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Oh, and cheers for the buddhism info, really helpful!

 

Hey, no problem. Any info you need on Buddhism (apart from, like, "name the 46th word of the Mountains and Rivers Sutra") just ask (PM or in here). I'm no Dalai Lama, but I've been a practising Buddhist for about 5-6 years.

 

Might ahve to take you up on that offer. Writing out my essay plan now!

 

No problem
I could also give pagan perspectives - although I'm not a practising pagan right now, I know quite a bit about it and the occult/magic(k)/whatever.

 

if you could be a fruit smoothie, what sort of fruit smoothie would you be?

(you could also interpret this question as what fruit smoothie do you like best?)

 

Well you might choose to be a particularly nasty fruit smoothie to lessen the chances of somebody drinking you...

 

if you could be a fruit smoothie, what sort of fruit smoothie would you be?
Haha, probably an orange and rasperry one you get in Tescos. It's so nice! Also this completely natural one which is unpasteurised and not from concentrate. I think it was apple, graoe and pomegranate!

 

Hmm.
If you had the choice between a tab of acid and a packed bong, which would you pick?

 

Uhmmm, probably a tab of acid, they don't pop up quite so often as bongs full of weed, though I dunno, haven't really tried either.

 

If you could live in one country in the world, which one would it be?
Why?
House, apartment or log cabin (or local equivalent)?

 

Honestly, it would be this country. Or Hawaii.
Basically I was born into this country, it's my place, my stomping ground so to speak. There's so much I haven't explored and so much I've explored that I would miss.
Hawaii is an option cos it's warm. And has surfing waves. Oh, and Jack Johnson lives there.

I would like to live in a rambling cottage by the coast by in the country. It would have roses growing up it, an organic vegetable garden, a tree from which to hang charms and a place to chill and meditate (with a hammock!!). It would be very old with wooden floor boards and wood fires. Electricity would be generated by a home made wind turbine!

 

What do you think of the film "The day after tomorrow"? (If you've seen it)
Is it an accurate portrayal of the future we're heading for with our current energy consumption (albeit dramatised for Hollywood)? Is it too fatalistic? Is it not fatalistic enough?

 

I've seen an hour of it, but I think I can draw my views. I think its a little over the top for what we're heading for. For one thing, America would not conveniently be the first place to be affected in that way. Also, I believe things will get bad slowly over a period of about 30 years, beginning with the flooding of Bangladesh and Holland. By teh time it reaches America, they'll be a bit more prepared than in the film, and coastal towns will be evacuated. But i do believe that it will happen one day. Maybe it was a little too fatalistic, but not in a bad way. It scares the shit out of people, and that can only be a good thing!

 

Ah, but does scaring the shit out of people merely make them think "oh, that's just a movie"?
I think the documentary "An Inconvenient truth" by Al Gore makes the point a lot better. I'd heartily recommend it

 

Yeah, i'm planning on seeing it when I get custody of the portable DVD player and costcutter card. It's in a list of about 5 films, I still haven't seen little miss sunshine and I've been meaning to see it since it came out!

 

If you had to assassinate one person alive today, who would you assassinate and why? And no get-outs, you have to kill somebody...

 

Arghhh! Mean question!!! I'm a pacifist! Ermmm, I know, a person who is terminally ill and wants to die.

 

good one!

u kind-hearted hippie ^_^

 

Let's say I've invented a time machine. Which of these four would you go back and kill/make sure their mum doesn't get pregnant?
a. George W bush (the younger Bush)
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Josef Stalin
d. Mao Zedong

 

Adolf Hitler probably, cos George Bush will be out of power by November, Josef Stalin didn't kill 6,000 Jews (I know he did other things, but some how it didn't match up), and Mao Zedong admittedly I don't know much about, I only know he was a Marxist.