I would know you.

[Vorpalone]

1. I am the nutritional information on a Sweet and Salty Chex Mix bag, as it's tugged from the wet leaves by a field mouse in the early fall moon.

2. I suffer great angst about the proliferation of plastic Adirondack chairs, and worry that an entire generation will never know the solidity and quiet ease of what a wooden one can mean.

3. Three friends and I were walking through some woods to 7-Eleven to buy candy with some money we'd earned mowing lawns. Our attention was drawn to a small tree where we found a nest of newly hatched blue jays, ferociously chirping for their parents. Under the tree was a sleeping homeless man and we beat him senseless with sticks and rocks.

4. I love you more than you can ever know.

Thank you for your answers.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

This June my sub accidentally mortally wounded a field mouse while we visited my hay ranch. It got in the house somehow and was sneaking up on the jalapeño Cheetos. She felt really bad as it was injured but not dead as she has only stepped on his back half. He was wheezing and making these sad little sounds. I took him ousted by the tail with the intention of sealing him in a plastic container and letting him asphyxiate in a humane way but she protested. So I set him on a post near the barn thinking a bird would come eat him and watched him for about 15 minutes until he had finally breathed his last. He wasn't there the next morning so I assume something ate him.

You guys beating the homeless guy senseless while he was asleep sounds similar to one of the things I did at fifteen. Maybe violence against strangers is a rite of passage for most boys. Then again it could just be the expression of the CDH13 warrior gene producing to much MAOA during the puberty/testosterone years. A sort of PMS for boys.

When I was learning to drive my friend Jeff and I threw a sealed can of pork and beans at a guy holding a hungry sign. We were going about 30 miles per hour and it knocked him from his feet. We turned around drove back by and threw him a can opener while he was on the ground then drove off.

Not my proudest moment but Boys will be boys I guess.

 

[Farawyn]

But do you eat the butts?

Why do you persist in questioning me about my sexual proclivities?

Do they have bread butts at Panera?

 

[Cakecups]

Do they have bread butts at Panera?

Naw panera is too classy for butts

 

[Farawyn]

Naw panera is too classy for butts

HHHHmmmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmmm...

 

[Vorpalone]

I really liked this answer. And the example is a lovely piece of music. Pulls at my violinist heart strings. Did you do that on purpose?

Yes. It was purposeful you mentioned your violin was important enough to you to save so while I could have picked from many examples I choose that one. I tried to learn the violin once upon a time. The one I bought for a few hundred dollars sounded very tinny to my ear. When I took it back they offered to sell me an intermediate one for eight thousand dollars. I considered it but they explained you also have to play a violin regularly or it falls to ruin over time. I thought that I might not use it as much as I planned too and didn't want to risk killing it from neglect so I let it go.

 

[gracie920101]

Ooo I'm getting the logic puzzle vibe

Julie went to the store on Wednesday
Rob did not go to the store the same day as Julie or Jane
Jane likes the color green
The person who went to the store on Thursday likes bread butts

OMG! This reads like an algebra story problem. I nearly failed that class because at the end when it asked "how many apples did Johnny have?" The only answer that came to mind each and every time was " who the fuck is Johnny and why do I care?"

 

[barefootgirl69]

Vorpalone,

Have you posted a new round of questions? I've looked and looked, did I miss them?

 

[Vorpalone]

Vorpalone,

Have you posted a new round of questions? I've looked and looked, did I miss them?

No, my apologies I got sidetracked with my mom flipping out over my stepdad being in the ER. I'll put them up as soon as I can. Edit (which is now)

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.

As per usual. I will answer any questions asked of me as well as the questions I asked of you.

Thank you.

 

[barefootgirl69]

No, my apologies I got sidetracked with my mom flipping out over my stepdad being in the ER. I'll put them up as soon as I can.

Here's one of the ones I had of the top of my head to tide anyone who wishes to answer it over until I can get home, get sleep and get stuff done.

Question 1: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

I'll post the others asaf.

