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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 1831 | On truth: most truths are probably unknowable or at least unproveable. Or at least unspellable. Anyway, the thing is that you have to try your best to understand the world around you, but at some point you and your friends have to all agree that some things are "true". If you don't, you'll never get any work done because you'll be arguing all the time. You know the drill: "Do your homework" "I don't have to do it - I don't exist!" "Of course you exist!" "Prove it." So truths can be local. If I know something you don't, my understanding of what is true may be different than yours, despite our both having made efforts in good faith to determine the truth. This is the way it was back in 1492 when absolutely everyone who could ever have possibly needed to know, including all cartographers, sailors and the King and Queen of Spain, was quite aware that the Earth was round. It's clearly been common knowledge since sometime before the Greeks figured out how big it is, and probably one of the early ocean-going civilizations noticed it, since the horizon is much more apparent at sea. Anyway, Columbus DID discover America, but he did NOT discover that the Earth was round. | Which is your notion of evil? |
| 1832 | Yeah... 48 months goes by so quickly... what? Hours? Oh, well, yeah, that's what I meant anyway. Ahem. | Have you had sex in the last 48 hours!? |
| 1833 | Search and rescue helicopter pilot? Astronaut? Rice farmer? Java developer? | What is your dream job? |
| 1834 | boy I should read these surveys faster... I'm way behind all the cool conversations. Plus my smileys don't work :( My dream job certainly isn't R'ing TFM. | What is your dream job? |
| 1835 | I still remember having spelling trouble when I was a kid, but these days I do pretty well except for two or three problem words that my brain just refuses to acknowledge. I think people who can't spell or who use bad grammar do come across as less intelligent than those who can. Furthermore, I think that when one speaks or writes well, one can be understood by those who do not speak or write well, but the opposite is not true. I've seen a lot of fiery internet arguments started by what are, to me, obviously typos, but to apparently less discriminating readers are grave insults. While I believe very strongly that slang and local dialects are not only acceptable but desirable methods of communication, I also believe that the world would be a better place if people could understand one another better. | Spelling & grammar |
| 1836 | Meanwhile, I try to make sure that my speech, punctilious as it sometimes may be, continues to present an interesting and may I perhaps also say challenging task for the reader, be he or she foreign or domestic (that is to say a native or non-native speaker) to peruse and enjoy even though at times I seem to be attempting to bring the world-famous run-on sentences of my (technically) first language, that bastion, still today, of Teutonic stubbornness and overcomplexification, German, to my current actual daily speaking and writing, and in fact probably favorite, language, English. Allow me to add one thing more, despite speaking some German, I hate above all else the Comma Splice. | Spelling & grammar |
| 1837 | I have to say over 40 because my dad was 35 and I think I turned out OK (others may disagree). On the other hand, I think my sedate disposition stems from the fact that my parents were already slowing down while I was growing up. By the time I was a child, they were already too tired, I think, to keep up with me, which prevented them from engendering the kind of close "buddy" relationship I know some people have with their parents. | How old is too old to be a father? |
| 1838 | A lot of respondents have mentioned that they have relatives who were victims of the Holocaust. My grandfather was an MP in the German army during the war. He was stationed in Poland and the Ukraine. I honestly don't know what my grandfather (who is now dead) did during the war. I doubt he worked at a concentration camp, but that's possible. Even if he didn't, his job was to keep unruly civilians in line in an occupied country, and he worked for a military organization which didn't have a great reputation for dealing kindly with the local populace. Is my grandfather, whom I knew and loved and whom I always found to be a wonderful, gentle, kind-hearted man, a murderer? As if killing thirty million people weren't bad enough, the conflagration in central Europe in the forties, and the Holocaust in particular, has caused generations of people to lose faith in their governments, their leaders, their families and themselves. Not only did the Holocaust happen, but in one way or another, to one extent or another, it happened to almost every person on earth. | Do you believe the Holocaust took place? |
