Curiosity & the Cat Part - II

My last post found me rediscovering the natural curiosity of Sissy and being both ecstatic about and overwhelmed by it.
An attempt at a similar conversation with Peanut resulted in a misunderstanding and a great one-liner for the end of my post.
This post is, in part, about the rest of the conversation with Peanut.
After I realized that I had been unclear, I took the time to put into context what I was asking her. Then she, very much like her sister, fired off a list of questions faster than I could write them down, including:

How do scuba diving suits work....especially the flippers? How do flippers make you swim better?
How do astronaut suits make you float in space?
(The first question I was able to answer on the spot ! They don't. Lack of gravity makes you float in space. Astronaut suits just keep you alive while you're floating. )
If you get eaten by something, will you go to heaven, or will you just stay in the animal or whatever-ate-you-up's stomach forever?
(The only other question I was able to answer on the spot).
Why do little girls love baby dolls so much?
How does the computer save your game? I don't mean a CD game, I mean on the Internet, when you tell it your password and your game comes up where you left off before? How does it DO that?
Why do softballs have to be bigger than baseballs and T-balls?
How do cameras work?
(ME: You mean digital cameras or.....upon seeing Peanut's blank expression, I answer myself ...yes, you mean digital).

I think what amazed me more than anything is the variety of topics they wanted to know more about, and how freely the questions flew once the door was opened. It makes me wonder what else goes on inside their little heads.

It also inspired me to put into black-and-white, some questions I've had myself recently like:

1. Considering the condition of "official religions" of certain countries - religions that are publicly endorsed by the government, not to mention those that are mandated by the government, not to mention the practices of the Puritan settlers of this country, not to MENTION we just elected a President who many believe has been, directly or not, influenced by Islam ........

is separation of church and state REALLY a bad thing?

2. If nobody here has OCD, how come there's never any toilet paper?

3. Why did the Founding Fathers sign a document in 1776 that declared ".....all men are created equal....." , only to sign another document a few years later which , in very cleverly disguised wording , stated that slaves would be counted as "three-fifths of one person". Oh I know it was the result of the Great Compromise. But 200+ years later when schoolchildren are studying these documents side-by-side .... it doesn't look good, guys. That's all I'm sayin'.

4. If I have to go gray, why can't I just wake up one day looking like Emmylou Harris?

5. What was the earliest Christian church really like? How did they worship? Were there musical instruments? Did the congregation applaud after special music? Was there charismatic -type freedom of worship? Or was the atmosphere more formal and solemn? Was there an altar call? How many times a week did they meet? Was there age-separated Bible instruction or did they all meet together?

6. Whatever happened to my Mary Poppins board game? I've already asked my mother and she doesn't know.

7. Why do stomach viruses always hit at night?

Wow, I can see now how it's possible to have a bunch of interests on the back-burner of your mind at the same time.

Oh, I started chipping away at Sissy's list and I learned something.

Mood rings?

Liquid crystal, color-sensitive to body temperature. They can't tell what kind of mood you're in at all. Who knew ;)