CHALLENGING QUESTIONS

[Allhallowsday]

If you have a strong wish to be turned into pet food after you die, and be fed to your dogs, should you really have dogs in the first place?

I was just debating this on a plane.

That is not a challenging question.  It is weird. 

[RCMerchant]

Have you ever done LSD?

[ER]

Have you ever done LSD?

No, but I did once agree to be given an IV drug that puts the mind into a state where intensely clear recall becomes possible and lying becomes almost impossible, and in this curiously uninhibited state I suddenly felt my mind was open to truths it normally couldn't consciously access, and in this sudden state of candor and almost overwhelming information I started bursting out the biggest truth I was feeling, which was difficult to explain but I tried to tell the people overseeing this session that the deep secret of life is it's lived in an infinite series of looping, repeating cycles, but I have never been able to accurately articulate this revelation, only describe that the lives we live spawn new cycles of our own lives with and without variation, on and on, apparently forever, action generating variation, choice creating new versions of ourselves, birth, existence, death, rebirth as us again, the same people not new identities, the same or nearly the same lives looping and repeating and creating other pathways but always staying ourselves.

It was like getting run over by a psychic train but it was also like finally being able to tell something I'd really always known, just like everyone knows but doesn't talk about.

Ha, yeah, strange day that.

[RCMerchant]

^ So, your answer is yes?  

[ER]

If a nuke was heading for your town and you had twenty minutes before it hit, what would you do?

[Trevor]

If a nuke was heading for your town and you had twenty minutes before it hit, what would you do?

Our office building - built in 1892 - has several underground bunkers with trap doors: I would go there.

[Alex]

Given where I work, I'd be surprised if it wasn't subjected to a first strike, so this is actually something I have previously given some thought to. It takes 20 minutes to get from my office to my house walking. I'd run home so I could hold Kristi and Ash. With two narrow roads leading out of town, there is no chance of getting far away enough fast enough to get anywhere safe.

[Trevor]

Almost six minutes of utter cinematic terror for me: I remember crying in my home town cinema watching this.  

Nicholas Meyer's The Day After 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA

[RCMerchant]

If a nuke was heading for your town and you had twenty minutes before it hit, what would you do?

Grab a smoke and a drink, sit the lawn chair in the front yard, and watch the fireworks.

[Trevor]

If a nuke was heading for your town and you had twenty minutes before it hit, what would you do?

Grab a smoke and a drink, sit the lawn chair in the front yard, and watch the fireworks.

I think I'd start smoking again and have a drink with you: the stronger, the better. 

[RCMerchant]

^ When I said " a smoke" I wasn't talking cigarettes, my friend. 

[Trevor]

^ When I said " a smoke" I wasn't talking cigarettes, my friend. 

Mom was (and is) always in favor of marijuana as a medicine so she wouldn't mind me getting high with a friend. 

[Rev. Powell]

If a nuke was heading for your town and you had twenty minutes before it hit, what would you do?

Have I done today's Wordle? If not, then I just have time to complete it and post my results to FB. If I've already done it, then.... speedball, I guess?

[indianasmith]

If you could, with no danger of retaliation against yourself or your family, end one human life right now, whose would it be?

[RCMerchant]

^ Putin.