Braingle Interview #87: ka-ching
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 Posted: 10:35AM Mar 12, 2012 |
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HarryPutter wrote: 1) Which religion do you have the most respect for outside of your own? Never thought about it, I guess. It's not that I respect any more than the other - I respect the one that's right. haha I'm patient/tolerant with the others as much as possible.
Possibly the Amish communities, simply for the fact that they know their convictions are weird to the rest of the world and they either naturally don't car or they've learned not to. They find their happiness in their contentment with the simple things and they work righteously for whatever they have. Their personal discipline, too, is unreal. haha Of course, there's the issue with being shunned from the community if you choose to disagree, but you know. I didn't say it was perfect.
2) What requires the most change in American society? The feeling of entitlement. Granted, I live in a family that deals with this kind of thing [government welfare, etc.] every day, so I probably get all the bad stories, but we seem to have this notion that getting away with doing as little work we can for as much profit as possible is the new American Dream. We learned in high school that the definition of inflation was too much money, not enough work. [Very] Basic formula.
Then there's victimisation - the idea that you're a victim of circumstance, so you spend your time doing nothing or shifting blame or being offended for the rest of your life. Nonsense. America just whines too much. We're a first world country. We have it easy. Get over yourself.
[/end rant] haha you asked for that. Just to remind you.
3) How many marshmallows can you fit in your mouth at once? Never counted. The guilt would be too much if I ever tried to. Each marshmallow equals x calories, so simple multiplication would probably kill me. haha Mini-marshmallows, tough to say. Larger ones, oh boy. Five?
4) In your opinion, what box is life most akin to? "Life is life a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get." Everybody knows that. There's diversity in what you can do with chocolate and put inside it and everybody has their preference, but every piece in the case has that one fundamental, common element - cocoa.
However, in life's box, I think a lot more people get more of the boring chocolate-with-almonds than they originally hoped for.
5) Do you prefer spid in a suit or a tux? haha Easily suit, if I have to choose.
He's more of an under armour kind of guy.
Awesome q's. Thanksyou.
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Sneakattack 
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Posted: 05:10PM Mar 13, 2012 |
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Ok ching, ready for some crazy, in-depth questions?
1) Do you think it is right that the minimum legal age for gambling is 21? Why?
2) Secondary schools, and some colleges, have the authority to determine what you wear, say, and do. However, the constitution gives you these rights as long as it's legal. Should schools have the authority to tell you what you can or cannot be? Why?
3) If you could visit any part of the world with no repercussions whatsoever, where would you visit and why?
4) What is your opinion on fighting sports, such as boxing, ju jistu, mma, and others?
5) Should a country hurt itself to help another (like if we extensively helped a country in Africa)? Why?
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Posted: 08:11PM Mar 13, 2012 |
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Sneakattack wrote: Ok ching, ready for some crazy, in-depth questions? Absolutely. Hit me up.
1) Do you think it is right that the minimum legal age for gambling is 21? Why? I don't see a real reason to disagree with this. Most people around my age [under 21] can't afford to gamble anyway. haha The only exception I can see would be a well-disciplined person who wanted to participate with their family in a casino. (part of my family lives in Vegas. haha It happens.) But then again, Aunt Judy can't gamble because she has a gambling problem, so we avoid it.
2) Secondary schools, and some colleges, have the authority to determine what you wear, say, and do. However, the constitution gives you these rights as long as it's legal. Should schools have the authority to tell you what you can or cannot be? Why? Universities - I believe they do, but I also believe that picking a particular school is the choice and responsibility of the student. You don't sign up for a university without first knowing the rules and being prepared to handle them. If you don't think you can, you're perfectly capable of picking a different school. Otherwise, attend the college you picked and suck it up.
As for secondary schools, it's a little tougher. Younger kids have different and worse judgement and a thing for pushing limits. It comes naturally. I'm typically against strict cookie-cutter regulations, but I think kids can live with it and it's up to the adults in administration to make appropriate calls as to what kinds of rules are set down. If nothing else, the system teaches its kids certain points of discipline.
If a school board's going to be extreme about its rules, it should expect to get some flack and a lot of rebellion. The authorities of an institution have to keep these things in mind, too. It's all a balance. Bottom line: care about the student more than you care about the rules.
3) If you could visit any part of the world with no repercussions whatsoever, where would you visit and why? I always want there to be "repercussions" in some way. haha Something I take away from the place. But I know what you meant. Negative repercussions.
