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I am hereby awarding everyone 'not last place' in advance. Answer below so we can see everybody's answers together.

Forget "right" answers, this is our circle, there's no way we're going to come off as normal.

1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

4. If you could change ONE THING about yourself, what would it be? (*Ethelred, you alone are exempt from this one)

5. What's your favourite science- and WHY?

and for our talent competition...

6. Tell us one thing you can do better than anyone you're related to.

My answers:

1. I would have to say, "compassion." Give me a well-intentioned idiot any day over a person who just doesn't care; at least the idiot will change behaviours when they realise they haven't been helping.

2. I need to learn to calm down more and not shout when i get upset. It's scary for people around me because dragons appear more angry than they are. Sure, i need to learn a lot of things, but most importantly, i need to stop scaring people by accident.

3. Cult followers, because they mean it when they tell you you're the best, and they come in with personal property that can be devoted to the cult and its leader.

4. I would change my slacker habits and avoidance into some more productive humility and work ethic. But i'm too lazy and don't care enough to do that the hard way with work. :/

5. Psychology is too a science! I'm interested in it because my life has been a climb out from under where my family began, and it's the been the focus of my life so far, how people work and why we do what we do. It's one of the only things that really interests me. Philosophy is irrelevant to me because i don't care if it's real, physics is nice but not as interesting because what i care about is not what it does, but what you're going to do about it once it happens. Math is essential, but emotions are why the button gets pushed. We have this illusion that emotions are not logical. The people who say this are the same people who say you only use ten percent of your brain, or say that the moon is the smallest planet. Don't believe them. Emotions ARE logic, and logic that gives you wrong conclusions if it's based on incorrect premises, as so much logic in the world is.

For my geek talent, i'm going to offer that i can bake the best angel food cake you ever tried.

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  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    I don't know. Compassion sounds good.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    To shut up when necessary. And, closely related, to know when what I'm about to say makes no sense to anybody besides me.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
    Cult followers. Fearful minions get old after a while.

    4. If you could change ONE TH

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Integrity. When you throw away your integrity, you throw away everything that makes you someone who can be trusted and believed. Better to lose your health and still have people that believe in you.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    Mind reading. I could avoid a lot of disagreements if I knew what is going on in someone else's head.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's be

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Compassion. You hit it with that one.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    Saving money... Not that I've really had a chance up to now, but I need to learn it, either way.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

    I'm going with slave minions. Cult followers have a tendency to do what they think you want, which can caus
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Loyalty

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    Ego Stroking

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

    Slave Minions (eg Danny beer me!)

    4. If you could change ONE THING about yourself, what would it be? (*Ethelred, you alone are exempt from this one)

    My inability to concentrate in the presence of noise or boots

    5. What's your f
  • The national costume that represents Witistan is a giant pink tablet (the capsule was a little form fitting). It represents our love of pharmaceutics and our dependence on medication to make life livable. I also have a giant feathered headdress just for good measure.

    What? There is no costume portion? Um... it's my swimwear? Oh. There's not one of those either. I really should have read the rules.

    1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    I'm going to go back to basics here, and going to say someo
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Kindness. Everything else is moot. You can come from any background and still be kind, regardless of your upbringing. Its the glue that binds society together.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    See #1.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

    Cult Followers. Slave minions have a chance to rise and revolt given enou
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Selflessness, although I'd reckon that'd be a subset of compassion.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    To interact with other people.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
    Cult followers. You can trust them with weapons, and they'll willingly do all the same work as slave minions. Plus your enemies won't have as easy
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Responsibilty for oneself and actions to the best of one's ability.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    A second language to enable me to understand what other people are saying about me.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
  • 1.) What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Responsibility. Good intentions are all great and grand, but they've been behind the greatest crimes of our society. The best one can do is take responsibility for oneself and one's actions.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    I need to learn when not to try to solve people's problems.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers?

    Slave minions are better. Cult followers have no spark of creativity, they'r
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Perspective. The ability to see past the surface of things, to see things from another's perspective.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    How to go through a revolving door with grace and ease.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
    Slave minions. Less clingy.

