Wednesday, November 26, 2008

101-150 If you don't know me by now....

101. An eccentric millionaire offers to donate a large sum to charity if you will step -- completely naked -- from a car onto a busy downtown street, walk four blocks, and climb back into the car. Knowing that there would be no danger of physical abuse, would you do it?*

102. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people's?*

103. Does the fact that you have never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to you?

104. SORRY THIS ONE WAS SENSORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

105. At a meal, your friends start belittling a common acquaintance. If you felt their criticisms were unjustified, would you defend the person?

106. Do you usually make a special effort to thank someone who does you a favor? How do you react when you aren't thanked for going out of your way for someone?

107. Would you like to have your rate of physical aging slowed by a factor of thirty so as to give you a life expectancy of about 2,000 years?*

108. You are invited to a party that will be attended by many fascinating people you've never met. Would you want to go if you had to go by yourself?

109. Since adolescence, in what three-year period do you feel you experienced the most personal growth and change?

110. If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else's paper, would you do so?*

111. If you parents became infirm and the only alternative to bringing them into your home was to put them in a nursing home, would you do so? What about a sister or brother who suffered a permanently crippling injury and -- other than your home -- had nowhere to go but a convalescent home?

112. If you were at a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner and you found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?

113. If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?

114. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?

115. Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so? Where would you go and what would you try to accomplish if you knew you might change the course of history?*

116. How many different sexual partners have you had in your life? Would you prefer to have had more or fewer?

117. Have you ever considered suicide? What is so important to you that without it life would not be worth living?

118. If your friends and acquaintances were willing to bluntly and honestly tell you what they really thought of you, would you want them to?*

119. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obliterated in a matter of minutes, would you favor unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers?

120. Would you accept $10,000 to shave your head and continue your normal activities sans hat or wig without explaining the reason for your haircut?

121. Were you able to wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else, would you do so? Whom would you pick?

122. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids?

123. When you do something ridiculous, how much does it bother you to have other people notice it and laugh at you?

124. Who is the most important person in your life? What could you do to improve the relationship? Will you ever do it?

125. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale?*

126. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assume you know no details of the trial.

127. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?*

128. You are at a lake with some friends; the sun is warm and the water is cold. Going into the water would temporarily chill you but you know that later the warm sun would be even more enjoyable and you would be glad you had gone in. Would you take the plunge?

129. Do you believe in any sort of God? If not, do you think you might still pray if you were in a life-threatening situation?

130. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination?

131. If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you'd find leading a more satisfying life than yours?

132. If you went to a beach and it turned out to be a nude beach, would you stay and go swimming? Would you swim nude?*

133. Have you had satisfying sex within the last three months?

134. Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot? Why?

135. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure -- intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood?

136. If you knew your child would be severely retarted and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion?*

137. Do you find it so hard to say "no" that you regularly do favors you do not want to do? If so, why?

138. If you began to be very attracted to somneone of another race, how would your behavior differ from what it would be toward someone of your own race?

139. Would you rather spend a month on vacation with your parents or put in overtime at your current job for four weeks without extra compensation?

140. Would you like to know the precise date of your death?*

141. Would you accept a guaranteed, lifetime allowance of $50,000 per year (adjusted annually for inflation) if accepting it meant that you could never again earn money from either work or investments?*

142. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

143. Do you ever spit or pick your nose in public? What about cleaning your teeth with a toothpick?

144. A close friend asks -- and genuinely wants -- your opinion about something, but your opinion is one that he is likely to find quite painful. For example, your friend is an artist and asks your honest estimate of his chances of being successful. You think he is an atrocious artist who hasn't the slightest chance of success. What would you do?

145. SENSORSHIP!!!!!

146. If you knew a thermonuclear holocaust would occur in precisely 20 years and no one would survive it, how would you change your present life?

147. When did you last cry in front of another person? by yourself?

148. If, by having a 2 inch by 2 inch tattoo, you could save five lives and prevent a terrorist attack, would you do so? If you were allowed to select the location and design, where would you have it and what would the design be?

149. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge?

150. Would you be willing to give up all television for the next five years if it would induce someone to provide for 1,000 starving children in Indonesia?*

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