I lifted these from my 2nd favourite podcast, 'Skepticality' (ABC's 'Background Briefing' is my runaway favourite). My own answers are in the comments section.
1. What is your favourite Urban Legend or myth?
2. Does Daylight Savings Time actually save anything?
3. What is the worst revisionist history?
4. If you could know the true truth about any one thing, what would it be?
5. What is the most important thing to teach our children?
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6 comments:
1. That UFOs are actually alien craft who buzz Kansas farmers for some nefarious purpose.
2. I think the jury is out on whether it saves money (I believe that electricity usage drops, but that gas usage actually climbs as a result of DLST), but it definitely creates an extra hour of daylight for human usage.
3. Holocaust deniers. I'm not even sure there is a close second on this one.
4. I have two picks here; A. The condition of the universe prior to the Big Bang, and B. the origins of life on Earth (i.e specific natural processes or via pan spermia, or whatever).
5. My first answer was 'atheism', but then I figured I can teach them that by simply not teaching them to believe in religion.
So with that aside, I figure I'll just teach them to play bridge and chess. At least that way they can entertain me in my dottage.
1. That George W. Bush won Florida's electoral votes in 2000 and Ohio's in 2004.
2. I get an extra-hour of sleep but have to give it back so not really. It is a handy time to switch the batteries in one's smoke detectors.
3. That the Earth is about 6000 years old. Such goofiness teaches kids that God lies through false geology, carbon dating and astronomical observations. I think that's just cruel.
4. The winning numbers for this Friday's Super 7 jackpot.
5. That they are loved.
1. I've always been partial to the tenet that eating Grape Pop-Rocks and drinking Coke together will make your stomach explode. On a more general note, most every "motherly saying" (eg "Go out without your hat and you'll catch pneumonia", "If you keep making that face, it will stay that way", "Sleep before midnight counts for much more than sleep after midnight", and of course "That'll make you go blind")
2. Technically I believe it does have an impact on fuel consumption/heating costs etc. It breaks up the monotony of impending winter, at least at one end. With the US discussing getting rid of it, consider the effects on us if we have it and they don't. Would hate to travel on time change day.
3. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pointed out, Holocaust "myths" still abound
4. Are there in fact other life forms in our universe, and if (presumably) so, what form do they take, and how does our civilization compare?
5. That every human being is equal, and deserves to be respected as such. On a lighter note: Keep your head up and your stick on the ice.
Before answering this - have to say there's no way that Sutter would even think of trading Iginla for Thornton (Thornton + what for Iggy - then maybe).
1. The one where person ends up in tub full of ice, and kidney missing. Too funny.
2. Nice to have a little more daylight in the winter. I always love it when staff try to claim extra hour of pay when its spring ahead, but neglect to deduct themself an hour of pay when fall back ;-)
3. Holocaust disbeleivers pretty overwhelming, but a strong 2nd is the Catholic church trying to rewrite paganism into their own religion.
4. Gotta agree with Doug - upcoming lotto numbers. Or, what would happen if I quit my job tomorrow?
5. Do as your mom says.
1. That one where the guy goes through with his wedding ceremony just to dump his bride at the reception, by showing photos of her boinking his best man, which he's taped to the bottom of every chair in the place.
2. no.
3. I can't count holocaust revisionists as really "historical" in nature. Besides, y'all got my back onthat one already. What about the Armenian Genocide? Hard to deny something the government itself says never existed.
4. What the scandal was that drove Shenoute into the desert. That's career making stuff! ;-)
5. Live like you're on that planet from Deep Space 9. You remember. The one where the Defiant crash landed in the past and created a utopian society? But remember to keep Odo in his jar. Of course, "utopian" is derived from "non-existent" so never mind. Live like that society *could* exist. And tell people what you think of them, especially if it's good. You might not get another opportunity to say it.
1. What is your favorite Urban Legend or myth?
Any of a million email campaigns that promise Bill Gates is monitoring your email, you will have to pay for every email you send, the next computer virus will destroy the internet, ad museum. That people are so ignorant of the technology they use (and take for granted) daily makes me howl.
2. Does Daylight Savings Time actually save anything?
Sure. It’s not like we’re the only ones observing it. No Wait! We Are!
3. What is the worst revisionist history?
Rwandan Genocide. Sure more people died during WWII but HOLY FUCK! 937,000 bodies in 100 days. That’s some serious murderin’. Now consider what we learned from WWII and apply it today… well 1994 when this happened. 50 years and we haven’t learned shit.
4. If you could know the true truth about any one thing, what would it be?
I have a long held belief that our consciousness develops to be far more than the sum of our brains and neurons. Life after death is merely a transference of state and we are now free to roam the universe as energy, or choose to come round again. I now religion is crap and heaven a scare tactic. Am I immortal or worm bait? Knowing would go a long way towards helping me live the rest of my life.
5. What is the most important thing to teach our children?
Listen. Understand. Then speak. Always in that order.
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