Welcome to installment #9. These questions are a little more intense but very interesting answers should be forthcoming. And for those of you who feel these questions are dark and threatening, here’s one for you tamer or lamer folks: How many cute and furry puppies must you save from a fate worse than death to be considered a true pet lover? LOL

Let’s get going!

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• If you were able to wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else, would you do so? Whom would you pick?

• If you are happily married, and then met someone you felt certain would always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids?

• When you do something ridiculous, how much does it bother you to have other people notice it and laugh at you?

• Who is the most important person in your life? What could you do to improve the relationship? Will you ever do it?

• Assuming that complete recovery was instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale?

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• Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assume you know no details of the trial.

• If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

• You are at a lake with some friends; the sun is warm, and the water is cold. Going into the water would temporarily chill you but you knew that later on the warm sun would be even more enjoyable and you’d be glad you had gone in. Would you take the plunge?

• Do you believe in any sort of God? If not, do you think you might still pray if you were in a life-threatening situation?

• While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination?

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• If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find leading a more satisfying life than yours?

• If you went to a beach and it turned out to be a nude beach, would you stay and go swimming? Would you swim nude?

• Have you had satisfying sex within the last three months?

• Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot? Why?

• Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure – intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood?

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IF THESE QUESTION DON’T PROVOKE DISCUSSION, NOTHING WILL!