Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Blank Template: Questions 4701 to 5172 of 5000

300 to go.

4701. What is your reaction to beggars and homeless people on the streets?

Are they lazy?

Why?

4702. Does pure altruism exist? Why or why not?

4703. Is "You like me and I like it all" an attitude you might have?

4704. Finish the words.

Ch:

An:

Ge:

So:

Ne:

Bo:

Wi:

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4705. What's your favorite science fiction movie?

Make it a double feature. What's your second favorite?

4706. If you had a remote control for people, who would you set on mute?

4707. When have you felt like you were living in the twilight zone?

4708. Do you have penis envy?

Do you have vagina envy?

4709. The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it, and the user doesn't see it. What is it?

4710. A child is born in Boston, Mass., to parents who were both born in Boston, Mass. The child is not a U.S. citizen. How is this possible?

4711. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

4712. If you had to choose between being 3 feet tall or 9 feet tall, which would you be?

4711. If you could know the answer to any three questions, what would they be?:

4712. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

4713. Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot?

4714. Would you like to know the precise date of your future death?

4715. Would you be willing to give up all television for the next 5 years if it meant 1,000 starving children in Indonesia would eat and get medical care?

4716. Name a close friend of the opposite sex:

Imagine they are from another country, visiting yours. Their visa is almost expired and if they get sent back to their country, they may never get another visa to leave again. Would you marry them if after two years, you could divorce them and they would be allowed to stay in your country?

4717. Do you always call / email in when you take a day off from school or work?

4718. A fatalist believes that the future is mapped out in a pattern. A causalist believes that every event is tied to a previous event. Neither believes in free will. An indeterminist believes in total free will. Which are you?

4719. Would you rather have a masters degree in economics or creative writing?

4718. Do you feel the need to defend the honor of your family and demand respect?

4719. What do you think about that no one else thinks about?

4720. Which of the following best describes you?

A laid-back person who enjoys watching sports and playing with computers.
An apathetic person who is open-minded and passionate about music.
A feisty person who lacks an attention span.
Avant-garde and over-confident.

4721. Why are so many letters silent in French?

4722. For all the freedoms that people in the United States enjoy, what are some of the ways that these people oppress themselves willingly, and why?

4723. What, besides genetics and besides your environment and experiences, makes you what / who you are?

4724. What bands do your parents listen to that you:

hate?
like?

4725. What do you find:

impressive:
unimpressive:

4726. How easily do you understand Shakespeare?

4728. Translate into regular English: "Romeo Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

4729. What's your favorite Girl Scout cookie?

Is it made from real Girl Scouts?

4730. How do you open your car door when it freezes shut?

4731. Why is it that 95 percent of the letters in French words are not pronounced?

4732. What are you dreading?

4733. When will your ship come in?

4734. Do you create your art for free?

4735. The Pope's recent message to George Bush is "Go into Iraq and you go without God." What do you think of this quote?

4736. Have / would you ever taken a botany (plants) course?

4737. Are you using your own computer or someone else's to take this survey?

4738. Where is this question?

4739. And this one?

4739. What about this one?

4740. They all disappeared, huh?

4741. Are you sad?

4742. Is it true what they say about Star Trek movies? You know, that only every other one is worth seeing?

4743. Someone once said, "Every possible outcome of something takes place in a parallel universe. So there is free will, but your choices only determine which of those parallel universes you live in." Your reaction?

4744. Why do you think a man 25 or above might date a teenager?

Why do you think a woman 25 or above might date a teenager?

Any moral objections? Yeah.

4745. Is there a difference between what is legal and what is ethical?

Should there be?

4746. Point out something obvious:

Point out something that isn't obvious at all:

4747. How do you stay so thin?

4748. When looking at a clear night sky, what constellations can you locate?

4749. What movie has the worst ending ever?

The best ending ever?

4750. Are you feelin' groovy?

4751. Oh, the tangled web we weave when:

4752. Do you own anything velvet?

If yes... when you wear it, can you keep from touching it?

4753. Who have you been friends with the longest?

How long have you two been friends?

4754. Who do you feel like you are in competition with?

4755. Is American culture more like Mexican culture or Japanese culture, and why do you think so?

4756. What subject are you so familiar with that you could you write an FAQ (frequently asked questions) list about it?

What would one question on that list be?

