Some questions
I accidentally screwed up my template so this will have to do until I fix things up. Blah!
1) Do you think globalization is a good thing?
2) Do you think religion is a good thing?
3) Do you think freedom of speech is a good thing?
4) Do you think philosophical thinking is a good thing?
5) Do you think rules are a good thing?
6) Do you think money is a good thing?
7) Do you think blogging is a good thing?
Do you think knowledge is a good thing?
9) Do you think science is a good thing?
10) Do you think gender equality is a good thing?
11) Do you think sex, the action, is a good thing?
12) Do you think our education system is a good thing?
13) Do you think the ideal solutions that we all have in mind for the problems we seem to all face, will sum up to become a good thing?
14) Do you think the Internet is a good thing?
15) Do you think being poor is a good thing?
16) Do you think being extremely rich is a good thing?
17) Do you think that having a great voice is a good thing?
18) Do you think owning a house of your own is a good thing?
19) Do you think being single is a good thing?
20) Do you think being in a relationship is a good thing?
21) Do you think having an opposition in the government is a good thing?
22) Do you think not having a government is a good thing?
23) Do you think being married to a powerful man's child is a good thing?
24) Do you think not having a university education is a good thing?
25) Do you think being born into money is a good thing?
26) Do you think finding the answers to all the questions in the world is a good thing?
27) Do you think being ignorant is a good thing?
28) Do you think that not-caring or choosing to 'bo-chap' is a good thing?
29) Do you think that migrating out is a good thing?
30) Do you think that ending it all is a good thing?
Yes, no, yes, no, no, yes and maybe to all of the above.
September 6th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Yes to number 11.
No to all!
September 6th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
1) Do you think globalization is a good thing?
Yeah
2) Do you think religion is a good thing?
Yes but it seems some religions don’t like others. Check out this video on Jeff Ooi’s site
http://jeffooi.com/podcast/Chief_Hospital_Clip.mov
from the Chief of Buddhism, Venerable Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda Nayaka Maha Thera
3) Do you think freedom of speech is a good thing?
Yeah
4) Do you think philosophical thinking is a good thing?
Yeah
5) Do you think rules are a good thing?
Yeah
6) Do you think money is a good thing?
Can I please borrow some?
7) Do you think blogging is a good thing?
Can we please see minishorts in minishorts?
Yeah
9) Do you think science is a good thing?
Yeah
10) Do you think gender equality is a good thing?
Would be somewhat unusual for the woman to be on top all the time
11) Do you think sex, the action, is a good thing?
Masturbation isn’t so bad either
12) Do you think our education system is a good thing?
Dunno
13) Do you think the ideal solutions that we all have in mind for the problems we seem to all face, will sum up to become a good thing?
Do you mean the sex thing?
14) Do you think the Internet is a good thing?
You can get Norton AntiVirus for about RM5 from Section 14
15) Do you think being poor is a good thing?
Can I please borrow some money?
16) Do you think being extremely rich is a good thing?
Yes
17) Do you think that having a great voice is a good thing?
Can we hear your voice?
18) Do you think owning a house of your own is a good thing?
Dunno, I don’t live in a house
19) Do you think being single is a good thing?
Yeah, women can be a real CB sometimes
20) Do you think being in a relationship is a good thing?
Dunno, never had the experience
21) Do you think having an opposition in the government is a good thing?
There’s an opposition?
22) Do you think not having a government is a good thing?
But then Mahathir is gone.. (hides)
23) Do you think being married to a powerful man’s child is a good thing?
Nope
24) Do you think not having a university education is a good thing?
Yeah I’m hungry already
25) Do you think being born into money is a good thing?
Yep
26) Do you think finding the answers to all the questions in the world is a good thing?
Yep
27) Do you think being ignorant is a good thing?
Yep
28) Do you think that not-caring or choosing to ‘bo-chap’ is a good thing?
We love minishorts
29) Do you think that migrating out is a good thing?
Depends to where
30) Do you think that ending it all is a good thing?
If unsuccessful you may find yourself with nice padding on your walls
September 6th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Maybe to all. Because too little or too much of something is never a good thing.
Googoo: you sure you got the message right? The Chief Reverend was relating an incident when he was in the hospital when a Christian nurse, not knowing who he was came and prayed with him. He followed the nurse’s prayer with an Amen. Later she apologised and the Chief told her she need not apologise. So, erm where is the ’some religion don’t like other religion’ in related to the incident part?
September 6th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
1 to 5…YES
6…NO
7 to 11…YES
12: CAN BE A HELL LOT BETTER!!
13…Huh?? is there an IDEAL solution in the 1st place?
14..YES
15 & 16…NO
17 to 21…YES
22…..NO
23….subjective question
24….another subjective question
25….yes another subjective question…which most fo the time is a NO
26….NO
27…ABSOLUTELY NOT!!