I have an answer for you. It took me a while to come up with one that I otherwise wouldn't visit, but Egypt. Lots going on in Egypt right now that you would want to avoid. haha But it's warm and fascinatingly rich with culture and history. (Not that I'm only interested in warm climates - far from it.) It would be very cool to see my two years of studying Egyptian history up close and personal. And everything is extremely different from what I consider normal. It would be a spectacular place to broaden the horizon a little bit.
Oddly enough, there's not many politically or militaristically torn countries that particularly draw my interest at the moment. I'd love to see the world, all of it, but most of the things first and foremost on my list are relatively quiet.
4) What is your opinion on fighting sports, such as boxing, jiu jistu, mma, and others? haha I used to take shotokan karate, so I'm not all that against it. Believe it or not, I think it's fun. Would I have the bestiality to like the feel of my fist's breaking somebody's nose? probably not. But there is something about being undeniably the tough man on top that's appealing. Putting all your power out there in that epic toe-to-toe. It's just you. Your win is just you. Nothing helps you win, just what you bring to the table of your own might. Yeah, it's something.
Wrestling, I may make the exception for, just because... haha it's kinda frilly. Or however you want to describe it. Stages. What I've seen of it, anyway. I prefer good old-fashioned mma/martial arts.
5) Should a country hurt itself to help another (like if we extensively helped a country in Africa)? Why? mmm this is a truly tough question. I've been mulling it over for a little while. I think to a degree, a successful nation (such as ourselves) should practise international philanthropy. Yes. But. I think America likes to meddle too much for too long and in far too many places at once. If you're going to help, help one or two at a time, otherwise, I think we're stretching our resources too far and we'll collapse, possibly taking the nations we're trying to aid down with us.
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Posted: 06:15PM Mar 19, 2012 |
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A 6-day period of silence. Umm.
1) What is your opinion on monopolizing?
2) If you had to be a solider, would you rather be a solider today where you have better equipment but you can get killed at any given time (snipers, satellites, missiles), or would you rather be a soldier in older times where there was more hand to hand combat but there was more honor, and you didn't just randomly get killed?
3) Do you think animal rights activists go to far?
4) Transcendentalism is the belief that humans are pure. Anti-Transcendentalism is the belief that humans are evil. There is no in between. If you had to choose, which belief would you go with? (there's more to the beliefs, but I'm focusing on the humans)
5) If you could be a world leader, would you?
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Posted: 07:15PM Mar 19, 2012 |
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1) What would be your favourite ice cream flavour if:
a. you had to choose from vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate?
b. you could choose any flavour that you have tried before?
c. you could invent one?
2) If you were to commit a crime, what kind of crime would it be?
3) If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what book would you want it to be?
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Posted: 10:09PM Mar 19, 2012 |
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Sneakattack wrote: A 6-day period of silence. Umm. Eh, I took advantage of the breather. It's cool.
1) What is your opinion on monopolizing? Moderation in everything. Monopolising is dangerous. Centralised power is never, ever, ever, a good idea. I can elaborate on that if you want me to, otherwise, I'll just let it stand as is and assume everybody knows how I connect those dots. haha
2) If you had to be a solider, would you rather be a solider today where you have better equipment but you can get killed at any given time (snipers, satellites, missiles), or would you rather be a soldier in older times where there was more hand to hand combat but there was more honor, and you didn't just randomly get killed? I think I mentioned before I think war should be avoided. Trying to suppress the urge to go all modern-day hippy on you. haha Anyway, older times, for sure. Face to face, hands on, almost every man for himself. But things were taken very seriously and every move you made, you were forced to encounter the effects of your actions. The consequences were very real.
Plus, if you take war personally like you should, you should take your enemy on in kind.
3) Do you think animal rights activists go to far? Yep. I surely do. I'm sorry, I'm gonna make waves, here, but animals don't have rights. Humans have the responsibility not to be cruel monsters, but animals don't have rights. When you start putting animals on the same level you put humans, I have huge problems.
Not to say I don't love animals. I'm a huge dog/animal person. There's few animals I don't love. At the same time, I enjoy eating meat and wearing animal hide. It's part of what they exist for.
4) Transcendentalism is the belief that humans are pure. Anti-Transcendentalism is the belief that humans are evil. There is no in between. If you had to choose, which belief would you go with? (there's more to the beliefs, but I'm focusing on the humans) Humans are evil. Man is innately bad. And I know this Biblically - I know this as a fact. And I also know I'm in a VAST minority. haha But man will always choose the opposite of what God wants. And since God represents everything that is good, opposing Him is by definition evil. I'd go farther, but like answer #1, I'll keep it reasonable.
5) If you could be a world leader, would you? Oo. Not sure. I think the key is to do what you do and if half the world's population happens to agree with you, so be it. You be the strongest, rightest person you can be every day, whether you're a world leader or not. I'm not saying being a world leader doesn't make a difference, because it does, unfortunately. I'm saying... maybe it shouldn't.
