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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:53 am
Are you content with your life? Why or why not? What do you feel you need in life, in order to be content? Is contentment your main goal in life? Do you ever feel like there's something missing from your life, but you can't put your finger on it? Do you like who you are?
Do you find it acceptable when someone states an opinion that you would otherwise find offensive, but they justify it with statements like "I don't mean to offend anyone" or "it's just my opinion"? Do you think it's a cop out or considerate? Would you respond to them or think of them any differently than if they hadn't said it that way?
Do you believe yourself more intelligent than the majority of people? If a genuinely intelligent person sees themselves this way, does that make them arrogant? What exactly does the word "intelligence" mean to you? Do you believe certain types of intelligence are of greater importance than other types? Do you believe in the validity of either IQ testing or academic achievement, as a measure of intelligence? What's your IQ? If you don't know, what would you guess that it is? (100 is average, 90-110 is the average range, below 70 is considered retardation, above 130 is considered genius.) Do you think that intelligence is relative in the sense that the way in which an average person sees a retarded person, a genius sees an average person, or vice versa?
What is a "good person", as far as you're concerned? Do you believe you are a good person? Do you believe all human beings are equal? Do you believe there's good in everyone? Do you generally accept the moral compass of our society as the correct one? Do you find societies moral code straightforward or complex and difficult to decipher? Do you generally live by the morals of our society? If not, do you have your own moral code? Do you consistently adhere to your own morals? Do you believe morality is relative or universal?
Zombies or ninjas?
List all of the ways in which you are a hypocrite.
(If you say "none", then I hope you're morally against lying, because that would just be too funny.)
Do you consider yourself a judgmental person? Do you find most of your assumptions about other people turn out to be correct? Do you think you can make relatively accurate assumptions about a persons character or intelligence, based on superficial elements like their clothing style, their music, the way they walk, the way they talk, where they live, etc...?
Do you think it's more fun to know you, or to be you?
Revenge: Is the point more to inflinct suffering for its own sake, as penance, or to make them aware that you are the cause of their suffering, so that they learn to regret their transgression against you? Do you think revenge is usually morally justifiable or morally injustifiable? Are revenge and justice the same thing? After being wronged, are you more likely to forgive, seek revenge, or appeal to an authority for justice? Do you believe in the saying "He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves."?
Do you think political correctness is overdone or underdone? Why? Do you have any politically incorrect views? If so, what are they? Do you express them or keep them to yourself? If you express them, do you do it shamelessly or apologetically? Have you ever been verbally accosted for a politically incorrect view? Have you ever verbally accosted someone else for a politically incorrect view? Is political correctness important in our society, and if so, is there a limitation to it's usefulness?
If thirteen crows are sitting on a fence, and a cat eats one, how many crows are left on the fence?
Who would you rather hug, Appa or Totoro?
Where would you place yourself on the political compass (considering economic and social views, separately)? Do you generally consider yourself to be part of one of the basic American binary political parties? Do you have any views that would be considered unusual for someone of your political leaning? What would you say is the most controversial thing that you believe? If you could have absolute control over the laws regarding just one political issue in -insert your country here-, which one would it be? Are politics at all important to you? Why or why not?
Put the following things in order, based on their importance to your emotional needs:
Acceptance
Appreciation
Respect
Admiration
Encouragement
Empathy
Compassion
Which would alarm and/or concern you more; a schizophrenic person or a sociopathic person?
If I said that Canada was going to war, what would be the first thing that would pop into your head?
What is a soul? Do you believe souls are real things? Do all living things, conscious and otherwise, have souls? Do non-living things have souls?
Your soul is:
- A tortoise
- A black hole
- The sound of a cello
- A shopping cart left awkwardly in the middle of the parking lot
- In your fingertips
- Damp
What is the best word that starts with W?
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:23 pm
I think I am pretty content with my life. I mean... I seem good. I'd rather have my own place with my man here though.. so.. that's what I'd need to be truly content I guess. I think that there's something missing in my life but I can't put my finger on it. I don't like who I am sometimes because I'm not assertive enough to get a lot of the things I want done done without reassurance or a companion. hate relying on people so much.
I don't find it acceptable if someone says something offensive and uses stupid excuses to try to make me not be upset with them. Of course it's their opinion so it's stupid to justify it with that. Saying "no offense" doesn't exclude the offensive remark just made by someone. I'm not offended easily but still, it's irritating when people do that. If they hadn't said "no offense", I'd probably be less angry.