28…see Ans to #27
29…could be
30…ending it all…..life? hell NO!
September 6th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
1) Why not?
Yes.
2) Yes - the ideal of it anyway.
3) No such thing as absolute freedom, if that’s what you mean. Otherwise, yes and no.
4) Yes but with a limit.
5) Rules exist for a reason - so that people don’t go wacko.
6) Yes and no.
7) HAHAHAHA.
9) Yes.
10) The two sexes AREN’T equal and will never be equal to begin with.
11) Why not?
12) Not really but it’s better than nothing.
13) Urm…I’ll be honest. No.
14) Yes. ^.^
15) Helps teaches people a thing or two about poverty, materialism, effort, discipline, etc but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
16) Personally, no. Happiness is better than $$$.
17) Yes and no.
18) Yes.
19) Yes and no.
20) Yes and no.
21) YES!
22) NO! (Surprise there.)
23) No. I am a simple person. So scared I’ll screw things up.
24) Yes only if the person is NOT a bum.
25) Yes and no but mostly no.
26) No. Some things are meant never to be understood. We are not gods.
27) Nope.
28) Nope.
29) If it rocks your boat, sure. I believe in globalisation leh.
30) You mean suicide or what? Suicide? Nevah!
September 6th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Hmmm… to answer each one would take up lots of your comment space. But I guess a concise answer would be a definite maybe to most… it all depends on degree, and therefore quite subjective. But let me try to answer them all, anyway.
Globalization is inevitable, and it’s no more a matter of debating good or bad.
Religion, freedom of speech, philosophical thinking, rules, money, blogging, knowledge, science are all good things - PROVIDED we always remember that we don’t live in a vacuum and that our actions have an impact on others.
Gender equality should be a no-brainer given… unfortunately there are too many no-brainers out there who think otherwise. God, IMHO, did not create one gender to be subservient to the other.
Sex, the action, is DEFINITELY a good thing… (Walski has some hidden hedonistic tendencies, but we won’t get into that here… heh-heh).
This would be one of the very few NO’s in my answer - our education system totally SUCKS. It is many years out of sync with the rest of the civilized world, and is in dire need of a major overhaul. The way is always there… what’s really lacking is the will.
Ideal solutions are frequently neither. What may be ideal, may not be always be a solution, and vice versa. So this one gets a big fat maybe. But the problem is that we frequently jump on the bandwagon of expedient solutions, which is usually a BAD thing.
The Internet is definitely a good thing - it has made the world a whole lot smaller, with a lot less boundaries. What’s NOT good is the inability to cope with this reality - there are way too many control freaks out there is all levels of society and government.
A great voice is a prerequisite for non-annoying karaoke… otherwise, it’s a nice to have, so yeah, it’s a good thing. But not having a great voice isn’t necessarily a bad thing either (unless when it comes to karaoke… then, PLEASE don’t).
Your own housing (landed, or apartment) is definitely a good thing. Especially if you want to have some sort of relationship, which is a good thing, too, but not being in one isn’t necessarily bad either. If being single means being alone, then, no, not good. But if being single means you still have a group of people you care deeply about, then that’s fine and dandy. But in any case, having your own space is very important in either situation.
We need government, but one that’s non-intrusive to our personal lives. And the best way to keep government honest is through having an opposition.
Being poor is NOT good. But neither is being extremely rich. Being wretchedly poor, in many cases, makes one fatalistic about life, and being wretchedly rich makes one forget you don’t live in a vacuum. So, that probably makes them NO on both counts. Being born into money is okay, provided you were also born with a soul.
Finding the answers to ALL of life’s questions is an impossibility, but leans more on the NOT good… life would be boring if there weren’t any more mysteries to it. But on the other extreme, being ignorant is DEFINITELY not good. The ideal is the continuous pursuit of knowledge, making it a raison d’etre - the more you learn, the more you want to know… (at least that’s true for yours truly).
Not having a university education is difficult, not necessarily bad. Especially in today’s environment where too much importance is given to paper qualifications. Not having a university education doesn’t mean one is ignorant - I’ve seen enough ignorant U-grads to come to that conclusion.
Being married to a powerful man’s child usually leads to unhappiness… in many cases unintentionally. It’s always a case of trying to meet someone elses expectations that does it.
Migrating out of necessity is never a good thing - but sometimes we’re left with no other choice… trust me, I’ve thought of getting outta here many times… still do occassionally. If things really get bad, maybe I might have to…
But as bad as things may get, ending it all is never the answer… despite the fact that some people just don’t care (which is a bad thing).
So there… I’ve ended up writing an essay instead…
Bless your heart minishorts… u sure know how to squeeze those thoughts out….