What is the answer to that question?

4757. "Don't use the rules. / They're not for you - they're for the fools / and you're a fool if you don't know that. / So use the rules, you stupid fool."

How do you feel about these Clash lyrics?

4758. Are you for or against:

Unconditional Religious tolerance?
World Peace Under One Government?
Total Freedom?
Feminism?
Love For all Creatures and People?
Organized Religion?
The Freedom to be Homophobic?
The War on Terror?
The Green Party?

4759. Have you read any of Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty books?

If yes, what did you think of them?

4760. Can you do any voices or impressions and if yes, what ones?

4761. Guys, is it true that gentlemen prefer blondes?

Girls, do blondes really have more fun?

4762. Do you enjoy sneaking up on people?

4763. Do you often break plans?

4764. "Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry". There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?

4765. Does anyone smoke in your home?

If yes, does that bother you?

4766. Have you ever actually seen a pink elephant?

4767. The answer to 4764 is "language." Did you get it?

Get it now, then?

4768. What was the most embarrassing or crazy thing you ever dreamed?

4769. Are you depraved (marked by corruption or evil; perverted)?

4770. Who or what comes to mind when you hear the words:

the dangerous objects factory?
the dude who says dude?
the man in black?
the catastrophe involving food?
the duct tape incident?

4771. In blackjack, do you often double down?

4772. Who's the big winner?

4773. Who do you care more about: your close friend in elementary school that you lost touch with, or your first lover?

4774. What's your favorite part of a cat?

4775. What was on the last CD you burned?

4776. If you wanted to learn a new language, would you consider buying a Disney movie in that language to pick up pronunciation?

What Disney movie?

4777. Is there a modern plague?

4778. Are your baths and showers so hot that your skin gets red?

4779. When you dry your body after a shower... do you dry your parts in the same order each time, almost automatically, or do you dry your parts in a random order each time, thinking about it while you're doing it?

4780. Do you feel like those who are speak a language around you that you can't understand are making fun of you?

4781. If you were blindfolded and your love / partner were placed in a line of fifty people, could you pick him or her out only by:

touching the face of each person?
feeling one elbow of each person?
smelling the breath of each person?
licking the neck of each person?
listening to the breathing of each person?
psychically sensing each person?

4782. Close your eyes and turn your head towards the room you are in. Open your eyes. Describe the first object you see without telling what it is:

4783. What three questions will you never say NO to?

4784. Would you like to see An American in Paris?

4785. Are you more of a couch or a scratching post?

Is there a difference? Perhaps.

4786. What is more important: imagination or knowledge?

4787. Would you consider modern life to be rubbish?

4788. What's the most sinful food?

4789. Name one thing about yourself that you are excessively proud of:

4790. If you went to Hell (imagining there is one), rank these punishments in order of the one you would most prefer to the one you would least prefer.

being broken on the wheel:
being put in freezing water:
being force-fed rats and snakes:
being smothered by brimstone and fire:
being dismembered alive:
being boiled in oil:
being thrown into snake pits:

In my mind, hell is not like this. It's just a place where all the interesting people go to drink, talk, and tan.

4791. What other windows or websites do you have open on your computer right now?

4792. What kind of student were you in kindergarten?

4793. What misjudgment do many people make about you?

4794. If you had been named according to your personality, what would your name be?

4795. What is made for kids, but you love it anyway?

4796. Do you believe that China should cease to occupy Tibet?

4797. What is your opinion about the North American free trade agreement?

If you don't know, go here:

4798. Dedicate a song to someone now.

What song?
To who?

What lines from that song most makes you think about this person?

4799. Can you live completely in the moment, giving no thought to past or future?

4800. Can you honestly say that nothing bothers you?

4801. Have you ever been to poetry.com?
Have they offered to publish or honor you?
Are you aware that this is a scam?

4802. Is joy more stressful than stress is joyful?

4803. Should history be taught as a series of patriotic myths about heroes, or should it be taught accurately and truthfully?

Which way do you feel it is mostly taught?

4804. What is your personal mythology?

4805. Do you practice zen driving (just following someone who looks like they know where they're going and hoping it turns out alright)?

4806. If you saw two monkeys getting it on at the zoo, and a child asked you what the monkeys were doing, what would you say?

4807. Have you ever felt like you were a part of:

one human?
one animal?
one consciousness?
one singular sensation?
one love?
one life?
one? No.

