Did We Ever Get an Answer to #Why? @KellyJHolmes tells us #WhyNot

That's the question that occurred to me as I re-watched THE MATRIX. I see Thomas "Neo" Anderson 'go to work, get arrested and offered a cleared record, visit Morpheus and "take the red pill" and make various choices,' and I wonder 'Why?'

(or maybe 'that question' is just "a leftover thought from this scene ...")

Maybe I wonder "why" 'a character in a movie' does things, but I'm ultimately reminded of the "typical 3-year-old's 'why'-sequence" ('Mommy/Daddy/Aunt/Uncle/Grampa/Gramma/Teacher? Why is something the way it is?" 'Because "God" made it that way.' "Why?" 'Because ...' "Why?" 'Because ...' etc.)

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The word “Why” is built on ancient words that mean “What (in the instrumental case ... For 'what' Purpose, or By 'what' Means)” (also the proto-word #kwo- (root of relative & interrogative pronouns) which gave us |Where, Cheese (a |Big |Thing), |Cue (the |Stage Direction), |Either, |How, |Neither, Neuter, Quality, |Quantity, |Quasi-, Query, Quip, |Quorum, Quote, |Quotient, When, Whence, |Which, |Whither, Who).

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So why? Because (like Kelly J. Holmes's article tells us) ... You tell me why 😜 Like The Oracle told Neo, "You're not here to make the choice; you're here to find out why you made that choice."

But there are a few "why"s I wish I had known before I had to 'find out' (or a few 'why's I'd rather learn before I have to 'find out'):

• Why do we need to cover our beds' mattresses with a sheet to sleep on top of? (A reason so obvious that I can't believe I didn't know it until I'd slept on a bare mattress for about ten years!)
• Why do we use fabric-softener on our laundry (shouldn't hot water & detergent pretty much accomplish everything with our laundry)?
• Why do we wear clothes?

Those questions—to my mind, their answers start out 'Because "I" (mommy or daddy) said to! (and Our Father commands you to "Obey your Mother & Father")' and change (after you learn that Our Father said to "Honor your Mother & Father" ... 'obeying' them is just the simplest way to 'honor' them) to 'Because "something bad will happen" if you don't!'