But would I? I would. But my leadership would purely be a token, since I prefer small organisation to large. haha Which... is contradictory.
So I guess the real answer is no. 
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Posted: 10:24PM Mar 19, 2012 |
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Shadows wrote: 1) What would be your favourite ice cream flavour if:
a. you had to choose from vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate? Chocolate, usually, but it depends on my mood.
b. you could choose any flavour that you have tried before? Oh, easily Moose Tracks. Sometimes Cookies and Cream encroaches on that, but for the most part, Moose Tracks. Although, ice cream is ice cream. And I try to shake things up as often as I can, so I'm not picky.
However.... ice cream never seems quite complete without chocolate in some form or amount.
c. you could invent one? Ooooooo. hm. Gotta think. There's not much that hasn't been invented. haha Play up the salty/sweet with pretzels (chocolate covered pretzels?), and the same semi-solid chocolate ribbons as there are in Moose Tracks.
2) If you were to commit a crime, what kind of crime would it be? Murder. (; 
Or embezzlement. o.o
3) If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what book would you want it to be? Quite easily the Bible, not only for the fact that it's a manual for everything, but every time I read it, the pure literature of the thing sings from the pages. haha For this reason, I prefer to read the KJV. It's like getting classical literature while learning everything there is to know. Does it get any better? haha
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Posted: 07:29PM Mar 23, 2012 |
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If you could choose any celebrity to meet, who would you choose and why?
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Posted: 08:55PM Mar 23, 2012 |
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If you could create one invention for non-profit reasons that had no limitations whatsoever, that includes all physics such as gravity, time, etc., what would you create and why?
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Posted: 09:20PM Mar 23, 2012 |
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xxsoftballxx13x wrote: If you could choose any celebrity to meet, who would you choose and why? I honestly would rather meet someone I already know that I'm close to that I don't see often or at all than meet a celebrity. Celebrities aren't my thing, I guess. Anyway.
Steve Martin would be awesome. He would be entertaining, with the ability to be intelligent, seems polite and assertive, and we'd just have a good time. You can't have an encounter with Steve Martin and not enjoy yourself.
That's just my impression.
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Posted: 09:37PM Mar 23, 2012 |
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Sneakattack wrote: If you could create one invention for non-profit reasons that had no limitations whatsoever, that includes all physics such as gravity, time, etc., what would you create and why?
Ughh. Too late at night for such a question. And I'm not creative enough for this. haha
And why would you invent something purely for a profit? I mean, yeah, it's been done before, but the idea has to be sparked by a need you notice needs filling. Anyway. I digress.
kk you're getting my lame late-night answer, here. Something, a device, that anticipates moods or movement and prompts you to act accordingly. So your wife's in a bad mood, it lets you know whatever's in your head to say, don't say it.
It's like mind-reading, but not quite as wide-open. You know that moment when you just wish you could get inside somebody's head for a minute to see what you can do for them that would be most effective at any given time? Like that, only without the blatant invasion of privacy a mindreader would have. haha
On the other hand, could serve as a warning for potential victims of various kinds of violence. Anticipating being attacked and reacting appropriately... obviously, this invention would be illegal for use in martial arts.
Basically amplified intuition. A falsified sixth sense.
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Posted: 04:26AM Mar 26, 2012 |
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1. Do you have a song that is stuck in your head right now?
2. What is your favourite modern acronym?
3. Should America switch to the metric system?
4. Who do you think you could hold up better against in a drinking contest - Spid or Jake?
5. If you had to build a hypothetical braingle "family", who would fill each position? 
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Posted: 08:51AM Mar 26, 2012 |
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HarryPutter wrote: 1. Do you have a song that is stuck in your head right now? Oh gheesh, how did you know? Some Johnny Mathis song. It's got a sunny tune that goes with the morning, so it stuck.
I almost always have some kind of song stuck in my head, but I have my rare moments of mental silence.
2. What is your favourite modern acronym? Assuming you mean the informal ones like "btw" and "brb"....
"tbh" is my favourite. And I can't tell you why for the life of me. Maybe because it's relatively less used.
3. Should America switch to the metric system? Yeah. Makes sense enough. It would be an adjustment, but we could do it. What country other than America doesn't use the metric system? Not sure. But it would still be nice for every American kid to grow up recognising dimensions as the rest of the world notes them.
