I've yet to attempt these monthly questions, so here it goes!
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1. If you had the ability to compete in the Olympics, what event would you
want to compete in?
I never watch the Olympics. Well, I did watch the quarter finals down to the
championship game in Basketball this last time. Since I also grew up in a
basketball family, I understand the rules enough and enjoy the game, so lets
just say basketball.
2. Growing up, what was your favorite comic strip?
I remember occasionally looking at Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Garfield but I
mostly remember enjoying The Far Side. I was more of a comic -book- kid.
Anything X-Men or X-Men adjacent like X-Force, X-Factor of Generation-X.
3. Have you dreamed of flying, falling, or running? Describe your most vivid
memory of one of these dreams.
I've had that -feeling- where I wake up as if I'd fallen back in to bed but I
can't vividly recount... I do however often have dreams where I'm back working
at Starbucks and orders keep coming in but I just can't put the drinks
together. Struggling over the syrup, milk and shots.
4. Do you believe in an afterlife?
Funnily enough, I'm currently reading a great history of the afterlife by Bart
D. Ehrman on such topics. I'd have to say no. I think our atoms disperse and
cycle onward. We have the one point in time where they all connect to form us
before exploding.
A couple favorite quotes on the afterlife:
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from
it."
- Mark Twain
"non fui, fui, non sum, non curo"
-or-
"I was not. I was. I am not. I care not."
- Inscription which promotes the ideas behind Epicurus and Lucretius
5. Do you have any advice, tips, or tricks for differentiating ignorance from
malice?
I think both beget each other, the question is how one can break that cycle.
