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What is your biggest desire in life? How do other people think of that?

exypnosW’s Profile PhotoDuit
One of my lifetime ambitions is to do this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago
I'm going on an 88 mile walk with 4 overnight stays (one of them in my parents' house, the route passes through my city) but that's just a warm up compared to this big beast that, if I do well enough in my 88-mile walk, I'll think about doing next Easter.
Really it's geting slightly better with the days getting longer but I still feel crushed beneath work and bad weather, but I'm sure I'll be back in business soon :)
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Can you briefly describe your country's educational system? How do you feel about that?

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I left formal education after graduating from Keele, world's best university, in 2006. And I don't have any children, so I don't know much, apart from to say this.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/if-cameron-wants-female-migrants-to-learn-english-why-did-he-cut-esol-funding/
Of course everyone should learn English, there's a problem with people not doing so and some members of the Muslim community are isolated from society and their husbands want to keep it that way, but it shouldn't be allowed...
So why did the strategic thinker, genius and all-round cockwomble (an excellent English word the use of which I recommend) cut funding for teaching migrants English? How the hell are people going to learn because he hectors and demands that they do it, without any help? Everyone who lives here should speak English and have the opportunity to work and contribute to society. It should be expected. But how can it happen if people aren't given any help, just that massively-foreheaded bellend shouting at them?
Like when he bombed Libya and turned it into a failed state, tried in 2013 to do the opposite of what he appears to be trying to do in Syria, or when he cut flood defences just before huge floods Bullingdon Dave Cameron never thinks anything through properly.
Rather than help people who need help and, if given it, would repay society, he simply issues demands and makes it impossible for people to comply with them and that's the "policy" followed by this intelectual titan.

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Yesterday, me and my girlfriend celebrating Chinese New Year in Birmingham. The only place we could see the singing and dancing was from inside a cocktail bar, and it would have been rude not to drink, so we were a bit merry. :)
And this great singer called Tiffany Pang came on and sang this and had us all swaying to the tune of it, it was cute seeing kids swaying and all sorts. This is the version I'm most familiar with. Perhaps we'd be happier if we all got drunk and swayed to the tune of it and didn't go to work in the morning :)
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What do you say when friends invite you out but you don't want to go?

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Generally I will be honest and say I don't want to go out or don't want to go if certain people will be there. A friend of mine went through a phase of going out every night and hanging round with people that I disliked on sight and he didn't understand at first that I didn't want to.
But the he fell out with them big-time and even though he is much more outgoing than me he understood because of that and I hope everyone else does.
If ever you don't want to do something you don't have to, and you should be able to say as much and people should understand it doesn't make you a bad person!
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What do you do if you feel that you've really wronged another person or done something bad but the person has died?

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YMMV but I love to go here and light a candle.
http://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/
And even though I'm not a religious person I think often about my dead family and friends, you could even call it saying a prayer for them. So that's what I'd probably do, I always find it difficult to admit I'm wrong and this humility business never really commended itself to me but I love being alone in that place.
Of course you can do practical things like help their family but I assume your meaning to be if there's nothing at all you can do in this world.
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How much do you need to know about a topic before you form an opinion about it?

I try (without always succeeding) to have an informed opinion before mouthing off. I used to be quite arrogant but hopefully my prolonged illness has killed that and done at least one good thing, and in my recovery I'm more humble about making statements I can't back up.
I have a cousin who, apart from the fact that his views are unpleasant in themselves, speaks in such broad terms and making generalisations and holding forth about topics he knows nothing about. I don't like it in the least. When I argue with him, at most of the family gatherings we both attend, I always worry that he's turning me into himself, his views irritate me so much that I say the opposite thing but behave just as badly.
But I should hope overall I stay in my lane and only speak on subjects I know something about :)

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What would you call a profoundly enlightening experience and why?