I read about what's going on with your stepdad. That's much more important than questions. Be safe driving home and get some needed rest. We'll still be here.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Blue]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.
I would hover over to a trinary star system and smash them into each other before combining with the resulting mass just to see what happens.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.
I'd be a Greenland shark (Which have lifespans of roughly 300-400 years). So when you filthy apes finally build your very last coal plant and commit the most fabulous instance of passive collective suicide the universe has ever seen I'll be around for at least a few more years to laugh about it before the oceanic acidification gets me.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.
Sounds?

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
Assassinate Trump and Clinton.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.
A couple of books I can't be bothered to name.

 

[Vorpalone]

For what it's worth, I find these questions a little more revelatory.

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.
star cuddle puddle.


Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.
this presumes we are all entirely human.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach. Love. And after a return to yoga, I would say a practise of more compassion to the body is far more educational to both body, spirit and heart than the more driven approach I naturally lean towards. A trainer once stopped me in a session where I was working myself quite hard and asking a lot of my horse, not in exercision, but skill and concentration, and the master said to me ' you may ask as much of yourself as you care to, but have some compassion for your partner' ( meaning my horse) it's true and I was not being fair on her. On a compassionate low pressure day, her old, me already unwell, I played with her, in a sand school, when I had no common sense to me on her she gave me a piaffe of perfection, in joy at our being together. We played at some movements together in joy, not seeking perfection, and we attained something I hold gold standard in my memory. Play beats pressure in my memory.

I like where your going with this and I agree that anthropomorphologicaly (yes I know it's not a word but imma use it anyway) some of us may not be Homo sapien sapiens.


Thank you for sharing your experience between you and your horse. A nice balance between will and comparison indeed. I ride moderately well. I'm looking into bringing a Tennessee walking horse into my family this Christmas.

 

[Vorpalone]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.
I would hover over to a trinary star system and smash them into each other before combining with the resulting mass just to see what happens.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.
I'd be a Greenland shark (Which have lifespans of roughly 300-400 years). So when you filthy apes finally build your very last coal plant and commit the most fabulous instance of passive collective suicide the universe has ever seen I'll be around for at least a few more years to laugh about it before the oceanic acidification gets me.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.
Sounds?

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
Assassinate Trump and Clinton.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.
A couple of books I can't be bothered to name.

6: Hovering over a trinary system. Nice!!! Become the new center of mass, make them alter orbit toward you, sling them chaotically into each other and over time absorbing them.

7: Greenland shark. A solid choice, just watch out for those new plastic six pack rings they use to ship the 42 gallon barrels of crude and then throw into the ocean at the port.

8: Is that a witticism. =]

9: more then one way to make the world a better place.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

Well, it probably depends on my mass and composition. But if I get a choice... hmm. Probably supernova, spreading rare elements to other systems, with what's left forming a neutron star.

Neutron stars are neat. Something as heavy as our sun, spinning hundreds of times a second, where a 'mountain' might be just millimetres high... but without the annihilation of a black hole.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.

A bird (flight!) or an octopus (tentacles are nifty, but more than that I'd love to know more about how they think; they're intelligent creatures but so distantly related to us that their intelligence has evolved on a separate course.

Or maybe a cat. Lounge around, get petted, and still be graceful.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.

How to solve mixed integer problems.

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.

Write a few letters (especially to my baby brother who'd be too young to remember me) and work out a funeral playlist. My last words would probably be "wait, I have a better song..." Spend the rest of the time with my partner. Realistically, probably a lot of that would be worrying about finances, since I'm the breadwinner.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.

Oliver Sacks, "Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood". For Sacks' ability to find wonder in the world around him, and the love that comes through in his writing, and for the science.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

I'd love to throw a big party with all my star friends, it would be talked about for ages! But, I'm just a little star who only shined bright for those around me, so I will say farewell to those closest to me and be a constant light for them until I fade off into obscurity.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.
I love bears... polar bears, grizzly bears, teddy bears, The Three Bears... Paddington! I have the 4th Anniversary Edition of that book. Anyway, a bear.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.How to make French Toast!

