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Post by beth on Apr 28, 2011 18:44:13 GMT -5
These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.
So think deep and tell us about it.
1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6.If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7.Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8.If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9.To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10.Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
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Post by sadie on Apr 28, 2011 20:10:40 GMT -5
Wow......interesting........let's see.....
1. Somewhere in my 30's.... 2. Never trying 3. Because we are idiots. 4. Oh definitely.....I never shut up 5. Greed 6. It would have to be a business dealing with animals or flipping houses.......(I promise to avoid mirrors) 7. Doing what I believe in. 8. There are a few more places I would travel, a few people I would spend more time with and a few people I would spend less time with. 9. The first twenty three years....not at all.....since then....maybe 50/50 10. Doing the right things
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Post by beth on Apr 29, 2011 2:25:26 GMT -5
Going to try the first 5.
1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Guessing ... about 10 years younger than I am. Every birthday comes as a shock because I've never been quite ready to settle down to serious adulthood.
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
Never trying without a doubt. The journey is always worth as much or more than the arrival.
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
I have to blame the virtues ... and fear. Civilization compels us to consider the virtues, but we also need to give courage its due.
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
Absolutely! Language and communication are very important to me. Go and do is sometimes over-rated.
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
Time Zones!
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Post by Erasmus on Apr 29, 2011 9:51:02 GMT -5
Some of these, to me look ambiguous. That's always interesting.
1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Somewhere between 14 and 20 I reckon
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
This is very interesting because it reminds me of a teenage lady I knew who reminded me very much of myself. She tried hard and as long as everything went well, nobody noticed. Then she'd slip up and get fired. So she got so tense that sometimes she would back off from a job for fear that she'd disappoint where it mattered, and where it didn't matter, after a few weeks she'd do something crazy or walk out for the relief of controlling her own life instead of getting shafted for trying hard. Over the years, I've come to feel that what yu do not try, you always might but what you fail at you're finished at. So its' better to travel than to arrive, to dream success than to risk failure.
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
To survive, in the hope of occasionally doing something we like. It's not human nature to back off and contemplate extinction from the round of existence. I'm not sure that it's morally right either. Old Buddha was a bit of a cop-out in some ways.
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
I hope so. What you do, you alone do. What you say may be repeated indefinitely and may inspire deeds you never thought of. I've heard of many religions and philosophies based on what people said but few on what they did.
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
Peoples' relationship with each other, what matters to them.
6.If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Gardening, making complicated machines work, being part of a high-tech nature-orientated tribe.
7.Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
I tried to do what I believed in. The world changed. I did not.
8.If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
The first 40 years of my life were the best, so probably not. If I had thought about living beyond 50, I might have enjoyed myself less. One thing would differ, I would have risked joining my girlfriend in my mid-30s without money to fall back on.
9.To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Very little. While in a protected environment like school we can do what interests us. After that, you do what you're told or you're on the dole and then you can't be with the people you;d get along with.
10.Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
What are the right things? I worry about the social repercussions of other peoples' prejudices. I don't want to get beaten up or isolated for the way I look. But if something is to be done, then better to do it in the way that feels 'cleanest' and mathematically elegant. At the same time, there is a danger there of once feeling what that is and how it could be done,losing interest in the mundanity of actually doing it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2011 16:46:27 GMT -5
1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
About 30, I hope.
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
Never trying
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
Leaving aside the question of the metaphysical status of time, the heart and head often behave differently.
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
I am notoriously prolix and verbose so undoubtedly the former!
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
Abolish government the root of tyranny and exploitation and hatred.
6.If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Anything with an end product.
7.Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
Trying to do the former but probably mainly the latter.
8.If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
Difficult to answer - I would have been dead for the last 12 years!
9.To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Largely, although my heart has always tended to rule my head.
10.Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
I'm not sure that they are either incompatible or mutually exclusive.
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Post by beth on Apr 30, 2011 9:29:41 GMT -5
The second half
6.If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Possibly a book store ... now that time and technology are threatening to make such establishments obsolete, I'd have to be paid in happiness to stay solvent.
7.Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
A little of both but mostly the former.
8.If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
I suspect I would not have wasted so much time on general BS.
9.To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Hardly at all, except for the fact that I've explored a lot of side-roads.
10.Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
Both, unfortunately. Worrying about either is often pointless. Go and do .. "things" will sort themselves out.
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Post by biglin on Apr 30, 2011 19:31:54 GMT -5
Hm, interesting.
1 Not sure - about 18?
2 Never trying is worse
3 Because we think we can have it all
4 I'm not sure - I'm a bit of a gasbag but I hope I've done more than I've said!
5 Poverty
6 Writing!
7 Both but hopefully mostly the former
8 I'd have grown up sooner
9 In the first twenty years or so, hardly at all. Since then, quite a lot.
10 I suppose doing the right thing though of course I often don't!
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