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Danny Mac
Kestrel mail.com> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag> wrote in message
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Okay, I'll play...
>1) Who is your favorite author?
>
Jack London
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Ball Four by Jim Bouton.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
The Bible (just kidding) Hmmm.....White Fang was great.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
>
Haven't read poetry in a few years.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
>
Fletch for movie. The Simpsons for TV.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
>
Variety is the spice of life!
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
Depends on the mood I'm in.
>8) What is your favorite game?
>
All kinds of sports. Card games, board games, it's all good.
Danny Mac
a.a.#1516
Matt Miller
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Ambrose Beirce even though I'm not much of fiction reader.
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Just about anything by Oliver Sacks is brilliant.
>
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Hard to say.
>
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
I'm sorry but I've always liked the Second Coming by Yeates
despite it's theism.
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
I'm sort of a movie buff so I feel almost obligated to say Citizen
Kane is my favorite movie. And it's certainly the best movie America has
ever produced. But there's a difference between best and favorite. My
favorite would have to be Fargo.
I watch The Simpsons, MST3k, The X-Files, and The Sopranos.
>
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
I know everyone says they listen to all kinds of music, but I
really do. Right now I'm really into a group named Pink Martini, it has a
super cool latin sort of sound.
Can't really say that I have a favorite music related personality.
>
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I don't know. The art I most enjoy is usually made by people I've
never heard of before and never hear of after.
>
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Diplomacy, a board game. Sort of like Risk only without any
element of chance, so you can't blame failure on anyone but you. It's a
blast to play through email.
I'm an atheist if you must know.
--
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EAC Spokesmodel
"Under the rocks and stones
there is water underground."
-The Talking Heads
Kestrel
theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
from those I usually see on these NG's.
I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
Thank you for participating.
1) Who is your favorite author?
2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
3) What is your favorite fiction book?
4) What is your favorite poem?
5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
favorite TV show?
6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
personality?
7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
8) What is your favorite game?
Again, thanks.
Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
coherent) of the responses.
kestrel
Kestrel
this will get very confusing.
Thanks!
kestrel
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Cronos02
interested in your results as long as they say were better. ha ha ha bit of my
sense of humor there.
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Carl Sagan heh just joking I really I don't have a favorite since the TV and
Computer I really havn't read many books.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Again I don't read many books but I would have to the Atlas of the universe.
(It's about space not maps)
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Afraid I don't have a favorite
>4) What is your favorite poem?
This is only my opinion but Eck! I don't like poetry.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Hard to decide This new cartoon called Family Guy seems pretty funny. I watch
all the educational channels once and awhile. That and I really love MST3K
As for movies I really loved the movie Braveheart lots of cool hand to hand
combat. Lets face it lot's of cool movies out there Star Wars, Planet of the
apes Happy Gilmore. hard to decide.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
>
>
Heavy metal and rock & roll. I really love Black Sabbath and Metallica. Though
I'll sometimes listen to Rush
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Nothing wrong with art I just can't stand all that abstract crap with ladies
that look like guitars. If your going draw make sure I can tell what it is. I
like all those unfamous artists out there drawling monsters and spaceships all
those people making art for games etc.
>8) What is your favorite game?
I like almost all RPGs for computers and consoles. My Favorites are
Dragon Warrior series
Phantasy star series
Warcraft
Civilization,etc
Favorite board games are Monopoly and Chess
Cyberia
Kestrel mail.com> wrote in message ...
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Tom Clancy
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The demon-haunted world ; science as a candle in the dark (Carl Sagan)
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The bible. JUST KIDDING... :-) :-) Uhm, probably Red Storm Rising
(Clancy).
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Ozymandius (P.B. Shelley)
>
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Movies, but mostly only "educational" TV.
One of my favorite movies is "The 5th Element". Campy Euro-Sci-Fi comedy.
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Oh, boy, this one's gonna blow you away...
King's X (heavy Christian Rock). I don't like the lyrics on some (too
theistic) but Ty plays a mean axe, and Doug's voice has an interesting
quality.
>
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I like irreverent, satirical pieces, but no favorite comes to mind.
>
>8) What is your favorite game?
I do not play games, unless you count the discussions in this NG. :-)
>
>kestrel
>
>
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Cyberia
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>>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>>
>
Oh, man. you're gonna see this one a *lot*...
raven1
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
Sure, what the hell. BTW, just to let you know, I'm an atheist.
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
J.R.R. Tolkien, with Wm. Shakespeare a close second.
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", Carl Sagan
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
"The Silmarillion", Tolkien
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
"The Rubaiyat ", Omar Khayyam, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", Oscar
Wilde, "The Canterbury Tales", Geoffrey Chaucer. Also lots of Shelley
and Blake.
>
>5) Do you watch TV or movies?
Now and again.
> If so, what is your favorite movie?
"Casablanca", closely followed by "The Godfather" (Parts I & II, *not*
III)
> Your
>favorite TV show?
"Win Ben Stein's Money".
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer?
Virtually anything from Organum to Renaissance to Opera to Rage
Against The Machine. It would be easier to list the music I *don't*
prefer: contemporary Country/Western and the current crop of shrieking
pop divas (Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, etc).
My favorites are Elizabethan Lute songs, Beethoven Symphonies, and
modern rock, especially my own band, The Kind ;) ...
> Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
John Lennon. After that, "The Kind". ;)
>
>7) What types of art do you like?
Way too vague to answer.
> Who is your favorite artist?
Van Gogh.
>
>8) What is your favorite game?
"Flame the Fundie". ;)
No, really, Chess.
>
>Again, thanks.
You're welcome.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
>
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>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Ed. Unabridged
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
>
The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
>
favorite movie: "The Saint"; favorite TV show: "NYPD Blue"
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
>
Rock 'n Roll, and also the Blues. I don't understand the second
question. If you mean, "Who is your favorite musical artist?" that
would be Roger Waters.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
Romantic. Maxfield Parrish.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
>
Solving crossword puzzles.
> Again, thanks.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
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<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
I'm a 'weak atheist'
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Anne Tyler
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The Way of Zen, by Alan Watts
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Hard to choose.... 'The Accidental Tourist', I guess
but I love alot of Sci Fi stuff too.
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', by T. S. Eliot
>
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Favorite movies: Dr Strangelove, Blade Runner, A Room with a View,
The Rapture (the one with Mimi Rogers in it), Taxi Driver, Vertigo .
Favorite T.V.: Any well done documentaries, Star Trek,
Absolutely Fabulous, The Simpsons.
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Alternate Rock.
I like too many to have a favorite.
>
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Impressionism and
Some 'modern art'.
Van Gogh
>
>8) What is your favorite game?
