Do you ever wonder if the more paranoid people are right about 1) the moon landing 2) Area 51 3) fluoride in the water 4) chemtrails 5) every conspiracy ever? Do you ever have a suspicion that they might have a valid point?
Do you ever, in your heart of hearts, wonder why you hang on to certain friends? You know the ones I'm talking about, right? The ones who constantly call you with their problems, but if you turn that table, they get all funny and sort of absent? Yet, still, you hang on to them! Do you wonder?
Do you ever think maybe cats really do understand every word we're saying?
Do you ever wonder if maybe money was a really super stupid idea and whoever thought it up needs the living shit beaten out of him or her? Do you ever laugh when someone who claims to be an atheist but is also some sort of hardcore economist and you find that funny because you can't understand why he or she believes in one thing which is utterly imaginary on all levels but refuses the existence of any sort of god, saying it's an imaginary being? Do you ever get the urge to then pull a dollar out of your pocket, wave it in that person's face and say "No. Go on. Really."
On the other hand, do you ever feel like you're uncomfortable in church because you're clearly surrounded by hypocritical bigots?
Do you ever think that someday a ghost might appear in front of you and make you shriek?
Do you ever wonder if you would be any good in a true emergency situation, as in the past, when a smaller emergency arises, you've kind of just stood there, looking confused?
Do you ever wonder what would happen if you just woke up one morning and started telling every person exactly what you thought about him or her? Would you lose your job? Your significant other? Your family? Your friends? Do you ever wonder if people own dogs because you don't have to lie to them?
Do you ever have the urge to tell someone to shut the fuck up (feel free to do that here)?
Do you ever suddenly find yourself certain that the day was supposed to be sunny, when it is rainy, or rainy when it is sunny, and then, later in the day, it becomes that very thing?
Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves?
Do you ever wonder what would happen in a job interview if, to answer the question of what particularly makes you qualified for a job, you said, "Because I really need the money. I'm pretty sure more than the other people you're seeing. Because otherwise I would not work at all because most work is stupid busy work except for a few things"?
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to make one whole day Opera Day where everyone sings his or her way through the day?
Do you ever wonder why we sleep?
Do you ever wonder why we dream?
Do you ever wonder why we have ten fingers and toes and not, say, fourteen each?
What do you wonder? Do you ever wonder about that?
I do.


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Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves?
I don't really think I wonder about the same things you wonder about but I enjoyed them. hmmmm.... I wonder what I wonder about?
"No, really, go on."
Code for, "What a total douche."
I love your posts - but "sleep"? What's that? And when should we be doing it?
Is there a point to my writing? Self-expression perhaps?
I don't wonder why we sleep. I wonder why I don't sleep more. Chuckle.
Wonder-ful.
Yes, yes we do, we just chose to ignore you!! ;)
I always wonder about dreams. It's like I went to the cinema but didn't pay much attention.
Do you ever laugh when someone who claims to be an atheist but is also some sort of hardcore economist (yes, Penn Jillette comes to mind.)
Do you ever have the urge to tell someone to shut the fuck up (every time I wake up and my husband has accidentally put the t.v. on fox news)
Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves? ( I have always wondered if I shouldn't care "more" what people think ;)
I love lists like this! Thank you~
OK, back to reading.
I know from my decades of studying just one topic that fluoride and fluoridation are not reducing tooth decay, are costing cities multi-millions of dollars yearly and putting populations at unnecessary risk of fluoride's adverse health effects.
Does it really make sense to add fluoride into drinking water when it's not even a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth.
Yet with all the budget cuts going on, fluoridation is preserved - mainly because of the political power and financial clout of organized dentistry.
Do you really believe that organized dentistry would be spending so much political capital on fluoridation if it was truly going to put themselves out of business?
Instead cities are cutting out dental clinics which is vital since several Americans have died in recent years from the consequences of untreated tooth decay.
People in church are not necessarily the most spiritual people in the world - or loving but that does not prove that God does not exist. That just proves that some people are hateful hypocrites who should know that God is supposed to see and know their hearts and mind. What I find amusing about atheists is that they spend a lot of time hating and denouncing something they don't believe exists. Why would anyone waste so much time on nothing? or spend so much time in church when someone doesn't even follow the way of Jesus and practice God's love?
Sorry for more questions - Your questions were very thought provoking! Thanks! R
That's about it, though.
Oh, another one - I also wonder why it is we drive on parkways but park in driveways.
Oh, and what the hell is a peanut - pea or nut?
See that? Now you've got me wondering.....
On telling folks what you really think, you have to be willing to bear the consequences, especially if you are the type of person who is empathic, or able to easily read minds. Really old folks get away with this.
Change "money" for "Open Salon" and I'd agree. I spend more *$&@ time on here than I care to think about. I'm more addicted to OS than to coffee. Well, maybe not. But you get my point.
I think that one is the real killer!
12. I actually did this once, in a fit of being myself. I got the job.
and I figured out why I hang out with one atrocious friend...it's because she is just like my mother and so it's familiar, albeit a rerun. And hypocritical bigots are supposed to be in church, perfect people don't need to be. Church is for flawed humans making an attempt to be better.
I think money is an awful idea and creates such bad priorities for our society.
I am a conspiracy theorist even though I try not to be. Don't even start with that.
I find that there are more answers in stories than anywhere else. That's why I write.