Go for a nice walk, in the city, the country, along a river or canal, in hills, woods, anywhere theres not too much traffic.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/20/frederic-gros-walk-nietzsche-kant
Especially if I climb a hill, I find the cares of the world disappearing and being replaced by a new perspective on life and dare I say enlightened. It really provokes stimulating thought and it's a way of improving your life dramatically. Learn from the master :)
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/138732214219/at-consall-and-along-the-churnet-river-and-the
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Do you have any near-death experience? How do you believe a life after death will be? Is afterlife real?

exypnosW’s Profile PhotoDuit
"I don't think I have a direct line" [to god]
David Cameron said that and for once I agree :)
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Have you ever questioned your faith? Is there any common misconception about your faith that people always argue about?

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I'm an agnostic so I don't have any beliefs, but what does bother me is this stereotype that non-religious people and the "atheist movement" are all white middle-class men like Richard Dawkins, so many people who will tell you how liberal and progressive they are will hate atheists and will make stereotypes about non-religious people.
In fact, most "infidels" are living in developing countries and fear for their lives at the hands of Muslim or Christian fanatics who may violently hate each other but can at least agree on the need to stamp out "godlessness".
I follow someone on Twitter who is Palestinian and was imprisoned (by the alleged "moderates" of Fatah) for saying he doesn't believe in god. Who could possibly think that was justified? And yet western countries are allied to reactionary Gulf states especially and never think about the people who suffer from them.
And it's very easy for virtue-signalling "progressives" to talk about how they're defending oppressed religious people against the likes of Richard Dawkins, who I don't even like, but the point is he isn't typical of the world's godless, who are totally ignored by most people of whatever persuasion who live easily in the west And in most of the world it's the religions which are oppressive, especially against women and children.
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/women-god-stangroom-benson

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How would you define masculinity and femininity?

shairaleerivera’s Profile PhotoLee
I don't know, I know what stereotypical "masculine" and "feminine" traits are but I don't know many people who follow gender roles rigidly and in countries where the authorities try to enforce them, usually by restricting women's role, it doesn't end well.
http://youtu.be/v3euYclhRmwHadacol’s Video 134508562940 v3euYclhRmwHadacol’s Video 134508562940 v3euYclhRmw
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Do you believe that religion has come into conflict because of secularism? Why? Do you think yourself as a part of secular society?

exypnosW’s Profile PhotoDuit
It depends what's meant by secularism, I support secularism in not having an officially mandated religion, clergymen (it's always men, in theocratic regimes) creating laws for us.
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/housman1.htm
Of course the culture I live in has been shaped by centuries of Christianity and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing but it's definitely a thing. But we are secular in that, unlike in many places, no one that I know of wants to go back to the 17th century and the rule of the saints.
I think the old-time secular dictators like Saddam Hussein were better than what came after because we now know what they were doing, which is to prevent people like Islamic state from persecuting anyone not exactly like themselves. So I think religion can flourish in a secular society and it actually is religion, not mixed up with politics like in, say, Iran

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If your parents had belonged to a different religion, do you think you would belong to that religion too? Is it a good choice to follow the religion blindly without 'learning' about it?

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I'm an ex-Catholic, I think if I'd been born in Iran I would be a Muslim, if I'd been born in some parts of Nigeria I'd still be a solid Catholic, etc. Most people follow the religion of their parents, unless they convert under pressure from the locally dominant religion, it's silly and arrogant to pretend otherwise. Everyone is a freaked free thinker the same way everyone would have joined the French Resitance, but you can't say that until it's proven.
I admire people who have the courage to reject the norm like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Namazie
And I think people should know and be taught about other religions and the fact that millions of people are atheists (it's actually illegal to be an atheist or change your religion in some, mainly Muslim, countries). So people should have the information and be free to make their own decisions and I'm not going to say what I would do if I lived under hardcore oppression, I don't know.

