PROMPT: Long Life

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What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

Living a long life while physically and mentally capable = great. Living a long life when you need advanced technology to achieve it and you’re just lying around like a slug without the ability hold a simple conversation = the worst circle of hell I can fathom.

One of the few books I’d recommend for everyone is Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal” which shows that our great pride in increasing human life expectancy is not all it’s cracked up to be because the average quality of life at death has dropped in the process. Essentially, people are completing the marathon because we are dragging quasi-corpses over the finish line rather than allowing them to fail gracefully.

PROMPT: Differently

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What could you do differently?

Everything except fully autonomic bodily functions could be done differently. That’s the nature of human creativity.

PROMPT: Billboard

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If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

Eyes Front, Jackass!

Alternatively, “There’s a pit viper under your seat.”

PROMPT: The Future or the Past

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Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

How would I know? When I’m doing either – by definition – my mind is wandering. Ergo, I have no metacognitive engagement. (i.e. I’m not timing or encoding— and certainly not recording— mental objects.)

PROMPT: Greatest Gift

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What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

The capacity to decrease entropy in an isolated system.

PROMPT: Colleges

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What colleges have you attended?

Indiana University [IUPUI], Georgia Tech, and Georgia State.

PROMPT: Play

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Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

Yes. Frenetic and chaotic creativity.

PROMPT: Challenges

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What are your biggest challenges?

Finding the humor in the collapse of Western civilization.

PROMPT: Nostalgic

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What makes you feel nostalgic?

Reminders of my time in the military, particularly an overseas tour in England.

PROMPT: Sports Team

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If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?

The Chiaroscuro Churros. The colors would be black and white, and the mascot would be Jaime the Angry Churro, a ten foot high tasty Mexican dessert with rage issues.