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(Sorry, I have to put you through this, but in order to hit 50%, at the rate I'm going, I have to finish this out)
11. You’re having lunch with three people you expect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjust. What do you do?
Okay, so supposedly I ‘respect and admire’ these people, but are they my friends? How well do I know them? Because I can’t imagine ‘respecting and admiring’ someone I don’t know well, not really. I may respect and admire things they have done (say, Mozart, Einstein), but the accomplishments are not the people (like the characters they play are not the actors). If I really did ‘respect and admire’ them as people, they would have to be fairly close friends of mine, then.
And that begs the question, why would I be friends with people who would do that? Are you saying that up until this point, they have hidden some very serious character flaws? Or is this just a one-off grumpy day (for all three of them)? And if I was so wrong about them, am I right about my other friend? Is the criticism really distasteful and unjust, or does she act differently around them, as they are suddenly acting differently? And why would close friends of mine not know who my other close friends were? Have I never talked about her? And why would that be? This situation just isn’t adding up.
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Like they’d understand or remember what I said, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
The knee-jerk reaction is of course yes. But then you start to ask questions. Save them from what? And how? And what law are you breaking? Would I bust someone I love out of jail because they’re serving time for a crime they committed? No, because they need to take responsibility and pay for their crime(s). Would I kill someone to stop them from killing a loved one? In a heartbeat, but… that’s not a crime. That really falls under self-defense. So this question is a little too vague to really ever be answered honestly, and is again a rather pointless waste of typing.
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Again with the not-mutually-exclusive questions. There’s no reason you can’t see something as both. Have I ever seen something and thought it was crazy, but later saw the brilliance of it? Sure. See: owning a cookie dough scoop. Seems like a silly, pointless piece of kitchen crap, but man, are they wonderful to have. But to really have a swing in perception, the things you are perceiving have to be on the opposite ends of a spectrum. Insanity is opposite of logic and reason. Hence the expression ‘method to the madness’, for when things seem wild and crazy but there’s an underlying layer of logic. The opposite of creative is…boring or cookie-cutter or formulaic. Have I ever seen something and thought ‘my, that’s boring’ and later seen the creativity in it? No.
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
How different is different? Heck, I probably breathe uniquely, we probably all do. I’m fairly certainly I have a unique genetic makeup, so… everything? And what is ‘most people’? Being left-handed would put you in a minority, but is it enough of one to overcome the ‘most’? If you’re asking what quirks I have (then just ask that simple question!) then I have to say there are a lot of silly things, but they’re just that, silly things. Unimportant. So unimportant I can’t really think of any of them at the moment.
Wheeeee! 15 down! Ugh, 35 to go. But the answers are getting shorter, though they are still answers and not things like ‘polka dot’ and ‘mauve’. Hey, I put this on my list of 50/50, it really would, in the grand scheme of things, be an easy 50 to accomplish. I could get them done this week – or even today – if I really wanted to. So… we’ll see. For now I’ll keep slogging along, though you’re all (all two of you that read this!) bored out of your skull by now. Sorry!
11. You’re having lunch with three people you expect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjust. What do you do?
Okay, so supposedly I ‘respect and admire’ these people, but are they my friends? How well do I know them? Because I can’t imagine ‘respecting and admiring’ someone I don’t know well, not really. I may respect and admire things they have done (say, Mozart, Einstein), but the accomplishments are not the people (like the characters they play are not the actors). If I really did ‘respect and admire’ them as people, they would have to be fairly close friends of mine, then.
And that begs the question, why would I be friends with people who would do that? Are you saying that up until this point, they have hidden some very serious character flaws? Or is this just a one-off grumpy day (for all three of them)? And if I was so wrong about them, am I right about my other friend? Is the criticism really distasteful and unjust, or does she act differently around them, as they are suddenly acting differently? And why would close friends of mine not know who my other close friends were? Have I never talked about her? And why would that be? This situation just isn’t adding up.
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Like they’d understand or remember what I said, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
The knee-jerk reaction is of course yes. But then you start to ask questions. Save them from what? And how? And what law are you breaking? Would I bust someone I love out of jail because they’re serving time for a crime they committed? No, because they need to take responsibility and pay for their crime(s). Would I kill someone to stop them from killing a loved one? In a heartbeat, but… that’s not a crime. That really falls under self-defense. So this question is a little too vague to really ever be answered honestly, and is again a rather pointless waste of typing.
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Again with the not-mutually-exclusive questions. There’s no reason you can’t see something as both. Have I ever seen something and thought it was crazy, but later saw the brilliance of it? Sure. See: owning a cookie dough scoop. Seems like a silly, pointless piece of kitchen crap, but man, are they wonderful to have. But to really have a swing in perception, the things you are perceiving have to be on the opposite ends of a spectrum. Insanity is opposite of logic and reason. Hence the expression ‘method to the madness’, for when things seem wild and crazy but there’s an underlying layer of logic. The opposite of creative is…boring or cookie-cutter or formulaic. Have I ever seen something and thought ‘my, that’s boring’ and later seen the creativity in it? No.
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
How different is different? Heck, I probably breathe uniquely, we probably all do. I’m fairly certainly I have a unique genetic makeup, so… everything? And what is ‘most people’? Being left-handed would put you in a minority, but is it enough of one to overcome the ‘most’? If you’re asking what quirks I have (then just ask that simple question!) then I have to say there are a lot of silly things, but they’re just that, silly things. Unimportant. So unimportant I can’t really think of any of them at the moment.
Wheeeee! 15 down! Ugh, 35 to go. But the answers are getting shorter, though they are still answers and not things like ‘polka dot’ and ‘mauve’. Hey, I put this on my list of 50/50, it really would, in the grand scheme of things, be an easy 50 to accomplish. I could get them done this week – or even today – if I really wanted to. So… we’ll see. For now I’ll keep slogging along, though you’re all (all two of you that read this!) bored out of your skull by now. Sorry!