4808. You find a website that will match you up with a lonely soldier who has no family to write to him, and you would become his pen pal. Would you participate even if you were personally against the war?

If yes, would it be hard for you to keep your political opinions out of the letters?

4809. What kind of email would you like to get everyday?

4810. If you are in college, will you participate in this website?

4811. Would you ever refer to Shakespeare as "Willie the shake"?

4812. When was the last time you talked about your soul?

4813. Why is the TV show Married By America making a big deal out of how these couples will marry each other "sight unseen" when no one in the competiton is unattractive?

4814. You have made a friend on the Internet. You talk deeply all the time, but have never met or even seen pictures of each other. You finally decide to meet. He or she tells you that he or she will be waiting for you in the airport lobby wearing a black dress / suit and a rose. You give no description of yourself. When you get there, you see someone wearing black and a rose, but they are very overweight. Do you go over and tell them who you are anyway?

4815. Have you ever sent someone from the Internet to a place to meet you, but you had no intention of showing up?

4816. PETA (animal rights activists) started an ad campaign recently showing pictures from concentration camps, and comparing the mistreatment and death of animals to the Holocaust. Your reaction?

4817. Who do you feel inferior to?

Who do you feel superior to?

4819. What do you dislike so much that you could write 4 entries in one day about it?

4820. What do you think of comments that have a very good point, but are left anonymous?

4821. Why do people often say that the Arabs just don't want to farm and industrialize when they invented farming and industry?

Doesn't this show a lack of respect for Arab culture?

4822. Why are some people so hellbent on bombing the cradle of civilization?

Is there some deep subconscious need to destroy it?

4823. You know that the rising terror alert is all propaganda, right?

It takes years to plan attacks like Sept. 11, not months or days.

4824. At what age does dying your hair with Manic Panic become undignified?

4825. What question do you never want someone to ask you?

4826. What do you think of hot pink hoop earrings?

4827. What has something for everyone?

4828. What dish would you bring to a potluck dinner?

4829. How many people are you friends with that live or have lived in another country?

4830. How much would you bet that there will NOT be another terrorist attack on America this year?

4831. Why do bad things happen to good people? To make them stronger?

4832. Name a person that you seriously dislike because of their actions:

Name a person that you seriously like because of their actions:

Would you rather see a really good thing happen to the person you dislike, or a really bad thing happen to the person you like?

4833. Do you know someone who has:

threatened to commit suicide?

attempted suicide?

"successfully" killed themselves?

4834. Why do you think the world suicide rate is rising?

4835. A woman from New Zealand has offered to let herself by crucified, literally, by G, W. Bush in exchange for him not going to war. Furthermore, she says he doesn't have the "courage" to do it. Your reaction?

4836. Which Mike is more insane: Jackson or Tyson?
4837. "It's not my business to inject myself into human wars." -- PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, telling The Washington Post why she asked Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to ensure no more donkeys were used in attacks against Israelis, but would not ask him to intervene for people. Your reaction?

4838. Is today an easy day for you?

4839. Tyler Durden says, "Let me never be complete." Tyler Durden says, "May I never be content." Do you agree?

4840. What movie did you have to turn away from in horror, disgust, or fear?

4841. What does KMFDM stand for?

4842. Have you ever met anyone that you can't help being fond of because they remind you of yourself?

4843. If you met yourself 8 years ago, would you more likely beat yourself up or give yourself a hug?

4844. Do you have a nervous laugh?

4845. What's your favorite milkshake flavor?

4846. How long, at the very least, should two people be in a relationship before marriage?

4847. How many years can two people be in a relationship without marrying before you start wondering when they are getting married / why they haven't married already?

4848. What challenges you?

4849. What irritates you?

4850. What bores you?

4851. Have you paid your parents back for raising you?

4852. In America, public schools are funded with the property taxes from the houses within the school district. Imagine you live in a wealthy area with very good public schools. How would you feel about students from a less wealthy area being bussed into your school district at no extra charge to their parents?

4853. Should a child's education really depend on how much money their parents have?

4854. Would you only feel required to help your own kids get a good education?

4855. Would it benefit you personally if all children had access to a good education?
Would your streets be safer?
Would there be less drugs and violence?
Would there be more innovation at jobs?

