Game: Ask the Person Below You

No, I rarely find enough time to have the one identity, much less more than one. Being a full time college student in her senior year is not fun at all.

How many professions have you ever wanted to be before getting to the one you are at now?

A lot, and I'm not finished studying yet, so there could be even more along the way, currently, I really want to be a mad scientist, but I choose the wrong study direction for that, so it'll just have to remain a side interest. :D

If you could destroy any one thing in the world, what would it be? and why would you do it?

Prejudice. People do much evil because of various prejudices, often in various robes of disguise, some religious, some political, some radical--beneath it all is the stench of death, dust, and decay. Lucy once said to Charlie Brown: "You were born into this world, right? You don't know of any other worlds you might go to, right? Then LIVE in it!" :)

Pass the question: If you could destroy any one thing in the world, what would it be? and why would you do it?

Pen took my answer :p , so I'll go with my second choice, I would destroy illness. Not your everyday, run of the mill illness but catastrophic illnesses like cancer and and aids.

Which technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the most?

Truthfully, advances in medical science. The understanding of where germs form, that is outside the body. That illness comes from something air-borne, injested, or whatever--not a demonic thing to be attacked. Vaccinations and preventive medicine. The understanding, such as it is (science is not at fault, people still are) of mental illnesses that has freed many from what would have be hell on earth in the past.

That's my vote.

Pass the question, one of the best I've seen. Thanks, Idril! :) Which technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the most?

It depends what you mean...whether more scientific or mechanical....if scientific, then I would say realizing that spontaneous generation was not a valid belief, and the effect that germs have on us, sort of like you said. As for technological advances, definitely everything connected with computers and music. That is answered without deep thought though, so I am afraid it may seem petty or something...

Same question, I'd like to hear more answers: Which technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the most?

Oooo... hmmm.... How about electricity and refridgeration for greatly improving our quality of life, just imagine living without them! What about the printing press? vaccinations maybe?

Same Q

You are all going to laugh at me, but here goes: the plow. In fact, farming methods in general. Why? Because by becoming more of an agrarian society rather than hunter/gatherers, people were able to spend more time in communication with each other, centers of knowledge were formed, transfer of ideas became more rapid and widespread, and we eventually got. . . books! :D (not that ideas weren't exchanged before, obviously, but centralized civilization definitely helped)
Next Poster: Same question. (It's really interesting!) Which technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the most?

Metalurgy. The ability to master the other competitors because of the ability of metal to hold an edge, be forged, endure, support great weight, be alloyed into new properties, shaped into wire, made into paperclips and in general to be more industrial than stone.


I like this line of thought. Let's see what else could have been the most significant. Same question.

Writing. The power of the written word is born.


A reversal: What technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the LEAST? (Oh-so-many to choose from...)

Good question. Automobiles and factories because they are the cause of so much pollution, destruction, and mistreatment of people.

This was a really good question, so I'll pass it on: What technological advances do you think have benefited mankind the LEAST?

Well I would have to say the nose hair tweezer. Sure it has a good cause, but when you look around, you can tell that no one's actually used theirs.

What type of show should be taken off the air for just being too stupid or obvious?

ask and we'll put it live!!!


same q!

There is a show on MTV that is called Next. I have watched it a few times and from what I can gather, 5 guys sit on a bus and they're all trying to get the girl. The girl calls them off the bus one at a time and asks them to do some kind of ridiculous task and the longer the guys can keep her attention the more dollars they rack up. Sometimes the guys get off the bus and the girl takes one look and says, "Next!" right away and then the guy has to insult the girl. And then he goes back on the bus and and tells the rest of the guys how horrible the girl is. It also works the other way --- there can be 5 girls on the bus competing for the one guy who makes the girl do some ridiculous task (on one episode a girl was in a plastic pool wearing a bikini and chasing a frog). I have never finished the show entirely --- I have watched it for a few minutes in horror thought and it has to be the worst show I have ever seen.

Do you think that 40 hours per week (for a work week) is too much and do you feel like you don't get enough leisure time?

Well, when I was able to work, 40 hours a week wasn't bad. There were times we pulled 12 hour days six days a week, sometime 14 hours a day and worked all seven days. Such is the life of a factory worker. Then, of course, we would fill the warehouse, and people would be laid off from work, and the rest of us cut back to a 40 hour work week, but doing the work of those laid off in addition to our own. Just lovely, I can tell you. Then, after you work you way to the top of the heap, someone sabotages you, and you get diciplinary action taken against you that is unproven because it never happened, and you get a latge pay cut and try to start over.

Maybe I'm not the best one to ask, too much angst. Pass the question. Do you think that 40 hours per week (for a work week) is too much and do you feel like you don't get enough leisure time?