Just a thought provoker...Growing your mind is good for, everyone.
Would You Exercise
By Evelyn McFarlane & James Saywell
Our beliefs define us…our beliefs change over time and in accordance with our environment…
You may never have to really answer these questions…but the process of trying is beneficial…Answer the first of each pair before reading the second.
Would You
Prefer fame or respect?
Say you are prouder of your accomplishments or of your character?
Prefer infamy or anonymity?
Prefer to be recognized in your lifetime or by posterity?
Rather have more brains, more beauty, or more chutzpah?
Rather relinquish some of your brains, your beauty, or your chutzpah?
Would You
Give the police more power in exchange for a lower crime rate?
Sacrifice civil liberties for personal economic gain?
Rather have prevented slavery, the Vietnam War, the nuclear attack on Japan, or the experience of Native American peoples?
Pay reparations to any of the victims of those catastrophes?
Would You
Prefer a society of science but no art, or of art but no science?
Advise your child to study art or to study science?
Take a pay cut to end homelessness in your country?
Take a pay cut to end homelessness in another country?
Would You
Illegally buy a human organ to save your child’s life?
Donate your eyes to give your child sight?
Place more value on the praise of your parents or of your children?
Be more likely to disappoint your children or your parents?
Prefer to be a better athlete, businessperson, cook, lover, or moralist?
Rather date a jock, CEO, chef, sex therapist, or minister?
Would You
Consider promiscuity a character weakness?
Like more sex?
Value chastity more in a man or in a woman?
Judge a person’s sex life differently if they’re twenty rather than forty?
Would You
Try to dissuade your young teenager from having sex if the risk of disease and pregnancy were eliminated?
Accept your son being sexually active at a younger age than your daughter?
Keep all pornography away from your teenagers?
Encourage your mate to use pornography as an aphrodisiac?
Would You
Be able to forgive your child anything at all?
Be able to forgive your mate anything at all?
Choose a career for your child, given the possibility?
Ever refuse to attend your child’s wedding to protest their choice of partner?
Rather be a good spouse or a good parent?
Marry someone knowing they would be a bad parent to your kids?
Would You
Consider yourself a good citizen?
Fight for your country in an unjust war?
Move to another country that you consider morally superior?
Move to another country for an easier life?
Would You
Turn down a great job offer from a company with questionable ethics?
Accept a Christmas bonus knowing the money was “dirty�
Say you are capable of white-collar crime?
Steal a pen from the office supply closet or make a personal long-distance call at the company’s expense?
Would You
Prefer a stormy relationship with your parents or an indifferent one?
Rather your child made you proud or showed you great affection?
Say that happiness is found or made?
Say that the more power you have to control life, the richer it is?
Like to know more about your mate?
Choose to know everything about your mate?
Would You Exercise
By Evelyn McFarlane & James Saywell
Our beliefs define us…our beliefs change over time and in accordance with our environment…
You may never have to really answer these questions…but the process of trying is beneficial…Answer the first of each pair before reading the second.
Would You
Prefer fame or respect?
Say you are prouder of your accomplishments or of your character?
Prefer infamy or anonymity?
Prefer to be recognized in your lifetime or by posterity?
Rather have more brains, more beauty, or more chutzpah?
Rather relinquish some of your brains, your beauty, or your chutzpah?
Would You
Give the police more power in exchange for a lower crime rate?
Sacrifice civil liberties for personal economic gain?
Rather have prevented slavery, the Vietnam War, the nuclear attack on Japan, or the experience of Native American peoples?
Pay reparations to any of the victims of those catastrophes?
Would You
Prefer a society of science but no art, or of art but no science?
Advise your child to study art or to study science?
Take a pay cut to end homelessness in your country?
Take a pay cut to end homelessness in another country?
Would You
Illegally buy a human organ to save your child’s life?
Donate your eyes to give your child sight?
Place more value on the praise of your parents or of your children?
Be more likely to disappoint your children or your parents?
Prefer to be a better athlete, businessperson, cook, lover, or moralist?
Rather date a jock, CEO, chef, sex therapist, or minister?
Would You
Consider promiscuity a character weakness?
Like more sex?
Value chastity more in a man or in a woman?
Judge a person’s sex life differently if they’re twenty rather than forty?
Would You
Try to dissuade your young teenager from having sex if the risk of disease and pregnancy were eliminated?
Accept your son being sexually active at a younger age than your daughter?
Keep all pornography away from your teenagers?
Encourage your mate to use pornography as an aphrodisiac?
Would You
Be able to forgive your child anything at all?
Be able to forgive your mate anything at all?
Choose a career for your child, given the possibility?
Ever refuse to attend your child’s wedding to protest their choice of partner?
Rather be a good spouse or a good parent?
Marry someone knowing they would be a bad parent to your kids?
Would You
Consider yourself a good citizen?
Fight for your country in an unjust war?
Move to another country that you consider morally superior?
Move to another country for an easier life?
Would You
Turn down a great job offer from a company with questionable ethics?
Accept a Christmas bonus knowing the money was “dirty�
Say you are capable of white-collar crime?
Steal a pen from the office supply closet or make a personal long-distance call at the company’s expense?
Would You
Prefer a stormy relationship with your parents or an indifferent one?
Rather your child made you proud or showed you great affection?
Say that happiness is found or made?
Say that the more power you have to control life, the richer it is?
Like to know more about your mate?
Choose to know everything about your mate?