4856. Andrew J. O'Conner, a former public defender from Santa Fe, was arrested in a public library and interrogated by Secret Service agents for five hours on February 13th, 2002. His crime? He said "Bush is out of control" on an Internet chat room, and was arrested for threatening the President. Your thoughts?

This is not about some fool of a Secret Service agent jumping the gun on an innocuous online comment. This is a failure from the top down, an empowerment - by the man charged with defending our constitution - of lesser jackasses with large badges who do not understand nor care for the importance of their positions. This is about failed leadership, and the despoiling of everything that makes this place precious and unique and sacred. In other words, Bush is out of control. - William Rivers Pitt

4857. Let's play a drinking game where we drink every time Bush says "axis of evil" or "evildoers" or "weapons of mass destruction."

4858. Do vegans really live longer than meat eaters?
Do they smell better?

4859. Do you want a lover you don't have to love?

4860. Do you believe that anyone can get ahead, and if they don't, it's because they are lazy and not trying hard enough?

4861. Do you forget to look at the different opportunities available to different people?

4862. Do you often look at a subject without looking at why it is the way it is?

4863. Do you read any fan fiction?
Write any?

4864. What did you think of The English Patient?

4865. Why do you think Third World nations are so poor?

4866. Have you ever created your own "What ___ are you?" quiz?

If you did make one, what would it be about?

4867. What do you think of the Dixie Chicks?

4868. Are you looking for love?

In all the wrong places?

4869. What do you feel like complaining about?

4870. What do you feel like celebrating?

4871. Can a person speak out against their government and still support their country?

4872. Do you believe your government has a file on you somewhere?

What kind of stuff do you suppose is in it?

4873. Do you own a $2 bill?
Is it lucky?

4874. Would you rather date someone 3 feet tall or 9 feet tall?

4875. What do you think of Americans calling fries and toast fried in egg batter Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast instead of French Fries and French toast?

4876. Would you rather have a child that is more confident or more curious?

4877. If you were going to write a bedtime story for someone you loved, what would it be about?

4878. What is your element?

4879. When are you at a loss for words?

4880. What gets you through the night?

4881. What is the worst time to be alone?

4882. When are you the most emotionally vulnerable?

4883. How would you tell your friend his fly was open in public?

4884. Does a good friend tell you you've got something in your teeth, or pretend not to notice it?

4885. If you were describing the following bands to someone who never heard of them, what other band would you say they sounded like?

Coldplay:

Everclear:

The Velvet Underground:

The Flaming Lips:

Rush:

Blur:

AFI:

Silverchair:

4886. Do you have a good luck charm?

4887. What is the essence of you?

4888. A word to the wise:

4889. Do you photograph well?

4890. Is it a great day to be alive?

4891. What would you consider to be better than sex?

4892. Some people are just so...

4893. What evil is necessary?

4894. What would you do anything for?

4895. Do famous people have the same right to speak their political views as regular people?

4896. Are your best years gone by?

4897. Are you ordinary?

4898. What are you recovering from?

4899. Did Gilligan ever get off that island?

4900. What do you think people think when they first meet you?

4901. Are you a fun-lovin' criminal?

4902. What do you find yourself encouraging others to try?

4903. Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?

4904. What do you think of the movie Mystic Pizza?

4905. Have you ever danced on a table, bar, or other platform?

4906. Where was the most inconvenient place you ever threw up?

4907. When was the last time you were up all night?

4908. What question will you find the answer to today?

4909. __ is life. The rest is just details. Fill in the blank.

4910. What did you think of the movie <10 Things I Hate About You?

4911. Ten Things I Hate About You or Clueless?

4912. What's the point of robbery when nothing is worth taking?

4913. What do you do only when you are upset?

4914. Can you imagine no love, pride, and deep-fried chicken?

4915. What do you think about flag burning?

4916. Are you cuddly?

4917. Who thinks you are offensive?

4918. Who deserves an apology from you?

4919. Who owes you an apology?

4920. Are there any animals you flat out refuse to touch?

4921. Did you / will you go to the prom?

4922. Do you have intimacy issues?

4923. Have you ever wanted to date twins?

4924. What website should everyone check out?

4925. Are pigeons flying rats?

4926. Are shrimp sea roaches?

4927. What was the last compliment you received?

4928. Do you push people away when you really want them to come closer?

4929. Do you ever just stop and listen?

4930. Do you lie your way out of things?

4931. What only happens once in a lifetime?

4932. What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream?

4933. Is this life just practice?

4934. Know of any conspiracy theories you think might be credible?

4935. What gives you happy shivers?

4936. Do you have a new attitude?

4937. Have you ever read at a poetry reading?

Your own poem?

