Getting to know you.

A friend at work gave me these questions. As I read through them I will put them up (if they are not to bad) and see what people are thinking. So here are the first of A LOT!

1. For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends or family again?

2. Do you believe in ghosts or evil spirits? Would you be willing to spend a night alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted?

3. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet?

4. If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience would you do so? If not, why not?*

5. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in 1 percent of those who took it, would you want it be released to the public?

6. You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake?

7. Do you think that the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?

8. Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?

9. Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave the country and never set foot in it again?*

10. Which sex do you think has it easier in our culture? Have you ever wished you were of the opposite sex?

11. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power?*

12. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

13. What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?

14. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?*

15. Whom do you admire most? In what way does that person inspire you?

16. If at birth you could select the profession your child would eventually pursue, would you do so?

17. Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?*

18. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?

19. You have the chance to meet soneone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable -- the stuff of dreams. Sadly, you know that in six months the person will die. Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love? What if you knew your lover would not die, but instead would betray you?*

20. If you knew of a way to use your estate, following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family?

21. Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women?

22. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?

23. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you had done?*

24. Are there people you envy enough to want to trade lives with them? Who are they?

25. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?*

26. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person it it would end hunger in the world?*

27. If God appeared to you in a series of vivid and moving dreams and told you to leave everything behind, travel alone to the Red Sea and become a fisherman, what would you do? What if you were told to sacrifice your child?

28. What is your most treasured memory?

29. Have you ever hated anyone? If so, why and for how long?

30. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000?

31. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?

32. Would you accept twenty years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?

33. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? Is there anything you hope to do that is even better?

34. What was your most enjoyable dream? your worst nightmare?

35. Would you give up half of what you now own for a pill that would permanently change you so that one hour of sleep each day would fully refresh you?*

36. If you knew you could devote yourself to any single occupation-- music, writing, acting, business, politics, medicine, etc. -- and be among the best and most successful in the world at it, what would you choose? If you knew you had only a 10 percent chance of being so successful, would you still put in the effort?

37. What was your best experience with drugs or alcohol? your worst experience?

38. If you went to a dinner party and were offered a dish you had never tried, would you want to taste it even if it sounded strange and not very appealing?

39. Do your close friends tend to be older or younger than you?*

40. If the person you were engaged to marry had an accident and became a paraplegic, would you go through with the marriage or back out of it?

41. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire; after saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be?

42. How would you react if you were to learn that your mate had had a lover of the same sex before you knew each other?*

43. When were you last in a fight? What caused it and who won?

44. You are offered $1,000,000 for the following act: Before you are ten pistols -- only one of which is loaded. You must pick up one of the pistols, point it at your forehead, and pull the trigger. If you can walk away you do so a millionaire. Would you accept the risk?

45. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father?*

46. When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?

47. You have the power to go any distance into the future and, after one year, return to the present with any knowledge you have gained from your experience but with no physical objects. Would you make the journy if it carried a 50 percent risk of death?

48. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as your dinner guest? as your close friend? as your lover?*

49. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note?

50. If you could choose the manner of your death, what would it be?*