Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Question of the Day catch-up

With Halloween on the horizon, burning questions about the undead need to be answered: Can being a zombie be considered suffering?
I generally believe suffering to be entirely subjective. Much like most of life, I can relate it to Buffy. After his gypsy curse, Angel walked around with a soul, forced to recall and live with the memories of all the vivious things he did as Angelus. Suffering. Spike, having no soul at all, dug his ability to walk around sucking the life out of people until The Initiative implanted the chip (die, Riley, die!!) He only suffered after being rendered inable to live life the way he was used to. It's all about circumstances. Some zombies probably dig it, some probably don't.

Everyone enjoys a ghost story. Or at least knows one. What is the scariest ghost story you've ever heard?
I'm not sure I've really heard a lot of true ghost stories. I've read plenty of creepy, scary stories (hi, Stephen King) but ghost stories, not so much. When I read it in school, I remember thinking almost anything written by Edgar Allen Poe has a genuine fright to it (moreso the prose than the poetry) and just the other day, I picked up The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. So far, I've only read my all-time favorite, The Cask of Amontillado, but as I read some this week, I'll let you know if they're as scary as I remember.

Happy birthday, Internet! The Internet, of course, has changed many things for the good. But is it all good? What is the biggest problem the Internet has created for you or the world?
Nothing in life is all good but I definitely say the internet has been more beneficial to me than it has been detrimental. The biggest problmem it's created is probably the huge amount of time that's dedicated to it on a regular basis. Although it's usually used for reading and learning crap so, ya know...that's a good thing.

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