Game: Ask the Person Below You

Yes, I often do, and I often remember my dreams....as for the second part of the question, that's a long story. Last night I was in a bar after a parade gig with my pipe band (I'm almost 15. When you're with a band they let everyone drink, but I don't touch it) to hang out and jam and stuff, usually one of the drummers and I do some highland dancing. Anyway, she introduced me to another drummer, a guy, 18, who was nice and very cute, but he kept staring at me. All us young people were in a corner talking and he was nice but unnerved me somehow. SO....I had a really really bad dream that all of us were at a lake and suddenly we were alone and he tried to knock me out. I woke up extremely frightened ^_^
Strange happenings in the piping world....

Do you remember dreams more often when they are good or bad?

Both, usually. I dream almost every night, and remember most of them when waking, but the ones that distinguish themselves most, of course, seem the really good dreams and the really bad dreams - the two extremes. In terms of remembering dreams on a long-term basis, I probably recall more bad than good dreams, yet still find them fascinating, nonetheless.

To the person below me: how would your dream-home look?

Funny you should ask. I always had a dream home in mind, and even designed on paper, way back when I was a teenager, long enough ago that we won't go there! :lol: It would be perfectly round, with a hall running to bisect it. The inside center would be a glass-domed greenhouse. A hallway would circle the greenhouse, giving access to the rooms. So you'd come in the front door, down the hall, and there would be a door to the greenhouse area, and a circular hallway leading in both directions. Crossing the greenhouse area would take you out the other door to the back circle of the hallway, and the hallway running to the back door of the house. All on one floor, no stairs, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, family room, kitchen, dining-room, and laundry/workspace. Funky sounding maybe, but it's my dream.

Same question.

Sort of like a no-smoking sign, but without the lit cigarette?

Something Christie-esque...hehehe...

Same question!

A cabin in the middle of a dense forest somehow solar powered or something and only a few modern conventions like maybe a fridge and computer. oooh Since it's a dream home I guess it would be cool if trees somehow grew into a house... I wonder if that's possible and how long it would take? Oh, and shelves absolutely filled with books, and a cellar with even more books, paintings, and albums. I think I just realized how little living space is to me and how I'm easily irritated when I'm out of my room, because I can't listen to music or read easily unless I'm in the woods or my room or rambling wow I need sleep.

Is time linear like we percieve it in everyday life, or is it static and permanent, like width and height, or whatever else?

Time is a wheel that turns!

What do you think time is?

Time is the property of the universe - St Augustine

Time is the fourth dimension - Einstein

Time kills - Caesar

Same Q.

A drag.... :(

Same question....

Simply, the reciprocal of space.

To the person below me: despite your age, how old/young do you feel?

I am the firstborn of my parents. Growing up, I grew up sober and with strong feelings of responsibility for my sister and brother. Although I remember being a child, I also remember being "old for my age". When I reached manhood, however, I entered a very physical, demanding trade and worked among men mostly much older and more seasoned than I. This made me feel like I was the youngster of the team (which, for the most part, I was.) I spent most of my adult life thinking of myself as "The Kid." I didn't become a grandfather until I was fifty. With that first grandchild, I suddenly felt old! I began noticing aches and pains; moving more slowly; driving more carefully.

Now I am approaching retirement and I feel like, for the first time, I am actually the age that my chronological birth record says that I am!


Next question: To the previous question I would like to add, "Do you look your age, older, or younger?"

I look and feel younger than I my age, especially when I compare myself with girls of my age. But I think I can dramatically change my looks to look more mature by, simply, combing my hair back.

Next Q.
I had once read in a newspaper article by a woman columnist that "unlike women, most men don't act their age". I vaguely agreed with the claim, but reasoned that it could be only because they (women) are simple minded and, hence, are able to behave in a more decided and mature manner than men. My question is whether you agree with this claim. Give reasons for agreeing or disagreeing.

PS: I feel like I might have stirred the hornet's nest. ;)

Well, I think I agree some with it. Some men (like my dad) seems so much younger than what he actually is. Perhaps the men don't have that much responsibility or don't tend to nag as much as women do. :) Women grow old faster than men (grow more mature faster, rather).

P.S. Caesar- I think you must have meant women not men when you said "are able to behave in a more decided and mature manner than men." Am I wrong?

Same Q.

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Originally Posted by Adelheid

P.S. Caesar- I think you must have meant women not men when you said "are able to behave in a more decided and mature manner than men." Am I wrong?

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No, Adelheid, when I said 'men' I meant 'men'. When I said women are 'simple-minded' I meant that women rely more on their instinct than reason.

In fact, my view about men and women was absolutely contrary to yours. In my opinion, subject to correction, nature itself has created a purpose for women which is to create life. Of course, men are involved in the process but their role in perpetuating life is secondary to that of women. Paradoxically, men are like assistants to women who perform the primary function. Take any specie among which there is separation of sexes and study the role of males and females. Excluding a few exceptions, you will see that males are required to do a lot of work and to use their imagination to impress the females.

I have based my suppositions on the belief that men have an instinctual and irresistible love for women. And women, from what I have heard from them, consider begetting children or become mothers as their life’s goal. Women see motherhood as a fulfillment in life.

I don't know if I have expressed myself clearly or if I'm right, so I darw your attention to Bernard Shaw's play, "Man and Superman."

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Originally Posted by me

I had once read in a newspaper article by a woman columnist that "unlike women, most men don't act their age". I vaguely agreed with the claim, but reasoned that it could be only because they (women) are simple minded and, hence, are able to behave in a more decided and mature manner than men. My question is whether you agree with this claim. Give reasons for agreeing or disagreeing.

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I, personally, have a lot of difficulty agreeing with whatever column referenced, and, of course, I would love to see a great amount of empirical, measurable, realistic evidence to support this . . . theory. Firstly, one must objectively define the terms 'simple-minded,' 'mature,' and the true differences between male and female gender roles, masculinity and femininity, and, most important of all, find males and females who fit the apparently objective developmental age in accordance with their age in years, declaring that the 'control group,' and finding logical comparisons who allegedly 'do not act their age.' I would find it very difficult to prove without a great amount of confirmatory bias. Honestly, what a ridiculous study! :lol:

To the person below me: do you personally think men ought to seem more masculine and females more feminine, have a mix of the two, or otherwise, and why?

As a man, what I would like to have in a woman are the things that I don't actually have. There are things that women have that man can never have. I don' mean only the physical part here. That's why my answer is that women should be more feminine and men more masculine. This seem more natural to me.

Interesting question, that same one.