Shower Meme, Take N
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flwydIn the summer of 2003, an LJ friend of an LJ friend came up with an idea in the shower: ask LJ friends five questions, have them post the answers in their journal, and then invite people to ask the interviewee for questions. I hadn't seen this meme for at least a year, but it's popped back up in my neck of the LJWoods, so here we go again. I think there were a few people who asked me for interviews in mid-2004 just before I severely cut back on internet use (on account of dating ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamheals who didn't have an internet connection at home). Please comment again and I will ask you questions for real this time.
This set is from the buzzingmollybzz.
1. Do you feel that subscribing to a spontaneous spirituality means you are not set on believing in anything at all? If not, what are your steadfast spiritual cornerstones?
My spirituality is mostly about what I experience, suggest, and metaphorize (sure it's a word, it's like "metabolize" but with your mind). Most of the things I believe in are scientific (I believe in the Big Bang), philosophical (I believe the best way to live is cooperatively), or optimistic (I believe I will find a wonderful place to live).
I find that the best way to be spontaneous is to create a basic structure which provides boundaries and suggestions for spontaneity. To that end, my spiritual cornerstones are maxims like "If religion isn't fun, don't participate," "Every tradition has insight," and "If we always do it one way, queer it up just a bit."
2. What is the meanest thing you've ever done?
When I was around 10 and my brother was around 5, a friend of mine came over. He created a game involving lots of rules my brother had to follow, and when he broke them he got spanked hard with a book. I mostly played along with my friend's leadership, but it was my responsibility to speak up and say it wasn't okay.
3. What do you feel about your impending death?
Right now? Nothing. Sometimes I think about it a lot, but mostly I'm down with the fact that I'll die at some point in the future, probably between when I'm 73 and 103 (but maybe when I'm 37 in a freak accident involving a large wooden badger). I hope that my body is able to decompose and continue to play a part in the cycle of life. I hope that the things I do in my life benefit those who live on. I hope my funeral is fabulous and full of fun music and games.
4. Okay, Senator, we all want to know: how can you have such mystical and magical attachment to your body hair, identifying with it part of your personality and how you are perceived, while maintaining a non-superficial view of humanity and mammality in general? Or, rather than me insinuating certain hirsute allegations, hows about you define your attachment to your facial hair (please suppress any reference to keratin, sulfide or hydrogen bonds, ke thx kekekeke).
I have long hair in large part because I'm lazy. My freshman year in high school, I kept putting off going to the barber, so I finally decided to let my hair grow long. I started high school with a bit of a mustache and the rest of my facial hair came in without the itching and awkwardness of most boys. Since my dad hasn't shaved since the early '70s there wasn't any family pressure to learn how to shave... or indeed requisite materials.
As time went on, not cutting my hair became something of a badge of pride, Scottish style. I could impress people who were amazed that I hadn't a haircut in over ten years and that I'd never shaved or trimmed my beard.
Beyond that, my hair (like the rest of my clothing) is warm, comfortable, and shows people that you can buck social trends and still look cool.
5. If you could immediately upload three skills or abilities (mundane, real, super-heroic or fantastical), what would they be?
Can I know kung fu? ...
I've always wanted to be able to fly about fifty feet off the ground. Not necessarily at jet speeds, but fast enough to get across town in a reasonable amount of time.
An immediate upload of Chinese language would be really neat, because I really don't have an easy in otherwise.
I'm not sure what a good third option would be. I'm avoiding the temptation to say something like LISP since I can pick that up without too much work normally. Something artistic like cinematography would be neat, but I'd need lots of resources to use it for much. There are lots of things I'm not very good at (like sexual intercourse), but I'm not particularly interested in most of them. Can I upload the ability to upload more skillz?
kay kay
Participate! If the world needs something, it's more knowledge about the personal lives of people who use the Internet.
Post a comment asking to be interviewed.
I will respond with five questions.
Answer those questions in your journal.
Provide the same invitation for people to ask you for questions. (The Copyleft clause.)
tamheals who didn't have an internet connection at home). Please comment again and I will ask you questions for real this time.This set is from the buzzing
mollybzz.1. Do you feel that subscribing to a spontaneous spirituality means you are not set on believing in anything at all? If not, what are your steadfast spiritual cornerstones?
My spirituality is mostly about what I experience, suggest, and metaphorize (sure it's a word, it's like "metabolize" but with your mind). Most of the things I believe in are scientific (I believe in the Big Bang), philosophical (I believe the best way to live is cooperatively), or optimistic (I believe I will find a wonderful place to live).
