Begs the Question
Last Friday when I posted the flashback to that long ago (okay, it was a year ago) interview, I left a tagline with the invitation to ask a question in the comments section.
I got one.
I think it was a good one.
The question, asked by 1 picture a day, is this:
If you had to choose between
1.) no more wine (alcohol) the rest of your life
or
2.) no more coffee the rest of your life
which would you choose?
My first, rather flip, answer to her was that I am currently on hiatus from both substances in my life so there wasn't a contest really.
But then we talked about it.
And talked about it some more.
And a little more after that.
And I kinda started thinking.
I have an answer for this question, but before I divulge that answer (while reminding you that this is how I feel about coffee); I am asking the same question of you.
Go ahead, wax poetic in your comment today and tell me which you'd live without and why you choose what you do.
And if you are not a coffee and/or wine drinker then please answer this question:
Chocolate or Chips?
Or even this one:
Starburst or Skittles?
Or, hey, you could pose your own question and then answer it. I don't mind.
I just want to hear what you have to say.
I'd have to say, as much as I love potato chips and tortilla chips, I'd forgo chips before I would give up chocolate. I mean, I'm a Dutch woman for cryin' out loud - NO CHOCOLATE!?!?! Perish the thought!
ReplyDeleteBTW - get anything cool in the mail lately?
*grin*
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy love is better than... coffee?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so!
Wine should never be lived without.
Ok, the coffee wine thing... not an issue for me. Both are habits i've kicked.
ReplyDeleteChocolate or chips? That's harder. I'm not a big chips fan, but I can't live without pretzels... chocolate covered pretzels at that.
The real trick for me would be giving up Dr. Pepper... and yeah, there's nothing that would get me to do that. :)
Coffee and wine - no problem - but Diet MT. Dew - now that would be ridiculous! No way am I giving that up . . .
ReplyDeleteAnd as far as chips or chocolate - it is tough because I go back and forth from salt to sweet cravings all day long - but . . .
I can't live without chocolate - so I had better give up the chips!
Coffee vs. wine in the hard one: both are good in Europe and I enjoy each, morning and evening, respectively (quick re-check to see that I got the parallel correct :) )
ReplyDeleteForced to choose, 'keep the wine.
The others are easy: I'm not into chips or unwrapping starbursts, so Chocolate and Skittles get the nod to stay in the raft.
Would you choose to forget and never return to religion or science? :)
Jenn - I am butting in to answer Dave's intriguing question . . . Goodbye Religion! I require more answers NOT more questions!
ReplyDeleteAh, Dave, that's an excellent one and I echo Res here. Farewell to religion without a backward glance.
ReplyDeleteI'd say aye to chocolate, coffee (though I don't drink much of either wine/coffee), skittles, and science. Without so much as a second thought.
ReplyDeleteOkay, next dillemma...
What would you rather have for real, Genies or UFOs?
anneke-
ReplyDeleteGenies all the way! I think I have the way round the whole 3 wishes thing...
Hmmmm....
ReplyDeleteI would pick wine over coffee, in a heartbeat.
As far as religion vs. science (that was an awesome comment by the way) - I have always, ALWAYS believed that science provides the answers. Religion provides the community for the journey. Our church is having a seder dinner tonight. My little Unitarians are making matzo balls.
After some thought :) I would choose no more coffee for the rest of my life *gasp* But I could drink tea, right??
ReplyDeleteI really, really loves me some red, but if pushed with the wine/coffee choice, I'd give up the wine. I could always fall back on beer or tequila as a kind of sipping replacement for wine but for me, there ain't NO replacement for a good cuppa coffee. (Of course, once upon a time I used to feel that way about cigarettes, too.)
ReplyDeleteI'd keep chocolate (oh, my, YES!). I'd keep science (cuz religion's already gone). And I'd for sure keep genies because a really good one could create UFOs or aliens or wine if you wanted them.
jami-
ReplyDeleteOften I think that we are twins separated somehow at birth... those there are some darn fine answers. All of which I happen to agree with...
Completely off the post topic but your comment reminded me: I have a very good friend who is Vietnamese, and years back she had a picture of the two of us on the counter at her nail salon along with ones of her kids. One day, a woman commented on the pretty but obviously different (read, not Vietnamese) family member. Tran replied that the picture was of her sister, but from a different father. Pause. And a different mother, too, but still her sister.
