16.4.11

Mutually Exclusive

Would you rather:
  • Take a pill everyday that would provide your body with the exact vitamins, minerals, and calories and guarantee perfect health and weight but never be able to eat anything ever again OR never have perfect health and weight but eat anything you wanted?
  • Have power but little money OR have money but little power?
  • Pay $8 for a gallon of water OR pay $8 for a gallon of gas?
  • Be blind OR be deaf?
  • Live in Khartoum, Sudan OR live in Yakutsk, Siberian Russia?
  • Be only 4 feet tall OR be 7 1/2  feet tall?
  • Always have summer OR always have winter?
  • Live in a fascist society OR live in a communist society?
  • Have polluted rivers OR have polluted air?
  • Die of cancer OR die of a heart attack?
  • Have all mountains leveled OR have the Grand Canyon become the Grand Lake?
  • Have no more movies OR have no more books?
Either/or.  Black or white.  No middle ground.  Which shall it be?

9 comments:

  1. Wow. What brought this on? hugs to you

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  2. I'll give it a go. I won't go into my rationale for each decision, but here they are: I'll take the pill, money/little power, $8 for gas, deaf, Siberia, 7 1/2 feet tall, summer, communist society, polluted rivers, heart attack, the Grand Lake, no more movies.

    Tough choices, but kind of fun to think about. Each one of these would make an interesting post.

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  3. Rhetorical poll?
    None of the above.

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  4. Eat anything, mone with little power, $8 for gas, deaf, Siberia, 4 feet tall, summer, communist society, polluted rivers, heart attack, the Grand Lake, no more movies.

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  5. Take a pill everyday that would provide your body with the exact vitamins, minerals, and calories and guarantee perfect health and weight but never be able to eat anything ever again OR never have perfect health and weight but eat anything you wanted? - Take Pill

    Have power but little money OR have money but little power? - Money

    Pay $8 for a gallon of water OR pay $8 for a gallon of gas? - Gas


    Be blind OR be deaf? - Deaf

    Live in Khartoum, Sudan OR live in Yakutsk, Siberian Russia? - Russia

    Be only 4 feet tall OR be 7 1/2 feet tall? -Taller
    Always have summer OR always have winter? - Summer

    Live in a fascist society OR live in a communist society? - Communist

    Have polluted rivers OR have polluted air? - Air

    Die of cancer OR die of a heart attack? - MI

    Have all mountains leveled OR have the Grand Canyon become the Grand Lake? - Grand Lake

    Have no more movies OR have no more books? - Movies

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  6. @gail, It was brought on by a philosophical conversation Mr. Gaelic and I had the other day on the way to work.

    @Tim, Another blog? Great suggestion!

    @Antares, Not rhetorical. It's the why's of each answer that can tell you a lot about yourself. I think Tim was alluding to that point.

    @Shana and @Laoch, Amazing how similar some answers are.

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  7. I agree with Laoch.. Same answers. Thoughtful.. Some I've already done, so I know I'd rather do the other!!LOL Hope you're doing well..

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  8. :) I realize that. It's the choices we face, I like to think that we'll come up with the third option in some cases. As to the responses; self-preservation, health and education.;)

    What were yours?

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  9. @Antares, Aha! A challenge! Mine are:
    Pill, money, gas, deaf, Russia, 7 1/2', summer, Communist, rivers, heart attack, Grand Lake, movies. Now maybe I'll take Tim up on the challenge of blogging about the why's.

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