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[Oct. 6th, 2005|07:58 pm] |
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Question #122: If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids?
No.
For one, I'm not the kind of person that cheats (although there's a certain chemistry test and an inky eraser protesting in the back of my mind). I feel nauseated with myself even when I tell tiny lies, especially to those dear to me. Should the chance to have all-consuming consta-love arise, I would think about it, and might even feel guilt for what might've been, but ultimately, I just don't think I have the gumption to betray a spouse to whom I am happily married.
Second, who wants to be in that frenzied love state for a prolonged period anyway? Yeah, it feels really great in the beginning, your heart jumping to your Adam's apple and the feather in your head (as the Free Design put it). But all it is, and forgive me for being cynical, is neurotransmitters telling your body that you need the other person near you, that their touch and presence are like water and air. Research has recently discovered that this drunken love state is indistinguishable physiologically from obsessive compulsive disorder. I wouldn't wish OCD on myself, even OCD of the love/infatuation variety. It would interfere too greatly with my daily activities and personal interactions. I can't have that. Not at all.
And plus, how could you do that to your spouse and kids? Dante's schema has betrayal at the most heinous level of Hades, and were I to beleive in Hell and Satan, I would agree. To have wreaked mayhem and devastation on them, especially the children, is unacceptable in my eyes. Every moral fiber in your body should revolt and scream out to you that it's wrong. And the home-wrecker: (s)he should feel equally rotten and wholly contempible for destroying a family's happiness and stability. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2005|10:07 am] |
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Question #119: If this country were to be totally obliterated in a nuclear attack, would you favor unleashing the US nuclear arsenal on the aggressors?
Of course not. Violence only begets violence. There's no need to lump massive suffering upon massiver suffering.
Question #120: Would you accept $10,000 for shaving your head without wearing a wig or hat in your daily activities and offering no excuse?
Apparently whent his book was published, it was taboo to have a shaved head. Even if I were a woman or had hideous scars on my scalp, I'd do it. That's, like, a lot of money.
Question #121: If you were able to wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else, would you do so? Who would you choose?
If "wake up in the body of someone else" means having to run their life for them for an indeterminate amount of time, then I don't think I would want to do that. My handle on my own life is tenuous as it is.
But if it means just waking up with a different body, then I think I would. Who doesn't want to be more attractive and healthier? As long as the new body doesn't have herpes or a history of alcoholism or something. |
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[Sep. 11th, 2005|12:20 pm] |
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Question #117: Have you ever considered suicide? What is so important to you that without it life would not be worth living?
Only briefly have I ever considered suicide, but iit was more like a selfish thought-experiment. I have no idea what it feels like to be depressed or even extremely blue. My brain chemistry isn't wired for that.
That other question is dumb.
Question #118: If your friends and acquaintances were willing to bluntly and honestly tell you what they thought of you, would you want them to?
Hell yeah. I have a mean controlling streak in me, and not knowing things upsets me. I have a good idea what you guys think of me, but if you have any super-secret machinations, I'd be open to hearing them. And ridiculing them.
Follow-up question: Do you think your friends would agree with one another about what kind of person you are? How much energy do you spend trying to favorably impress people? If you were completely unconcerned with what others might think, what might you do? How do you feel when people like you because they think you are someone you are not?
Everyone acts differently around different groups of people, so I would imagine that my groups of friends would have slightly varying responses. The greatest variation being my old church friends and my gay ones. I would wager that the most accurate opinion would be those I've been in band and G/T classes with.
I expend a normal amount of energy trying to impress people, which I understand to mean "Not look like a complete jackass." No one wants to look dumb.
Were I unconcerned with what people thought, I would probably yell and be very mean to others. I already yell sometimes, and can be pretty vicious... I'm not sure where I'm going with this.
I'm not sure I've ever been in a position where people liked me (and I knew about it) under the pretense that I was someone I am not. |
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[Aug. 31st, 2005|05:59 pm] |
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Question #115: Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so? Where would you go and what might you try to accomplish to try to change history?
Hell to the naw. And if I did, it would be to pants you.
Follow-up question: How might the world be different if you could actually change an event? How sure are you that the long-term results would be positive?
If I pantsed Christine, then Bush wouldn't have been elected.
If I pantsed Leici, then Britney would've had an abortion.
If I pantsed Justin, then he would have had a grilled cheese instead of a club sandwich.
If I pantsed Jess, the world would start turning the other direction.
If I pantsed Kristofer, he would give me a bewildered and indignant look.
et al.
Question #116: How many sexual partners have you had in your life? Would you like to have had less or more?
Just one. So if I had less it'd be zero, so I guess I would've liked more, not that the present one is unsatisfactory... this was a little too personal. |
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[Aug. 24th, 2005|10:16 am] |
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Question #113: If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?
