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15. While traveling on business, your spouse (whom you love) is involved in a plane crash over the Pacific Ocean. It is assumed that everyone on board has died. For the next seven months, you quietly mourn. But then the unbelievable happens: it turns out your spouse has survived. He/She managed to swim to a desert island, where he/she lived in relative comfort with one other survivor (they miraculously located most of the aircraft's supplies on the beach, and the island itself was filed with ample food sources). Against all odds, they have just been discovered by a Fijian fishing boat.
The two survivors return home vie helicopter, greeted by the public as media sensations. Immediately upon their arrival, there is an international press conference. And during this press conference, you cannot help but notice how sexy the other survivor is; physically, he/she perfectly embodies the type of person your mate is normally attracted to. Moreover, the intensity of the event has clearly galvanized a relationship between the two crash victims: they spend most of the interview explaining how they could not have survived without the other person's presence. They explain how they passed the time by telling anecdotes from their respective lives, and both admit to admit to having virtually given up on the possibility of r a tearful good-bye hug. It's extremely emotional.
After the press conference you are finally reunited with your spouse. He/She embraces you warmly and kisses you deeply.
How long do you wait before asking if he/she was ever unfaithful to you on this island? Do you never ask? And if your mate's answer is "yes," would that (under these specific circumstances) be acceptable?

I wouldn't ask. I'd just assume they did and get on with it. If I did ask and the answer was yes (of course its yes)I'd accept it. It might suck a lot, and would wicked play into many insecurities I already have, but it would be unreasonable to be anything less than understanding. 7 months is a long time...things happen - but again 7 months is a LONG TIME...and what can happen in 7 months is a lot more troubling - the strength of the relationship, what that means coming home, how that affects your relationship, how/if it changes anything and can you pick up where you left off. Im thinking not. I guess what Im more concerned about here is the the emotional bond and not the physical one.

16. Let us assume you have the ability to telekinetically change culture while you actively experience it. Your mind can now dictate what you see and hear. For example, if you were listening to Pear Jam's Yield and you wanted the music to be heavier, it would immediately sound as though Mike McCready's guitar had been tuned differently in the studio. If you were watching The Office on NBC and decided that Jim should marry Pam (or Karen, or both), you could make it happen--all you would need to do is think about that specific desire. You could stare at an oil painting and unconsciously change the color contrasts. If a PG13 romantic comedy grew dull, you could force it to evolve into an eroticized NC-17 thriller. You could (essentially) write books as you read them, eliminating certain characters and redirecting plot points as the occurred in the text. However, such changes would only apply to your experience; you could kill off Han Solo at the end of Return of the Jedi, but htat would not change the movie for anyone else. All other people would posses the same personal telekinetic powers as you.
Would you want this? And--if this became a reality--would art retain any meaning whatsoever?

Do I have control over this ability, like could i choose not to use it? I have a wicked imagination and this could be fun. However, its one of those things that would be really cool to have the ability do do for like 24h, then it goes away. If I was the only one who could see it, how is that any different than imagining it to be different? Just more solid in presentation? I live in my head most of the time

Would art retain any meaning? Well, most art is not seen in the same way as the artist intended to portray, as each person take what they see/hear/experiences and interprets it with their own senses and comes up with their own take. While it might pervade original intent, altering it is your own artistic impression which just makes it different, not less meaningful.