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
Get my affairs in order, see friends and family, make plans with Litsters I've longed to meet, in places I've longed to visit.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers... I think that's her first name. I don't know you well enough to say why.

 

[clistenovena]

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
Assassinate Trump and Clinton.

Phenomenal answer.

 

[gracie920101]

Phenomenal answer.

But that would leave Obama in office!

 

[Blue]

But that would leave Obama in office!

I'd rather keep the slice of flavourless rubbery bread than have the shape-shifting extraterrestrial reptile or the fascistic Oompa Loompa.

 

[Que]

This sounds like work.

I don't audition to be friends with someone.

Pass.

I view these things as a chance to write and for introspection and reminiscing. Pretty good questions.

That said, I'm feeling lazy so- I too, shall pass.

 

[Primalex]

As per usual. I will answer any questions asked of me as well as the questions I asked of you.

p1: Do you think you are important?

p2: Do you believe that there are opinions that are so evil or wrong that their distribution should be forbidden?

p3: Do you think that the death penalty is an acceptable punishment?

p4: Do you believe that questions about what would people do as a dying star tells you more about people than questions about what they would do as human?

p5: What would make you leave this place?

 

[Vorpalone]

Well, it probably depends on my mass and composition. But if I get a choice... hmm. Probably supernova, spreading rare elements to other systems, with what's left forming a neutron star.

Neutron stars are neat. Something as heavy as our sun, spinning hundreds of times a second, where a 'mountain' might be just millimetres high... but without the annihilation of a black hole.



A bird (flight!) or an octopus (tentacles are nifty, but more than that I'd love to know more about how they think; they're intelligent creatures but so distantly related to us that their intelligence has evolved on a separate course.

Or maybe a cat. Lounge around, get petted, and still be graceful.



How to solve mixed integer problems.



Write a few letters (especially to my baby brother who'd be too young to remember me) and work out a funeral playlist. My last words would probably be "wait, I have a better song..." Spend the rest of the time with my partner. Realistically, probably a lot of that would be worrying about finances, since I'm the breadwinner.



Oliver Sacks, "Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood". For Sacks' ability to find wonder in the world around him, and the love that comes through in his writing, and for the science.

Thank you for your insights.

Neutron stars are indeed very cool.

Flight must be freeing and give a perspective far different then the terrestrial bound humans might experience. Octopodes are amazing, opening jars, walking on land to get prey, no doubt of sentience.

I wrote some letters to my kids. Kind of a priory of knowledge of things o may not have had the time to pass on yet.

Mixed integers need to relaxed perhaps if the met a nice partial differential equation together they could chill.

The thing I want to know is how to account for strong emergence of something entirely new. Any ideas?



I'm going to go read that thanks.

 

[Vorpalone]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

I'd love to throw a big party with all my star friends, it would be talked about for ages! But, I'm just a little star who only shined bright for those around me, so I will say farewell to those closest to me and be a constant light for them until I fade off into obscurity.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.
I love bears... polar bears, grizzly bears, teddy bears, The Three Bears... Paddington! I have the 4th Anniversary Edition of that book. Anyway, a bear.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach. How to make French Toast!

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
Get my affairs in order, see friends and family, make plans with Litsters I've longed to meet, in places I've longed to visit.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers... I think that's her first name. I don't know you well enough to say why.

Much love for your answers. Thank you.

7. Bears awesome. We have black bears here, I've gone to take the garbage to the curb and ended up face to face with one several times. Truly amazing how they can claw there way up a tree in seconds. So much strength. My favorite bear is the panda, so diverse it's got black white Asian and vegitarian covered.