4938. Do you feel more like laughing or crying?

4939. Who is brilliant?

4940. Who is dull?

4941. Who just needs a little love?

4942. Do you prefer when things come with no assembly required, even if they are a bit more expensive?

4943. Start a sentence with the words what if:

4944. Is life all fun and games?

Should it be?

4945. What is the highest number you can count to in your head?

4946. What can you never turn away from?

4947. What is your favorite flavor of coffee?

4948. Do you ever think about time travel?

4949. What does the number 49 remind you of?

4950. What's your favorite movie that involves dancing?

4951. How often do you:

see this survey somewhere on the main page?
check out other people who are doing this survey?

4952. How many minutes (on average) does it take you to complete one section of this survey that is 50 questions long?

4953. Multiply that number by 100 to find the approximate number of minutes you have spent on the entire survey:

4954. Divide the number of minutes by 60 to find out approximately how many hours you have spent doing this survey:

4955. Divide the number of hours by 24 to find out about how many full days you have spent filling out this survey:

(It took me about 8.5 full days to create it)

4956. Do you wish you had that time back?

4957. Are you going to miss this survey when it is gone?

4958. What are you going to fill your free time up with when this is over?

4959. Did you learn anything about yourself by taking this?

4960. Did you learn anything about me (age, gender, tastes, impression, etc.)?

4961. Has doing nothing ever felt so good as when you're doing this survey?

4962. You are about to complete the survey. Are you proud?

4963. Name 3 things everyone should know about you:

4964. Have they changed since you started this survey (that was question 2)?

4965. What date did you start this survey?

What date is it today?

How many days is that in all?

4966. Did you enjoy the start, middle, or end of the survey more?

4967. Were you still interested by the end, or did you just want to finish out of stubbornness?

4968. Do you have a favorite part of the survey?

4969. Would you finish the survey if it was upped to 10,000 questions?

4970. Did you feel like the survey covered enough different topics, or did it seem limited?

Is there a question or topic you were waiting for that never came up?

4971. Did anyone read your survey all the way through?

4972. In a few minutes, when you finish, will you feel like you've accomplished something?

4973. Were you avoiding anything by doing this survey?

4974. How would you describe taking this survey to someone who hasn't taken it?

4975. Is there any topic or topics that this survey covered too often?

4976. Will you be glad it's over or bummed that it's gone?

4977. Give the survey a rating from one to ten for how interesting it was (1 is super interesting):

4978. Did one question stand out on this survey as:

the best or most memorable question?

the worst question?

4979. Are all endings really beginnings in disguise?

4980. Are you ever going to read over your survey answers?

4981. If you retook this survey in one year, would most of your answers stay the same?

4982. How did you find this survey to begin with?

4983. What made you decide to take it?

4984. Is this the best survey you've ever taken?

4985. Could you write 5,000 questions for a survey (I'd take it, if you did)?

4986. Name something more fun than filling out this survey:

Name something that's less fun than filling out this survey:

4987. Should the survey have been more organized? Should each section have had its own theme?

4988. Were the questions:

too crazy?

too mundane?

too cryptic?

4989. What will you miss most about this survey?

4990. If we met, would we likely become friends?

4991. Are we friends now?

4992. Are you getting excited?

4993. Did you inspire or offer a question in this survey?

4994. Is your heartbeat rising?

4995. Would you go insane if the survey ended right here, before reaching 5,000?

4996. I've asked you so many questions. What question would you like to ask me?

4997. Is there a subject that you love so much that you wish all 5,000 questions had been about it (David Bowie, for instance)?

4998. Are you shivering with anticipation?

4999. Are you about to party like we're at question 4,999?

5000. Who are you?

Are you still the same person you were when you began this survey?

