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14. Cats suddenly read at a 12th grade level. They can not talk or write but can read silently and understand the text. Many cats love this new skill as it gives them something to do all day, others wallow in their own self pity unable to express themselves and depressed. Do you think the average cat would enjoy Garfield or would cats find this to be an insulting caricature?

This question has nothing to do with the details in the text leading up to it. Garfield and enjoying it? To each his own. Some cats will dig it, others wont. May or may not be age appropriate. Also depends how worldly your kitty is. Anyways I dont make blanket statements ever - who am I to say? (thats the important bit) Im more concerned with the other details in this question about depressed and misunderstood ki-kis....poor fuzzies!! If we taught them to read, then its up to us to find a way to communicate with them. Besides, I think I can already communicate with my cat. They are prob already distressed about the inability to talk or write (or not having opposable thumbs. Takes 2 to tango ;)

15. You have a brain tumor. No discomfort but this tumor will unquestionably kill you in 6 months. Your life can be saved by an operation. The operation will require an incision to your frontal lobe. Thus after the surgery you will be significantly less intelligent, less logical, you will have a terrible memory, and difficulty understanding. The surgery is in two weeks. How you spend the next 14 days?

Hmm, so I'd be like drunk or stoned all the time? Sweet. The comprehension thing would be hard to deal with but I'd try and wing it anyways - that's what Ive always done when I don't understand. What I WOULD do? Be with friends, prob have a lot of sex and say what was on my mind and try to bring positive perspective into others lives. Help them get to a free place with me if I couldn't for long. In the end, I'd have the surgery but I wouldn't do too much about it after exhausting other possibilities and coming to that conclusion myself that I'd die if I didnt. I think we all know when our time is coming.

16. Someone builds an optical portal which allows you to see your own life in the future. You can only look into it for 30 seconds. When you finally peer into the ball you see yourself sitting alone on the sofa decades older then you are today. You are watching Canadian Football, and you are extremely happy. You are wearing a CFL jersey, your sofa is surrounded by books and magazines on the CFL, and there are CFL pennants covering your walls. You have become obsessed with Canadian Football. The future is static and absolute; no matter what you do this will happen, destiny can not be changed. The next day you are flipping through the channels and randomly come across a CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Knowing your inevitable future, do you now watch it?

I can not possibly accept that our future is inevitble...not to this degree anyways. I feel there is always a choice to be made and I would choose not to watch the game. Pretty existential of me, but only moderately so. The future is my own flavour..while certain persuasions might dictate certain things, I dont like being told my personal bounds/realities. I guess I don't just blindly accept the inevitable, guess thats the bottom line, at least not without giving an alternative a go, right?