Welcome. Iain! In principle, yes, although I've been to a lot of bad ones in my time.
In the West, about a pot and a half of coffee per day.
What's the best or weirdest costume you've ever worn to a costume party?
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Welcome. Iain! In principle, yes, although I've been to a lot of bad ones in my time.
In the West, about a pot and a half of coffee per day.
What's the best or weirdest costume you've ever worn to a costume party?
One year I went as a vampire slayer... oh I think I'll post a pic, it's pretty damn weird.
And thanks for the welcome!:)
If you had to set sail on a doomed ship, which would it be... the Titanic, Lusitania, or the Mary Celeste?
Titanic!
Yeah, welcome Iain!
What's the thing you've become most addicted to? If it's embarrassing, answer this: is The Onion funny?
Ice cream. Also, the Onion's headlines are usually funnier than the stories.
What was the last RL game you played?
I just got slammed in chess 4 times in a row by an old man! :(
How often are you on Facebook?
Every day and I'm an old man, youngster! Uncle Pen to many here!
Do you prefer Batman or Superman?
I'd rather be Superman, but I'd rather read about Batman.
Do you prefer heroes with superpowers or ordinary men who made themselves extraordinary?
The latter.
Do you ever get massages?
Only from the wife. Paying for it is sucker's game.
Is it more important at the moment to pressure the Turkish government into calling what happened to the Armenians a genocide, or to develop more cordial diplomatic relations to facilitate an effective response to ISIS?
We need to focus on ISIS as it is an ongoing threat to cause WWIII if we aren't careful. The classification of the destruction of Armenians as genocide should be a given, but if it isn't the world will still know that is what happened.
Would you say that Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci was the better artist?
I like Mike.
Do those who were not alive before the African slave trade bear any responsibility for it by virtue of their skin color?
ISIS isn't even close to the threat the Nazis were. They are not an established army with an established homefront. They do not have the greatest scientists in the world as the Nazis did at the time, And while, they are committing loathsome horrors, they are not systematically marching members of a certain ethnic/religious group from all over a continent to their deaths. They are not yet worth the deaths of young American men or women.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Michelangelo...not even close.
Will there ever be any new great jazz artists and new forms of jazz or will jazz remain primarily a nostalgic art form?
Michelangelo for me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
No they don't, all of that should be buried by now in the US, a proper welfare and free health insurance established, and the education system improved.
Pike: "Will there ever be any new great jazz artists and new forms of jazz or will jazz remain primarily a nostalgic art form?"
Jazz will continue to mix various influences from popular and classical music, but it will stay in the niche position it has.
Should da Vinci have not wasted his time with all those war/flying machines, and done some more paintings or even anatomy study?
Absolutely not. Da Vinci's true genius lay in his scientific genius and prescience and his demonstrating the possible fluidity between the scientific and artistic mind. I'll stand corrected by a more informed person with a better argument here, but DaVinci just wasn't one of the greats in painting. He wasn't particularly innovative in vision or style, and his technique was surpassed by his contemporaries--Michelangelo not included--as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Is Abstract Expressionism the final rung on the painting "ladder," or is there another substantial innovation to come?
da Vinci is allowed to do whatever the hell he wants.
The drawings are great.
How often do you expect Christian people imagine God to be a corporeal presence?
When encountering unintelligent or very young Christians.
What's for supper?
Probably two slices of sourdough with jalapeno yogurt cheese and tapatio sauce and and habanero sauce and some salami. It's been my nightly dinner for weeks now.
Kinda makes sleeping hard though.
What to do when your coworker thinks WB Yeats is a local author on consignment?
Retire. :p
Every time an orthodox Trinitarian (the vast majority of Christians) imagines Jesus, he or she is conceiving as God as corporeal. Or were you talking about the doctrine of Transmutation of the Host?
For dinner is lentils on jasmine rice with spinach or kale if we're out of spinach.
Does a sovereign nation have a right to ratify a constitution in which homosexuality is criminalized?
I don't believe in intrinsic rights, (I think they are arbitrary), so no, but they may as well have.
Does construction fascinate you?
Constructing buildings? No.
Does theology fascinate you?
Yes.
For some reason my mother's side of the family can't pass a construction site without pausing and looking for an hour or two. It bugs me.
Do debates about the nature of reality and the knowable fascinate you?
Yes.
You didn't answer about theology.
I said yes :)
Theology does fascinate me.
Do clouds fascinate you? Did they ever?
Oh sorry.
Yes, all the time.
Do you find 60s-era folk music as interesting as delta blues?
No, but I'm not super into either one.
Do you ever lose track of current music, and just explore older things? Do you ever keep track at all?
I don't keep track and listen almost exclusively to youtube music while playing on my Ipad.
What is your first memory?
I was about five or six and I was wandering around my father's large backyard which was full of yellow sourgrass flowers. I'm not actually sure if that's the earliest because I have other similarly blurry memories but I have no idea of their chronology. I really don't have a lot of memories of my childhood left at all, for some weird reason I literally woke up one morning in middle school and it felt like it had all happened to someone else, and it's been that way ever since.
Same question.
It's hard to say. I may have had a religious experience during my baptism, although it's hard to imagine an infant remembering something. One really cool early thing I do remember when I toddled home one day to find my mother crying about something; I asked her why, and she said that Winston Churchill had died. I guess the wartime was a part of her youth and she felt sentimental about the milestone. I remember especially that she said Winston Churchill because it's a weird name to a kid, and at first I thought she said that Winnie the Pooh had died. (Oh God!). It's a cool story because Churchill was, you know, a Victorian soldier who had fought in the Boer War and against the Mahdi army and all that long before he was Prime Minister, so that memory sort of links my personal experience on earth with that now remote-ish time in history.
Will Queen Elizabeth II ever die?
Never.
Have you ever become spontaneously obsessed with something outside your usual range of interests?
Nobody answered this but of course not. No guilt, no apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Pike, Isis are a threat for WW3 because they are a great casus belli.
And yeh, Lykren, not usually a video game guy nowadays but I am totally obsessed with https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ht7f0vHvY
How many books do you want to get through by the time you die?
Imma give you the Sarah Palin answer: all of 'em.
No, but like, more realistically, another 5-6,000.
What's your craziest relative like?
He's like, my brother... (But he would tell you that I am the crazy one!)
Why does every physics assignment begin with "Imagine a..."?
Physics teachers are John Lennon fans, I don't know.
What level of tolerance do you have for sappy sentiment?
About 40% As you grow older maudlin sentiment looks better and better through bifocals...
Will you just get older, or grow up?
My energy is boundless, as is my immaturity... whenever that final day arrives, I will die young.
The worst realization/revelation you've had as an adult?
I'm my craziest relative. You already know what I'm like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
That everything my late mother said turned out to be true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain Sparrow
If you went back in time and met yourself at 13, what one piece of advice would you give?
I don't think anything I could say would make a difference. Maybe I'd say, cry while you can.
Who is your favorite guitarist?
Bert Jansch
What mythological creature do you most relate to?
Sisyphus isn't a creature, so the Sphinx.
Would a living bicycle (c.f. Calvin & Hobbes) be cute or scary?