5001. Congratulations. You've just completed the 5,000 question survey. What are you gonna do now?

5002. Are you completely aware of yourself?

5003. Are you completely aware of the world around you?

5004. When do you feel your life energy the strongest?

5005. What is your most creative time of day?

5006. What part of the day do you feel the most connected with the universe?

5007. What makes you aware of your connection to the universe?

5008. Have you ever gone swimming in the ocean and thought about the relationship between sea water and your blood?

5009. Have you ever stared into the ocean, thinking: "Early people crawled outta that"?

5010. Do you ever look at the sky and feel your heart beating and feel the blood inside your veins?

5011. Do you ever think of where your atoms were before they were in you?

5012. Have you thought about your own death?

5013. Are you comfortable with the idea of your own death?

5014. Some monks used to picture themselves being torn apart by lions each day to make themselves comfortable with the thought of death. Do you think you might give this a try?

5015. Is the entire universe an extension of you?

5016. Or are you an extension of it?

5017. Do you feel like you encompass a whole?

Or like you are part of a whole?

5018. Are you complete by yourself, and if not, what would complete you?

a lover?

family?

friends?

a country?

all of humanity?

All living things?

All the world?

all the universe?

5019. If you didn't know that people couldn't fly, do you think that you could?

5020. The moon reflects light. But we invented electricity. Why isn't the moon obsolete?

5021. Is greatness something worth suffering for?

5022. Is it possible that all adjectives apply to you in some way or other, even if they contradict one another?

5023. "However you are, you should have always been that way" - 311 lyric. What do you think of this?

5024. Should we look down on people if they change in order to stay true to what they are inside?

5025. Are you content?

Are you complete?

5026. "I say let me never be complete. I say may I never be content. I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may." - Tyler Durden. Why does Tyler think he doesn't want to be complete or content?

5027. Is it limiting to be complete and / or content?

5028. How else do you limit yourself?

5029. Is there a city that reminds you of the landscape of your brain?

5030. Do you know secret things?

Maybe you do, and you don't know you know them.

5031. Would you benefit from a wilder existence?

5032. Does it seem to you like the range of socially acceptable behavior is getting smaller and smaller?

5033. Are people becoming more afraid of each other?

Is this causing a general tightening up of laws and a willingness to give up freedom in order to be safe?

5034. If you had to choose the percentage of freedom vs. safety, what ratio would you decide on (example: 100% free, 0% safe)?

5035. Does safety stifle you?

5036. We're all animals. We aren't meant to be so comfortable and safe. We were meant to hunt in the wild, and to kill and to sink our teeth in warm beating flesh. Does this disturb you?

If it does, is that a sign that you are afraid of the animal part of you?

Even though you have grown up in a civilized environment, you still have instincts and urges that are pure animal. Everyone does. Why are we expected to be ashamed of it?

5037. Are human beings becoming more domesticated?

5038. Have you ever noticed that the most taboo behaviors have to do with reminding the people around you that you are in touch with your animal side (taboos like sex, anger, violence, shouting, bodily functions all make people uncomfortable)?

Why are people so afraid of the fact that we are animals, with animal needs and animal instincts?

5039. Why do people feel the need to control and dominate everything natural, including the most natural parts of our own selves?

5040. Is there any real difference between the human animal and any other mammal?

Human animals are self aware, so does that give us a certain responsibility?

5041. How do you feel about The Island of Dr. Moreau?

5042. What else do you feel stifled and choked by?

5043. How could you attain freedom from these things?

5044. If nuclear bombs went off and blew us back to the Stone Age, all systems of government and etiquette would break down. People would fall back on their animal survival instincts. Would you be able to adjust to this kind of lawlessness?

5045. Are you afraid to be alone with yourself?

Do you try to avoid thinking?

5046. What are three things that you try not to think about?

5047. Free write a few sentences about each of those three things now.

5048. What is expected of you that you feel is unnatural or not right?

5049. Do you place expectations on others, thus limiting them?

5050. Could humans possibly mix responsibility / compassion / awareness with their animal side and be in balance?

Why don't they seem to be willing to?

5051. Is it as easy to make you happy now as it was when you were a child? I actually think it's easier in some ways, and harder in others.

5052. Watch a child breathe. It will fill its lungs completely with air. Adults shallow breathe, not filling their lungs completely. Why the change?

5053. Does each person have their own dramatic personal mythology, including you?

5054. Are you completely in control of your body?

How about your mind?

5055. Do you know yourself well enough to understand why you feel the way you do?

5056. Why is it better to put your feelings into your own words than to let movies and songs and books put them into words for you?