I tend to like any video game where aiming and shooting is involved
Petteri Sulonen
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Can't name just one. Here are a few: Mikhail Bulgakov, J.R.R.Tolkien,
Fedor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Again, it would be impossible to name just one. A couple of important ones
would be _The World since 1945_ by T.E. Vadney, _Six Easy Pieces_ by R.P.
Feynman, _Human Diversity_ by Richard Lewontin, and the trilogy on 19th
Century history by Hobsbawm.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
I'll say _The Master and Margarita_ by Mikhail Bulgakov, although there
are lots of others which could do equally well.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Getting tougher and tougher... I can't decide on this one. Maybe something
by Federico Garcia Lorca.
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Don't have a TV anymore. However, some of my favorite shows were ... Monty
Python's Flying Circus, Allo Allo!, Yes Minister, (those Brits seem to be
the only ones doing anything worth watching on TV anyway). Movies I do
watch; can't name a single favorite. Just saw _The Party_ (Blake
Edwards/Peter Sellers) and loved it. My taste is pretty eclectic, running
the gamut from _Le Chien Andalou_ to _Star Wars_ (but not all the way to
Lethal Weapon, ugh). Some favorites: _The City of Lost Children_,
_Heavenly Creatures_, _Meet the Feebles_.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Again, pretty eclectic. I enjoy classical music, but listen to it very
little at home (I go to concerts). I have a weakness for French chanson
(Jacques Brel in particular) and enjoy Russian rock (Akvarium and Kino in
particular). I also like R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers, but, again,
rarely put a disc on.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Good art. Duh.
Picasso still bowls me over -- except his late junk, of course. Don't much
care for Rembrandt, but very much like Vermeer. Like Michelangelo's
sculpture, but don't care for his frescoes. Like Titian and particularly
Botticelli, but Raphael leaves me cold. Really like Goya. Don't like
David. Hate Ingres. Of the Finnish artists (as if anyone would care), I
love Hugo Simberg.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Again, a tough one. I DM AD&D regularly, but it's not because I'm in love
with it as a _game_. Monopoly is fun every once in a while, except that I
get annoyed if I lose and feel sorry for the others if I win.
-- Petteri
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Sarcen
For the record, I am an atheist. :)
>1) Who is your favorite author?
I like so many authors, both historical and living, that I cannot choose
a favorite off-hand.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Again, that would take more contemplation than would be sufficiently
chronologically economic to put in this post.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
>4) What is your favorite poem?
I don't care much for poetry.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
The Star Wars saga is my favorite set of movies, my favorite TV shows
are Star Trek: TNG/VGR, The X-Files and The Simpsons.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Um, I like Industrial Goth such as Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails
(Trent Reznor) and Rob Zombie. I can also appreciate some punk and I am a
fan of classical music as a whole.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I can't really get into much traditional art. I suppose my favorite
genre is computer art, both 2D and 3D.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Of traditional games, Chess is my favorite. If I count computer games, I
like RTSs and 1st person shooters, though the reining champions in each
classification are constantly changing.
>Again, thanks.
No prob.
~|SarceN|~
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"Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
Thomas Mann
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Larry Niven's "Ringworld"
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
J.W. Goethe: Erlkönig
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Very rarely
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
From Haydn to Brahms, approximately.
Preferred musician: pianist Alfred Brendel
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Rembrandt
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Bridge
> Again, thanks.
Any time.
HRG.
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
>
>
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Okay ..
(btw, I'm a strong atheist)
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Whoever I'm reading at the time, which as I type is Will Self
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The Encyclopaedia Brittanica
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
"The Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Most soliliqies (so I can't spell) from "Hamlet" rate pretty high.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Both. Favorite TV show: SBS World News (The best news here in Australia)
Favorite Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Anything *except* R&B. Specifically, Drum and base, U2 and any
"classical" music that emphasises the string section.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I'm afraid my knowledge of art is sorely lacking.
>8) What is your favorite game?
What type? Computer: Civ II and similar
Board: Risk, Poleconomy
Physical: Soccer, Rockclimbing
>Again, thanks.
Again, no worries.
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DJ Nozem
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
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>1) Who is your favorite author?
Arthur C. Clarke
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The ends of the earth, a journey at the dawn of the 21th century.
By R.D. Kaplan.
Read it, ye naive spoiled beings and step out of your digitalised
western world to see what's going on outside!
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Heart of darkness
by Joseph Conrad
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Let's see....
The Garden of Love
by William Blake
it's fits this NG
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Favorite movies: 2001 and A clockwork orange
favorite tv show: Dr Quinn medicin woman
hehehe, just kidding, I don't watch tv shows anymore.
probably Star Trek, otherwise
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Alternative dance, -hiphop and -rock.
And Ennio Morricone soundtracks.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
All sorts, I'm not specific in that.
I'll be patriottic:
Jan Steen, a 17th century dutch painter,
he painted eeeh.... anarchistic rooms....
something like that.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Civ II, always has been, always will be.
until a decent follow up is made.
>Again, thanks.
You're welcome.
>kestrel
Existence is futile
DJ Nozem #1465
DJ Nozem
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>Just an addendum. Please id yourself as an atheist or theist. Otherwise,
>this will get very confusing.
>
>Thanks!
>kestrel
I'm a Skeptic, by the defenition most atheists use on this ng I'm an
atheist, but I refuse to name myself as one.
And please ad 'The new statesman' to the tv series.
Man it kills me.
Therion Ware
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote in alt.atheism:
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
... Terry Pratchett.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
A History of God / Encyclopaedia Britannica.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Steel Beach.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
"A Good Man in Hell".
... opps.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
TV - at the moment "Earth Final Conflict"
Movie - ... The Devil Rides Out.
(Subject to someone making "The Forever War" into a movie).
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Pop: classic Alice Cooper & Beatles.
Other. Rather like Gregorian Chant.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Don't really have one.Gauguin is ok.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Civ II
Quake II
Whist.
>Again, thanks.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
>
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> 1) Who is your favorite author?
George Orwell.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
I don't have any in mind right now.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
1984 by George Orwell.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Reality Asylum by the punk rock group Crass (No, it's not a song, it's a
poem). Trust me when I say you Christians don't want to read it.
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Movie: The Matrix
TV Show: The Simpsons
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Old school punk rock. Favorite groups include Crass, the Dead Kennedys, Bad
Religion and Circle Jerks.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I don't know much about arts. My favorite artist is my brother. He's starting
his career.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
The Roleplaying game 'Shadowrun'.
--
a.a atheist #1172 sXe BAAWA
"The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes
to blind you from the Truth. That humans are slaves."
- The Matrix
Anarchist's Manifesto
http://www.tigerden.com/~berios/anarchist-manifesto.html
A. O'Reilly
us with...
