Most Throwdown Thursday questions ask for your preferred option. For today’s choice of spiders or snakes, you can choose your least favorite if you like.
Share why if you wish.
Month: July 2019
What Is Your Favorite Sport?
Whether you are a fanatic or just watch when the Olympics are on, you probably have a favorite sport (to play or to watch). Or at least one you dislike the least. What is it?
Share why if you wish.
Should We Be Concerned With Legacy?
When thinking about your life, is it valuable to think about your legacy? That is, should it matter what you leave behind you after you die?
In life, there is an advantage to having people think well of you. It can help attract good, thoughtful, productive people to you. It can help remove obstacles. Overall, it can make your life easier and more pleasant.
However, that advantage would seem to disappear after you die. How your memory lives on doesn’t confer any direct advantage. There may be some indirect value to your family and loved ones, but that gets harder and harder to quantify as time goes on.
That approach is largely transactional, however. Is there a strictly moral component? Is it important that you are remembered as a good person after you die? If so, how much of your time and resources while alive should be devoted to trying to secure a legacy of some sort?
After all, we all have a limited amount of time and energy in our lives. How does the priority of establishing a legacy place against other earthly concerns? Like food and shelter, or accrual of wealth or status, or feeling contented or fulfilled? Or does how you go about fulfilling your daily needs become part of your legacy?
Is the idea one of the first things you abandon when faced with tough choices about life? To put it another way, is thinking about a legacy a luxury that only the upper class get to consider?
Do you think about how your name will outlive you? Do you take steps in your daily life to alter that? Should we be concerned with legacy? What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind?
Related questions: What gives a person value? Why do we care what strangers think of us? How do you think others see you? What gives you purpose? What are you doing to make the world a better place?
Coffee Or Tea?
Drinking a beverage, in the morning or afternoon, in summer or winter, can be a comforting daily routine. Which one is better, coffee or tea?
Share why if you wish.
Coffee Or Tea?
Why Are There So Many Nonsense Lyrics In Songs?
From ‘O-Blah-Dee’ to ‘Sha La La’, from ‘Na Na Na’ to ‘A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop’, nonsense lyrics seem to be everywhere. Why are they so common? Do you have a favorite?
Share why if you wish.