Yes, Graham, I agree with you.

I think the questions we ask define who we are.

I was practising a bit of channelling yesterday and one of the insights that came through was:

Questions are manifestations of desires. All desires are questions. Some may be verbalized into a language form that you would call a question, while others may just be unexpressed as far as that format is concerned, but from our perspective, they are still just as much questions.

So from that point of view, the questions that people ask are representative of the desires they hold - and the desires they hold are representative of who they really are.

One interesting observation I have noticed is looking at how people's questions evolve over a period of time.

If the questions become more self-empowered, open-minded and confident then the questioner is probably gaining from their interactions with others here, if they become more defensive, dogmatic and critical then they are probably receiving information they are not ready to hear yet, or don't want to hear.

If there is no discernible change at all in someone's line of questioning, then there might be something fishy going on ;)

Yes and no. It can tell you, but you can misinterpret easily also. Some questions are already asked, so many people won't ask it again, even if they would have asked if it wasn't already asked, so this would be missing information. Then there are those that ask anyway. Is it because they are lazy and don't want to look for their question, or is it because they jumped right in and were so eager to get started that they didn't even realize their question might have already been asked.

Another possible trip up is the fact that some questions are asked not to get answer, but so the questioner can answer because they already have an answer they want to share.

So I think you can learn some things about a person from the questions they post, as well as their answers. I don't know that the questions are more telling than answers though. Answers could be copied and pasted from other sites, in which case we would be greatly mislead if we thought they answered it themselves, when in reality, they copied it from somebody else.

Yes Graham our questions do tell a lot about us. But some are not always as easy to 'read' as others.

Take my freakshow for example. I might ask a sincere question for me one day then ask another question not pertaining to me but a question in a way a fisherman throws chum in the ocean for bait to see what people think about a certain subject.

A newcomer might read a question like the later scenario and think that I am 'about' that but all of you that know me so well know better and know my intentions.

So yes depending on how long you have been here the better you are or will be at learning what the questioner is about.

A slightly off topic addition point I'd like to make is I think we always answer ourselves the perfect answer. not to say that we dont need a lift or guidances from especially the like minded here.