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07-22-2010, 11:48 AM | #3282 |
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1. The one about making video games.
2. I remember wanting to be a doctor like my mom when I was a kid. That one quickly died when I realised how much I can't stand that much schooling. I think I also wanted to work with animals, but that one died as well when I realised I prefer admiring most animals from a distance. 3. For a certain someone to have a sex change so that it would be more socially acceptable for us to be together. (Yeah, I know, right?) --- 1. What's the best investment you've ever made? (not necessarily financial) 2. What's the worst investment you've ever made? 3. What investment you've made has given you the most unexpected results?
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2. It usually makes my brain do amazingly lifelike things like organize and process information, and formulate reactions to said datum. Sadly, some days, caffeine just isn't enough. 3. They'd have to know how Terminal Monday ended for me to take them seriously. Because of course, Terminal Monday will be the most widely-studied piece of literature on the planet in the future. Quote:
2. I have gotten over my desire to be an astronaut. I would, however, still like to get off this planet for a bit, so Doctor, if you're out there reading this, I'm ready to travel, sir! 3. I would greatly love to wake up tomorrow and find that my wife has had a change of heart and decided she'd really like to live in a house with Jenn, Deirdra and I. Quote:
2. The last five years. 3. I didn't expect that buying a copy of The Longest Journey would eventually lead to me meeting one of the few people I love unreservedly. ____________________ 1) Can a person really change the world with a song? 2) Can a person really hope to find happiness if they can't decide where their heart belongs? 3) Could all of this really just be a fantasy in the mind of a comatose wannabe songwriter trying to shake off the effects of drug and alcohol poisoning in 1994? |
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07-22-2010, 05:00 PM | #3284 |
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07-22-2010, 08:59 PM | #3285 | |
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3. Goofy. I like Step's poetry but I wouldn't buy a book full of it. 0989098909890989098 1. Why are you important for humanity? 2. Name something you think everyone should do for humanity. 3. Why have you/haven't you done that? |
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07-23-2010, 05:29 AM | #3286 |
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2. It's a fun intellectual exercise to have to figure out where all the words need to go, sometimes more so than writing prose, because you have to distill it. 3. Sarcastic poetry. Quote:
2. I agree with Mory: cultivate your uniqueness, which really means being the best version of yourself you can be instead of a mediocre version of someone else. I will also add: don't be a jerk. 3. Like Mory, I had trouble fitting in as a little kid, so it was very easy to adopt an identity as an outsider and consequently, reject a handful of norms that many people take for granted. I'm working on the not being a jerk part, but what has helped me in that regard is learning about the areas in which I have privileges and the areas in which I don't, and realising that other people's privileges and lack thereof are different from mine. Quote:
2. That would probably mean less bullying in school, I suppose. I would have had less of an understanding of what it meant to be different and spent more time as a spoiled brat, but I'd like to think that because of who I am, I would have figured it out eventually, just more slowly. I'm used to being a late bloomer in many respects, anyway. *shrugs* 3. Introversion, creativity, curiosity, hypersensitivity. Maybe social awkwardness and corresponding low self esteem. --- 1. You meet an attractive person of your preferred gender who's so much like you in so many respects, and understands you better than anyone else you've ever known ever has. You fall deeply and passionately in love. Then, you discover that you're siblings separated at birth. What do you do? 2. Did/do you enjoy being a student? If so, what made it enjoyable? If not, what could have made it enjoyable for you? 3. What, in your opinion, is the most effective way of disciplining a child?
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1. I'd be kind of devastated, but I'd also feel so awkward that it would completely put me off pursuing a relationship anyway; I'd try to be friends though.
2. I enjoy being a student, the first month was absolutely frightening and I felt like a failure because of my lack of confidence... but then I managed to make a few friends and I'm looking forward to enjoying my second year with my newfound slightly-heightened self-esteem. 3. I suppose skillful use of boundaries -- don't 100 percent encourage or discourage them regarding certain things; show them respect, while ensuring that they know what is right and wrong... if that makes any sense. __ Good questions, these, so I'm passing them on.
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07-28-2010, 03:07 PM | #3290 |
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1. Don't really need to do much imagining; he already exists. I wouldn't ignore all social conventions for him, mind you, but I'd certainly let go of a few, and already have when it comes to a few others.
2. The kind where lying would be safer and less harmful to myself and people I care about than other alternatives, and where there was little chance the truth would be exposed. 3. I'm unable to bring myself to sleep with a married man, more because I'm too emotionally fragile for the consequences than anything else. --- 1. Which would hurt you more: if your partner left you for honest reasons, or if they stayed but lived a lie the whole time? 2. Which would hurt you more: if your partner told you they slept with someone else but didn't love them, or if they told you they loved someone else but didn't sleep with them? 3. Do you ever feel like you're still a kid trapped in an adult's body?
