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| These are just a bunch of questions to ask. They are supposed to start conversation, not become the conversation! Use them for ideas, as a jumping off place, whatever. Mainly, require explanation whenever possible--Why do they think, feel, want that? |
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| "All great deeds and
all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
"An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions." "He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions." "If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything." "If there are two sides to every question, why is there only one answer?" "Just about the time we finally learn all the answers, they change all the questions." "Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some just grate upon you." Are you a democrat or Republican? Beyond digital audio and video, what new methods for storing information will evolve in the future? Could you kill someone that was attacking someone you love? Could you kill someone that was attacking you? Death penalty: Pro or con? Describe your dream house. Describe your earliest memory? Describe your idea mate. Did the worst pick up line you've ever heard work on you? Do you have a favorite quote(s)? Why is it your favorite? Fred Johnson bought a used computer for $600 and sold it to Bill Thomas for $800. He later bought it back for $1000 and resold it for $1200. Did Fred make any profit and if so how much? How far would you go for a friend? How many languages will exist in the distant future? How many three cent stamps are in a dozen? How will technological developments widen or narrow the economic disparities present in our world today? How will we "prove" things if they are able to produce records, such as photos, tapes, etc., that can be altered or created so that it is impossible to tell the difference between artificial and real evidence? How would you react if technology is developed that would allow employers or insurance companies to analyze drugs, medications and potential disease by reading urine in workplace rest rooms? If a movie were made about your life would it be comedy, tragedy, dramady, flop, farce, etc.? If by destroying one innocent life you could save millions, would you do it? If that person were yourself? If that person were someone close to you? If complete nutrition could be packaged in any combination of taste, smell and texture, what would be choose to eat? If given the opportunity to become a member of the opposite sex for 1 year would you take it? If medical professionals can help parents choose a child's characteristics such as size, coloring, strength, etc. will the child later be able to sue for choices which the child feels have inflicted emotional pain and suffering? If scientific advances can help people live for centuries, will a choice to live a natural life span be viewed as suicide or spiritual enlightenment? Will our attitudes toward dying change? If someone offered you a thousand dollars to have sex with them, would you do it? If we find positive proof of extraterrestrial life, how will this affect our view of God, angels, ourselves? If we were in a war-like situation, where one group of people was committing vast atrocities, could you push the button to "nuke" them, knowing millions of innocent live would also be lost? If you could be any profession, regardless of current circumstance, what would you choose? If you could be anyone in history, past or present, who would it be and why? If you could change one incident in your life, knowing it would alter the person you are today, what would you change and why? If you could change one thing about your appearance, what would it be and why? [ONLY ONE] If you could choose to stay at a given age or stage of physical development for as long as you would like to, what age would you select? If you could choose your death, what would it be and why? If you could live at any time in history when would it be and why? If you could make love to anyone in the world for one year, who would it be and why? If you could only retain one sense which would it be and why? If you discovered you would die in five minutes what would you most regret not having said to someone? Why haven't you said it? If you had just won ten million dollars what would you do with the money? If you had to choose between a beautiful but dumb mate, or someone who was everything you ever wanted, but not attractive, which would you choose? [KEEP IN MIND THIS IS FOR LIFE, SEPARATION IS NOT AN OPTION-YOU MUST CHOOSE] If you had to choose between spending the next three years of your life with the person you love the most, knowing that at the end of that time they would die (they don't know); or living the rest of your life alone, and away from them-but they would live to old age, which would you choose? [BE HONEST] If you had to choose one sense to lose which one would you choose and why? If you had to choose one thing to give up what would it be? If you knew you could be completely happy for one year, but at the end of the year your memory of it would be completely erased, would you choose to do it? Explain. If you knew your favorite food would kill you, could you stop eating it? If you lost your hearing what would you miss the most? If you lost your sense of smell what would you miss the most? If you lost your sense of taste what would you miss the most? If you lost your sight what would you miss the most? If you were granted three wishes what would you wish for? [NO WISHING FOR MORE WISHES!] If you were only being kept alive by life support, with an unknown chance of survival without it, would you want the plug pulled? If it would save another life? If were not you, but someone close to you? If you were partially paralyzed what would you miss the most? If you were completely paralyzed? If you were stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and someone had to die so the others could live, why should you be spared? [NO CHOOSING TO DIE, YOU MUST ANSWER THE QUESTION] If you were stranded on an island, what five things would you want with you? If you were stranded on an island, what one person would you want with you? If you were to die in five minutes what is the one thing you regret most in life? If you won the lottery what would you do first? In 3000, will Einstein's theory of relativity be considered a cornerstone of scientific