What would you say? What would be your focus? Would you direct it at anybody in perticular?
2007-07-06 05:27:45 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Jamino - you can have as much time as you want!
2007-07-06 05:38:04 · update #1
DoctressWho - OK, thank you :-)
2007-07-07 08:04:21 · update #2
I would start of by explaining I was taught that Humans were the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and explain how our measure of intelligence is really a measure of human ability so no other animal would have a chance of being seen as intelligent with our measure.
I would tell how ants walked through my obstacle course to get to honey, having to walk over a tight-rope of cotton thread, where humans would have just built a bridge over the water to the honey (or money source in our case).
I would say how even tiny creatures show how they value their own life's, and how they are all individuals, just as we are.
Then I would talk about the factory farming methods which keep animals living in horrible conditions alien to their natural environment, and suggest that we are cruel only because we believe we are better, and I would suggest that as long as we torture those less able than ourselves, we are worse, not better than them.
I would also talk about the individual animals being used to test products for humans, even though humans have been severely ill testing drugs after they had been tested on animals without problems.
And I would suggest we all consider every animal as an individual with feelings, and stop torturing them.
I doubt I would convert loads of people in 5 minutes, but if only one person had more respect for animals, it would be 5 minutes well spent.
2007-07-07 07:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by DoctressWho 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tel Them I Love My Family, With The Exception Of My Cousin, Whom I Hate, And That I Still Love Certain Other Person, Insult A Few People, Most Of Who Are Famous, And Finally Ask Everyone To Jump At The Same Time To See What Would Really Happen.
That Is Of Course, If Everyone Can Understand Me As Well, Otherwise I'd Omit The Last Bis 'Cos Chinese Ain't Universal In Chine, North Americans Are Too Lazy To Jump, And South Americans Would Jump Late. No Other Language Is Widely Spoken Enough.
2007-07-07 18:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Oel Pezlo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
% minutes for me will be far too little but I would certainly shout out to everybody who still have their eyes closed on so many important factors going on in our world!! Open your eyes look around!! Why are you playing blind? If you don't feel guilt well at least try feel the pain of the unfortunates! Why can't we bring out the best of ourselves? Live in harmony; you and me and everyone else? Why can't we work together to put an end to all the misery of others? Stop living in the past! Everything that happened 1 minute ago is history now; no point remembering it! An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind! Let's learn the lesson from the past! Let's learn from the mistakes commited in history but move ahead and be wise for the future of this world! Let's forget if something was wrong yesterday and learn in our present and beckon with a smile our future! Let us put a stop to what we are doing wrong! Allow this life of ours to be the sail to find the meaning of peace and love! People...you have to be the change you want to see in the world! :-)
Thank you, Fluffy for giving me this stage! :-)
2007-07-06 05:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by KT_(Kritty) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think my focus would be world peace and tolerance. If people were more tolerant perhaps the world would be more peaceful!
I would not need to direct my message to any particular person. I make sure that those I love and those who love me know my feelings. Even if I am upset with my husband (and that can actually be quite often) I always tell him I love him before he leaves the house and ask him to take care and he does the same to me. If I am asleep when he leaves, he always phones me later so we can go through the ritual.
2007-07-06 05:40:22 · answer #4 · answered by Angel A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hello, world.
Look, for about five thousand years now, we as a species have used variations of one bad idea to relate to one another. The idea is called by a lot of names, but "sovereignty" will do.
The idea is that we need ladders of authority. Something can be right for a rank-and-file soldier only because the sargeant tells him to do it. And it is right for the sargeant because the commissioned officers tell him to do it. And it is right for them because the Commander in Chief tells them to do it. And it is right for him because he has a mandate from a King, or from a collectivity known as We the People, or from the Voice of God.
There are plenty of variations, but there are ordinary folk on the bottom, and then ever-higher rungs in the ladder. That is sovereignty.
What I want to say to you is this: reject that idea. Expel it from you minds. Forget sovereignty. It is a failed experiment. Deal with one another as equals, and accept one another's authority only as earned in contractual, market-based and localized ways.
What exactly will happen to us all then? How will life without planning, without ladders of authority, work itself out? I don't know. That is rather the point. Nobody knows, because spontaneity is unpredictable. No one neuron in the brain knows what the brain will end up thinking. Yet we have a far better chance of making a sustainable world for ourselves if we reject the notion of sovereignty than if we adhere to it and keep heading for the cliff where it's pulling us.
Is my time up?
2007-07-06 07:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Christopher F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well im an in love with a girl named amanda lee. I went to everts middle school this past year and now im in high school. well on the last day of school she told me she was moving to pataskala, ohio an hour away from circleville. circleville is where i live now and i really really really love her. she's about 5'7 like me long brown hair brown eyes and the best body and legs ever! and most important of all she is funny, caring, trustworthy, and nice, and outgoing. so if i had 5 minutes and a microphone i would say that i love amanda lee and i want to be with her the rest of my life. dont make fun of me for typing this okay.
2007-07-06 05:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
tell them to stop complaining over their petty lives and address a project worth complaining approximately, help out in third international international locations that want a helping hand up that they've been denied for see you later. tell them to take a stand against conflict, this is thoroughly pointless with efficient communique. Ask them to think of a international without conflict, a international the place each and every physique facilitates each and every physique else, a international the place you smile at each and every physique as you bypass them.. then ask them to swap their lives fairly to house and to circulate in the direction of the required modifications.
2016-11-08 08:03:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd probably sing some old Hank Williams song. Or try to simulate bagpipes playing Amazing Grace from my throat. If I finished before the five minutes were up, I might crack my knuckles into the microphone.
Anything to offer a motive for turning off the radio, or television.
2007-07-06 05:42:34 · answer #8 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To all people, denominations and creed
Religons learn to agree with each other, give and take. Do not force your views on others, but love them enough to make up their minds.
Governments stop your bickering, sort it out, every country deserves respect! You want peace, we can have peace!
To the Third World - We can unite and make the third world a better place, we can stamp out Poverty and sickness as ONE world. Not one Government but one world. If we all just help out.
The world is looking to outer space when we should sort out the problems on the Earth. With the amount of money spent on programs to enhance space travel and various forms of technology we could of cleared the Third World of hunger.
Now go make yourself a cup of tea.....
2007-07-06 05:41:59 · answer #9 · answered by My Pitseleh 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To those I've met along the way & we have laughed & loved, I love you.....I wish I could give you the world...may God & angels & may you be surrounded by beauty wherever you go.
God bless you.
To people I haven't met yet, I wish you much happiness & may God bless your lives.I know I'll meet some new people, we all do, but let's hope when we say goodbye, we leave behind us warmness & love, & not bitterness & hatred.
to the rest of you,I think you know who you are, I wish you luck.
2007-07-06 08:21:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