    4. If you could change ONE THING about yourself, what would

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    I like Gecko's answer a lot, but I think a desire tog row, to be a better person than you are now, will lead to all the other qualities falling into place.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    I need to learn how to control my focus. I have no problem when I'm say about to land a plane or going to trial, but give me a deadline a year away (even if it needs a year of work!) and watch the focus flight arou

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Cluefulness. Everyone makes mistakes and does stupid stuff, but only the clueful learn from what they did wrong and aren't so stubborn that they won't listen to constructive criticism from others.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    Patience with the kids. They're too young to be deliberately trying to be obnoxious (I take that back... I think the seven-year-old Thing One is learning) and sometimes I forget that
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Honesty. Even if it is brutal. I can heal from the truth, lying only makes things worse.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    Hmmm....I really don't know. Who knows what the next weeks, months, or years hold for me.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
    Cult followers. They are self replenishing. They are draw

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Compassion. I believe that it can do more for the world than the sort of kindness that comes from a sense of duty.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    Self-discipline, especially when it comes to food. My eating habits are awful. (He says as he looks at the remains of a huge sandwich with way too much roasted red pepper mayo. Should have said "When!" to the clerk.)

    3. Which is better, slave minions o

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Unqualified empathy. People can be compassionate, sympathize with people like them or even give the effort of acknowledging the humanity of other people. But then they begin the process of qualifying it. How this person is a special case or that I'm in a bad mood or there's a perfectly good reason to not give them the bare minimum of respect. It all leaves us in the same place as before: millions of people all out for themselves. Just now they feel
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person? *tihihi*

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn? *twirls hair*

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one? *stares blankly*

    4. If you could change ONE THING about yourself, what would it be? (*Ethelred, you alone are exempt from this one) beauty comes from the inside tihihi

    5. What's your favourite science- and WHY? I want to
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    A genuine interest in helping others, with no regard to the "return on investment". The term "What's in it for ME?" should not have to cross one's mind.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    How to listen more. I have one mouth, but two ears. I should be able to listen at least twice as much as I talk.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to cho
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    I second the answer, compassion. (or is that "third"?)

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    Learn when to say "no".

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?
    Cult follower$: can you say "Baghwan Shree Rajneesh"?

    4. If you could change O
  • 1. Patience. Without it, the other virtues don't have time to crawl out of the woodwork.

    2. Changing a diaper. Somehow, I've become godfather to two children without ever having to change a diaper personally.

    3. Cult followers. Way more inventive than slave minions, and willing to construct fancy buildings.

    4. A willingness to point out flaws. I really DESPISE dealing with systems that have their agents enforce contradictory (or wrong-headed) policies, and I misdirect that to the blithe person who
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Empathy --> the ability to see something from the other guy's side.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    Keeping a monthly budget. More of a discipline problem than a skill problem.

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

    Cult followers. Sure, they're uglier, but they are fanatically loyal.

    4. If you could change ONE
  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?
    Balance. Every time I think of a particular quality, my examples show that it takes more than just that quality. A good person has many qualities, but doesn't take any of them to extremes.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?
    To value friends. I'm an unusual kind of loner - I'm not lonely or shy, just very comfortable alone. Because I don't value friends, I have never put any effort into building more than sh

  • 1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

    Honesty, brutal honesty is acceptable as well.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

    A human interface language other than English (I already know several computer languages).

    3. Which is better, slave minions or cult followers? We know it's best if they're both, but if you had to choose only ONE... which one?

    Cult followers, but only because slavery is just wrong.

    4. If you could change ONE THING

  • I didn't read any of the replies (yet), so let's see where I rank.
    1. What one quality most makes someone a good person?

      Doing the right thing, even when no-one is watching.

      correct answer: someone who adopts puppies from the animal shelter.

      incorrect answer: someone who adopts puppies from the animal shelter and sells them for food.

    2. What's an important skill you haven't learned yet, but know you need to learn?

      How to tell V.I.P.s what they want to hear, and not come off as a smart-ass.

      correct answer: How to

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