Atheist, to start...
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Bill Harlow, author of Circle William, available at Amazon.com (ok, so
he's my cousin) -- shameless plug aside, I don't really have a favorite
author. I read a fair bit though.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
No favorites...tend to read books on religion, cosmology, politics,
etc...
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Again, don't have one...read some sci-fi, horror, mystery...
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
"Love's Philosophy" by Shelley (if memory serves me)
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Movie: "Say Anything"
TV: "X-Files" -- although I also watch "Just Shoot Me," "Frasier," and
(no comments please) "World's Scariest Police Videos (or whatever)".
Nothing like seeing a criminal get what he deserves by his own stupid
hand.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
I prefered alternative when the word actually meant something in the
music world. Radio is pretty much sonic fluff. Currently in my CD
player I have Emmett Swimming, John Prine, Matthew Sweet, The Cult, and
Rage Against The Machine. I also listen to a little bit of everything
else, although I generally disdain country music and rap (although Shania
Twain shore is purty).
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Van Gogh -- my favorite work is Cafe Terrace at Night (although I've seen
it called other names in different books)
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Not much time for playing games these days, although I still periodically
fire up the original Descent for some on-line butt kicking.
--
A. O'Reilly Atheist #1153
==============================================
I feel my body weakened by the years,
As people turn to gods of cruel design.
Is it that they fear the pain of death?
Or could it be they fear the joy of life?
Kalle Helenius
<snip leadup>
> Thank you for participating.
Welcome.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
J.R.R Tolkien
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Don't have one. Non-fiction isn't about preference (well, sometimes), it's
about quality.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Guess? Ok, "Lord of The Rings" by JRRT.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Not much for poetry, but since i can only remember one by heart, it's got to
be the "The One Ring" again by JRRT.
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Favorite movie? Tough one! Currently, i'd say "Leon".
TV show? Easy! Simpsons.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically
related
> personality?
Lately i've turned to 70's rock. Bands like Jethro Tull and the like. It
*is* a scientific fact that rock'n'roll achieved perfection in '74. I don't
go for the cult of personality. I listen to music mainly for the lyrics, and
after that the mood.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I like any art that makes you think. Modern paintings, i s'pose. Míro et al.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
RPG's. Rolemaster. Aside from computer games. NHL 99 is the fav of those
right now.
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Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
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administrator.
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jeremy h todd
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Frank Herbert.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
It's a tie: _Frozen Star_, by George Greenstein, about the
theoretical and observational discoveries of neutron stars and black
holes, and the people who contributed; and _Godel, Escher, Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid_ by Douglas Hofstadter, tying in number theory
with artificial and not-so-artificial intelligence.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
_Contact_, by Carl Sagan
_Watership Down_, by Richard Adams
_The Stand_, by Stephen King
>4) What is your favorite poem?
"After Apple-Picking," by Robert Frost.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Movies: Field of Dreams, The Empire Strikes Back
TV Shows: Frasier, Simpsons, Babylon 5
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Music: Classical, 60's, 80's
Music-related personality: Ugh, none. Maybe Beethoven.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Mostly fairly concrete stuff, with a little surrealism thrown
in for good measure. I've never been one for symbolic forms of art;
apart from their aesthetic pleasantness (or lack thereof), they're
just colored blobs and squares to me. I think most modern art
"discussion" is so much BS -- there's a nifty little section in the
aforementioned _Godel, Escher, Bach_ where Hofstadter gives a list
of paragraphs, some taken from a contemporary art journal, and others
generated randomly and nonsensically by a computer, and invites the
reader to distinguish between the two.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Computer game: Star Control II. Everyone should play this game.
Physical game: Speedball. It's like soccer plus football (:
Other game: Umm Monopoly.
For the record, I am an atheist. Sorry about the multiple
answers! It's so hard to pick one. If you're looking for a single
response, just take my first one.
winge...@my-dejanews.com
"Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
Douglass Adams
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Mind Hunter
>
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
>
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
I'm not into poems
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Yes, The Princess Bride, Southpark
>
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
I'm not that musicly literate.
>
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I'm also not that artistically literate.
>
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Talisman.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
>
>
"There are two types of power. There is authority, which can only be
given, and control, which can only be taken."
Wingedbeast, C. Adam Scott, Atheist #1438
Timothy F. Mulligan
> In article <q4zO2.14470$Ek.53...@news1.mia>, "Kestrel"
> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>
> >2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
> The dictionary, although I use one on my hard disk, not a real book.
Damn you. This was my selection, and I thought I was being original.
Tim Mulligan
tmul...@central.uh.edu
Timothy F. Mulligan
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Christopher Hitchens, Mark Leyner, Gore Vidal.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The American Heritage Dictionary (3d ed.).
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
_Et Tu, Babe_, by Mark Leyner.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
"Paracelsus," by Ezra Pound.
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie?
"Gloria" (1980), directed by John Cassavetes and starring Gena Rowlands.
> Your
> favorite TV show?
The X-Files.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer?
Steely Dan, Elvis Costello.
> Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Tom Waits.
> 7) What types of art do you like?
Refrigerator magnets.
> Who is your favorite artist?
Sibelius.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Scrabble.
> Again, thanks.
You're welcome.
Tim Mulligan
tmul...@central.uh.edu
P.S. I'm an atheist.
Sara951288
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
dork.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>4) What is your favorite poem?
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
probably Daria because I love to compare myself to her.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
I'll listen to grunge-rock, industrial, classic rock, rap, and a bunch of other
stuff. Basically whatever's good. And I always like a good sense of humor
about it.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I love manga. Okay, it's really comics, but the Japanese do such a good job.
I really like Naoko Takeuchi's (Sailor Moon) work that she puts in art books.
I'm actually pretty good at it myself.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Sara.
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them
personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." - Jack Handy, Deep
Thoughts
Sara951288
Peter Lemonjello, your house is on fire!
Niall McAuley
I'm an atheist.
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Put me down for Iain M. Banks.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
I don't read much non-fiction bar _New Scientist_ magazine.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The Lord of the Rings.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Pass.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie?
Aliens. The directors cut or special edition or whatever it was called.
>Your favorite TV show?
On now: South Park.
Ever: David Attenborough's "Life on Earth".
>6) What type of music do you prefer?
Romantic classical.
>Who is your favorite musically related personality?
Personality? Don't care. Whose work do I like best?
Gustav Mahler.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Impressionism, Monet.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Quake, even though I'm shite at it.
--
Niall #36 [real address ends in se, not es]
John Quinley
>>
>> 1) Who is your favorite author?
I have many, including Asimov, Niven, and Sagan.
>> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Must be Sagan's "Demon Haunted World"
>> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Umm. hard to decide. Lets see, I loved "Watership Down". "I, Robot", by
Asimov. "Ringworld" was good.
>> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Parts of Isaiah (the parts written during the captivity, i.e.
Deutero-Isaiah). I appreciate the hopeless despair about why Jehovah is
punishing his people. I find it an eye-opener into the heart of a people,
beaten and bruised, clinging on to hope for the future.
>> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>> favorite TV show?
My favorite TV programs are (in no particular order):
1)Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Here, we see the theists (Bajorans) who worship
the worm-hole aliens with lots of ritual, and the atheists/scientist, who
understand the wormhole aliens as aliens and who understand the mechanisms
by which these aliens operate.
2) The Simpsons. Great satire.
3) Southpark. Anyone who has Satan throwing a fight to Jesus in order to
make some money wins my vote.
4) King of the Hill. I just about died laughing when Bobby gave his Jesus
the Magician speech in church.
My favorite movies are:
1) Contact. A movie about wonder with hope for the future.
2) The Empire Strikes Back. Even with all of the New Age nonsense, I like
space. With all of the external proof of the Force, though, I find it hard
to believe that some of the people in Star Wars would be non-believers.
>> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically
related
>> personality?
I like classical, pop, hip-hop. Mozart is my favorite musical personality (I
loved Amadeaus).
>> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I not much into art, but I like landscapes. No particular artist.
>> 8) What is your favorite game?
Currently, Thief and Age of Empires.
John Quinley
Andy Longton
: In article <370B7577...@central.uh.edu>, "Timothy F. Mulligan"
: <tmul...@central.uh.edu> wrote:
:>Red Foster wrote:
:>
:>> In article <q4zO2.14470$Ek.53...@news1.mia>, "Kestrel"
:>> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
:>>
:>> >2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
:>>
:>> The dictionary, although I use one on my hard disk, not a real book.
:>
:> Damn you. This was my selection, and I thought I was being original.
: We're not alone. At least two others have named the dictionary as their
: favorite non-fiction book. Aside from my interest in words, their meanings
: and their etymology, a reason for my choice is that most so-called
: non-fiction works are, well, kind of fictional or at least speculative,
: about what happened in history or is true about the universe. And both
: kinds of works -- history and science -- are interpretations that accord
: with the paradigms of the age or the author or the winning side.
Anyone own a copy of the OED on disk? Last time I checked into it,
they wanted over $1K USD for it. :-( Wait...well it's now only $400 for
Windows or Mac versions...no Unix versions without a site licence! :-(((
The URL for those who want to drool...
* OED = Oxford English Dictionary; a 13 (?) volume dictionary; _THE_
dictionary of the English language.
crazy...@my-dejanews.com
"Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for participating.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Robert A. Heinlein
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Anything about history and/or anthropology
>
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Stranger in a Strange Land
>
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
There once was a man from Nantucket
......
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
TV, not much mostly Football, Movies: Starwars, Saving Private Ryan, Airplane
>
> 6) What type of music do you prefer?
All types of Rock and Roll. From Chuck Berry to EverClear, blues, some
classical.
Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Led Zeppelin, EverClear
>
> 7) What types of art do you like?
never thought about it.
>Who is your favorite artist?
Don't have one
>
> 8) What is your favorite game?
>
Computer games: Diablo, Civilization II
Beast aa#1477
"Never trust machinery more complicated than
a knife and fork." Robert Heinlein
dennis...@access1.net
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
The difference is that theists like me beleve in a Supreme Being or
Intelligence while athiests don't.
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
I guess the first author I look for is Lucia St. Claire Robson. She
write historical novels based on American Indian points of view.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Black Elk (by Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota shaman)
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Ride The Wind (by Lucia St. Claire Robson, a fictional story on the
capture and life of Cynthia Ann Parker who was taken and eventually
adopted into the Comanche nation)
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
The one I wrote for my father when the night he passed way
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Very seldom. My favoriute movie is The Quiet Man with Jon Wayne,
Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald, set in 1920's Ireland. My
favorite TV show is Jeopardy.
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
1950's and 60's Rock & Roll. Too many to list.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I like Natural Art (the beauty of nature). My favorite author
obviously Mother Nature.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Playing with people's minds. The cjalllenge is when you don't have a
lot to work with, such as Fundi Christians or people from Oklahoma.
>Again, thanks.
Anytime, I'm Irish-German, and have opinions on everything.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
Dennis Martin
Christopher Cunningham
roger zelazny
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
asimov's chronology of the world.
or any thematic atlas.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
_to reign in hell_, by steven brust.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
hmm, something by poe, maybe "the bells."
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
not much for t.v. do like cartoons, though. angry beavers, on nickelodeon is
good. as for movies, howabout _the fisher king_?
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
guitar-oriented rock.
robert fripp, of king crimson.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
impressionism, i suppose. monet, perhaps.
>8) What is your favorite game?
any role-playing game, with the right people. particularly liked one called
OTE, with it's pynchonian conspiracies and burroughsian weirdness.
chrislee, #1209
Stefan C. F.
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
>
Tough call, but probably either George R. R. Martin or Brian Froud. Maybe P. J.
O’Rourke if I’m feeling political. (All brain candy.)
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
"The Nature of Space and Time" by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. The vast
majority of it goes right over my head, but it’s amazing to see these brilliant
people debate.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
That’s really hard to decide... "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo stands
out.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
"The Figures on the Frieze" by Alastair Reid
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
For film, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is an easy favorite followed by
"Muriel’s Wedding". For TV, it sort of depends on the type of show you mean...
I enjoy "The Operation" on TLC, and usually watch "The Pretender" and "Law &
Order" on NBC.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
I don’t really prefer any kind of music. In my car right now I have Bjork, B.
B. King, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, ABBA, Willie Nelson, Tori Amos and a whole
bunch more. I don’t particularly like rap, but that’s about it.
As for personalities, I think more or less everyone is a puppet of agents and
publicists anymore, so it would be hard to say what any of them are actually
like.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Impressionist, Degas.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Define "game". I play chess often, love word games like Scrabble and spend
enough time playing Tetris that I’m getting calluses on my thumbs.
>Again, thanks.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
-- Stefan C. F.
"There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the
ability to convince parasites they are victims." - Tomas Sowell
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I
consider a capacity for it terrifying." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Xalan
|1) Who is your favorite author?
Piers Anthony
|2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Small Dreams of a Scorpion - Spike Milligan (poetry - does that count as NF)
|3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Xanth series (can't pick just one of them)
|4) What is your favorite poem?
Raven
|5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
|favorite TV show?
Red Dwarf - TV. Little Bigman - Movie
|6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
|personality?