8. True but technically you have to break and egg at some point. =]

9. Family is verily important.

10. I'll add it to my stack thanks for sharing.

 

[Vorpalone]

p1: Do you think you are important?

p2: Do you believe that there are opinions that are so evil or wrong that their distribution should be forbidden?

p3: Do you think that the death penalty is an acceptable punishment?

p4: Do you believe that questions about what would people do as a dying star tells you more about people than questions about what they would do as human?

p5: What would make you leave this place?

1: I'm important yet irrelevant. It's scalular. In a larger perspective I am close to absolutely zero importance. As the voyager probe looked back and saw our world as a blue fuzzy dot none of us has relevance at that scale.

On the micro scale I consider myself very important. Without a "me" to feed and water my house cats, plants, fish they would likely die. On the human scale I would say I'm perhaps moderately important. When I had my business, the employees I paid to work there were supported financially by me and in turn were supporting there family's. Paying fifty or so mortgages various college tuitions etc. When I retired at thirty five to take care of my autistic son full time, my importance to my employees waned yet my energy was simultaneously redirected toward my son and family. As far as Important to myself. Not so much.

There appears to be a gradient of importance that correlates to the sphere of influence one can balance and control.

2: No. All opinions are part of a larger whole. The closer the opinion is to the mean average the more socially acceptable it is, it is the outliers that innovate and if the idea is found attractive and adopted by the middle it will be integrated. Ideas that are "evil" tend to not gain traction unless the group inherently accepts that "evilness".

The socially abhorrent ideas are trimed naturally or shifted to the fringe.

The opinions are not the problem. The problem is when a person has great power and implements an not great idea with that power. For example: If one wanted to build and use giant ion engines to push the planet into the sun and commit planetary geoside the opinion itself is not dangerous. If they posses the unfettered power to implement it without others involvement or knowledge we have a problem.

3. If it wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be accepted. Do I agree with it? No but not for your prevailing reasons like the greater good argument or they deserve it etc. My disagreement stems from the observation that in almost all cases we are a product of our nature and our environment. It shapes us through conditioning. There may be a free will component on if to project that conditioning externally but for some they don't have or never developed an ability to control that. I feel that is our collective responsibility to provide guidance as humans to other humans.

The executing of our "societal failures" is a fear response. It attempts to resolve cognitive dissonance via drawing a line of us and them that doesn't actually exist. It's all one dynamic system full of smaller systems that we as humans created to punish out of anything but a humane motivation torward the individual to mitigate the abhorrent actions is unethical in my perspective.

4. Yes, my thinking on that is if you try comunicate words to concepts that are difficult to reconcile or have no relatable context it can be difficult to express in terms of your self. I find that you can get a more neutral perspective by removing the concept from self to a story or metaphor. In my experience I find that if our thinking is entrained to our egos, attached to how we perceive ourselves we tend to get locked in and project a less accurate or biased image. We oft times think or feel what "should be" in relation to our perspective. I'd rather see someone for the person they are from my eyes then the projection of the person they want me to see. Masks are ok for play but I'd rather know a person.

5. There would be two parts. 1. If no one here appreciated my perspective after my earnest efforts to share my true self. 2. If I could not learn any new perspectives or expand my knowledge of others.

If both of these were true I would have no purpose in this expression and will absolutely take the metaphoric hemlock.

Our collective continued presence begs the question why not oblivion. Followed by if not us then who?

Thank you for asking.

 

[Vorpalone]

No, my apologies I got sidetracked with my mom flipping out over my stepdad being in the ER. I'll put them up as soon as I can. Edit (which is now)

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach.

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.

As per usual. I will answer any questions asked of me as well as the questions I asked of you.

Thank you.

As promised.

6. I'd go supernova, after billions of years I'd likely know all there was to know about being a star and get to a point where the only thing left to do would be spread my rare elements and stardust out into the universe so it could one day become something new. If my system was binary hopefully I would have siphoned off the gases from the other star prior to it hitting the iron barrier of fusion. In that way I could project the essence of both of us out into the universe.

