Would You??

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?