All sorts - Rock, country, classical, folk. Favourite - Wagner.
|7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Gary Hodges - Does amazing wildlife drawings in pencil.
|8) What is your favorite game?
Ice Hockey - reality. Civ II - computer
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Xalan
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Possessive
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Hmm... Tie between Shakespeare (yeah, yeah, I know) and Ayn Rand. The
runner-up is H. P. Lovecraft.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Again, it's a tie. Either the Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey or
my really well-written history textbook, "Mastering Modern World
History" by Norman Lowe.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos (If you've read it, please
e-mail me! - I know absolutely no one who shares my enthusiasm for
this book).
>4) What is your favorite poem?
I'll have to go for another cliché: anything by Poe, particularly
"Alone". Also anything by a Danish poet named Tove Ditlevsen.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
I don't watch television, but my favorite movies are Natural Born
Killers and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.
Oh, and a Swedish movie called "Fucking Aamaal" (Aamaal is the name of
a town) that is still playing in obscure theaters all over Europe and
probably the States as well. Go see it if you get the chance. And,
like with Dangerous Liaisons, e-mail me if you've had the pleasure
already. I'd love to hear from a non-Scandinavian about this movie.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Music, well, a broad range. Industrial metal is probably my favorite,
but I like classical, opera, sixties stuff (including Beatles),
happy-go-lucky music like the Violent Femmes, some popular stuff like
Radiohead and Tori Amos....
My favorite musically related personality would have to be Trent
Reznor.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Contemporary Russian art, particularly by artists such as Andrei
Medvedev (my favorite), Yuri Senchenko and the Martinchiks.
>8) What is your favorite game?
I don't play anymore, but RPGs are great.
For the record, I'm atheist.
Possessive
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"How old were you when you first let a man make love to you?
Next, who was he? Next, how did you feel at the time? Next,
how did you feel afterward? What did you feel, what did you
think, were you pleased, frightened, ecstatic, disgusted?
What did he say, what words did you speak, that's what I want
to know..." 'Get Down Make Love' - NIN
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diem
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
>
I like my horizons to broaden not narrow, I don't have favourites.
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
I don't have favourites
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
I don't have favourites
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
I don't have favourites
>
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
I don't have favourites
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
I don't have favourites
>
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I don't have favourites
>
>8) What is your favorite game?
I don't have favourites
>
>Again, thanks.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
>
>
--
Diem
aa #1459
di...@marshallco.demon.co.uk
Todd Adamson
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
I'm an atheist.
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Probably HP Lovecraft, but also R.A. Wilson, Robert Heinlein, W.S. Burroughs.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Book? Well, the Dunwich Horror and other tales by Lovecraft.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Poetry, huh? Okay, anything by Charles Bukowski, but it's been years since I
read him.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
TV: South Park or Simpsons, not much else, unless you include baseball or
football.
Movies: Brazil, anything by Cronenberg, 2001: Space Odyssey
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
My tastes are pretty eclectic but I tend to listen to really extreme
isolationist stuff, like Autechre, Controlled Bleeding, Scorn, or Merzbow. The
more mainstream stuff I like would be Godflesh, Swans, or early Foetus.
Musical Personality: Frank Zappa.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Performance stuff. Survival Research Labs.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Steve Jackson Games Deluxe Illuminati!
Used to play Advanced Squad Leader, but I no longer have the time to devout to
it. :(
--
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Todd Adamson - tada...@netins.net #1114
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* Now I just want to thank you *
* for going insane *
* Every moment you suffer *
* is a loss that I gain *
* Every breath is drain down *
* down into a hole *
* And your mind is a shrinking thing *
* It was crushed by your skull *
* *
* - SWANS *
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mike
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
James Michener
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
It changes all the time
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Changes even faster.
"Who in Hell", is making me laugh pretty hard right now.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Pass
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Not a TV or movie type.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
I like to listen to most anything. No favorites.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Pass
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Feary tale or the older versions of Hack game. I can enjoy most
any game, though.
Amiga versions for both hack and faery.
-mike#1375
Aaron
<>snippage<>
Atheist. Not likeley to change.
The rest of this stuff chages all the time. All of my anwers could be
prefaced, "At the moment..."
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Vernor Vinge.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
>4) What is your favorite poem?
"Hector The Collector", by Shel Silverstein.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie?
Favorite movie: Apollo 13
>Your favorite TV show?
I don't watch television
>6) What type of music do you prefer?
What _don't_ I like. I don't understand opera, and I dislike what passes
for Top 40 and country music.
>Who is your favorite musically related personality?
Frank Zappa
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Mostly things from about 1870 onwards; _I_ am my favorite artist - after
that would be Isamu Noguchi and Wassily Kandinsky.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Civilization II
--
Aaron I. Spielman | Atheist #1467 | "The good die young - because they
aa...@rockethouse.net | Cussard #.357 | see it's no use living if you've
www.rockethouse.net | fnord! | got to be good."
Official Lunatic Biker of the EAC | ---John Barrymore
Preston Wade
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Berger
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Sacred Canopy: Sociological Theory of Religion
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
So many I cant really choose
>
>4) What is your favorite poem?
> Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
favorite TV show?
I dont have a favorite movie, but I love the Simpsons
>
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
personality?
I am really into Romantic and Baroque -- I love Bach and I like to
listen to a little Rachmaninoff on occassion
>
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Not into the visual arts, sorry ...
>
>8) What is your favorite game?
I like to play this game, we do it in Japanese but it might work in
English, where you take the last part of a word the person before you has
said and you make it the first part of another words -- you know what I mean
>
>Again, thanks.
>
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
>
>
Hey, isnt a kestrel a bird --- just curious
Preston :)
Preston Wade
Preston :)
Aaron
<alon...@shell.clark.net> wrote:
Speaking of which, I just finished "The Professor and The Madman", by
Simon Winchester about the making of the OED. It's pretty good (and
sincidentally shows you what absolute hell the xtian sex/guilt tradition
can cause a person to put himself through)>
Michelle Martin
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for participating.
>
First, I'm an atheist.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Gore Vidal.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The First Man In Rome, by Colleen McCullough
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
The Haunted Palace, by E. A. Poe
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
I watch TV; don't see a lot of movies. My favorite TV show is The
Simpsons, with Futurama sneaking up from behind. My favorite move is
Henry V (Branagh version).
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
I listen to rock like R.E.M. and The Who, but mostly to British pop and
rock like Elvis Costello, Suede, Pulp, and Pet Shop Boys. Favorite
personality - Neil Tennant.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I don't have a particular "type." My favorite artist is John Constable.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Computer pinball games.
