50 Questions for an open mind.

Michael Sparks

Michael Sparks

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Here are some questions I have come across, that I would like to share with those that are interested in thinking for themselves, what are some of your favorite(s) you can reply with your answer(s) if you like, but not necessary. Share your thoughts, you never know who you may inspire.


1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?

3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?

4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?

5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?

6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?

7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?

8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?

9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?

10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?

11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours,
not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?

12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?

13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?

14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?

15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?

16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?

17. What is one thing have you not done that you really want to do and what’s holding you back?

18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?

19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?

20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?

21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?

22. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?

23. What are you most grateful for?

24. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?

25. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

26. Has your greatest fear ever come true?

27. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?

28. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?

29. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?

30. If not now, then when?

31. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?

32. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?

33. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?

34. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?

35. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?

36. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?

37. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?

38. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?

39. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?

40. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?

41. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?

42. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?

43. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?

44. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

45. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?

46. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?

47. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?
What about the day before that? Or the day before that?

48. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself,
or are you letting others make them for you?

49. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?

50. Why are you, you?

After all that thinking (assuming you went through every question)
what is a question that you have created that you would like to share.

Please if you are able, keep it in a thought provoking nature.
 
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...Oh! And... Is there anything more frustrating than having no ganj - along with ganj that isn't quite ready?

fffuuu... :)
 
Michael Sparks

Michael Sparks

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eye exaggerate said:
...Oh! And... Is there anything more frustrating than having no ganj - along with ganj that isn't quite ready?

fffuuu... :)
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The only thing that frustrates me is when someone is attempting to help another learn something that would help them grow as a person and they feel the need to struggle, like it has to be a war of the minds.
I used to get upset when I wanted something I thought I needed, but now I feel everything I have I need in the moment that I have it.
 
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Michael Sparks said:
The only thing that frustrates me is when someone is attempting to help another learn something that would help them grow as a person and they feel the need to struggle, like it has to be a war of the minds.
I used to get upset when I wanted something I thought I needed, but now I feel everything I have I need in the moment that I have it.
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..."the chief cause of unhappiness is trading what you have now for what you think you want"

...anyone up for a belly rub? :lol: Do you study buddhism?
 
Zaehet Strife

Zaehet Strife

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very good questions man..

are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?


that i think, is the best question.
 
Michael Sparks

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Zaehet Strife said:
very good questions man..

are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?

that i think, is the best question.
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Yes, that is a great question. I find many that are equal of depth. fortynine, fortyeight, fortyone, thirtyeight, thirtyone, twentyfive, twentyone, seventeen twelve lastly three, are most thought provoking to me.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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Michael Sparks said:
Here are some questions I have come across, that I would like to share with those that are interested in thinking for themselves, what are some of your favorite(s) you can reply with your answer(s) if you like, but not necessary. Share your thoughts, you never know who you may inspire.