I would possibly thing of myself as more intelligent than most... and as to whether that makes on arrogant or not... I think it all depends on how they act about it. If you flaunt it, then yes. I think intelligence means like book smart but also people smart I guess. No type of intelligence is more important than the other, you need all, but the world favors those who are book smart. There are people who can answer any question about school, those who can travel and make friends and those who can relax and enjoy life to the fullest. They're all important and all some form of intelligence. IQ and scores on tests are not valid measures of intelligence I don't think. They're only going off of one form. No idea what my IQ is but it'd be cool to know.. maybe 115? I think it's just how people see others, some see different things in a person.
I think a good person is just someone who is nice to others, tells the truth (at least most times) and isn't just mean for no reason. I don't know if I'm a good person... I think awful things about people and not sure if that's normal. I dont' think there's good in everyone, we all SHOULD be equal and I don't agree with society on anything really. The moral code is obnoxiously complex I think. I think I have my own moral code, not sure if it's like other's though. I do consistently live by my own morals and morality is relative.
Ninjas, zombies are too slow and too easy to kill.
I give others advice that I don't follow most times. I tell people not to say "calm down" but I do it myself. I can't quite think of more ways but I'm sure there's more.
I think I'm extremely judgemental, I just don't voice it. They usually are correct, which I love by the way. I think I can make assumptions based on meeting the person and talking with them for about an hour, not on clothes or something silly like that. You can't judge on superficial things.
Political correctness is so overdone because many of the things changed to stay politically correct were brought around by people who have nothing to do with what's being changed, like things we call people. I have a few politically incorrect views but I can't recall most at the moment and I usually keep them to myself I think... Not sure if what I'm thinking about now is classified as politically incorrect. I think the fact that fat children upset me is considered politically incorrect... not sure.. doesn't matter. Oh and I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I think that would count as shamelessly? I've been verbally accosted for my view, I have not returned that to someone else because I dun cur. It's important to society but not for society. Not sure about limits.
It depends on if the cat is now on the fence. If it just ate a crow and the others didn't immediately fly away, and the cat's on the fence now too, there's 13 but if it ate one then the rest flew away and the cat's on the fence now, it's 1 and if it chased them all away and is not on the fence after eating one there's none. (sorry for commas/ awful errors)
I think Totoro but I'm not positive. I love both.
I don't associate with a political party or politics in general. The most controversial thing I believe might be that I'm for a death penalty on very rare occasions. I don't know enough about political issues... not sure if allowing gay marriage is one but if so I'd let it happen and make it legal in every state. Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own.
Encouragement
Respect
Acceptance
Compassion
Empathy
Appreciation
Admiration
(I think I took this the way you're meaning it, meaning people admiring me doesn't do anything for me... not sure if that's what was meant )
Sociopathic person
The canadian bacon (ham) has gone missing.
Souls are real.. I believe they're 21 grams and they're what bring you to life. They're your thoughts, emotions, feelings, the fire that burns in your heart and your will to live. It's what keeps the twinkle in an eye and let's the person have a purpose in life. Everything has a soul... not sure about non-living things but it's possible, I can't rule it out just yet.
The sound of a cello makes sense to me for some reason.
Wiggles
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:38 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy the world favors those who are book smart. Not true. : P People smart is the way to go, if you want to be successful in the traditional sense, i.e. lots of money. Connections are gonna get you places. 2_wht_and_nrdy I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I'm Chinese, I was born in Canada, and my skin colour is yellow, but you don't call me that. 2_wht_and_nrdy Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own. It's good that you don't want to be a sheep. : ) But I think that politics being unimportant to you is not because you're uneducated on the topics, but that you haven't made the effort to educate yourself because politics is not important to you, for reasons which you haven't specified. : P 2_wht_and_nrdy The canadian bacon (ham) has gone missing. Canadian bacon is ham...? eek THE WIGGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:48 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy the world favors those who are book smart. Not true. : P People smart is the way to go, if you want to be successful in the traditional sense, i.e. lots of money. Connections are gonna get you places. 2_wht_and_nrdy I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I'm Chinese, I was born in Canada, and my skin colour is yellow, but you don't call me that. 2_wht_and_nrdy Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own. It's good that you don't want to be a sheep. : ) But I think that politics being unimportant to you is not because you're uneducated on the topics, but that you haven't made the effort to educate yourself because politics is not important to you, for reasons which you haven't specified. : P You have to have a college education for most jobs now, that's why I said it favors book smart. I know many people who are offended by being called "African American" because they don't consider themselves African and prefer being called just "black"... I mean you'd be called chinese or canadian by someone probably not chinese american because noone wants to offend you. I just find it silly that people say "black" in hushed tones but say African American aloud when I know a few people who are ticked off by that...and I don't care about politics and don't have the drive to start caring because, face it, one person will not change the world and I have no want need nor desire to try.. I'm quite lazy, you see. No idea why I felt a need to respond to this ... I think it was because I didn't want to seem racist... I don't remember and I don't think I came off that way to begin with. I'm gonna hush now