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07-29-2010, 04:04 PM | #3291 |
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2. Because well-written poetry has a certain flexibility of expression that is hard to find anywhere else in human endeavour. That said, I prefer song lyrics. 3. Serious. Quote:
2. Practice procreation. A lot. 3. Well, I'm out of practice, but that's just the state of my current relationship. *sigh* Quote:
2. I'd probably have bigger entitlement issues than I do now. Mind you, I'd probably be less insecure, and thus more accomplished. 3. A love of creativity and curvy women, I'm sure. Quote:
Still, you know what they say in the back country... 2. I didn't enjoy every facet of being a student, but it had its good points. I liked the concentrated focus on being creative. I liked the room to experiment. Real life doesn't afford me too many opportunities to just play and try out new ideas. Oh yeah, and the girls... 3. Know what rules you plan on enforcing, and stick to the rules from start to finish. Children lose respect for parents who can't stick to their guns. If you're going to be flexible, do so infrequently, and as a reward for good behaviour. Quote:
2. When the truth simply can't make the situation better, I'll keep it to myself. I rarely actually lie. Omit, yes. Outright prevaricate, no. 3. I'll never abandon someone I love. Quote:
2. Neither. The only thing that would hurt would be if they told me they no longer love me. 3. Every. Damn. Day. Quote:
2. I blog once or twice a day on average. I also update my status on Facebook two or three times a day on average, except Saturday nights, when I post Youtube video links for about two to three hours straight. 3. Deirdra or Jenn. Everyone else could wait. ____________________ 1) Do you mind if I don't ask any questions today? I don't seem to be getting the answers I'm looking for anyway. |
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07-30-2010, 01:23 PM | #3293 |
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1. I don't mind, though I'll admit to being a wee bit disappointed. Don't feel bad about it, though. *hugs*
--- 1. If you had to fight in any war in history, and if you were guaranteed not to get hurt, which war would it be? 2. If you could completely replace English with any other language, living or dead, which one would it be? 3. If you had the opportunity to punch one person in the face, living or dead, without any consequences, who would it be?
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07-30-2010, 06:00 PM | #3294 | |
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2. Dutch. 3. While there are a few persons I really don't like, I wouldn't want to punch them in the face. --- Yesterday I came up with some interesting existential/religious questions: 1. How does Heaven fit in the theory of evolution? 2. What physical characteristics must an organism have in order to be eligible for going to Heaven? 3. Why didn't Darwin come up with these questions? |
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07-30-2010, 07:42 PM | #3295 |
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1. When society evolves enough, it'll pretty much be heaven.
2. Long hair, a beard, and a calm, soothing voice. And sometimes glasses. 3. Because he obviously had better things to do than play silly forum games. --- 1. How does hell fit into the theory of evolution? 2. What physical characteristics must an organism have in order to be eligible for going to hell? 3. If all your friends were going to hell, would you want to go there too?
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2. Simlish! 3. You know, try as I might, I can't think of anyone I want to punch in the face, though I was pretty close to the breaking point with Jashim a few months ago. I'm over it now. Quote:
2. One suspects that the afterlife requires that you have had a corporeal form of one sort or another, and that you were essentially mortal in that form. 3. Didn't he? I don't know. I never actively studied the writings of Darwin. He probably mused over those problems as well. He's just not known for them the way he is for the whole primitive ancestry thing. Personally, I've never had a problem reconciling spirituality and science. Quote:
2. Apparently, genitalia. Personally, I think the most likely organ is the brain. Give a monkey a brain and everything gets complicated. 3. If all of my friends were on their way to hell, I'm quite sure I'd be at the front of the line, because I'm easily the most heretical of the pack. ____________________ 1) Have you ever wondered if this is as good as it gets? 2) Have you ever hoped this is as bad as it will ever get? 3) Have you ever wanted to stop being who you are for five minutes, so you could do everything you wouldn't dare do as yourself, and thus set yourself up in such a way that you could live more happily after the five minutes are up? |
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2. Frequently. 3. Not that I can recall, but I think what it really means is that you need to make some changes to yourself. And that, I can very much relate to. *hugs* --- 1. If we assume reincarnation happens, how old do you estimate your soul to be? 2. Also assuming reincarnation happens, how much longer do you expect your soul to live? 3. After you die, do you hope the afterlife includes some insight into how your actions affected others?
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1. A bit too often, really. I would probably be like this even if I hadn't heard of that movie. I've always had a tendency towards glass-is-half-emptiness. 2. It could almost be my daily mantra. There is a distinction between the two questions, but it's not just the glass is half full thing. See, where we might have that moment where we look at our lives, good and bad, and just go, 'What if this is as good as it gets?', the latter question is the one you only ask when things just seem to be wrongwrongwrong, and you can't figure out how to make it change. It's more of a prayer to whatever spirit juju you draw power from to just clear this mess up, before it devours you. And that's something I can really identify with these days. 3. In truth, I don't think I could justify the five minutes of amorality and uninhibited selfishness. But the question says a lot about the person asking it. Quote:
2. Probably a lot longer than I'm comfortable admitting. 3. Oh goodness, I kind of bounce back and forth between wanting to know everything and wanting to forget as much as possible. That may be relevant to the first two answers, actually. Quote:
2. The parts of you that aren't attached, and require entertainment to stay in touch. 3. The part of me that needs the most work, because there is some question as to whether anything I've done has taught me anything I'll need when this life is over. ____________________ 1) What activity will you endure to get to do something you love? 2) What person will you endure to spend time with someone you like/love? 3) What musical piece or album will you endure listening to from front to back to savour that one musical moment or song that just sings to your soul, but which you would otherwise probably never listen to again? |
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1. I do what many people would consider to be hack work to finance my ability to make my own games free of the constraints of the industry. Of course, it helps very much when said hack work is for people I don't have a problem supporting and providing my services for. Very, very much.
2. When I love them, I'll endure just about anyone. When I merely like them, I make more of an effort to avoid the sorts of people I dislike. 3. You know, I honestly can't think of anything. I have no attention span for such things when it comes to music. How very Gen Y, indeed. --- 1. What, for you, makes the difference between loving someone and merely liking them? 2. Do you ever find yourself threatened by people you perceive as more popular/conventionally beautiful/socially accepted than you are, even if they've never done anything to hurt you personally? 3. Are there any works of fiction that you love, but have no problem admitting are flawed in some way?
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