4. Who do you think you could hold up better against in a drinking contest - Spid or Jake? I originally misread the question to say the contest was between Spider and Jake. haha Who would I hold up better against? Jake. A non-question. haha Then again, if challenged by Spider, I might continue out of sheer spite and stubbornness. But I'd do better against Jake, with Spider being the seasoned inebriate that he is.
5. If you had to build a hypothetical braingle "family", who would fill each position?
SirHar the deluded grandpa we visit in the asylum every second Tuesday of the month. Goldenglade the annoying slightly older brother I should be allowed to smack but am not. DJ the older brother I respect. haha Star the sister that left home for college.
Steve, the dog, the one that takes up the whoooooole sofa. Cookei and Evie, littler sisters; GreenApples, little sister's crush; Rolu, distinguished cousin; Markus, the cousin that's pumps up the Christmas gathering, either with jokes or family controversy - we're never sure which one it will be. Jake, the cat.
Spider the older brother's friend that spends more time at our house than at his and we like it that way. Smithy the picky next-door neighbour who whines about everything from our lawn to our music - who hates the dog, but whom the dog loves. Don't worry, though. He secretly loves us all.
Big family. I even left some out. haha
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Posted: 02:31PM Mar 26, 2012 |
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 you left me out! 
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1) If you could pull a prank on someone who would you pull it on and what would it be?
2) Do you think schools are getting carried away with the bullying stuff?
3) If you were told you only had one month to live (not in pain, tho), what would you do for your last month?
4) There are well over 900,000 words in the English language but the average person uses less than 1,000 differing words per day. Do you think it is important to learn all kinds of vocabulary?
5) When you are old and ready to pass, what would you want your legacy to be (i.e. what do you want to be remembered as and remembered for doing) so that you can say you lived a fulfilling and successful life?
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Posted: 01:12AM Mar 28, 2012 |
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Sneakattack wrote: you left me out!
(jk)
1) If you could pull a prank on someone who would you pull it on and what would it be? Uhm. I'm typically no good at planning pranks. They come to me spontaneously. Then I have to fight the urge to do them and the inner war ensues about whether it's a good idea or not to follow through with it. haha
mm My younger brother. The 15-year-old one. He might take it, then again, he might not, but either way, I'd laugh. Whatever prank I pull will probably involve water in some way.
2) Do you think schools are getting carried away with the bullying stuff? Yeah, I kinda do. Granted, kids need to be taught not to be horrid beasts, but others need to learn how to let things slide and either not take things so seriously, or learn that life isn't fair and you will be judged. Sorry. I think a lot of kids just whine too much. If there's ever a way to stop bullying, it's to teach kids to ignore the things other people say that shouldn't matter.
That's just emotional/verbal "bullying", though. I've heard personal stories about physical types of it and that cannot be emphasized enough. If someone's being consistently harmed, action absolutely must be taken. In that way, I don't think schools have gone overboard. But I mean, I'd rather see them doing the helpful stuff than raising awareness for it, if you know what I mean.
3) If you were told you only had one month to live (not in pain, tho), what would you do for your last month? Visit and associate myself with as many of the people I know and just enjoy them. I might do something daring for the fun of it.
I wouldn't worry about the future anymore. To be honest, I'd probably spend a day just cleaning my things out and throwing away all those things I said I'd eventually get to. haha Make my environment as comfortable and streamlined as possible and live out the last few weeks sharing what I can.
4) There are well over 900,000 words in the English language but the average person uses less than 1,000 differing words per day. Do you think it is important to learn all kinds of vocabulary? Yes, but it's not crucially important to know all of them. It's good to be able to communicate intelligently on a host of levels, but vocabulary doesn't really deserve to be stressed too much. Some will pick up on it and some won't. The ones who won't, won't care. haha If you absolutely have to be able to communicate with someone, you will pick up on their vernacular. Formally learning it should be a non-issue.
5) When you are old and ready to pass, what would you want your legacy to be (i.e. what do you want to be remembered as and remembered for doing) so that you can say you lived a fulfilling and successful life? Mm, hospitality might be one part of it. A legacy of idealism, too. Encouraging people to be visionaries and to see the potential in everything.
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Posted: 07:43PM Mar 28, 2012 |
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I know I'm just teasing. 
What is your opinion of the internet? Of course it has both good and bad points but if you had to choose, would you say that the internet has changed the world for the better or for the worse and why?
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Posted: 11:12AM Mar 29, 2012 |
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Sneakattack wrote: I know I'm just teasing.
What is your opinion of the internet? Of course it has both good and bad points but if you had to choose, would you say that the internet has changed the world for the better or for the worse and why?
As for social networking and the like, since I live... a long way from civilisation, it's nice for me to have and I use it. haha But I'd give it up for the real deal any day.
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