I don't think so, I really don't

Judy, from Queensland, Australia, wonders:

Are religion and ethics essentially necessary for each other?

I think you can be an ethical person without subscribing to any particular religion, and sad current events show that you can identify yourself as a religious person without exhibiting so much as a scrap of ethical behavior.

Front and Back

Technically speaking, I'm not supposed to post the back of the card... protecting the addresses and so forth. However, this card's back contains the question in such a way that it would be a shame not to share. So, herewith:

Yep.

A year... and a day?

From the other side of my continent comes this thought-provoker:

If you had the chance to visit the future for one year, what year would you choose and why?

Well, my original thought was to return the year AFTER I died, to make sure people were still missing me, but then I decided that idea was entirely too petty, and well. human.

Now, I think maybe the year 3000. I remember how astonished I was (as a child) to realize that I'd was going to be alive in the year TWO THOUSAND and how astonised I was (as an adult) to realize that it wasn't such a big deal after all. Perhaps THREE THOUSAND might be enough of a shift.

New and Improved... maybe not

MinouMinou wonders:

Do you think the application of such science as eugenics was a mistake in several ccountries?

I turn to the great philosopher, Sting, who said "I never saw no miracle of science that didn't go from a blessing to a curse..."

Until HUMANS get smarter, there's always that risk.

Food, food, food, food....FOOD!

Eveline wonders, on the back of this card fiiled with treats,

What food would you miss if you moved abroad?


I am QUITE addicted to Starbucks Iced Tea, but now that Sbux blankets the planet, I probably wouldn't have a chance to miss it.


I'm thinking it would be more something I cook that maybe I couldn't find the ingredients for so easily.

Beats Me...

Here, on an ironic "bunny suicide" card is a serious question:

Why are people so desperate thay they think of suicide?

I don't know. I can't imagine that depth of despair.

Same question, different places

Within days of one another, these two cards arrived. They both asked the same question:

What do you know about my country?

One writer is from Norway; the other is from Romania. The Norwegian writer also instructed me to avoid using the Internet and instead encouraged me to use my own brain. Hmmmmm.

What do I know about Norway? Sad to say, the first thing that came to mind was the frequency with which the answer "Olaf" comes up in New York Times crossword puzzles, with the clue having something to do with Norway.

What do I know about Romania? Well, there's that Dracula thing... which I imagine the Romanians are well and tired of hearing about.

What did I really learn? "Don't know much geography!"