before my husband & I married we went thru hundreds of questions together, some silly, some somwhat serious, some very serious, some about our backgrounds, some about religious beliefs... we learned a lot about each other. For Christmas this past yr, he bought me another question book
‘The Book of Questions’ by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.
Many, in our opinion, are geared for younger people (we're both 74), deal w/ questions about death (ie: would you do ... in order to extend your lifetime ... years) but are interesting none-the-less...
ETA: we answer a question from the book each afternoon before we start playing a game of pool
Here is a political one:
A movement to reduce political corruption maintains that the only way to keep politicians even close to honest is to require them to always wear tiny video bugs that record their every interaction & post them online. Would you support such monitoring of key elected officials?
What kind of people would be attracted to politics given such a loss of privacy?
How do you think such openness would affect lobbying?
What would be your biggest concern about such transparency?
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going thru this book, we're finding we agree on a lot...
perhaps related to questions:
a few words of wisdom
(1) Speak less and listen more.
(2) Never argue with fools, especially on subjects like religion, politics, and on controversies. Just agree with them and go away
(3) Be humble and polite to others. No matter how they treat you. In the future, some will regret it.
(4) Never spread secrets.
(5) Don't speak about yourself.
(6) Always make eye contact and be confident while talking to others.
(7) Don't ever try to copy someone. Be unique.
(8) Do everything with full dedication.
(9) Silence is the best answer to haters.
(10) Don't follow the mob blindly. Always make decisions on behalf of facts and logic.
(11) Don't hesitate to ask questions. It shows that you are paying attention as well as being interested in the conversation.
(13) Keep yourself engaged in something. Hobbies, social activities.
Love is over rated, there is a lot more to compatibility than being in love. I met my hubby when we were in grade 9 and part of a high school band exchange. I found out a couple of decades later that the band director had a terrible time getting him on the bus to go home, and when he got home, he told his mom that he met his future wife. It took me those decades and a couple of disastrous love affairs to come to the same conclusion. Sometimes you just know, no questions needed.
I have been fortunate to have two soul mates in my life, one I married and one that used to help me strange out people in high school. I don’t know if a marriage with the high school one would have been successful, but we sure had fun before he went off to university in a school across the country. Six years later, my parents moved to an acreage that was three acreages down from his parents, so it could have worked quite well, but we will never know as we are both happily married to other people. But 45 years later, that connection is still there.
And I “know” a person with WS, I see him in the grocery store every couple of weeks. No idea who he is, but he always stops and says hi and tells me some of his life story. I see a lot of people just ignore him when he says hi, and it makes me sad. A minute of their time would make a difference in his day.
before my husband & I married we went thru hundreds of questions together, some silly, some somwhat serious, some very serious, some about our backgrounds, some about religious beliefs... we learned a lot about each other. For Christmas this past yr, he bought me another question book
‘The Book of Questions’ by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.
Many, in our opinion, are geared for younger people (we're both 74), deal w/ questions about death (ie: would you do ... in order to extend your lifetime ... years) but are interesting none-the-less...
ETA: we answer a question from the book each afternoon before we start playing a game of pool
Here is a political one:
A movement to reduce political corruption maintains that the only way to keep politicians even close to honest is to require them to always wear tiny video bugs that record their every interaction & post them online. Would you support such monitoring of key elected officials?
What kind of people would be attracted to politics given such a loss of privacy?
How do you think such openness would affect lobbying?
What would be your biggest concern about such transparency?
----
going thru this book, we're finding we agree on a lot...
perhaps related to questions:
a few words of wisdom
(1) Speak less and listen more.
(2) Never argue with fools, especially on subjects like religion, politics, and on controversies. Just agree with them and go away
(3) Be humble and polite to others. No matter how they treat you. In the future, some will regret it.
(4) Never spread secrets.
(5) Don't speak about yourself.
(6) Always make eye contact and be confident while talking to others.
(7) Don't ever try to copy someone. Be unique.
(8) Do everything with full dedication.
(9) Silence is the best answer to haters.
(10) Don't follow the mob blindly. Always make decisions on behalf of facts and logic.
(11) Don't hesitate to ask questions. It shows that you are paying attention as well as being interested in the conversation.
(13) Keep yourself engaged in something. Hobbies, social activities.
(14) Read.
Love is over rated, there is a lot more to compatibility than being in love. I met my hubby when we were in grade 9 and part of a high school band exchange. I found out a couple of decades later that the band director had a terrible time getting him on the bus to go home, and when he got home, he told his mom that he met his future wife. It took me those decades and a couple of disastrous love affairs to come to the same conclusion. Sometimes you just know, no questions needed.
I have been fortunate to have two soul mates in my life, one I married and one that used to help me strange out people in high school. I don’t know if a marriage with the high school one would have been successful, but we sure had fun before he went off to university in a school across the country. Six years later, my parents moved to an acreage that was three acreages down from his parents, so it could have worked quite well, but we will never know as we are both happily married to other people. But 45 years later, that connection is still there.
And I “know” a person with WS, I see him in the grocery store every couple of weeks. No idea who he is, but he always stops and says hi and tells me some of his life story. I see a lot of people just ignore him when he says hi, and it makes me sad. A minute of their time would make a difference in his day.