crowd the smaller the brain?
19) Why is the toughest prison to break out
from found inside us and not outside?
20) Why is the religious without evidence so
cocksure and the irreligious with evidence so unsure?
21) Why do we prefer the prison of lies to the
freedom of
truth?
truth?
22) Why is the most hurtful the most insecure
and the most insecure the most unforgiving?
23) Why is it that the more a man professes to
love God, the more he hates what God loves?
24) Why is for goodness' sake always used to
pursue anything other than for goodness' sake?
25) Why is Good a tougher taskmaster than Evil
but not always a better paymaster?
26) Why must we do the unpardonable just to
love unconditionally?
27) Why is the misfortune of others a quiet
fortune for us?
28) Why do we love others conditionally and
ourselves unconditionally?
29) Why do vices always pay homage to virtues
and virtues always held captive by vices?
30) Why are the most unforgiving the busiest
advocate for giving?
31) Why do we judge others for the same fault
we praise in ourselves?
32) Why does love hurt and those who hurt
still love?
33) Why is the most pious the most immodest?
34) Why do we act like angels but think like
demons?
35) Why are some successes our greatest failure and some failures our greatest success OR why do some fail so successfully and others
succeed so miserably?
36) Why is ignorance still a bliss to those
who pretend not to know?
37) Why is being alone heaven for some and
hell for others?
38) Why is the forbidden fruit of adultery far
more enticing than the fruit garden of marriage?
39) Why does the proud always look to be
humble?
40) Why is forgiving the hardest when the cut
is the shallowest?
41) Why does justice perform
selective blindness?
42) Why is the same talent overrated in the
popular and underrated in the unknown?
43) Why is the poor so forgiving of the rich
and the rich so unforgiving of the poor?
44) Why does God seem the least available when
you need him most?
45) Why is truth so hard to
swallow and lies
so easily digested?
46) Why do we worry most when we are most
certain of its outcome?
47) Why are the dishonest just dishonest but
the honest can be dishonest about it?
48) Why is the opposite of knowledge not
ignorance but the illusion of knowledge?
49) Why is the opposite of control not chaos
but the illusion of control?
And last but not least,
50) Why is an irony a better
teacher than an honest advice?
Cheerz.
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