No, I prefer my women--like my wife--to be more conceptual than analytical.
Would you stand up for a fellow colleague to your boss' abuse of him/her at the peril of your professional job?
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No, I prefer my women--like my wife--to be more conceptual than analytical.
Would you stand up for a fellow colleague to your boss' abuse of him/her at the peril of your professional job?
Sure.
Would you date a serial composer?
Before I got married, perhaps. She would also have to be well-educated in the Humanities, since I wouldn't want to talk music all day.
In what order would you give up literature, music, and film/tv if you had to give 1-3 of them up?...and why?
I wouldn't ;)
film/tv, literature, and music last. I'd still have photography, painting (and other related art forms) and theatre left, though ;)
Would you go to a Stockhausen concert if someone gave you a ticket?
Film, I have less energy for that one anyway. Then music. Literature demands attention.
Same Q.
EDIT: Nahhh.
Would you leave an SO to go to a world-class university?
good question, I'm past university, but I might/would do that because of the 'brand recognition' and networking advantages that a world class university gives.
Would you take a decrease of 25% in income to do the thing you really love?
I teach English at a small college for a living; I've already taken more than that from the get go...;)
If you knew your best friend cheated on his wife, who is also your friend, would you tell her?...and if you didn't, would you be able to look her in the face the same way again?
Tonywalt's question is way too easy, but then again, he does live on Cayman Islands ;) If I was that interested in money, I'd really love making money in any case.
Uh... I'd probably say to my best friend that he should tell his wife, or I'd do it. I sure wouldn't be able to look the best friend in the face the same way again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
Would you like to learn a new language, and if so, which?
Yes, Japanese, and then French. I'm very nervous that I'm too lazy to do either though.
Same Q.
I am currently working on learning Irish Gaelic, so yes.
If you were dating someone and got along really well and were attracted to them and they confessed that they were transsexual (had an operation to change thier gender) would you continue to date them?
Yes, German. I'd get to read Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Adorno, Hegel, Goethe, and Husserl in their native languages and see if I really grasped what those writers said. Listening to Wagner wouldn't be bad either.
I'm already married, but I would not date a transsexual who hadn't been honest from the outset; I doubt I would if she had been, though, either. I'm all for trans rights, but I don't think I could do it.
This is freshman Ethics, but I still love the question. If you were on a lifeboat with 6 people and you needed to eject one for the other 5 to survive, would you vote to eject someone to their death against their will or would you vote to let the boat go down and save your humanity?
That would depend on my feelings about the other people on the boat. If there is one dude who is being a dick, or really obnoxious then I might be ok can we just eject him? But if everyone is cool than I would probably just be like let's just take our chances and stick together to the end.
Your house is on fire and you have time to save only five objects. What would you take with you?
laptop, ipad, phone, guitar, clarinet.
Would you be able to focus better if your life was threatened if you didn't?
On self defense, probably. I bet studying for years under the threat of being killed wouldn't work as well.
Would you like to live a day in the body of a member of the opposite sex?
No, not even Marilyn Monroe, George Eliot (her mind), or Zelda Fitzgerald (for wanton Dionysian joy)...it would be too somatically alien.
If you could choose for one of these artists who died to young to have lived a full life so you could enjoy a lifetime of their art, whom would you choose?
John Keats
Jimi Hendrix
James Dean
Janis Joplin
River Phoenix
Kurt Cobain
Yeah, why not? It's only for a day.
Would you say matching tastes in art contributes to love?
EDIT: Keats.
Same question abut taste/love.
Only a day? How would you deal with going to the bathroom or having to take care of your feminine hygiene? I imagine it could be quite unsettling; however, no more unsettling for a woman to have to walk around with a particular organ all day.
Matching tastes in art can lead to love, and disparate tastes can detract from it, but one would be waiting a lifetime if they made love contingent on it.
Matching tastes in art can certainly contribute to love.
^^Keats of those, no contest.
If you could choose one of these to live 30 years longer, whom would you choose?