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:11 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy the world favors those who are book smart. Not true. : P People smart is the way to go, if you want to be successful in the traditional sense, i.e. lots of money. Connections are gonna get you places. 2_wht_and_nrdy I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I'm Chinese, I was born in Canada, and my skin colour is yellow, but you don't call me that. 2_wht_and_nrdy Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own. It's good that you don't want to be a sheep. : ) But I think that politics being unimportant to you is not because you're uneducated on the topics, but that you haven't made the effort to educate yourself because politics is not important to you, for reasons which you haven't specified. : P You have to have a college education for most jobs now, that's why I said it favors book smart. I know many people who are offended by being called "African American" because they don't consider themselves African and prefer being called just "black"... I mean you'd be called chinese or canadian by someone probably not chinese american because noone wants to offend you. I just find it silly that people say "black" in hushed tones but say African American aloud when I know a few people who are ticked off by that...and I don't care about politics and don't have the drive to start caring because, face it, one person will not change the world and I have no want need nor desire to try.. I'm quite lazy, you see. No idea why I felt a need to respond to this ... I think it was because I didn't want to seem racist... I don't remember and I don't think I came off that way to begin with. I'm gonna hush now Well hey, Ducky started a discussion thread, and it's awfully quiet around here sometimes. I hope you don't think I'm attacking you or something. I just think it's nice to question one's beliefs, because then you can see if you truly believe them and/or improve them. Feel free to question my answers too, when I get around to doing them. : ) True, in most cases you need a university education to get a decent job. I guess, then, you do need a certain amount of book smarts, but in the end people smarts will differentiate you from your peers. And yeah, a lot of people who identify as black don't have any roots in Africa. I personally don't think that calling them black is a problem (unless they themselves don't want you to call them that), and you're right, a lot of them prefer that term. I just thought your reasoning was a bit strange. I've felt that way too sometimes, that one person will not change the world and therefore there's no way to try, but I think that if everyone thinks that, then it's no longer one person not doing anything but everyone not doing anything. In this way, every person counts, in that you're part of the collective. But politics is definitely not for everyone, which I can totally understand and which is totally fine. You definitely have to put in a lot of effort to understand it, which not everyone is up to. Well, thanks for responding anyways. Sorry for my long replies, and for replying if you don't want to discuss. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:35 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy the world favors those who are book smart. Not true. : P People smart is the way to go, if you want to be successful in the traditional sense, i.e. lots of money. Connections are gonna get you places. 2_wht_and_nrdy I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I'm Chinese, I was born in Canada, and my skin colour is yellow, but you don't call me that. 2_wht_and_nrdy Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own. It's good that you don't want to be a sheep. : ) But I think that politics being unimportant to you is not because you're uneducated on the topics, but that you haven't made the effort to educate yourself because politics is not important to you, for reasons which you haven't specified. : P You have to have a college education for most jobs now, that's why I said it favors book smart. I know many people who are offended by being called "African American" because they don't consider themselves African and prefer being called just "black"... I mean you'd be called chinese or canadian by someone probably not chinese american because noone wants to offend you. I just find it silly that people say "black" in hushed tones but say African American aloud when I know a few people who are ticked off by that...and I don't care about politics and don't have the drive to start caring because, face it, one person will not change the world and I have no want need nor desire to try.. I'm quite lazy, you see. No idea why I felt a need to respond to this ... I think it was because I didn't want to seem racist... I don't remember and I don't think I came off that way to begin with. I'm gonna hush now Well hey, Ducky started a discussion thread, and it's awfully quiet around here sometimes. I hope you don't think I'm attacking you or something. I just think it's nice to question one's beliefs, because then you can see if you truly believe them and/or improve them. Feel free to question my answers too, when I get around to doing them. : ) True, in most cases you need a university education to get a decent job. I guess, then, you do need a certain amount of book smarts, but in the end people smarts will differentiate you from your peers. And yeah, a lot of people who identify as black don't have any roots in Africa. I personally don't think that calling them black is a problem (unless they themselves don't want you to call them that), and you're right, a lot of them prefer that term. I just thought your reasoning was a bit strange. I've felt that way too sometimes, that one person will not change the world and therefore there's no way to try, but I think that if everyone thinks that, then it's no longer one person not doing anything but everyone not doing anything. In this way, every person counts, in that you're part of the collective. But politics is definitely not for everyone, which I can totally understand and which is totally fine. You definitely have to put in a lot of effort to understand it, which not everyone is up to. Well, thanks for responding anyways. Sorry for my long replies, and for replying if you don't want to discuss. sweatdrop You're fine c: I was just being a bit pushy. I