1.What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
2.Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood?
What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?
3.If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?
4.Would you rather be rich and paralyzed from the waist down or poor and able bodied?
5.What’s the most expensive gift you have ever received? Is it the best gift you have ever received?
6.When was the last time you lied? Is it possible to lie without saying anything at all?
7.Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?
8.If I gave you $20, what percentage would you – really – save? If I gave you $200,000, what percentage would you save? Should there be a difference?
9.If someone could tell you the exact day and time that you are going to die, would you want them to tell you?
10.If you found out you were going to die today, would you have any regrets? Would you be happy with the way you spent the last 24 hours of your life?
11.What’s your single greatest moment of personal failure? Looking back on it now, did it make you weaker or stronger? What did you learn?
12.Do the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ mean not being persecuted or discriminated against, or do they mean doing whatever you please?
13.Have you ever discriminated against someone? Imagine that a street gang notorious for wearing purple shirts has robbed and murdered several hundred people in your town. If a man wearing a purple shirt just rang your doorbell, would you answer it?
14.Is it crazier to choose to be poor or to spend 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week?
15.Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time? How many hours a week do you spend watching TV, or playing video games, or…?
16.Do you ever celebrate the green lights?
17.If you could be given another talent or ability, what would you want it to be? Have you ever – really – tried to perfect this ability in yourself?
18.No matter how bad things get, are you aware that someone always has it worse than you do?
19.When you help someone, do you ever think, “What’s in it for me?”
20.Joy is found with simple awareness. What does your joy look like today?
21.What’s the difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing?’
22.Are you willing to sacrifice the life of your child or lover to support a war?
23.Do you ask enough questions, or do you settle for what you know?
24.If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?
25.If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would your story end?
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Chef, I love you dearly, but my brain really, really hurts now.
Now I'm getting all melancholy.
Good questions though.
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - Korben Dallas, from The Fifth Element
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
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7. Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?
This question made me get teary eyed – and no it’s not just because I’m emotional a couple days out of every month. I know that most people are against illegal immigration but have you ever really stopped to think and put yourself in their place? What would you do to feed your family? Would you risk your life? Would you steal? Would you do whatever was in your power to help them survive? I was once an immigrant and I can’t help but put myself in their place – if my dad hadn’t decided to bring us to the U.S.A 22yrs ago I would probably be dead now. Don’t judge all of them for what one has done – and next time you want to blame your problems on illegal immigration stop and think about what you would do to keep your family alive.
I know that the post wasn’t originally about this but that question made me think of just that…
This question made me get teary eyed – and no it’s not just because I’m emotional a couple days out of every month. I know that most people are against illegal immigration but have you ever really stopped to think and put yourself in their place? What would you do to feed your family? Would you risk your life? Would you steal? Would you do whatever was in your power to help them survive? I was once an immigrant and I can’t help but put myself in their place – if my dad hadn’t decided to bring us to the U.S.A 22yrs ago I would probably be dead now. Don’t judge all of them for what one has done – and next time you want to blame your problems on illegal immigration stop and think about what you would do to keep your family alive.
I know that the post wasn’t originally about this but that question made me think of just that…
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1.What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
2.Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood?
What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?
3.If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?
4.Would you rather be rich and paralyzed from the waist down or poor and able bodied?
5.What’s the most expensive gift you have ever received? Is it the best gift you have ever received?
6.When was the last time you lied? Is it possible to lie without saying anything at all?
7.Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?
8.If I gave you $20, what percentage would you – really – save? If I gave you $200,000, what percentage would you save? Should there be a difference?
9.If someone could tell you the exact day and time that you are going to die, would you want them to tell you?
10.If you found out you were going to die today, would you have any regrets? Would you be happy with the way you spent the last 24 hours of your life?
11.What’s your single greatest moment of personal failure? Looking back on it now, did it make you weaker or stronger? What did you learn?
12.Do the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ mean not being persecuted or discriminated against, or do they mean doing whatever you please?
13.Have you ever discriminated against someone? Imagine that a street gang notorious for wearing purple shirts has robbed and murdered several hundred people in your town. If a man wearing a purple shirt just rang your doorbell, would you answer it?
14.Is it crazier to choose to be poor or to spend 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week?
15.Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time? How many hours a week do you spend watching TV, or playing video games, or…?
16.Do you ever celebrate the green lights?
17.If you could be given another talent or ability, what would you want it to be? Have you ever – really – tried to perfect this ability in yourself?
18.No matter how bad things get, are you aware that someone always has it worse than you do?
19.When you help someone, do you ever think, “What’s in it for me?”
20.Joy is found with simple awareness. What does your joy look like today?
21.What’s the difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing?’
22.Are you willing to sacrifice the life of your child or lover to support a war?
23.Do you ask enough questions, or do you settle for what you know?
24.If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?
25.If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would your story end?
This is hurting my brain! But....here goes:
1. Wonderful!
2. Yes!
3. Since I'm usually calm, a very long time.
4. Poor and able bodied.
5. An expensive watch for my birthday, but it got stolen. A girl's virginity!
6. Don't remember. Yes.
7. Yes. I most certainly would!!
8. Zero. 10% No.
9. No.
10. No. No.
11. Don't know.
12. Persecuted / discriminated against.
13. No. No.
14. Poor
15. Yes. About 4 hours.
16. Yes.
17. Haven't though about that.
18. Yes.
19. No.
20. Thinking about that.
21. Big difference.
22. No.
23. Keep asking questions.
24. Plenty.
25. Thinking and thinking (smell the burning?)
Now that my brain is totally fucked, I'll post this......
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1. Depressing...
2. Yes...I believe that if someone can kill in cold blood they they deserve to die...
3. Forever...
4. Poor and able bodied...
5. A custom Girl skateboard, No my son is...
6. About an hour ago - yes
7. I steal occasionally...
8. none- 100.000-no
9. Yes
10. no
11. running away from home-stronger- to take of myself
12. not being persecuted or discriminated against
13. yes, yes
14. not at all
15. nope - um like 14
16. no?
17. none-no
18. yes
19. sometimes depending,,,
20. my son...
21. living is having fun and not just getting buy waiting to die, going out doing things to the fullest being happy...
22. NO!!!
23. ask questions it sharpens the mind...
24. not one thing
25. demonchick- I die
2. Yes...I believe that if someone can kill in cold blood they they deserve to die...
3. Forever...
4. Poor and able bodied...
5. A custom Girl skateboard, No my son is...
6. About an hour ago - yes
7. I steal occasionally...
8. none- 100.000-no
9. Yes
10. no
11. running away from home-stronger- to take of myself
12. not being persecuted or discriminated against
13. yes, yes
14. not at all
15. nope - um like 14
16. no?
17. none-no
18. yes
19. sometimes depending,,,
20. my son...
21. living is having fun and not just getting buy waiting to die, going out doing things to the fullest being happy...
22. NO!!!
23. ask questions it sharpens the mind...
24. not one thing
25. demonchick- I die