Curiousity Meme
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shadowkatAs Buffy said to Giles: "If it's the Apocalypse? Beep me!" ( I don't remember which episode.)
Tiring week. Weird volatile year...but not unexpectedly so. Busy yet also pre-occupied at work. Came up with this odd and potentially difficult meme (I couldn't do most of it).
Rule: Pick one or any number of the questions listed below and write a response or post associated with it. You can either answer briefly like I am, or at length. Then if you want to? Ask your own questions.
MEME - Curiousity Meme
1. List a book or books that you want to read before you die (kick the bucket) and recommend others read before they die.
2. Recommend a book or five books that have a political theme, can be fiction and nonfiction.
3. List a film or films that you think people should see before they die.
4. Recommend a film or films that have a political bent or theme, fictional or nonfictional.
5. Recommend a political themed tv show or shows.
6. Define the following terms in your own words without using a dictionary or internet sites, how do you understand them? Pick any of them, all, one, several.
* Liberal
* Conservative
* Fiscal Conservative
* Communist
* Socialist
* Muslim
* Social Conservative or Neo-Conservative
* Leftist or Left-wing Liberal
* Moderate
* Libertarian
7. What Country do you live/reside in? Please explain that Country's political system or the way leaders are elected as if you are talking to someone who does not know anything about it.
8. Recommend a favorite website, blog, or onzine site and explain why.
9. Explain your religious beliefs or spiritual perspective as if you are talking to someone who knows nothing about it.
10. Name two philosophers, writers, theorists or theologians that you agree with and recommend reading.
11. How do you read or watch or experience cultural things? (Do you analyze them? Do you just watch and enjoy for pure entertainment? If you analyze - is it from a psychological, political, sociological, critical, or philosophical perspective? Maybe you don't analyze at all and just identify with the characters emotionally. Or watch as a means of relaxation?)
12. What issue do you think is the most important one and worries you the most either for your country or for the world?
13. Write up a meme of questions that you would like people to post answers to. Picking just one or all or several of the questions. Or design your own curiousity meme.
14. End with a quote or line from a play, musical, book, movie, tv show or song that you love.
1. List a book or books that you want to read before you die (kick the bucket) and recommend others read before they die.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
Brave New World by Adolus Huxley
Teresa of Avila - The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. Recommend a book or five books that have a political theme, can be fiction and nonfiction.
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Sparrow and Children of God by Maria Doria Russell (both science fiction)
3. List a film or films that you think people should see before they die or haunt you years later.
Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean, preferrably on the big screen
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Recommend a film or films that have a political bent or theme, fictional or nonfictional.
Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
The War Room by Chris Hedgus
Primary Colors by Mike Nichols
A Face in the Crowd by Elia Kazan
5. Recommend a political themed tv show or shows.
BattleStar Galatica (new version)
The West Wing
The Daily Show
6. Define the following terms in your own words without using a dictionary or internet sites, how do you understand them? Pick any of them, all, one, several. (PASS for now...no time, must make dinner, hope no one else does.)
* Liberal
* Conservative
* Fiscal Conservative
* Communist
* Socialist
* Muslim
* Social Conservative or Neo-Conservative
* Leftist or Left-wing Liberal
* Moderate
* Libertarian
7. What Country do you live/reside in? Please explain that Country's political system or the way leaders are elected as if you are talking to someone who does not know anything about it.
US [Also PASS for now]
8. Recommend a favorite website, blog, or onzine site and explain why.
[Pass for now.]
9. Explain your religious beliefs or spiritual perspective as if you are talking to someone who knows nothing about it.
[Pass for now.]
10. Name two philosophers, writers, theorists or theologians that you agree with and recommend reading.
[Pass for now]
11. How do you read or watch or experience cultural things? (Do you analyze them? Do you just watch and enjoy for pure entertainment? If you analyze - is it from a psychological, political, sociological, critical, or philosophical perspective? Maybe you don't analyze at all and just identify with the characters emotionally. Or watch as a means of relaxation?)
It depends, but tv shows, films, anything with a narrative and characters I look at from a psychological perspective, analyzing motives and behavior and why they do what they do. It's what I'm most curious about why people do or act or love the things they do. What motivates us.
I also watch and interpret things from an emotional and at times critical and philosophical level. I enjoy reading the philosophical analysis the most, next to psychological. Sometimes I just relax and not think at all.
12. What issue do you think is the most important one and worries you the most either for your country or for the world?
The Environment. I know, I know everyone is worried about the Economy at the moment. But I am more worried about the environment we live in...because if the economy fails? It can be fixed.
Not so much the environment - this is the only earth we have.
13. Write up a meme of questions that you would like people to post answers to. Picking just one or all or several of the questions. (Done)
14. End with a quote or line from a play, musical, book, movie, tv show or song that you love.
"I'm Mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more." - Network
Tiring week. Weird volatile year...but not unexpectedly so. Busy yet also pre-occupied at work. Came up with this odd and potentially difficult meme (I couldn't do most of it).