1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
19 Winters
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
Never trying
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
Not true
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
No
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
The lying
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Selling weed :)
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
Doing what I believe in :)
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
I wouldn't. If I get everything done I plan on doing by the time I'm 40 that will be full. If I do everything I plan on doing before I'm 30, it will be full
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
80% (20% Parents, Police, and Judges)
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
"Making" things right. By doing whatever need be done.
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours,
not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
Tell them what's up with that bitch, and how she's cool. Like WHY she's cool. If she IS.
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Just don't die.
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
In a heart beat.
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Yep.
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
Be Real, Think, talk, dress, plan, smoke cigarettes(the fingers I use), Fuck(Never been sober), Speak, Look, do
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
Because the other people that like it, like to attack it, and go on "Missions" against it.
So it makes the "Other people" who don't like it, not only not like it, but afraid of it being around.
17. What is one thing have you not done that you really want to do and what’s holding you back?
Go to Mexico
Family responsibilities
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
No, family is family.
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
Mexico first
Always wanted to
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
Sometimes, No.
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
Worried Genious. Surrounded by joyful simpletons. But with a couple other genius's to help me worry.
22. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
If you lose touch with a friend near you, are you that good of friends?
23. What are you most grateful for?
Pan Shiva Agni AtumRa and Mut
24. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Never be able to make new ones
Momentum was a cool movie
25. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
Yeah, someone could tell you the right thing.
But it's good to at least challenge it in your mind first.
26. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Yes
27. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
Yep, Nope.
28. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
The people, and what was being experienced
29. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
Planning, and realizing new pieces
30. If not now, then when?
Soon
31. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
"I'ma die 'for I quit, so indeed I'ma win"
32. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
When I see something happen to someone, and point it out to a stranger silently. And we both laugh.
33. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
Because they only want you to love their god, not anyone elses.
34. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
... ... ...Sometimes... ... .... But maybe not really. It's perspective.
35. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
Nope.
36. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
More/enjoy.
37. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
Nope
38. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
About every...4 months.
39. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
Siblings
40. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
No, I'm not worried about that
41. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
Loving life. When breathing makes you happy, and you can get up happily with no reason. Then you are happy :)
42. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
Always
43. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
Because people are afraid, that's why we live indoors, and have guns.
44. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
Nothing
45. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
Today, I cough a lot from smoking bud
46. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
Love, and poeple, and community of people. Yes.
47. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?
What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
Yes, yes, yes. Hash, Candy, and Harvest :)
48. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself,
or are you letting others make them for you?
Myself
49. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
Yup
50. Why are you, you?
Because I love being me.
After all that thinking (assuming you went through every question)
what is a question that you have created that you would like to share.

Please if you are able, keep it in a thought provoking nature.
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Question I would like to share...
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If aliens came to Earth today. And came to you first, and had seen churches, mosks, alters, synagogs and stuff, and were confused.
Who/What would you tell them "god" was?
And...
What does this mean to them, and how does it effect them?

Is your god "real" to them?
 
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Finshaggy said:
Is your god real to them?
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...are they atheist aliens? :lol:

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I would likely say to them that the church represents a body, the one that the church makes up. It's a skeletal structure, considering that we're looking at an old gothic church. It's the framework in the flesh. At the heart of it, the eucharist and the wine. Transubstantiation 'makes' a body a continuous cycle that envelopes that skeletal structure (conjunction of earth and spirit = the cross). I would also say that it was placed over a place on earth that coincides with points in the sky. I would tell them that the bell tower represents the pineal gland, and when 'church is in', the bell had rung. It would be beneficial esoterically to point out that the church was build on proportions that suit the book of Revelations by craftsmen. 4 of those craftsmen make up the 'four corners'.

Followed by a long-winded jaunt into particle territory. Adam and the 'rib'. They'd laugh, we'd vaporize a beer.

Fin, Fin :)
 
Beefbisquit

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Finshaggy said:
Question I would like to share...
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
If aliens came to Earth today. And came to you first, and had seen churches, mosks, alters, synagogs and stuff, and were confused.
Who/What would you tell them "god" was?
And...
What does this mean to them, and how does it effect them?

Is your god "real" to them?
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Everyone is born an atheist. You have to "learn" about god, meaning the natural disposition of man is atheism.
 
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Beefbisquit said:
Everyone is born an atheist. You have to "learn" about god, meaning the natural disposition of man is atheism.
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...and from what I understand it's a different kind of learning. Literally, Belly Mind.

The brain is god in this sense, and the gut (womb) the mother. Her 'senses' guided by His intellect gets me through the 'dark'.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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eye exaggerate said:
...are they atheist aliens? :lol:

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I would likely say to them that the church represents a body, the one that the church makes up. It's a skeletal structure, considering that we're looking at an old gothic church. It's the framework in the flesh. At the heart of it, the eucharist and the wine. Transubstantiation 'makes' a body a continuous cycle that envelopes that skeletal structure (conjunction of earth and spirit = the cross). I would also say that it was placed over a place on earth that coincides with points in the sky. I would tell them that the bell tower represents the pineal gland, and when 'church is in', the bell had rung. It would be beneficial esoterically to point out that the church was build on proportions that suit the book of Revelations by craftsmen. 4 of those craftsmen make up the 'four corners'.

Followed by a long-winded jaunt into particle territory. Adam and the 'rib'. They'd laugh, we'd vaporize a beer.

Fin, Fin :)
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But what is your "God".
And is it universal.
 
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