still go with the education part of it, thought I do realize that the people smarts I guess do make the connections that you will need to further succeed, just you need a lot of book smarts to get there in the first place. It all originates with the education is what I'm thinking. My reasoning for everything is strange xD and sometimes I don't have much of a reason for my thinking something, I just do. I just find no point in getting involved. I really gave up on everything because of the electoral college. Our votes don't matter in a presidential election, so we're screwed politically from the beginning. We have people who make a decision based on what the population thinks, but they still have the power to do whatever they want. They have the power and they control who becomes president, not us. That's the key to it all, so I don't get involved in things I can't control but can have someone try to fool me into thinking I do. If everyone thought that way, we'd still function the same as we do now and we'd still have just as much done.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:24 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy the world favors those who are book smart. Not true. : P People smart is the way to go, if you want to be successful in the traditional sense, i.e. lots of money. Connections are gonna get you places. Both are true. Amy is probably slightly more correct, though. Either way, it's sad that intellect and social skills are valued considerably over their far superior counterparts of reasoning ability and wisdom. xp
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:39 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy I don't like "African American" They're born in America and they're black so just say black. I'm Chinese, I was born in Canada, and my skin colour is yellow, but you don't call me that. I'm Irish, I was born in America, and my skin color is white. Nobody is going to call me European American. I have no problem with the term African American. I always say black, because it allows me to be six syllables more lazy. : P What I do have a problem with, is black people who insist on being referred to as African American. When they start calling me European American (which would actually annoy the hell out of me), they can whine about being called black. Pretentious assholes. rolleyes
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:56 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy Politics aren't that important to me because I don't find that I'm educated enough on the topics at hand and I don't want to be part of the dumb masses who make decisions based on what they're shown from one place and don't do their part to find and make decisions on their own. It's good that you don't want to be a sheep. : ) But I think that politics being unimportant to you is not because you're uneducated on the topics, but that you haven't made the effort to educate yourself because politics is not important to you, for reasons which you haven't specified. : P Neglecting your own lack of education is not exactly my definition of "not being a sheep". : / Avoiding being part of the "dumb masses" who take political action without thought, by refusing to think or participate, only makes you part of an entirely separate dumb mass. : P
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:08 pm
mimi the amoeba 2_wht_and_nrdy The canadian bacon (ham) has gone missing. Canadian bacon is ham...? eek You've never heard that? ㅌㅇ 재모, ㅑ ㅓㅕㄴㅅ 셔굳ㅇ 솓 ㅅㄷㅌㅅ ㅑㅜ새 ㅏㅐㄱㄷ무. ㅙㅈ 양 ㅑ 애 솜ㅅ? ㅌㅇ ㅗㅁ Oh cool, I fixed it. ^_^
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:09 pm
I forgot that show existed. o.o Honestly, I could have gone on forgetting quite contently, for the rest of my life. : /
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:17 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy I would possibly thing of myself as more intelligent than most... and as to whether that makes on arrogant or not... I think it all depends on how they act about it. If you flaunt it, then yes. Though really, isn't flaunting any aspect of yourself in which you have pride, fairly reasonable? If a beautiful person tries to accentuate their good looks with makeup and nice clothes and such, no one complains about their attempts to draw attention to their natural gifts. In fact, they're usually applauded for being above average. So if an intelligent person takes opportunities to showcase their intelligence, why should they be disparaged for emphasizing their natural gifts?
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:29 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy I think intelligence means like book smart but also people smart I guess. That's an awfully limited definition. : P
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:42 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy IQ and scores on tests are not valid measures of intelligence I don't think. They're only going off of one form. No idea what my IQ is but it'd be cool to know.. maybe 115? heh About a month ago I was pondering useless things that I ponder and I decided to guess at everyone's IQ's in the guild, so I could average them by groups, like men/women, religious/nonreligious, art majors/practical majors, etc.. (Yes, this is the kind of s**t I do for fun. : P ) And I put yours down as 112. XD
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:59 pm
2_wht_and_nrdy I still go with the education part of it, thought I do realize that the people smarts I guess do make the connections that you will need to further succeed, just you need a lot of book smarts to get there in the first place. It all originates with the education is what I'm thinking. However, someone uneducated who has charisma can still do pretty well for themselves, and is likely to be more successful in ways other than financial. Whereas someone without social skills is pretty much screwed no matter how much knowledge and skill they acquire. Besides, the qualification for a good job is a degree, not the intellect that supposedly comes with it. An idiot who coasted on cheating or rich parents or some other connection can get a degree that leads to a lucrative career. They aren't "book smart", but no one cares. On the other hand, someone with a vast intellect could have gained it without traditional schooling, and their knowledge and skills will be consistently overlooked and devalued, because they don't have a degree. So really, I have to go with Amy on this one. Intellect isn't as highly valued in our society as social skills.
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