> Again, thanks.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
Michelle
Atheist #1474
--
Throw another clown to the lions/throw another Joan on the
blaze. --Elvis Costello--
Dianne
> I'm an atheist.
>
> > 1) Who is your favorite author?
>
> Isaac Asimov or George C. Clarke - I can't decide.
>
> > 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
> A Thesaurus - see favourite game :)
> > 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
> Anne McCaffrey's "Dragon" Series
>
> > 4) What is your favorite poem?
>
> How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
>
> > 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> > favorite TV show?
>
> Movie: Princess Bride, Brigadoon
> TV Show: I don't watch TV much
> > 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> > personality?
>
> I like almost all types of music - don't know much about the people who make
> the music though.
>
> > 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
> I'm art-ignorant - I either like a picture or I don't - I don't know enough to
> like a specific type of art.
>
> > 8) What is your favorite game?
>
> Scrabble or Solitaire
>
cz...@ecn.ab.ca
: On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 02:06:14 GMT, "Kestrel"
: <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
: >1) Who is your favorite author?
Robert A. Heinlein
: >2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
_The Dinosaur Heresies_
: >3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Hmmm...tough one...
I'll have to go with _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ by Heinlein.
: >4) What is your favorite poem?
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
: >5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie?
: >Your favorite TV show?
Movie(s), in no particular order: Goodfellas, The Philadelphia Story,
Bladerunner, Harvey, Casablanca, Local Hero, Diva, Pulp Fiction,
The African Queen, The General (Buster Keaton), almost anything with
Katherine Hepburne amd Spencer Tracey, almost anything by the Cohen
brothers or by Merchant Ivory Productions.
Television (likewise, in no particular order): The Simpsons, Mystery!,
Nova, NYPD Blue, re-runs of *M*A*S*H*.
: >6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically
: >related personality?
Classical, Bob Dylan (if I had to choose).
: >7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Can't rightly say -- "I may not know art, but I know what I like."
: >8) What is your favorite game?
Chess, Monopoly, various RPGs.
--
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a
degree that it would be perverse to withold provisional
assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise
tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time
in physics classrooms.
-Stephen Jay Gould
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Carl Funk
>
<big snip>
>
> Used to play Advanced Squad Leader, but I no longer have the time to devout to
> it. :(
>
manage to persuade anyone to invest the time to learn all of the
rules, so I always ended up playing with myself.
--
Carl Funk "nil illegitimi carborundum" ICQ#16282427
a.a atheist #1229 member, EAC Decryption Squad
to bypass my SPAM-deflector, it helps if you realize I am
asthmatic. i.e. no SMOKING please!
Florian Finkenzeller
"Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> writes:
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
>
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan (atm)
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov (atm)
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
>
-
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
>
Movies: 2001,2100 - Stanley Kubrick
TV: Some Star Trek series
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
>
Miscallenous, from Classic to Rock.
Jon Bon Jovi
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
Nothing in particular, although I like Picasso´s and Schlueter´s paintings.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
>
Computer Games:
WorldForge! (If you don´t know that one, don´t worry.)
I-War
> Again, thanks.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
>
>
Flo
a.a #1517
mbac...@diamond.idbsu.edu
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
I don't seem to fall into either category, so my answers may not help you
much.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
None stands out. A Solzhenitsyn maybe.
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
Thinking and Destiny by H. W. Percival.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
Maybe The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
None stands out. Maybe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
>
No TV and not much movies. Maybe Blade Runner or Forrest Gump a few years
ago.
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Not much music in recent years. Have liked some 'metal' with metaphysical
themes. Maybe Ulrich Roth.
>
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
Not much art.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
>
Go is by far my favorite.
Roger Burks
Kestrel mail.com> wrote in message ...
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
I am technically an atheist. To tell you the truth, I usually don't have
favorites of anything, but here
goes:
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Voltaire.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary."
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Some cute atheist will no doubt say "The Bible." I am not cute. I say "Don
Quixote."
>4) What is your favorite poem?
The Odyssey.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
movie: Slingblade
TV: Star Trek TNG
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Baroque classical music. Bach.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Surrealism. Dali.
>8) What is your favorite game?
AD&D
Roger Burks
roger...@usa.net
Keith Johnson
"Kestrel
>
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
George Mavrodes (right now)...he's a Christian philospher
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Belief in God (by Geprge mavrodes. It's the last book I read)
>
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Kindred by Octavia Butler
>
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Oh please! :-)
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
My favorite movie? Right now it's a tie between "A Simple Plan",
"American History X" and "Babe, Pig in the City". Those are the most
recent good movies I have seen. My favorite TV shows? "Homicide, Life in
the Streets" and (now cancelled) "Nothing Sacred". My favorite comedy
show is MTV's "The Tom Green Show".
>
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Alternative. Right now, my favorite is Jewel or the Christian band Third
Day
>
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
My daughter's art. My daughter
>
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Basketball, the best game God ever made!
See ya later
Keith
Paul Wenthold
>
> Thank you for participating.
>
your purpose is a mystery, but...
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
>
John Allan Paulos
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
"Diradicals" by Weston Thatcher Borden
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
"The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
>
"The earth doth taste so bittersweet"
"Like jasper wine and sugar"
"As though it's passed through someone's feet"
"Like those of Casper Weinberger"
Actually, this is just the last verse, from Bloom County
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
>
Movie: Wizard of Oz
TV Show: MASH, probably
> 6) What type of music do you prefer?
Softer rock
Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
>
Edie Brickell
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
I was really impressed with some of the Rembrandts at the Getty.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
Baseball.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
good luck
paul
Kestrel
Kestrel mail.com> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag> wrote in message
news:q4zO2.14470$Ek.53...@news1.mia...
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
>
JRRT
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
>
Mark Noll's _Scandal of the Evangelical Mind_
Lester Langley's _The Americas in the Age of Revolution_
Ernst Nolte's _Three Faces of Fascism_
Keith Thomas's _Religion and the Decline of Magic_
Martin Gilbert's _The Holocaust_
Clark Pinnock's _The Openness of God_
These are the one's that have most influenced my own thought.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
>
_The Silmarillion_, with Donaldson's Covenant series a close second
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
>
Browning's _My Last Duchess_ or the Sauron-Finrod poem from _The
Silmarillion_
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
>
Movies:
_Braveheart_
_A Lion in Winter_
the Star Wars trilogy
TV:
"ER"
"Frasier"
"X-files"
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically
related
> personality?
>
I listen to classical (loosely defined), some pop, a little rock.
