| 2 FEB 2003 at 9:36pm |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | 2) No, I would not be willing to spend a year in perfect happiness and not remember it. What would be the purpose if you could not remember in the years to come that special year which set your live apart from your normal existence. That year could be the basis of getting you through the rough times that are before you and to not have that memory would be sad.
6) I don't think an innocent is what you would call a person who is the cause of world hunger.
If on the off chance that it is some innocent person and they do not know that they are the cause I don't think I have it in me to do the deed as they say.....................
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 9:53pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Belinda48 (2 FEB 2003 7:29pm)
1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
Yes. I already moved to a distant country to get a job I like, so I don't think this would be too different. I never thought I could do it, but it was much easier than I expected.
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
No, because I don't see what would be the point of it if I couldn't remember anything.
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
If it will still exist, I do not believe it will be significantly better or worse.
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
Work harder.
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
No. I have no enemies that I feel like hurting.
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
Since I do not see how killing an innocent person could end hunger in the world, I do not feel I can answer this question.
I forgot my sig.
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 10:01pm |
BelindaSchattenjger
Posts : 2093
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Thank you Gayle & Michal.........I hope others here will answer some of these too.....these aren't 'trick' questions or anything like that...... and I'm glad you 2 answered respectfully of them. I have many many more questions to ask, maybe I should start a new topic every time I post them?
If you are interested in obtaining the source for these questions, they are from the book......'The Book of Questions' by: Gregory Stock,PH.D.
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 10:06pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Belinda48 (2 FEB 2003 7:29pm)
1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
It's a hard decision but I'd probably do it. I already talked this with my girlfriend and we think it's a possibility.
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
No, there's no point. It would be a lost year if I can't remember what I did.
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
Worse.
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
A higher capacity to learn.
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
Hurt only? I don't see how could help just to hurt someone (and I don't know anyone I'd want to hurt).
Now, killing someone, well that's interesting question - a political figure, perhaps?
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
I assume this person unfortunately is related to the problem in question without knowing it - it's a weird question anyway. Maybe I'd do it but only if this person isn't someone close to me (that was probably the worst answer I could give).
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 10:32pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | 1) Yes, I never moved in my life so far, but honestly, I don't want to live my whole life with my family around...although I'm not sure if I will ever be that far away from them. Guilty conscience. :-/
2) No. Memory is all we have. There is no sense in spending one year you won't ever remember again. At least as long as you are not close to death or in very bad shape by the time you get to spend that year. Might be considered in this case.
3) It will be more worse than better than now. But I think it will get better after some centuries - it can't get any worse than it still is, otherwise the world will cease to exist I guess.
4) Tough question. Maybe giveing my life another try. All those adventures I could play for the first time...
Or a woman magnet. Yes, I take that one.
5) No. Maybe Bush. You know, if I finally hold it in my hands I might change my mind.
6) I could begin with all that talk about one-sacrifice-for-mankind now, but no - I would never kill anybody for the "good" of the world.
I leave that task for the more worthy and brave ones.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 11:04pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | 1) Never! I will never move because somebody else wants or asks me to do so. I have my own life, my own carreer, my own interests and objectives. So if I move to a distant country, it has to be of my own choice. Yeah, you can see I'm not really the romantic type .
2) No. I think a hundred years of relative happiness is better than 1 year of perfect happiness you can't remember....
3) I think the world will be a different place. Some things will probably be better, other things may be worse. History (my field of expertise ) tells us this over and over again.
4) I would like to be able to write a great book. It doesn't have to be highbrow literature. A really good thriller would be just as exciting. The rush of feeling a story unfold while writing it whilst knowing that if you don't finish it, it will never be finished.
5) No. I don't want to hurt anyone. Not even from a distance. In my mind though, I've hurted a lot of people. And usually that's enough for me. I probably don't mean it.
6) No. Complete wars or witchhunts have been started by people who were willing to fight for the most honorable of causes. It always seems to go awfully wrong somewhere along the line. Can you ever be really sure that what you think is going to happen, really will happen. For me, I can't even kill a fly or a mosquito so I would be useless at this.
|
| 2 FEB 2003 at 11:46pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Inie (2 FEB 2003 11:03pm)
3) I think the world will be a different place. Some things will probably be better, other things may be worse. History (my field of expertise ) tells us this over and over again.
Heh, I figured that out myself and I'm not even a historian But, to be honest, I am interested in history - I always say that knowing history is required to understand the present.
For me, I can't even kill a fly or a mosquito so I would be useless at this.
I once or twice helped with a pig slaughter... holding down the pig while the butcher stunned it and cut its throat. Lots of blood. Not very pretty. But hey, the meat was yummy!
And I agree that killing people for the noblest causes somehow never seems to work. History again.
