Patrick reveals: “I slept in this morning, which is always nice on a Saturday. I'm sending warm wishes for better weather to those of you who've been dealing with all of the winter storms. Hopefully you can bundle up and play the Six...and I've turned up the heat on the subject matter this week!”
“We had lots of players last week, but it was Jude of "My Way" was first to play last week. Congratulations, Jude!”
“Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!
1. What do you generally find more offensive in a film: too much bad language or too much nudity?
Too much bad language – it's a sign of a very small mind if every other phrase is inappropriate for a conversation with the local parish priest.
2. You're touring an art museum and find that it has a special exhibit promoting the beauty of the human body that features live nude models. Would you walk into that room?
Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with the human body in all of it's forms.
3. What if you personally knew one of the models: would you walk into the room then?
Sure. How are you going to offer your appreciation and support if you are unwilling to offer it in person?
4. Take the quiz: Do you have a dirty mind?
Stupid quiz alert. Very ignorant presuppositions evidenced in the questions. Not worth your time nor mine.
5. You're cleaning house and you find pornography: would you be more upset if you realized that it belonged to your spouse, your child, or your parents?
If I am cleaning house it is in public areas – I don't clean others' rooms. I'd be mildly annoyed if porn was left out in the open in public spaces and/or if the person responsible hadn't felt I was worthy of sharing the largess with. Being upset with a spouse or child for viewing pornography reveals a stupidly prudish mind. That fact above all others, reveals the presuppositions of the questioner.
6. If a local referendum gave you the chance to outlaw all pornography in your state, would you want to see that pass or fail?
I'd hope and campaign to defeat such a referendum. I believe in free speech – why else would I tolerate the public airwaves being overrun with Christianity these days? By the same token, while I might not always appreciate the more extreme views of any member of this society, provided their views harm no one physically they should be allowed to express them, no matter how offensive I might find them. Likewise with photographic, videographic or cinematic images – provided that no harm befalls the participants, what cause do I have to object? Obviously excluded are activities which we, as a society, have determined to BE harmful – child pornography, domestic violence, murder, denial of habeas corpus and torture of prisoners (unless you are King George Dubya, that is).
And now, last week's Saturday Six:
Saturday Six - Episode 144
Time for another edition of the "Saturday Six." Here's an edition devoted to a single topic: the Internet.
But first, Wil of "The Daily Snooze" was first to play last week. Congratulations, Wil!
Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment at Patrick's Weekender, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!
1. If you knew you would die the following day, what would you do with your blog: edit some parts of it and leave it up for posterity, leave it as it is, or delete it?
I'd leave it as it is – and like Patrick, I'm not sure why.
2. Other than your own blog, what single website do you visit the most?
A tossup between my local paper (which serves as my “homepage” and paddling.net...
3. How many different email accounts do you currently own, counting work and home?
Seven?
4. Take the quiz: How addicted to the Internet are you?
I took the quiz and got this result: You Are 65% Addicted to the Internet.
However, having just been without connectivity for 10 days, I can say that I'm still here, up and about and able to take nourishment. I didn't waste away to nothing, I actually had to use clippers the other day to trim my fingernails... so my estimation of the situation is that withdrawal from the Internet is far easier to tolerate than giving up smoking, drinking or coffee.
5. Are you more likely to visit the Internet the first thing in the morning or the last thing at night?
I have a habit of taking my pills at night and then sitting down and checking the email and writing in my blog before going to bed. This is first and foremost because I am trying to avoid further erosion of my esophagus from my pills...
6. Who was the last person you had an email/instant message conversation with? When was the last time you saw that person in person? Michelle –- I last saw her for the first and only time about 5 years ago when she visited a mutual friend here in Maine.
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