The Syndicate

Butter pecan.


Dracula's Blood Pudding or Essence of Ghost?

Essence of Ghost sounds tastier.

Golden State or Toronto Raptors for the NBA preseason opener?

Raptors sound like more fun, in a gory kinda way.

Dripping with sarcasm or dripping with butter?

Butter. Sarcasm is bitter.

Own a luxury yacht or RV?

RV. I love driving, and while I know how to boat and operate a basic cabin cruiser, I think a yacht would be too much for one me to handle, and for me getting there is half the fun.

Would you rather go to a small venue and have your favorite band play just for you, or would you rather be in the same small venue and you play for them?

S~V~S wrote:RV. I love driving, and while I know how to boat and operate a basic cabin cruiser, I think a yacht would be too much for one me to handle, and for me getting there is half the fun.

Would you rather go to a small venue and have your favorite band play just for you, or would you rather be in the same small venue and you play for them?

I'd rather be entertained. If I were on stage in front of them, I would probably be a wreck.

Be on The Voice or Dancing with the Stars?

I would be horrid on either, but I guess Dancing with the Stars; the hosts seem a tad less vicious, lol. Plus those pro dancers can make almost anyone look less atrocious.

Which is worse; Your workplace is always too hot, or your workplace is always too cold?

Too hot. I hate heat, and you can always wear a sweater.

Ginger or crushed red pepper?

Red Pepper; I never really got a taste for Ginger, but I DO love pepper.

Onion or Garlic?

Onions- favorite vegetable.

Mums or Pumpkins to decorate your front porch in October?

I like pumpkins, or what I really like is colorful gourds & corn stalks. Mums have never been my favorite.

Would you rather see man establish a colony on Mars, or a colony at the bottom of the sea?

RAPTURE.

Colombia or Rapture?

(Look up Bioshock images of the two places)

Columbia. When I was younger, I would have picked Rapture probably. But in my old age, darkness (symbolic of death in general) is less attractive to me than it was when I was in my 20's. Now I want all the sunshine, flowers, chipmunks & birdsong I can get.

Hedonism or Epicureanism?

Hedonism. Epicureanism is just hedonism made needlessly complicated and unnaturally modest.

Would you rather have unlimited, absolute free will and be empty or have no free will whatsoever (not even freedom of movement) and be happy?

Absolute free will. I spent a huge chuck of my life voluntarily being miserable & dark, so I could not respect myself as a mindlessly happy minion of the status quo.

Spinoza or Nietzsche?

Spinoza. Nietzsche is a good writer but his ideas are too transparently concocted from his insecurities and grrrrrl problems for me to take them that seriously. Spinoza I don't know much about but if I'm correct that his ideas influenced pantheism then he gets points from me for that because I feel it's a step in the right direction.

I'm liking the philosophy chain we got going here.

Ethics or epistemology?

Epistemology by far.

Endurantism or perdurantism?

I had to look those up. It was interesting, thanks for making me learn something!

Perdurantism. When I read about it, it clicked with me right away. I don't think I have existed as a fully gestalt being at all points in my life, and do believe time is a quantifiable dimension along with the three normally recognized.

Is your nominal identity based on intrinsic personal attributes (i.e., male, gay, black) or society assigned attributes (French, Engineer, Student, etc.)?

Intrinsic personal attributes, though I'd like to think my nominal identity is based on neither.

Camus or Kierkegaard?

Interesting, mine is definitely intrinsic. I have only known one woman with a societal construct ("teacher") as her primary identity. But I have known multiple men that identify as their career as their primary identity, and at least one that identifies primarily as his nationality.

That's a tough one. I am not a person of faith and do not have any desire to surrender to faith, I *can't* take the leap of faith required for Kierkegaard. Camus makes more sense to me, and when I was younger I often let this kind of thing bring me to despair, that ultimately, all is meaninglessness. So although I *can't* accept the basic premise of the one, I don't like to accept the basic premise of Camus. But, if pushed, I would have to say Camus. Reality for the bleak win.

Rousseau or David Hume?

I know little about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but Hume is almost everything I disagree with and even oppose in philosophy. Rousseau it is.

Bread or butter?

Butter is much better for the teeth.

Eggs or bacon?

Bacon.

A day of excitement or a day of peace and quiet?

Excitement. I've had way too much peace and quiet lately.

Property in a mountain range or on a tropical beach?

The mountains. No Hurricane Matthew.

Cappuccino or espresso?

Cappuccino, it lasts longer.

Thanksgiving or Christmas?

Christmas.

Halloween or Valentine's Day?

Halloween.

Trick or treat?

Treats. I don't want any tricks in this neighborhood. They could involve bullets.

Stereo chorus or digital delay?

Delay k

Wah-wah or phaser?

Wah wah.

"The Raven" or "Annabel Lee?"

The Raven k

Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Poe.

American or European folklore?

European (although I'm probably less familiar with American)

Werewolves or vampires?

Vampires, I'm not a fan of back hair.

Pirates or ninjas?

Ninjas.

Thieves or assassins?

Same question, basically.

Assassins, because they kill people.

Lawyers or politicians?

Six of one...half a dozen...eww.

Lawyers. They hold politicians accountable.

Lynyrd Skynyrd or Molly Hatchet?

Molly Hatchet, although I don't care much for either.

Hammer or sickle?

Vompatti wrote:Molly Hatchet, although I don't care much for either.

Hammer or sickle?

Sickle, because agriculture allowed vast improvements in the human standard of living previous impossible.

Magic or technology?

Magic, because it's more useful and consumes less natural resources.

Philosophy or psychology?

Philosophy.

Money for nothing or your chicks for free?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat I always thought it was CHECKS for free, like just another way of saying money for nothing. I guess money for nothing then.

Dire Straits or Steely Dan?

Steely Dan all the way man


The Police or solo Sting?

The Police. Sting has a few I really like, but The Police are edgier.

You've got a band. Sting or Chris Squire on bass + backup vocals?

Chris Squire no contest.

You've got a band. Christian Vander or Yoshida Tatsuya on drums?

Yoshida.

Be buried or cremated? (if it would be purely up to your preference)

Buried. I want a mausoleum for my body to live in.

Would you rather your tombstone list your worst character flaw or your worst physical feature?

Worst physical feature. I earned it.

Would you rather died a peaceful death and be buried in a pine box in a church yard or blown up to the extent that there's nothing left to bury?

Blown up, not for the lack of remains but because I imagine that would be a fun and quick death.

Death by burning or death by drowning?