I forgot my sig.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 12:25am |
| Deleted User | 1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
Moving to a distant country, yes. But I could never accept not being able to return to Sweden now and then, at least not as I have family there. Abandoning my family would never be an option.
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
No. I don't think that escaping the challenges and responsibilities of life makes you truly happy. If I spent a life full of hard work and little joy, I would still die happy if I knew that I had done the right thing and made the world a better place.
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
Possibly, but we humans have a habit of not learning from history and repeating old mistakes. Hopefully there will not be any non-democratic regimes in a 100 years, and wealth and political power will be more evenly distributed, but that can go either way as far as I can tell. But I do think that we will have solved the imminent environmental problems we are facing today and also have the ability to cure diseases like cancer, which will increase people's life quality a great deal.
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
Probably it would be the ability to convince people to be open-minded and rethink their opinions.
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
No. The thought of it is kind of funny, but who deserves physical violence, really?
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
This sort of question is unnessecary. It's a purely hypothetical scenario that doesn't make any sense, and it's trying to address the issue if murder can be measured against anything else. I don't think you can reason in that sort of way. Is killing two persons worse than killing one? Not even that is a question that can be easily answered. And what about this: If you had two children and someone was trying to force you to select one of them to be killed, or else both of them would be killed, how would you choose which one to kill? Could you deny choosing any of them even though it meant that both would be killed? And because you cannot predict the future you cannot even say that killing someone like Hitler would actually have been a good thing, as it's impossible to know what direction the world would have turned in if such a thing had happened.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 12:37am |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (2 FEB 2003 11:46pm)
I always say that knowing history is required to understand the present.
Everybody should have just that teensy bit of historical sense, shouldn't they?
Originally Posted By MichalN (2 FEB 2003 11:46pm)
I once or twice helped with a pig slaughter... holding down the pig while the butcher stunned it and cut its throat. Lots of blood. Not very pretty. But hey, the meat was yummy!
After such an experience I probably would end up a vegetarian after throwing up for the next month or so... Yeah, now it's official, I would actually starve if I was stranded on a deserted island with only animals to feed on. Or be ruled by the monkeys .....
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 12:44am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Belinda48 (2 FEB 2003 7:29pm)
1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
as long as i loved deeply that person, i would evaluate the probabilities of this love to be FOREVER (i'm a taurus so i can't help bringing logic to it! )... if my conclusion is i DO love that person deeply AND i see a long-distant future with her, then yes i would be willing to move... but only the process of the evaluation could take years!!! :
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
probably not... cause no matter how happy you feel, there's no point if you can't take any memories with you... memories never end
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
worse i think
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
can't think of one right now :
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
if i had a reason to and only as long as he/she knew who was doing it! [img]users.panafonet.gr/pantex/evil.gif[/img]
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
agreed with inie
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 1:02am |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | 1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
yes... loving deeply does not come often
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
no... living is learning and if one has no memory of experiences, happy or sad, there is no point...
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
some things better... some things worse
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
the ability to spread my optimism and turn a mirror on those unfortunates who are forever negative and mean spirited
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
no... but wouldn't it be funny if there was such a thing and everybody had one... maybe voodoo dolls would keep everyone in check...
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
no...besides, i didn't think there were any virgins left that were worth sacrificing...
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 1:26am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By sennebec (3 FEB 2003 1:02am)
no... but wouldn't it be funny if there was such a thing and everybody had one... maybe voodoo dolls would keep everyone in check...
Nah, they'd just build bigger voodoo dolls
I forgot my sig.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 1:29am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Inie (3 FEB 2003 12:37am)
Everybody should have just that teensy bit of historical sense, shouldn't they?
Yes! And it is painfully obvious that too many people don't.
I forgot my sig.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 1:32am |
CarlaJourneyman
Posts : 836
Joined: 12 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Belinda48 (2 FEB 2003 7:29pm)
1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
Yes, why not?. If I love that person so much, I guess it could be painful to stay away from him.
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
No. You can keep good memories even of unhappy years. And I can't even imagine a whole year in perfect happines. It could be boring.
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
Different, for sure. Maybe worse, I think. I'm not the optimistic type.
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
My English!!! . Mmmhh, I'd have to think about the answer to this question.
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
No. (For now , but can I keep the voodoo doll?? . Just in case) I agree with Rael, don't see how just hurting someone would help. (anyway, I can't think in anyone to hurt right now...)
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
Inland put it clear. I believe there's much to learn from History.