ReplyDeleteSo, yeah, we're twins.
I always knew it. Deep down I always knew. Yay for sisters!
ReplyDeletesongbird-
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, there is a little something in the mailslot today! WOW!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! What a wonderful, out-of-the-blue surprise!!
You are so great!
Hmmmm. Wow. That is a quandry. Could I substitute tea for coffee? If so, I might be able to give up the coffee. I am not much of a drinker but man when a glass of wine or a microbrew sounds good, there just is no substitute! What would I drink on a lazy sunday afternoon before dinner? Or after dinner with friends? (Gotta have a glass of red!)
ReplyDeleteAnd what about an ice cold bottle of Alaskan Amber on a hot summer afternoon?
I drink several cups of coffee (regular brew with a splash of cream) every day but as long as I had a hot unsweetened beverage to sip on, I could live without coffee. Oh, I'd miss it, but it is a bit more replaceable than a glass of wine or a good beer!
I could never live without coffee. Same with chocolate but I have cut back drasticly on the intake of the sweet stuff alone.
ReplyDeleteJami's comment would be mine, to a tee, but of course she said it better. ;-)
ReplyDeleteCOFFEE or WINE?
ReplyDeleteCablegirl said, "Ok, the coffee wine thing... not an issue for me. Both are habits i've kicked."
Not an issue for me, either, because I never liked the taste OR the smell of coffee. Red wine makes me sick, literally. White wine, the drier the better, is okay, but I rarely have it ... maybe once a year or two or three? Neither became a habit, so there's nothing to kick, for me.
Mar said, "But I could drink tea, right??" I'm with Mar on this one, as in ... tea, yes ... coffee, no way.
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CHOCOLATE or CHIPS?
You said, "And if you are not a coffee and/or wine drinker then please answer this question: Chocolate or Chips?"
I can answer this one! I occasionally eat chocolate and enjoy it, but I'd rather have a salty snack, chips or pretzels or popcorn (which I can also eat unsalted, though it isn't as good).
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RELIGION or SCIENCE?
Dave Hampton said, "Would you choose to forget and never return to religion or science?"
Res said, "Goodbye Religion! I require more answers NOT more questions!" Jenn said, "Farewell to religion without a backward glance." Soccer Mom in Denial said, "As far as religion vs. science ... I have always, ALWAYS believed that science provides the answers. Religion provides the community for the journey. Our church is having a seder dinner tonight. My little Unitarians are making matzo balls."
Excellent answer, SMID! I think I'll have to write a whole post to answer the "religion or science" question. I'll work on it and get back to you, okay?
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TWINS or ... um ... TWINS?
Jami, thanks for your explanation of twinship: "Completely off the post topic but your comment reminded me: I have a very good friend who is Vietnamese, and years back she had a picture of the two of us on the counter at her nail salon along with ones of her kids. One day, a woman commented on the pretty but obviously different (read, not Vietnamese) family member. Tran replied that the picture was of her sister, but from a different father. Pause. And a different mother, too, but still her sister. So, yeah, we're twins."
I have twin daughters (same father and same mother ... me), but I have had twin sisters myself ... using your definition of twinship. Beautiful!
really, no looking back? I am so surprised.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, you're on hiatus from both of those substances? Hmmmm, me too. What's YOUR reason?
ReplyDeleteBetween chocolate or chips, it's funny because I'm really more of a chocolate person. But I think I could live without it (and I really ought to try...) whereas I really don't think I could make it without chips and other greasy/salty snacks. Even though I don't claim to be addicted to those. Weird, huh?
I like to think, though, that I could develop the self-control to give up ANYTHING. So if the choice was too hard, I guess I would just say, "I'd like to give up both of them, thanks." Or something...
As for religion and science, I think I'm the oddball here perhaps. Because they are intrinsically combined for me. God is the master scientist. Without God there is no science, without science there is no God.
And I'm SO late to this party that not a soul will see my comment. You're about to receive 20 such comments from me as I catch up. And you won't even be around to see them either, I gather. Oh well. I'm thinking of you, and maybe you'll catch that vibe...