I remember seeing this months ago. As I recall, I answered an orange screwdriver, because I happen to have an all-purpose orange-handled screwdriver that is a main part of my small but effective motorcycle tool bag. But I typically don't answer these things as the thing says to expect one to answer.
Red is psychologically the most basic color. All language have at least two color words, black/dark and white/light, and languages with at least three color words always have a word for red.
With tools, people (in our culture) have a conception of the category of tool, with some tools being more basic than others, and a hammer is one of the most basic tools (if not the most basic). Many categories have central members in this way, and if you asked someone to name a member of a category, they're most likely to name a central member.
I've always come up with a green screwdriver. Green being my favorite color and a screwdriver being the most commonly used tool, by me at least.
Now, on the psycic front...do you not believe in the ability to sense things that you have by no rights, the ability to know? ESP, deja vu, etc.? Or do you just not trust those that try to make money by communicating with the dead? Or, does that distrust also extend to those who celebrate Samhain and El Dia De Los Muertos?
I do not believe in ESP except in the broadest sense--that you can "read minds" basically by being very good at intuitive thinking and psychological reading. But there's nothing supernatural there so far as I can determine. To be clear, I'd very much like to believe in it--very very much--but literally decades of study by parapsychologists have turned up such thin gruel for results that at this point believing in any of it is wishful thinking.
Deja-vu I also believe in, but only in a similarly mundane sense. Most people experience this feeling at least once in a while. The best theory I've heard for the phenomenon is that something misfires slightly in your brain and immediate data gets stored straight in your long-term memory, instead of being chewed on by your short term memory for a while before storage. Voila, events transpiring at the moment emotionally feel like something that happened long ago.
These aren't really particularly fun things to believe. Honestly I would very much like to believe in things like mental telepathy, psychokinesis, astral projection, and reincarnation. I'd like to believe in them a whole, whole lot.
I'd also absolutely love to believe in alien visitors by the way.
Wishing won't make it so. I believe none of it. Show me the hard proof, or at least a strong and undeniable personal experience that I cannot explain by rational means, and I'll try to keep an open mind. But I've looked at this stuff for years, and found it all sadly wanting.
Fortunately, I find the real universe is a strange and wondrous enough place that my need to believe in the supernatural is minimized. There's such wonder in the cosmos, and so much we don't yet understand...
A: 37
37, of course, is anything but random.
I love how this is really just a small version of Family Feud.
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Why did you pick 3?
(Everyone reasons the same way, which is what makes the second step ironic... kind of like a Prisoner's Dilemma actually.)
Oh, and I did pick #2. I guess I'm just a freak (or at least a semi-freak)
I think that's the tool I use the most.
With tools, people (in our culture) have a conception of the category of tool, with some tools being more basic than others, and a hammer is one of the most basic tools (if not the most basic). Many categories have central members in this way, and if you asked someone to name a member of a category, they're most likely to name a central member.
Now, on the psycic front...do you not believe in the ability to sense things that you have by no rights, the ability to know? ESP, deja vu, etc.? Or do you just not trust those that try to make money by communicating with the dead? Or, does that distrust also extend to those who celebrate Samhain and El Dia De Los Muertos?
Deja-vu I also believe in, but only in a similarly mundane sense. Most people experience this feeling at least once in a while. The best theory I've heard for the phenomenon is that something misfires slightly in your brain and immediate data gets stored straight in your long-term memory, instead of being chewed on by your short term memory for a while before storage. Voila, events transpiring at the moment emotionally feel like something that happened long ago.
These aren't really particularly fun things to believe. Honestly I would very much like to believe in things like mental telepathy, psychokinesis, astral projection, and reincarnation. I'd like to believe in them a whole, whole lot.
I'd also absolutely love to believe in alien visitors by the way.
Wishing won't make it so. I believe none of it. Show me the hard proof, or at least a strong and undeniable personal experience that I cannot explain by rational means, and I'll try to keep an open mind. But I've looked at this stuff for years, and found it all sadly wanting.
Fortunately, I find the real universe is a strange and wondrous enough place that my need to believe in the supernatural is minimized. There's such wonder in the cosmos, and so much we don't yet understand...