I find that the best way to be spontaneous is to create a basic structure which provides boundaries and suggestions for spontaneity. To that end, my spiritual cornerstones are maxims like "If religion isn't fun, don't participate," "Every tradition has insight," and "If we always do it one way, queer it up just a bit."
2. What is the meanest thing you've ever done?
When I was around 10 and my brother was around 5, a friend of mine came over. He created a game involving lots of rules my brother had to follow, and when he broke them he got spanked hard with a book. I mostly played along with my friend's leadership, but it was my responsibility to speak up and say it wasn't okay.
3. What do you feel about your impending death?
Right now? Nothing. Sometimes I think about it a lot, but mostly I'm down with the fact that I'll die at some point in the future, probably between when I'm 73 and 103 (but maybe when I'm 37 in a freak accident involving a large wooden badger). I hope that my body is able to decompose and continue to play a part in the cycle of life. I hope that the things I do in my life benefit those who live on. I hope my funeral is fabulous and full of fun music and games.
4. Okay, Senator, we all want to know: how can you have such mystical and magical attachment to your body hair, identifying with it part of your personality and how you are perceived, while maintaining a non-superficial view of humanity and mammality in general? Or, rather than me insinuating certain hirsute allegations, hows about you define your attachment to your facial hair (please suppress any reference to keratin, sulfide or hydrogen bonds, ke thx kekekeke).
I have long hair in large part because I'm lazy. My freshman year in high school, I kept putting off going to the barber, so I finally decided to let my hair grow long. I started high school with a bit of a mustache and the rest of my facial hair came in without the itching and awkwardness of most boys. Since my dad hasn't shaved since the early '70s there wasn't any family pressure to learn how to shave... or indeed requisite materials.
As time went on, not cutting my hair became something of a badge of pride, Scottish style. I could impress people who were amazed that I hadn't a haircut in over ten years and that I'd never shaved or trimmed my beard.
Beyond that, my hair (like the rest of my clothing) is warm, comfortable, and shows people that you can buck social trends and still look cool.
5. If you could immediately upload three skills or abilities (mundane, real, super-heroic or fantastical), what would they be?
Can I know kung fu? ...
I've always wanted to be able to fly about fifty feet off the ground. Not necessarily at jet speeds, but fast enough to get across town in a reasonable amount of time.
An immediate upload of Chinese language would be really neat, because I really don't have an easy in otherwise.
I'm not sure what a good third option would be. I'm avoiding the temptation to say something like LISP since I can pick that up without too much work normally. Something artistic like cinematography would be neat, but I'd need lots of resources to use it for much. There are lots of things I'm not very good at (like sexual intercourse), but I'm not particularly interested in most of them. Can I upload the ability to upload more skillz?
kay kay
Participate! If the world needs something, it's more knowledge about the personal lives of people who use the Internet.
Post a comment asking to be interviewed.
I will respond with five questions.
Answer those questions in your journal.
Provide the same invitation for people to ask you for questions. (The Copyleft clause.)
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Date: 2006-10-26 05:05 am (UTC)Step toooo: get distracticated with quustiuns from ewe.
I thought I was done with this. I might not be done with this. Or I might be done with this. Interview me at your discretion. You, at the very least, earned a crack at me with your answers, thAAAAAnx!
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:30 am (UTC)ᠡ KK. What do the voices say when you shouldn't listen to them? What do they say when they shouldn't?
ᠢ KKK. What three things or attributes would you transplant from the People's Republic of Northern Cauliflower Hernia to the People's Republic of Boulder (and its various Colorado Colonies)?
ᠣ KKKK. You're at a saddle point in your life: you have a lot of directions you could go. What will influence your path choice? Where would you like to go? What's holding you back?
ᠤ KKKKK. Describe what you feel when you dance.
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:41 pm (UTC)Ask me, Oh Questions Five, Ere the Other Side Ye Seek.
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:41 am (UTC)Computers: Help or Hinderance to Getting Shit Done?
When you were a kid, did you think you'd get married? What did you imagine it would be like? How far off the mark were you?
You are quite skilled at saying something random and funny. Are there exercises you can recommend for aspiring zen comedians? How do you feel about being expected to be a clown?
When are you the most Dave?
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Date: 2006-10-26 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:54 am (UTC)With apologies to Tom Waits.
curiouser and curiouser...
Date: 2006-10-26 09:29 pm (UTC)Re: curiouser and curiouser...
Date: 2006-10-28 05:48 am (UTC)What's really great about having two kids with more than 10 years of age difference? What's not so great about it?
When your mind wanders, where does it end up?
What are your blind spots?
To someone unfamiliar with neo-pagan subculture, how would you describe your religious and spiritual outlook and practices?
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Date: 2006-10-27 03:37 am (UTC)