Better question for Christine.
I've thought about this before, but never really came to a conclusion. I usually end up saying whatever country is on my mind. Most recently I've said Brazil and Spain (specifically Ibiza or that place where they have the tomato-throwing festival).
Question #114: Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?
Those last five years will probably suck anyway, so sure. This is assuming I would have had a normal lifespan (~72). |
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[Aug. 16th, 2005|06:37 pm] |
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| | Vetiver - "Be Kind to Me!" | ] |
Question #111: If your parents became infirm and the only options were to either bring them into your home or to put them in a nursing home, which would you do? What about a sister or brother who had suffered a crippling injury and -- other than your home -- had nowhere to go but a convalescent home?
Of course I'd prefer to take them into my own home, but that seems really difficult. My grandparents both died within a few years of one another, and I remember that we took my grandmother into our house for a while. She had by that time suffered a couple strokes and was hard to look after. She would faintly wail at night and required all kinds of attention. At the second stroke, she was transferred to a bad nursing home, bad because of distance and mild negligence on the orderlies' part. And then to a better one, where she passed expectedly.
My mother (her daughter) seemed to handle it as best she could, between three kids and work and graduate school and whatever. She tried to care for my grandmother at home, and was successful briefly, but a nursing home was ultimately necessary.
Were it my brother or sister, it's much easier to say that I would take them into my home. Mostly because they would still have their mental faculties (or so I assume from the question), and would understand if I couldn't do everything for them.
Question #112: If you were at a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner and found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?
Depends on how well I know my friend and his or her family. The more intimate I am, the more readily I feel I could make a scene out of it. If it would seem like an insult to the family and their house, then I wouldn't say anything. Maybe they feel sensitive about where they live or something, and my pointing it out wouldn't help. And regardless, I would stop eating the salad and seriously reconsider eating anything else, hoping it was a singular incident. |
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[Aug. 11th, 2005|10:58 am] |
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Question #110: If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else's paper, would you?
I hate to say it, but I might. My academic performance is important to me. I would hate myself later for doing it and feel incredible guilt. But I would feel better if I got the test back and didn't do that well.
Follow-up question: If you saw someone cheating on a test, what would you do? What if you had signed an honor code?
I probably wouldn't do anything unless we had bad blood. But had I signed an honor code, I would definitely consider turning him or her in. |
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[Aug. 6th, 2005|08:48 am] |
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Question #108: You are attending a party that is being attended by many fascinating people you've never met. Would you want to go if you had to go by yourself?
Probably not. They would have to be circus-quality fascinating if I were to attend. Or maybe if it's something I find fascinating but also embarassing, then I would go alone in that situation too.
Question #109: Since adolescence, in what three-year period do you feel you've experienced the most personal growth and change?
I'm only 20, so I don't have much to go on. But I guess I would have to say the immediate past three years have seen a lot of change, most notably in what I want to do in my life, my personal relationships, and my political and religious opinions. |
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| Summer Mixtape: TEXAS IS EFFING HOT |
[Jul. 26th, 2005|01:06 am] |
1. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "This Summer's Been Good from the Start"
2. The Avett Brothers - "At the Beach"
3. Big Pun - "Still Not a Player ft Fat Joe"
4. De La Soul - "Talkin' Bout Hey Love"
5. Archie Bell & the Drells - "Tighten Up"
6. The Sea and Cake - "Polio"
7. Yo La Tengo - "Season of the Shark"
8. Gilberto Gil - "Roda"
9. The Association - "Never My Love"
10. Soul Coughing - "Lazybones"
11. Josh Rouse - "1972"
12. Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson - "Your Daddy Loves You"
13. Rappin 4-Tay - "I'll Be Around"
14. Jamie Lidell - "Multiply"
15. Art Brut - "Good Weekend"
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[Jul. 24th, 2005|09:05 am] |
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Question #107: Would you like to have your rate of physical aging slowed by thirty or so as to give you a life expectancy of about 2000 years?
I don't think so. My immediate family would die when I was a child. My nieces and nephews would die when I was an adolescent. My brother and sister's grandchildren would die when I was in high school.
I already feel strange that a lot of my friends are getting married and some of them having kids. Were I to live 2000 years and age proportionately, all my friends would age 30x faster and then move onto other things. This would be really depressing, seeing as I don't make friends that fast anyway.
I don't think I'd have a problem adjusting to many social changes that may occur, since if I say "Things were better when I was younger," that would mean a span of 500 years. The worst thing, probably, would be that I would just get bored. 80 years or so is enough to get bored of humans and earth and living. I wouldn't want to stick around for 2000.
This post marks the halfway point through D. Gregory Stock's Book of Questions! Knuck if you buck, y'all! And watch out for CONDI!
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