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If you have or had grandparents, what did you call them? Do any of your relatives have family pet names for you, or you for them? (my youngest nephew calls me Aiya, which I think is adorable)

shehitsback’s Profile PhotoAllison
In a similar way to your being called Aiya, I'm known as Aloo in my family because my friend mispronounced my name when we were very young (Andrew is my real name). Also I like that the Russian diminuitive of my name would be Andryusha, no one calls me that but it would be cool if they did :)

What is the difference between revenge and justice, in your opinion? If you intend to make someone "pay for what they've done" (for example, if they murder your parents), does it make you just or vengeful? When does mere justice morph into vengeance and why?

I always vaguely thought revenge was a personal vendetta, like a blood feud down the generations that never gets solved because there's always something to avenge. Justice is more impartial. But then you've got the question of whether justice and mercy are compatible, what either of them is, and which is more important if they collide.
If someone murdered my parents and I killed him, what if his children avenged him by killing me? But if that person was executed, that might be justice, but what if people are killed unjustly?
For example, Lenin's brother was executed by the Tsar's forces and it fed his need for vengeance.
I think it might be a good idea if people did this. (Though apparently they don't, as with the right-wing Christians supporting Donald Trump).
"Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."
Can you imagine that, a hate-filled person trying to have his revenge for slights real and imaginary, and the people he hates would repay that with kindness, it would shame that person. ("coals of fire" would be the rebuke given to him and his violent life).

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Why are individuals who are dominant in romantic relationships often seen as abusive predators who hunt their prey (even when those relationships are perfectly consensual), in your opinion?

Partly because of stereotypes that are unjust, but also because it can be hard to tell the difference.
It's like people saying that forced marriages may be bad but arranged marriages are ok, and it's important to distinguish. But a 15 year old girl who is told to marry her cousin (this does happen in some parts of the world) doesn't really have a meaningful choice, and it's hard to distinguish between "arranged" and "forced".
So if someone wants to be told what to do, dominated and treated as a slave that's ok if they get their jollies that way, but there has to be a way out and people who enjoy being dominant should know that they only rule by consent of the person they rule over and a kink in sex or a preference in a relationship can be changed whenever.
It is a question of allowing people genuinely to do what they want at all times, including when they decide an arrangement no longer suits them. They have the right to be sub/dom and to stop being that way.

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If you do something that's wrong, but you have no idea it's actually wrong, and a person comes and is very rude to you about it and treats you very poorly, how do you react? Please be honest. If not, please delete.

shairaleerivera’s Profile PhotoLee
I will react badly, I won't deny that I have my pride (too much, probably) and a justified rebuke will simply be ignored if not expressed the right way or just when it's a bad time for me.
In The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell says that “If you want to make an enemy of a man, tell him that his ills are incurable.” Indeed. If you just shout at me I'll hate you for it, if you constructively suggest that something I do is wrong and here's how to make it right I might listen then.
Unless I don't :)
Sometimes a rebuke may be justified but the person doing the admonishing is so unpleasant and negative about it that you wonder who the wrongdoer really is here. So I won't take kindly to those people but maybe I won't take kindly to anyone, I'm human and I have my reactions.
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Do you think mental illness affects the person who is suffering from it more than it affects the people who interact with the sufferer on a daily basis? Or does it affect both equally? Why?

Certainly it's worse for the sufferer, especially since they will generally be trying to hide their disability and "pass" in square society, even though that may be impossible.
If people who are, for instance, on the autistic spectrum don't get that support (especially early on) the blessing the difference and quirkiness could be to them is lost and everyone loses.
I appreciate the argument that carers have to work hard but it isn't always necessarily a problem, that's just the way it's seen by a society that turns away some people's contributions (especially in the early years).
I see it from all sides, that's never a good sign, it confuses the issue and means I don't know what to think :)
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@carlyincontro asks, "Would you rather sneeze glitter or cough confetti?”

What a shit question, I'm going to answer it with animals.
I strongly disagree with the farmer's policy in turning his cows loose on a field with trees in it, that's actually in a park, not his own private grounds. But it's a good photo opportunity!
carlyincontro asks Would you rather sneeze glitter or cough confetti
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