7. I'd be a baby crag eagle living on a cliff in the edge of an ocean. Crag dwelling Eagle baby's live way up high near cliffs. When the baby graduates to a fledgling it moves to the edge of the nest. While it's seen its parents fly it really has no idea if it can fly yet it trusts its instincts. It jumps. As it plunges from the nest falling toward the jagged rocks below it spreads its wings and either soars or it dashed apart on the rocks and surf before. If it lives it knows it has a place in the world. If it dies then so be it the world didn't need another eagle.

8. I'd pick that pain while a strong motivator can not in and of itself teach that just because you feel pain when you stick your finger into the flame it doesn't mean you can't do it again if that's what you really seek to do.

9. I will post some question on an Internet board and get to know some more perspectives of people and understand a bit more of this life. I will try to make sure my son and daughters were set up for a successful life. I will not file my taxes. I would ensure that my good organs would not go to waste if possible. I will find my sub someone to take the edges off when I'm gone. I will strongly consider setting myself on fire on the steps of a government building in protest to something that was important to me. I will plant a new tree. I will know I did the absolute best I could and regret nothing.

10. I've read a lot of books. My father had a library in his office so I've likely read well over 3000 in total. While not my favorite one I have read several times is Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. When ever I thing or feel my life is less then ideal I read that book and remember how fucked it could actually be comparatively.

 

[cascadiabound]

Question 6: You are a dying star (in the outer space sense) after being around for billions of years how do you choose to end your life. Would you go supernova. Slowly fade into a white dwarf or something else completely? Feel free to be as creative as you care.

I have read with interest others answers to this question. I am not particularly satisfied with any of the scientifically understood astrophysical options to this question. My star would shine bright and steadily for a very very long time... when it is time for my star to come to it's natural end, I do not imagine either a slow fading away or a big combustion... but rather some way of becoming something else... with no regrets and with nothing lost. While stars shine bright, for a time... they exist alone. They are not in community. I see everything about how I want to live and how I want to die and evolve past this life time as being in relation to others... that which is illuminated by my light. That my light (as a star) points to something else. The loss of my star light is the loss of a way of "seeing" in the universe.

Question 7: If you could be any other real world animal besides a human being what your choose to be and why. this is a question that I seem to also have difficulty answering, and honestly, would likely give you a different answer next week than the one I am about to compose now. This does not mean that my response is not considered or untrue... it just means that, I have a flexible view about these things.
At the moment... I would say I would choose to be a Raven. They have flight, they have voice, they are clever and they are both content as solitary creatures and in the company of others. They are most often only in a dyad when not alone - never in big flocks... but they do not mind interacting with other species and will seek them out... as if they want to establish inter species interaction. I have to admit that part of my fascination with Raven is the pivotal role he plays in northwest coastal mythology, much of which speaks to me on an elemental level that I find difficult to explain beyond the fact that it "rings true" Raven is not picky. About food, about habitat. He is flexible. He is a problem solver.

Question 8: Name one thing of your choice that Pain cannot teach. Creativity. Visual discernment.

Question 9: You have nothing to lose and three months before you drop dead what do you do with your three months before leaving this world.
I would talk with and write letters to everyone in my life who matters to me. Tell them how they touched me and why they are important. I would do for each of them anything they asked of me that I could do in those three months.
I would spend as much time as possible outside.

Question 10: Name one of your favorite books you have read and what made it make it stand out as meaningful or interesting to you.

I read a lot. And I have been touched and changed by more books than I care to list. My home is full of books.
One of my favorites is Mink River by Brian Doyle. One of its characters is actually a Raven (going back to question #7). It is a story that firmly conveys a sense of place that speaks to me and the characters are funny and real and flawed and the author is able to convey subtext, parable and allegory while making you care about these funny flawed people. It is a story with heart and genuine spirit. I rarely read books twice... life is short and there are so many books. But I read this book... and then read it aloud to my husband. It was worth speaking every single word.

For you: Where is your favorite place to walk and why?
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life what would that be?
Do you think that humans have an innate need for religion or spirituality? Explain your answer.