thought, a quack theory, or the basis of third millennium scientific exploration? In the future, around what issues will political groups form? In the future, how will community security be balanced against the right to personal privacy? In the future, how will technology be used to maintain personal and community security? Looking back at us from the future, what will people see as most advanced in our spiritual lives and practices? How will they view discrimination and killing in the name of religion? Of all the small things we do while we are alone what do you enjoy most? Of what achievement are you most proud? Quote: "When alone, truly alone, are we all children, or none of us?" C. S. Lewis Tell me something about yourself you wouldn't normally tell someone. The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it, and the user doesn't see it. What is it? To what extent will the world's faiths unify? What animal do you consider yourself to be most like? What animal do you most wish you were like? What are you most cynical about? What are your biggest pet peeves? What are your three favorite bands/musicians? What author, poet, etc. has affected you the most and why? What do you believe is the most pressing problem in the US today and why? What do you consider the most sensual food? Demonstrate how. What do you dislike most about other people? What fictional character do you most identify with? What if a year was 485 days long, but a day was only 10 hours long? What if bicycles had hexagon-shaped wheels? What if clouds were really a form of food? What if elevators went up and down and side to side? What if every workplace required 2 hours of laughing every day? What if everyone were telepathic? What if everyone wore exactly the same clothes all the time? What if laser printers could print in white ink? What if my keyboard automatically typed the language of the reader no matter what language I was typing? What if our ears were in the back of our throat? What if trees grew upside down? What if we could control sunsets every night? What if we could read through osmosis? What if we could use grass instead of petroleum to run our cars? What if we humans had noses in the front of our faces and the end of one of our fingers? What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth? What is the funniest thing your parent(s) have ever done? What is the funniest vacation you've ever been on? What is the lowest thing you would do for a million dollars? What is the most humorous tragedy that has ever happened to you? What is the oddest thing you have ever done for/given to a friend? What is the third hand on a watch or clock called? What is the worst date you've ever had? What is the worst pick-up line you ever heard? What is your biggest dream? What is your biggest flaw? What is your favorite activity? What is your favorite food? What is your primary talent? What new faiths, if any, will emerge in the future? What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment yet never in a thousand years? What one incident would you consider to be a turning point in your life? What person if you had never known them would cause you to be a completely different person and why? What restrictions, if any, might be placed on cloning on the future? What rights will clones have? What social changes might result if there were no sexually transmitted diseases? What tools or services will develop to help humans cope with the ethical questions posed by medical technology in their lives? What will be the human population of off-world colonies, in the future? What will motivate migration to off-world communities? What will we choose to document on paper versus electronically? What would be your dream date? What would be your dream job? What would people do with their time if they only needed to work four hours a day? What's your favorite book? What's your favorite color? What's your favorite restaurant? What's your sign? When we can match or exceed many or all human physical and mental skills with computers or appliances, how will we define our reason for being? When we can match or exceed many or all human physical and mental skills with computers or appliances, what will be considered meaningful occupations for humans? When will we find a cure for cancer? When will we find a cure to AIDS? Where do you most want to vacation? Which celebrity would you most like to meet? Which public figure do you most admire? Who has the biggest influence on your life? Who on the planet will first clone humans? Why? Who would you choose to play you in a movie about your life? Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills? Why did the chicken cross the road? Why did you/didn't you do the one thing you regret most in life? Will big cities continue to be the centers of high culture and high finance in the future? Will clones be owned as property? Will couples negotiate pre-conception agreements setting forth what their future children's genetic makeup will be? Will developed countries' dependence on technology ultimately benefit their citizens or does it make them uniquely vulnerable in ways primitive societies never were? Will mankind continue to debate the existence of evil forever? Will mankind continue to debate the fundamental goodness of human nature forever? Will most people have personal experience of dimensions other than we experience today, in the future? If so, how will they describe those dimensions? Will people achieve greater happiness if they live longer? Will perceptions of new dimensions have impact on the everyday lives of people? Will scientists ever prove that thought or love travels faster than light? Will smarter machines lead us to greater appreciation and cultivation of our souls? Will technology link people together across great distances for shared events, or will technology isolate people by enabling them to limit their interaction with others? Will there ever be shared global ethical and moral standards? On what will they be based? Would people start cloning their own copies of celebrities or leaders (if cloning were possible)? Would people start stealing the hair of great people to license illicitly their DNA, if cloning where possible? Would you dye your hair green for a hundred dollars? Would you have sex for gain, i.e. to get a job, material gain, etc.? Would you prefer to die by fire or ice and why? Back to Top |
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