questions before work

[rivendellrose]

Friday Five!

1. What song would you sing to your newborn child? (OR if you already had a child, which song did you sing to him/her?)
Hmm.... probabhly LOTS of showtunes, the Beatles, Great Big Sea and... oh, probably everything I know that I can actually sing without singing along with a CD. But yeah, showtunes would probably be a big part of it.

At the moment it would be "Summer" by Great Big Sea, because it won't get out of my head. ;)

2. How do you think animals think? (i.e. in animal language, human language, etc.)
You know how it is when you're not thinking with words (not subvocalizing, not using the words to give your thoughts form)? I think for the most part, for 'higher' animals, it's something like that. Awareness, some degree of memory and planning, but no language.

3. As a child, did you have a dream to make a difference in the world? Can you describe your dream?
Not especially. I wanted very much to be a paleontologist or marine biologist, but there was no thought of "changing the world." Just learning about really interesting things.

4. Do you believe in God/a Higher Being?
Nope. I believe in the universe, and I believe it's a marvelous, wonderful place. And I believe it's all we're gonna get, so we'd better appreciate it. ;)

5. Do you believe in aliens?
Yes, but not the way pop/New Age culture indicates. I find it implausible that we're the only life in the universe (seems statistically unlikely, as well as just plain arrogant), but the likelihood any other life from another planet would look or act anything like us seems pretty small, and I very sincerely doubt the whole UFO and alien abduction phenomena. The purported evidence just doesn't make sense to me.

Comments

[mahala.livejournal.com]

1. What song would you sing to your newborn child? (OR if you already had a child, which song did you sing to him/her?)

Well, my mom used to sing to me "Little Brown Jug", a song about moonshine. That should explain a lot! But I suspect I'd sing just about anything. I sang The Deodorant Song to my fifth graders:

Oh, deodorant is your friend.
Yes, deodorant is your friend.
If you wear deodorant you'll have friends.

They're probably scarred for life.

2. How do you think animals think? (i.e. in animal language, human language, etc.)

I think they're smarter than we give them credit for -- one of my cats has figured out doorknobs -- but I think for the most part if there's no food or attention involved, they're zoning in the zen!

3. As a child, did you have a dream to make a difference in the world? Can you describe your dream?

Oh yes, I was going to be an astronaut.

4. Do you believe in God/a Higher Being?

Not as the popularly held concept, no. I believe there are stranger things than even we can dream of, to paraphrase Shakespeare. I'm an apatheist: I don't

care

whether there's a god.

5. Do you believe in aliens?

See above. I'm rather apathetic about that too.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Apatheist. I'm going to have to remember that word... that's lovely. ♥