5057. Are you very precise about what words you use to describe your feelings and thoughts?

5058. Pick any noun:

5059. Now say it, think it, and type it until it loses all meaning:

5060. Are you thinking anything strange and new about that word?

5061. Are you wondering what that word really means?

5062. What is the essence of that word?

5063. Insert the word into this sentence:

A blue __your word__ is guided away, guided and guided away, that is the particular color that is used for that length and not any width, not even more than a shadow.

What does your word mean in a strange context like this?

Does it mean nothing?

something?

the same thing?

something different?

5064. How much effect does context have on a word's meaning?

5065. Can you perceive the subtlest meanings of words?

5066. Do you try to write / say what you are feeling in a true and simple way?

5067. When you talk / write, how do you tell another person how you're feeling?

5068. Do you tend to describe the feeling you have, or describe the event that gave you that feeling?

5069. Describe the feeling of:

deepest dark depression:

sadness:

being cold:

being in love:

feeling high (about life):
5070. When you described those feelings, did you tell what they feel like so the other person would know... or did you describe events that would make the other person start to feel those feelings?

5071. Love is everything. It is the deepest most intimate connection between two people. It is life.

Two figures moving against the grey. Cherry cheeks, ripe with blood... and with bright fascinated eyes, they lock hands and spin and spin in the swirling snow, faster and faster, until they topple down, a pile of colorful winter clothes, tangled and shaking with laughter.

Which of these are about love?

Is the second description about love even though it never mentions love?

5072. Which description do you like better?

5073. Describe these feelings through events so that the person reading what you wrote feels them:

energy:
misery:
loneliness:
being cold:
being in love:
feeling high (about life):

5074. Which of your descriptions do you like better, the ones in question 5069 or in question 5073, and why?

5075. The thief _______ that everyone steals.

What word would you fill in the blank with?

5076. On 5075, what word would you fill in the blank with out of these (thinks, knows)?

5077. How does the choice between these two simple words change the meaning of the whole sentence?

5078. Is it important to be honest and precise about all communication?

5079. Are you ever afraid to write / say / think how you feel?

Do you write / say / think it anyway, or become intimidated and try to avoid it?

5080. Are you interested in the deepest most sacred parts of people (and in sharing your deepest most sacred parts), or would you rather keep your relationships casual?

5081. If you'd rather keep it casual, then what are you afraid of?

5082. Are you afraid of revealing too much of yourself?

5083. Are you afraid of being burdened by knowing too much about others?

5084. When do you feel the most raw and vulnerable?

5085. Isn't raw and vulnerable just another way of saying open and honest?

5086. Every time you are open and honest, there is the chance that someone will hurt you. Will you allow yourself to close down and hide out of fear?

5087. Are you afraid of being open and honest because you are afraid of hurting people's feelings?

5088. Would it make someone a stronger person to hear what you really think about them instead of what they want to hear you think about them?

5089. Would hearing the truth from people help you be stronger?

5090. Think of 2 friends, a relative, and a love (or crush, or another friend): 1. 2. 3. 4.

5091. Write in the simplest way possible one thing that is true to each person, that you haven't said to them before out of fear (you don't have to be mean, just honest).

1.
2.
3.
4.

5092. What do you want to hear the truth about from each person?

1.
2.
3.
4.

5093. Do you think you will try to improve the depth and quality of your relationships by being more honest, and by asking complete honesty of others?

5094. Do you ask people how their souls are?

Why not?

5095. Say you asked someone, "How is your soul?" Then they asked you, "What are you talking about?" How would you explain the question?

5096. Are you honest with yourself?

5097. Can you tell when another person isn't being honest with themselves?

5098. If yes, would you talk to them about it to try and help them grow?

5099. Does your life seem to come back to and move forward through a certain idea or set of ideas?

What is it / are they?

5100. Write the simplest and truest thing you know in your own words (don't let it sound cliché):

5101. How important to you is money?

5102. What is the smallest amount of money that could be in a toilet that would make you reach in and grab it?

5103. What is the largest amount of money you would be willing to flush down the toilet to prove you are free of the constraints of money?