I like Grieg's "In the Halls of the Mountain King" and Beethoven's "Fur
Elise"
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
>
I like art that looks realistic, even if its depicting fictional or even
fantastic events. Some of the Pre-Raphaelite work, Duhrer, Van Eyck ,
Wyeth(sp?), Whelan.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
>
Board: Chess, Risk, Monopoly (in that order)
Computer: RTS(Starcraft), Turn based Strategy (Civ II, Panzer General)
kestrel
Kestrel
This is my follow up to the questionnaire.
I honestly can derive only one or two conclusions from the responses.
I believe that many of the responses are more indicative of the type of
person who uses computers and the internet than of a particular atheist or
theist mind-set.
The only significant response which may be reflective was the choice of
Sagan's works as "favorite non-fiction".
In the other categories, responses did not seem to generally fit any type of
pattern. However, if you see such a pattern, let me know.
I do not think this line of inquiry is useless; I will attempt to formulate
a second series of questions which might reflect the details of personal
world views.
Thank you again to all who participated.
Any comments will be welcome.
kestrel
Kestrel
Red Foster <RDFinc.@mesanet.com> wrote in message
news:RDFinc.-ya0240800...@news.batnet.com...
> In article <zHpP2.4458$HB5.1...@news3.mia>, "Kestrel"
> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>
> >Kestrel mail.com> <kestrel_mp@hot<tag> wrote in message
> >news:q4zO2.14470$Ek.53...@news1.mia...
> >
> >This is my follow up to the questionnaire.
> >
> >I honestly can derive only one or two conclusions from the responses.
>
> (we each chose to come to the newsgroup, we each chose to reply to your
> questions, or not) is always tricky.
>
Very.
> Could you state how many atheists and theists replied? Just curious.
>
36 or so atheists, a few by email.
3 theists, including myself.
1 "neither" one.
It was lacking on theist side, I used a group of theists I know personally
as the comparison group, which is probably not quite fair, but it was the
best sample I had.
When I post the next set, I will probably include 1 more religious group.
kestrel
kestrel
> Red
>
> ***************************************************
> In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the
> stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that
> source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the
> hands of priests. -- Albert Einstein _Out of My Later Years_
> ***************************************************
>
Sarah J.
> "Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> posted the following to
> alt.atheism:
<snip>
Ooh, a poll!
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
This one's a tie between Terry Pratchett and Mercedes Lackey.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
I don't read a whole lot of non-fiction. As a rule, I like good biology
books, and I all but devour material about wolves, such as "The Wolf" (by
David Mech?) and "Wolf unter Wölfen" (by Werner Freund). Marvellous animals.
:)
Also, "The Great Cosmic Mother" (Sjöö/Mor), "So You Want to be a Lesbian?"
(Tracey/Pokorny) and "Melissa Etheridge" (Joyce Luck) make rather good reads.
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
Book? Where's the plural "s"? I couldn't name a single favourite if my life
depended on it. ;)
Discworld novels (by Terry Pratchett): Reaper Man, Hogfather and Soul Music
come in first, followed by Small Gods, Witches Abroad and Feet of Clay, to
mention but a few.
Novels by Mercedes Lackey: The Heralds of Valdemar Trilogy, The Mage Winds
Trilogy, By the Sword, The Last Herald Mage Trilogy, Vows and Honor: The
Oathbound (Book I) and Oathbreakers (Book II)
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
I don't like poetry, really -- you may blame school for that. "The Raven" by
Poe is good, though, and there are some nice poems/songs in some of Mercedes
Lackeys novels.
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies?
Rarely -- TV/movies are usually a damn waste of time.
> If so, what is your favorite movie?
Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection (Lieutenant Ellen Ripley KICKS MAJOR
ASS, and the Aliens themselves are absolutely loveable) and When Night is
Falling. If I'd have to decide on ONE favourite movie, it would be Aliens.
> Your favorite TV show?
None, but I like nature and science documentaries. Discovery is great -- I
often miss it, though. :(
> 6) What type of music do you prefer?
Rock, some pop and some New Age stuff (yeah, so shoot me, I don't care --
Oliver Shanti & Friends make *great* music*), also Celtic/Irish music. My
favourite artists and bands include Melissa Etheridge, the Pet Shop Boys,
Roxette, Oliver Shanti & Friends, Enigma, and Ronan Hardiman.
Keep rap, techno and heavy metal safely away from me, and everyone will be
happy.
> Who is your favorite musically related personality?
Melissa Etheridge, hands down. She's courageous, stunningly beautiful, and her
voice and "presence" floor me every time I watch or listen to her.
<dreamy sigh>
Now if only she'd get her ass in gear and release her next CD!
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Art? Ehh ... I plead the 5th here, as I'm really not into art. I do like
scenery and animal photos, though, and some fantasy art, especially images of
dragons (but spare me the all-too-common insipid bikini-clad bimbos with
balloon boobs).
Hmm -- does roleplaying count as an art form? I wish I could find a group;
unfortunately, it's a bit hard when you live in Germany but want to play in
English ... :(
> 8) What is your favorite game?
1. The Ultima series, especially Ultima VII (both parts & add-ons)!
2. Baldurs' Gate!
Plus, in no particular order: The Secret of Monkey Island I & II (the best
adventures ever -- if you don't know them, run, don't walk, to buy 'em!),
StarCraft (plus Brood War), Turrican II (I loved that game back in the days of
my old Amiga 500), Discworld 2 ...
In general, think of me as a CRPG-lover. :)
o
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Heather C.
> Okay, here I go with my answers, these by the way, have very little to do
> with my atheist beliefs, just so you know, it's just what I enjoy.
Heather
>
>
> 1) Who is your favorite author? Piers Anthony
>
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book? "All Over But the Shoutin' " By
> Rick Bragg
>
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?"The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
>
> 4) What is your favorite poem?"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
> Robert Frost (forgive me if I have the title wrong)
>
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?TV show--The Drew Carey Show, Movie "Practical Magic"
>
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality? I like hard rock, heavy metal and classical music. Beethoven is
> closest to my personality, believe it or not.. (-:
>
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist? I like the
> impressionists...and I like Rembrandt
>
> 8) What is your favorite game?
> My favorite game is the video game "The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time"
> Favorite board game is Monopoly.
Todd Adamson
>Todd Adamson wrote:
>>
> <big snip>
>>
>> Used to play Advanced Squad Leader, but I no longer have the time to devout to
>> it. :(
>>
>You actually found someone else to play against? I could never
>manage to persuade anyone to invest the time to learn all of the
>rules, so I always ended up playing with myself.
>
Check out Virtual Advanced Squad Leader. It's all written in Java and allows
realtime play over the Internet. Totally cool!
Jessica M. Wolfman
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Currently, Terry Pratchett.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
I don't know. For favorite *type* of non-fiction, I like history, but only the
history of *things*, not of people or (real) places -- one of my favorite books
in this catagory is The History of Hell.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
At the moment, that's a tie between Good Omens and Watership Down.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Jabberwocky.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie?
