Answers to Christina’s September 2025 Five Questions
                 by Christopher Williams
                        2025-09-08


My answers to Christina’s September 2025 Five Questions[1]:

1. If you had the ability to compete in the Olympics, what
   event would you want to compete in?

   Honestly I’m not sporty nor physically competitive, so I
   don’t know how to answer this.

2. Growing up, what was your favorite comic strip?

   Calvin and Hobbes, hands down.

   As a kid I could always relate to Calvin’s imagination.
   And now as a father I can relate to his dad.

3. Have you dreamed of flying, falling, or running?
   Describe your most vivid memory of one of these dreams.

   Yes to all three. (Though my only dreams of running are
   actually where I _tried_ to run away from something, but
   I was stuck or in slow-mo or something.)

   My most vivid memory of a dream was of me falling. I was
   driving with my family through the desert across a rock
   bridge while there was some sort of gang war going on
   (dreams don’t have to make sense, right?), and we got
   caught in the cross fire. We got shot, got dead, and
   then fell off the bridge. So it was a dream where I was
   both falling and dying.

   Later I read that a dream about dying is not literally
   about dying; rather it can mean that a big life change
   is about to happen. I had that dream around the time I
   started what turned out to be an abusive relationship
   (I strongly suspect she had Borderline Personality
   Disorder). It was not a fun experience. Would not
   recommend. A--. The good news is that it ended well—I
   got out of that train wreck of a relationship alive, and
   it pushed me to eventually work through my codependency
   and other personal issues.

4. Do you believe in an afterlife?

   Yes I do.

5. Do you have any advice, tips, or tricks for
   differentiating ignorance from malice?

    ``Never attribute to malice that which is adequately
      explained by stupidity.
      —Robert J. Hanlon (purportedly)

   Then again, subtle forms of malice may be disguised as
   stupidity or ignorance, such as malicious compliance and
   other forms of passive aggressiveness, so use judgment
   on a case-by-case basis (or base-by-base casis).

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[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~christina/2025-09-01.txt