Rule: Pick one or any number of the questions listed below and write a response or post associated with it. You can either answer briefly like I am, or at length. Then if you want to? Ask your own questions.
MEME - Curiousity Meme
1. List a book or books that you want to read before you die (kick the bucket) and recommend others read before they die.
2. Recommend a book or five books that have a political theme, can be fiction and nonfiction.
3. List a film or films that you think people should see before they die.
4. Recommend a film or films that have a political bent or theme, fictional or nonfictional.
5. Recommend a political themed tv show or shows.
6. Define the following terms in your own words without using a dictionary or internet sites, how do you understand them? Pick any of them, all, one, several.
* Liberal
* Conservative
* Fiscal Conservative
* Communist
* Socialist
* Muslim
* Social Conservative or Neo-Conservative
* Leftist or Left-wing Liberal
* Moderate
* Libertarian
7. What Country do you live/reside in? Please explain that Country's political system or the way leaders are elected as if you are talking to someone who does not know anything about it.
8. Recommend a favorite website, blog, or onzine site and explain why.
9. Explain your religious beliefs or spiritual perspective as if you are talking to someone who knows nothing about it.
10. Name two philosophers, writers, theorists or theologians that you agree with and recommend reading.
11. How do you read or watch or experience cultural things? (Do you analyze them? Do you just watch and enjoy for pure entertainment? If you analyze - is it from a psychological, political, sociological, critical, or philosophical perspective? Maybe you don't analyze at all and just identify with the characters emotionally. Or watch as a means of relaxation?)
12. What issue do you think is the most important one and worries you the most either for your country or for the world?
13. Write up a meme of questions that you would like people to post answers to. Picking just one or all or several of the questions. Or design your own curiousity meme.
14. End with a quote or line from a play, musical, book, movie, tv show or song that you love.
1. List a book or books that you want to read before you die (kick the bucket) and recommend others read before they die.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
Brave New World by Adolus Huxley
Teresa of Avila - The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. Recommend a book or five books that have a political theme, can be fiction and nonfiction.
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Sparrow and Children of God by Maria Doria Russell (both science fiction)
3. List a film or films that you think people should see before they die or haunt you years later.
Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean, preferrably on the big screen
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Recommend a film or films that have a political bent or theme, fictional or nonfictional.
Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
The War Room by Chris Hedgus
Primary Colors by Mike Nichols
A Face in the Crowd by Elia Kazan
5. Recommend a political themed tv show or shows.
BattleStar Galatica (new version)
The West Wing
The Daily Show
6. Define the following terms in your own words without using a dictionary or internet sites, how do you understand them? Pick any of them, all, one, several. (PASS for now...no time, must make dinner, hope no one else does.)
* Liberal
* Conservative
* Fiscal Conservative
* Communist
* Socialist
* Muslim
* Social Conservative or Neo-Conservative
* Leftist or Left-wing Liberal
* Moderate
* Libertarian
7. What Country do you live/reside in? Please explain that Country's political system or the way leaders are elected as if you are talking to someone who does not know anything about it.
US [Also PASS for now]
8. Recommend a favorite website, blog, or onzine site and explain why.
[Pass for now.]
9. Explain your religious beliefs or spiritual perspective as if you are talking to someone who knows nothing about it.
[Pass for now.]
10. Name two philosophers, writers, theorists or theologians that you agree with and recommend reading.
[Pass for now]
11. How do you read or watch or experience cultural things? (Do you analyze them? Do you just watch and enjoy for pure entertainment? If you analyze - is it from a psychological, political, sociological, critical, or philosophical perspective? Maybe you don't analyze at all and just identify with the characters emotionally. Or watch as a means of relaxation?)
It depends, but tv shows, films, anything with a narrative and characters I look at from a psychological perspective, analyzing motives and behavior and why they do what they do. It's what I'm most curious about why people do or act or love the things they do. What motivates us.
I also watch and interpret things from an emotional and at times critical and philosophical level. I enjoy reading the philosophical analysis the most, next to psychological. Sometimes I just relax and not think at all.
12. What issue do you think is the most important one and worries you the most either for your country or for the world?
The Environment. I know, I know everyone is worried about the Economy at the moment. But I am more worried about the environment we live in...because if the economy fails? It can be fixed.
Not so much the environment - this is the only earth we have.
13. Write up a meme of questions that you would like people to post answers to. Picking just one or all or several of the questions. (Done)
14. End with a quote or line from a play, musical, book, movie, tv show or song that you love.
"I'm Mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more." - Network
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Date: 2008-09-21 02:46 am (UTC)Well, it's not like I answered more than three questions, and certainly not with a thoughtful post. (Also, I think you may have been the only one...could be wrong about that, haven't read far enough to know..)
But as I said in that post: I do have an opinion on EVERYTHING (I'm not correct, just opinionated).
Sigh. Don't we all? At least you admit you are not right all the time. Wish that was true of everyone...especially a few politicans I can think of.;-)