5104. Is fifty dollars a lot of money?

5105. Would you rather have fame or money?

5106. How about love or money?

5107. What is the absolute limit, the craziest thing you would do for a million dollars?

5109. What is the smallest amount of money that you would come to school naked for and get out of the car?

5110. If you added up the cost of everything in the room with you, what would it come out to be?

5111. Would you blow your nose in a dollar bill?

5112. Why are business executives obsessed with collecting more money than they could ever spend?

5113. Does being rich warp someone's mind?

5114. If you won the Win For Life lotto ($1,000 every week till you die), would you still go to school?

Still get a job?

5115. Can you tell a real $20 bill from a fake one?

5116. If art is made with the intent of getting rich and famous, does that cast doubt over its significance as a work of art?

5117. Why is it that there are no longer any counter cultures in America?

5118. What does it mean to be an American?

5119. Have you read Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, etc.?

5120. What country do you consider yourself part of? Canada!

Who is the greatest philosopher of that country?

5121. What do you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

5122. What do you think of having Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California?

5123. What is your favorite Terminator movie?

5124. What is your least favorite Terminator movie?

5125. What is your favorite fast food?

5126. How is President Bush doing, in your opinion?

5127. Why do people want to get more money than they could ever spend?

5128. What's the most boring thing you've ever read?

5129. Do you think there is a lot of similarity between Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings series?

5130. What ended recently?

5131. Is it natural for human beings to fear and distrust each other, or is it cultural?

5132. Why is America "one nation under God"?

5133. What will happen in fifty years when Caucasians are the minority in America?

5134. The 1920's were full of artistic and spiritual revolution. So were the 1970's. The 1980's through now (2003) have been an age of spiritual / artistic / soulful death. Why?

5135. When do you predict the next revolution will be?

5136. Since America currently (2003) has no counter culture, where can a revolution come from?

5137. Put these creatures in order from what you would least like to be reincarnated as (1) to what you would most like to be reincarnated as (10), if reincarnation ended up existing AND you were given a choice.

ant
caterpillar
house dog
wild dog
vulture
male human
female human
oak tree
rock
manta ray

5138. What do you feel unworthy of?

5139. Do you value science or intuition?

5140. Are humans the center of the universe?

5141. Who is your favorite poet of those who are alive right now?

5142. Do you troll around the Internet harassing people anonymously for fun?

5143. Have you ever seen the movie A Man Who Fell to Earth?

5144. If yes, can you explain everything that happens from when Newton gets kidnapped onwards?

5145. What bands do you own videos / DVDs about?

5146. Would you rather watch:

Toy Story or Riki Tiki Tavi?
A Clockwork Orange or On The Waterfront?
Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal?
Ever After or Pretty Woman?
Beetlejuice or the Addams Family Movie?

5147. Finish the sentence: Mommy, Mommy! A naked American man stole my ____!

5148. How many phrases can you think of that are more irritating than "by and large"?

5149. Did you like the Leo DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet movie?

5150. What's the best thing that came out of the 1920's?

5151. Were you shocked by the untimely passing of Elliott Smith?

5152. Have you ever killed an animal?

5153. Have you ever lost someone close to you?

5154. Have you ever not had the chance to say goodbye?

5155. Were you ever with someone while they died?

5156. Do you often wonder, when you say goodbye to people, if it is the last time you will ever see them?

5157. Do you always make sure to say, "I love you" just in case?

5158. Have you ever had a spiritual experience (that is, an experience that cannot be explained by science)?

5159. Do you believe that this experience was truly mystical, or do you think there is some scientific explanation for it, only you don't know what it is?

5160. Have you ever watched Jerry Springer?

5161. What is one central idea that your thoughts seem to come back to?

5162. What one CD could you listen to for a whole week (no mixed CDs... must be an album)?

5163. Are you in constant fear of death?

5164. Does fear of death keep you from building a life sometimes?

5165. What are your greatest sources for wisdom?

5166. Would you like it if the Lord of the Rings movies were 4 hours long instead of 3?

5167. What is your favorite American band?

5168. Under what circumstances would you agree to work for free?

5169. Do the Lord of the Rings movies deviate too much from the books?

5170. If you had to lose one of the two, would you choose to lose the ability to smell or to taste?

5171. Are you more simple or pretentious?

5172. What director has never made a bad movie?

I'm done! I have finished the 5000 5172-question survey! Yay! Now what do I do? Oh, no!!! :) Well, yay for me. Bye!

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