Hey, have you ever wanted to take surveys? Well now you CAN! In your very own home! It's as simple as copying this post, paste it to your own journal post, erase the manufacturer's answer-inserts. and then fill in your own answers! It's fun for the whole family! Even little billy. Maybe now he won't have to play with matches to have a good time.

*Some assembly required*



1) Room A contains one thousand monkeys, each pressing keys at random on their own typwriter with an indefinite supply of paper. Room B contains one thousand monkeys, each painting random swishes and marks on their own infinite supply of canvases. Do you think Room A could churn out Shakespeare by random luck faster than Room B could produce a Rembrandt (painting)? Or would room B finish their masterpeice by random luck before room A could produce Romeo and Juliet?

I say Room B's monkeys would be able to achieve their task more quickly. Monkeys have been known to finger paint, after all.


2)You've just died. Your spirit/soul is still hovering, immaterial, in the "here and now", invisible to anyone in the physical realm. An entity appears to you and tells you that you cannot remain. He gives you three choices....

a) Allow your spirit/soul to be reincarnated into a fetus that has not been issued a spirit/soul yet. You will loose all your old memories forever.

b) Join a sort of god-soul amalgamation... made up of the fused souls of all that came before, and chose this option. Your memories will be contained in the collective mind, but you will loose all sense of self and will not be an individual entity anymore.

c) Cling to your memories and individuality both... in a land of eternal suffering and pain where you will be tormented for eternity.

Which would you choose?

I'd choose C, but I'd probably regret it.



3) You find yourself sitting at a table with Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, and Zeus. Do you have any questions for them? If so, what would they be? If not... why not?
None of them have any earthly currency and have all ordered very pricey menu items. Will you pay their bills for them?
Which one of them would win in a fight to the death?

I'd ask them all what the one true path to heaven is. Then when they start arguing, I'll eat all their food, and skip out on the bill. When the inevitable fight to the death ensues, I'll place my bets on Buddah for the win!



4) You wake up naked on a deserted island with your leg amputated at the knee and no memory of how you got there, or how the lower half of your left leg (yes, they took lefty) ended up in a cooler of ice next to you. The island is desolate, with no animals or plants, and is flat.There's driftwood on shore, and there's a lighter by the cooler. You don't know how long you've been there, nakedly baking under the sun, but you are weak and starving. Will you gather up the driftwood, light er up, and cook your leg for nourishment?

First I'd exhaust all my options. Wade through the ocean trying to find kelp and sea weed to eat... possibly try to catch some fish (nearly impossible without some sort of tool like a spear or fishing rod). If all else failed, I'd so eat my own leg.



5) A viscious killer has been terrorizing the neighborhood at night, killing, maiming, and generally carrying about in a homicidal manner. You find yourself exhausted as if you haven't slept for days. You open your dresser drawer and find all of the tools described on the news as the weapons that the killer uses, and they are all covered with blood. There are journal accounts of the killing sprees in your handwritting and signed by you attesting to you being the killer. And you already have specks of blood on you even though you didn't touch any. Would you sooner think you were being framed, or that you commited the murders and somehow (perhaps through some form of psychiosis) don't remember? Would you a) proceed to destroy all the evidence and disavow all knowledge of this, b) Run away to another state/country because eventually they'll be onto you weather you did it or not, or c) report it all to the authorities since they can sort things out and get you into a mental rehabilitation center?

I'd probably suspect I was the killer, and that it wasn't any kind of setup. Then I'd destroy the evidence, then I'd run away to a country with a terrible police force so that if I kept killing in my psychotic night-trances, I wouldn't get caught.



6) Would you rather:

Go somewhere with interesting and beautiful people, or somewhere with interesting and beautiful landscapes?
landscapes. Inanimate things never let you down.

Drown to death or burn to death?
drown

Rid the world of spirituality, or rid the world of science and technology?
I don't think I could live without science. I'd have to loose the spirituality, though it'd be sad to see it go too.

Kill a nun, or kill a preist?
a preist.

Give up sugar for life, or give up beef for life?
sugar. I don't want to live in a world where I can't eat beef!

Burn down city hall, or burn down the whitehouse?
I suppose city hall... less devestating.

Become a street magician, or become a street musician?
Street Magician! Booyah!

Loose your right hand, or your entire left leg, to amputation?
I'd have to loose the leg. My right arm is my drawing arm!



7) If it was somehow proven that excercise would definitively shorten your lifespan, would you become the world's happiest couch potato, or would you take the hit for a better quality of life for that shorter lifespan?
I don't think anything would change.

8) If it were somehow proven that the first lunar landing never happened, and was staged in hollywood and broadcast to the world to keep America in the space race just long enough to actually complete the technology neccesary for the eventual real first lunar landing, would you feel angry that you were lied to by the governemnt, or would you feel that the ends justified the means?
Both! It'd suck, and I wouldn't like it one bit. But, the ends DO justify the means.