[b][center]Aut inveniam viam aut faciam[/b][/center]
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 1:37am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Malia G (3 FEB 2003 1:32am)
No. You can keep good memories even of unhappy years
i do think so too... in fact i think that in the end only the good memories stay (in a nostalgic kinda way) ever from the unhappiest of times
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 2:13am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Aya_Brea (3 FEB 2003 1:37am)
i do think so too... in fact i think that in the end only the good memories stay (in a nostalgic kinda way) ever from the unhappiest of times
Which is why people always talk about "good old days" which never really existed Apparently something that lets humans survive even the worst times without going mad.
I forgot my sig.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 2:20am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (3 FEB 2003 1:32am)
And I can't even imagine a whole year in perfect happines. It could be boring.
Good point, it is something very difficult to imagine. on't know how that'd work or even if it could work. Can humans ever be truly happy? Or is it something that they can never achieve and that's what drives them forward (more or less)?
Different, for sure. Maybe worse, I think. I'm not the optimistic type.
I'm not terribly optimistic either, but my reasoning goes like this: if it's been going downhill for the last few thousand years and we're still not in Hell (or are we?), maybe it's not getting worse, maybe it's just not getting better.
Inland put it clear. I believe there's much to learn from History.
You mean Inie?
I forgot my sig.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 2:33am |
BelindaSchattenjger
Posts : 2093
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Isn't this interesting now.......how we all feel about something, the opinions, the beliefs, your feelings.....
These questions (and more to come) expose issues that warrant deep, solitary reflection, but are also particularly stimulating when explored by others. You will be surprised how effectively these questions catalyze unusual & rewarding discussions.
We react strongly to questions that touch our own unresolved conflicts, so if you feel like avoiding a question, that may be the one to consider most.
I will make another topic with more of these kind of questions in it tonight.......
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 2:53am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Belinda48 (2 FEB 2003 7:29pm)
1)For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country, knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends & family again?
Possibly. I don't think I can answer this in a general, objective sense. The exact circumstances would make a big difference in my answer.
2) If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of it, would you do so? If not, why?
No, I wouldn't. A year of life unremembered is really a year wasted.
3) Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
Worse. Even taking into consideration what benefical progress humanity has achieved, I believe that is outweighed by the seemingly endless brutality and amorality of the majority of mankind throughout history.
4) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any 1 ability or quality, what would it be?
Wisdom. Not neccesarily knowledge, but wisdom.
5) If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
No, I wouldn't. The offer would be tempting, but I hope that I would not accept if it were possible.
6) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person,if it meant ending hunger in the world?
Some people have interpeted this question to mean that the innocent person would somehow be responsible for the suffering. I look at it as a diabolical kind of offer -- being offered a great good in exchange for committing a evil act that might seem small in comparision. No, I couldn't do it. The end does not justify the means to that end, and anything "good" that is based on an evil foundation is not truly good.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 3:14am |
CarlaJourneyman
Posts : 836
Joined: 12 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (3 FEB 2003 2:13am)
Which is why people always talk about "good old days" which never really existed Apparently something that lets humans survive even the worst times without going mad.
Don't you believe in the survival instinct?
I don't think Aya was talking about "good old days" (or were you, Aya? ), but about good memories even from an unhappy time (and I'm almost quoting here), which is something different.
[b][center]Aut inveniam viam aut faciam[/b][/center]
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 3:16am |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Very much in agreement with there is a lot to learn from history. The actors change, the settings change, the methods change, but do we learn the lessons taught from history? In many cases we do not, we repeat them again and again.
Right now because of this war looming, it is apparent that we do not learn from history, we read it and nod our heads and say 'Ahhh, things are better now" No, just a different set of actors. It seems to just recycle itself.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 3:21am |
BelindaSchattenjger
Posts : 2093
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | SO TRUE Gayle.....so true......
History does repeat itself.
Well said girlfriend......
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 3:25am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Malia G (3 FEB 2003 3:14am)
I don't think Aya was talking about "good old days" (or were you, Aya? ), but about good memories even from an unhappy time (and I'm almost quoting here), which is something different.
no i wasn't talking about good old days!... i was talking about what you're also saying... but maybe Michal has a point in the long run! :
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
|
| 3 FEB 2003 at 3:43am |
CarlaJourneyman
Posts : 836
Joined: 12 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (3 FEB 2003 2:20am)
Can humans ever be truly happy? Or is it something that they can never achieve and that's what drives them forward (more or less)?
From my "non optimistic" point of view, > I'd say happines (in its full version, I'm not talking about happy -Kodak?- moments) is an utopia that drives us forward, as you said.
I'm not terribly optimistic either, but my reasoning goes like this: if it's been going downhill for the last few thousand years and we're still not in Hell (or are we?), maybe it's not getting worse, maybe it's just not getting better.
Oh, we certainly don't live in the same country ..So, it's logical we have different perspective about world's future.
You mean Inie?
Yes.
[b][center]Aut inveniam viam aut faciam[/b][/center]
|