September 6th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Suanie: But why did he laugh about saying Amen? Perhaps in his religion he doesn’t really agree with it? There were others off camera who were also laughing about saying Amen.
September 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Do Magic 8-Ball answers count?
September 6th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Googoo - Amen is sexist. They should say Aperson!
Minishorts - All these questions are like a red rag to a bull for me. I can write essays on all of them … but I won’t! lol
I don’t think your site can handle a Multi-Dabido session. [Yes, add that term to the wiktionary!]
I’ll just say, ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘Maybe’ with qualifiers for all questions.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Say all ‘NO” live in a remote mountain and become a hermit
September 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Googoo: I can’t say for sure why he laughed, but I would presume he found the incident a bit funny. Cute even, maybe. Having heard the Chief Reverend delivered a speech before, I can say this is how he normally talked, with a note of humour injected in most subjects, esp when dealing with people.
Trust me, the Chief Reverend was not dissing Christianity
He spent 57 years working towards uniting the different races in M’sia, preaching religious tolerance, preaching multi-culturism as a good positive thing etc.
Anyway the man just died, respek.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:20 am
besides, I guess one of the lessons he was trying to deliver in the interview above was that, if other people have good intentions for you, then it’s a good thing, it’s a good service to you, regardless of your and their religious backgrounds. Discard the labels, realise what their hearts are saying.
I apologise if I come across as rather anal about the whole thing
I couldn’t respect the Chief Reverend more, and his passing is still lingering in my mind.
September 7th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Umm..yeah, what Suanie said in comment 12.
I think the last thing you’d hear from a true buddhist is a diss against other religions.
I’m not one, btw.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
1) Do you think globalization is a good thing? -Should be. I get to buy stuffs from all around the world.
2) Do you think religion is a good thing? -I’ve lost faith, but then it should be a good thing
3) Do you think freedom of speech is a good thing?
-Not for somezealots that we know of.
4) Do you think philosophical thinking is a good thing?
-I don’t really bother. Its quite a waste of time IMHO
5) Do you think rules are a good thing?
-Yes, unfortunately no one really bothers about them. Check the zealot. He’s so slanderous
6) Do you think money is a good thing?
-Money can buy phone, camera(your desired Panasonic). But then again, its a 50-50 question. Money makes humans evil.
7) Do you think blogging is a good thing?
-Yes, I’ve met hoards of friends through blogs.
-Too much of it is not good.
9) Do you think science is a good thing?
-Same as above
10) Do you think gender equality is a good thing?
-Yes! YES!
11) Do you think sex, the action, is a good thing?
-If love is involved. Pure banging is out of question.
12) Do you think our education system is a good thing?
-I’ll ask Vincent and get back to you
13) Do you think the ideal solutions that we all have in mind for the problems we seem to all face, will sum up to become a good thing?
-We always need devil’s advocators to help us think abit. Sometimes we’re all screwed and don’t see the light in some other things.
14) Do you think the Internet is a good thing?
-Yes. Blogs, friends, communication. I’m ignoring the bad stuffs.
15) Do you think being poor is a good thing?
-Makes you humble. But then some poor people are not well educated and it’ll be a hindrance to them.
16) Do you think being extremely rich is a good thing?
-No, spoils your kids and makes them tossers
17) Do you think that having a great voice is a good thing?
-Yes
18) Do you think owning a house of your own is a good thing?
-Depends on your own needs.
19) Do you think being single is a good thing?
-I’m single but sometimes dream of having my special someone.
20) Do you think being in a relationship is a good thing?
-Someone to love, someone to love you.
21) Do you think having an opposition in the government is a good thing?
-Devils advocators. Keeps them on their toes.
22) Do you think not having a government is a good thing?
-No, then gila monkeys will gather other gila monkeys and kill/oppress those who are not of their own type.
23) Do you think being married to a powerful man’s child is a good thing?
-No, casts you in the limelight, but then again its how you handle it.
24) Do you think not having a university education is a good thing?
-I won’t say “Look at Bill Gates”. Yes we need it, unfortunately.
25) Do you think being born into money is a good thing?
-Just enough, not too much though.
26) Do you think finding the answers to all the questions in the world is a good thing?
-Some questions are better left unanswered.
27) Do you think being ignorant is a good thing?
-Ignorance is bliss(cliche), but true.
28) Do you think that not-caring or choosing to ‘bo-chap’ is a good thing? -Depends on what issue it is again. If it won’t ever affect you (directly or indirectly), just don’t burden yourself.
29) Do you think that migrating out is a good thing?
-I dislike home sometimes, but I still love it. Until something really bad happens only will I leave.
30) Do you think that ending it all is a good thing?
-Ending what?
September 9th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Too much of anything is a bad thing. Period. But then again, as humans, we never really learn the art of moderation..:P