I'm not really sure -- it's mostly a tie between Ghost and The Nightmare Before
Christmas.
>Your
>favorite TV show?
I watch very little TV, so right now my favorite show is also about the only
shows I actually watch: Mystery Science Theater 3000. Other than that, Warner
Bros. cartoons.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
I prefer 60s rock and classical. I have no particular favorite muscian,
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I like all types of art, but I have no favorite artist.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Most role-playing games.
>Again, thanks.
You're welcome.
>Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
>to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
>coherent) of the responses.
>
>kestrel
>
>
Jessica Wolfman
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Tukla
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
> In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
> theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
> Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
> real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
> over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
> Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
> from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
> I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
> like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
> BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
> otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
> Thank you for participating.
Eh, why not. I'm really bad at choosing "favorites", though, but I'll
try to limit it to two or three. Af that's a problem, go with the
first item.
> 1) Who is your favorite author?
Greg Bear and Larry Niven.
> 2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
_The Demon-Haunted World_ by Carl Sagan (displacing _Cosmos_, also by
Sagan)
> 3) What is your favorite fiction book?
_Diaspora_ by Greg Egan and _The Wounded Sky_ by Diane Duane
(I notice that none of my favorite books were written by either of my
favorite authors. Hmmm.)
> 4) What is your favorite poem?
Errm, not really into poetry. The closest thing I can think of is the
"Deteriorata", which was a National Lampoon parody of the
"Desiderata".
"You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And, whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back."
> 5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
> favorite TV show?
Yes, both.
TV: _Star Trek_ has to be my all-time favorite, but my current
favorites are the now-moribund <sniff> _Mystery Science Theater 3000_
and _The Daily Show with Jon Stewart_
Movie: Tough one. Probably _Rock and Rule_, although I've seen _The
Lion King_ at least six times (and, no, I *don't* have kids! <g>).
> 6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
> personality?
Pop music, preferably offbeat. "Weird Al" Yankovic and They Might Be
Giants.
> 7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
I'm sure that everyone in a.a. will be shocked to find that "Furry"
(anthropomorphic) art is my favorite. >8-P~~~ (If you don't know
what I mean, check out these sites:
http://velar.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists
http://furry.ao.net
http://www.yerf.com )
My favorite artist is probably Ken Singshow, but Paul Defenbaugh has a
lot of good stuff, too.
> 8) What is your favorite game?
I don't usually play games, but I can be talked into playing
volleyball.
> Again, thanks.
>
> Unless someone asks a question, or is confused, I do not intend to respond
> to this thread except to post a follow-up with my analysis (if it seems
> coherent) of the responses.
>
> kestrel
>
>
-- Tukla, Eater of Theists
atheist #1347
Director, EAC Animoid Shocktroop Division (a.k.a. the Rat Patrol)
cz...@ecn.ab.ca
: I believe that many of the responses are more indicative of the type
: of person who uses computers and the internet
Pardon my tone, but *no fucking shit, Sherlock!*
What was it that tipped you off? The fact that you're asking the
questions *OVER THE INTERNET?*
Keith Doyle
It seems that you left out the most important question, and that
is:
Do you like the 3 Stooges?
To which I would answer Yes.
In article <q4zO2.14470$Ek.53...@news1.mia>,
Kestrel <kestrel_mp@hot<tag> wrote:
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Ray Bradbury.
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Oliver Sachs' latest.
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen.
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Anything by Don Van Vliet.
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Movie: Eraserhead.
TV Show: Simpsons.
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
To varied to focus on one-- easier to say what I don't like-- Country/Western,
anything that includes a "star" crooner, anything that you have to understand
the words to like. Current faves-- Huun Huur Tu (Tuvan Throat Singing group,
see alt.culture.tuva).
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Abstract, surrealist. Roberto Matta.
>8) What is your favorite game?
Trade Winds, Parker Bros 1959.
And I'm an atheist.
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--
Keith Doyle
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll
Mitchell McKain
<kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
Mitchell McKain, Christian -- Theist.
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Stephen Donaldson
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
Difficult --- maybe...
"The Self Organizing Universe" by Eric Jantsch ?
"People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephen Donaldson
>4) What is your favorite poem?
been too long since I read poetry
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
both
movie "Highlander"
TV. Outer Limits
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Classical Symphony, New Age, and Classic Rock.
Do musicians have personalities????
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Not really into it. Michaelangelo?
>8) What is your favorite game?
Hate all spectator sports. Favorite game is a board game call "GO"
in english, "IGO" in Japanese, "Paduk" in Korean, and "Wei Chi" in
Chinese.
I for one would be surprized to see much correlation between the
answers of the Theists.
maff91
wrote:
[snip]
>>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>>personality?
>
>To varied to focus on one-- easier to say what I don't like-- Country/Western,
>anything that includes a "star" crooner, anything that you have to understand
>the words to like. Current faves-- Huun Huur Tu (Tuvan Throat Singing group,
>see alt.culture.tuva).
[snip]
Dave Oldridge
"Kestrel" <kestrel_mp@hot<tag>mail.com> wrote:
>In recent threads, I have noticed that it would seem that atheists and
>theists have real differences which go beyond the "a-" in the label.
>Principally, it would seem that the basic world-view of theists differs in
>real ways from the world-view of the atheist. I realize that this is an
>over-simplification, but generally, it seems true.
>
>Out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions slightly different
>from those I usually see on these NG's.
>
>I would ask that both theists and atheists answer, if you would. I would
>like to an extremely non-scientific comparison of the results.
>
>BTW, for those who are wondering, I do not intend to debate, question, or
>otherwise harass anyone in this thread.
>
>Thank you for participating.
I'm a theist.
>
>
>1) Who is your favorite author?
Robert Jordan
>
>2) What is your favorite non-fiction book?
"Einstein's Theory of Relativity" by Max Born.
>
>3) What is your favorite fiction book?
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
>4) What is your favorite poem?
Whatever I wrote last... it changes often!
>5) Do you watch TV or movies? If so, what is your favorite movie? Your
>favorite TV show?
Both. Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home (the one with the whales). On TV
I'm a sucker for Touched by an Angel (Roma Downey is a FOX!)
>6) What type of music do you prefer? Who is your favorite musically related
>personality?
Eclectic Rock'n Roll. Justin Hayward.
>7) What types of art do you like? Who is your favorite artist?
Real art that depicts something. My mother (she has actually painted
a number of landscapes and still life pictures in oils and in water
colors and some of them now bring fair prices).
>8) What is your favorite game?
Civilization II
Dave Oldridge