Mozart, Schubert, Chopin
Mozart. Chopin would be a little ways behind, then another little ways behind would be Schubert.
But The Magic Flute is just too awesome. Plus he'd trade ideas with Beethoven! Wow.
Would you say conversation with an artistic great could be particularly personally enriching? Artist of your choice.
If the artist is someone like Toni Morrison, Henry James, or Jacques Derrida, who actually enjoyed sharing their knowledge and experience with others, absolutely. If the artist tended more to the irascible and unapproachable like Cormac McCarthy or Miles Davis, absolutely not.
If you knew that by telling a young brilliant tortured artist--e.g. Van Gogh, Byron, Cobain, Woolf, or Dostoevsky--whose work you cherish that never producing their art would make their lives happy and content, but would erase it from ever having existed, would you tell them?...and who would it be?
I'd spare Byron, Cobain, Dostoevsky, and Pollock from suffering, at the expense of their art, but not Van Gogh, Plath, Elliott Smith, Rothko, Woolf, or Proust.
Would you swim with dolphins?
Only if the mermaids were tired.
If you were on the jury, would you recommend the death penalty for Johar Tsarnaev ("the Boston Marathon bomber")?
Mermaids, there's a thought.
No, but probably life.
Would you enjoy your proverbial feast with the greats when you get to heaven, or be intimidated?
Yes, if the conditions were right.
(Oh- I was a couple of pages late, another question by you, so I didn't notice I was on the wrong page).
I guess best answer I can say is I will cross that bridge when I come to it. :-)
Would you lend aid to Kiribati (pronounced Kirabas)?
The feast is with the meek. The greats are cleaning the dishes.
Would you prefer a one-stop afterlife or multiple reincarnations?
Most of my favorite greats would never be allowed into or would want no part of heaven.
I have no idea what Kiribati is.
If you had a chance to "cure" your spouse of his/her least favorite quality or behavior, would you do so or would you keep her as is?
One stop. I'm tired of the merry-go-round.
Would you rather live in the city or the country?
Country.
Would you rather read English or Russian literature?
English, we have Austen and Joyce and Shakespeare and George Eliot and Wallace Stevens and Dickinson and so many I love but the only two Russians I truly love (so far) are Tolstoy and Chekhov. I'd hate to give them up though. Besides I can't read Russian!
Would you die to save a younger friend's life?
City.
If you had a chance to "cure" your spouse of his/her least favorite quality or behavior, would you do so or would you keep her as is?
It depends on the circumstances, but as a rule: yes for family, no for others. And always yes for my wife.
Would you keep an ancient arrowhead that you found on tribal reservation property?
I'd feel bad about breaking the rules.
Would you say anger can be helpful and even constructive, to a point?
Yes.
Would you tell a lot of lies about yourself in order to bed someone?
No...
Would you blame idealism for certain omnipresent problems? Which ones?
Yes, some. The history of Christian Jew hatred, for example.
Would the allies have stopped Hitler without Stalin?
Yes, the one where you don't get laid, as evidenced by your answer to my question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
I don't know, but Stalin would have acted independently anyway. If you mean if Russia were just an empty wasteland (ha ha) with absolutely no inhabitants, however, then I have no idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Would you say that total war and intentional attacks on civilian cities and populations was a necessity in fighting ww2?
No, I meant without an alliance with him. And the answer is no, the other allies wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in hell.
Yes, as it turned out.
Was the late war destruction of much of Germany by the RAF and USAF morally justifiable?
No it wasn't. I don't really believe in "war crimes" for the most part, but I don't think it was morally justified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Would you (knowing what you know now) have gone along with Churchill and Patton in an immediate post war attack on Russia?
You know, speculative history is hard to do. An invasion of Russia would have cost all the money that the US ultimately put into the Marshall Plan, which in the long term is what won the Cold War. So no, probably not. What we ended up doing worked. And it's impossible to say how a pre-bomb invasion would have worked out. Granted Truman learned about the Manhattan test at Potsdam, but no one was going to bomb Russian cities in 1945.
Same question.