Freaking out about what I may have received for a Physics final grade….If I failed, I’m becoming an English major
and shoot, 40 too
40 Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?
I like how odd I can be at times, and I have several friends who are just as eccentric as I am if not more so, so I sometimes get the feeling that I’m talking to myself, though in a different body. Though slightly unnerving, I really like having someone on the same mental wavelength as myself, this way I can make ridiculous references and know that they’ll be appreciated.
15 good sir
15 How do you vent your anger?
I don’t usually, it tends to get bottled up and eventually absorbed. If this isn’t the case, I usually say some pretty terrible things that I immediately regret. Sometimes, I read, however, and then I feel better, usually something by Edward Gorey
Do It Up
I love answering questions!
1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.
2) If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?
3) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.
4) What do you think about most?
5) Ever had a poem or song written about you?
6) Do you have any strange phobias?
7) What's your religion?
8) If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?
9) Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?
10) What was the last lie you told?
11) Do you believe in karma?
12) What does your URL mean?
13) What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?
14) Who is your celebrity crush?
15) How do you vent your anger?
16) Do you have a collection of anything?
17) Are you happy with the person you've become?
18) What's a sound you hate; sound you love?
19) What's your biggest "what if"?
20) Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens?
21) Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm.
22) Smell the air. What do you smell?
23) What's the worst place you have ever been to?
24) Most attractive singer/s of your opposite gender?
25) To you, what is the meaning of life?
26) Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?
27) What was the last movie you saw?
28) What's the worst injury you've ever had?
29) Do you have any obsessions right now?
30) Ever had a rumor spread about you?
31) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?
32) What is your astrological sign?
33) What's the last thing you purchased?
34) Love or lust?
35) In a relationship?
36) How many relationships have you had?
37) What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?
38) Where is your best friend?
39) What were you doing last night at 12 AM?
40) Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend?
41) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?
42) You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? b) What do you do with your remaining days? c) Would you be afraid?
43) What's a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?
44) In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?
45) How can I win your heart?
46) Can insanity bring on more creativity?
47) What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?
48) What would you want to be written on your tombstone?
49) Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "heart."
50) Basic question; what's your favorite color/colors?
51) What is your current desktop picture?
52) If you could press a button and make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be?
53) What would be a question you'd be afraid to tell the truth on?
54) You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power?
55) You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
56) You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
57) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?
58) You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
59) Ever been on a plane?
60) Give me your top 5 hottest celebrities.
Listen to Plato
In Plato’s Symposium, a collection of stories told in the voices of the great intellectuals of the age, Plato presents the origin of man from the point of view of Aristophanes, the great comic playwright. Rereading this passage, I was struck at how simple a view the ancients had concerning love.
Aristophanes tells the group at large that mankind began as orb-like creatures, each one-half of a whole being.
“These creatures were in deep love with their other halves, as the had no other contact with other humans, physically. These beings were divided into three classes; men joined with women, men joined with men and women joined with women. No matter whom they were joined with, there was a deep and unceasing love between the partners.
Now, at some point, this form of humanity angered the gods and Zeus ordered Hephaestus to separate the beings in half, doubling the population, increasing the amount of worship that the gods were to receive, previously, each orb acted as a single entity. Now, with the humans separated from their ‘other halves’, searching for the soul-mate began. These humans did not remember their times as one, but realized that something was missing from their lives, a person with whom to give themselves wholly to.
As there were three types or orbic humans, so there are three types of modern partnerships; men joining with women, men joined with other men and women joined with women. The greatest joy known to man is in finding the person who completes him, no matter their gender, for they are the sole match to complete the emptiness within his breast from their being rent apart from their single entity. For, if presented with the chance, any couple that had found their other half would give anything to be united in one body with that person, spending the remainder of their life together with that single person that so completely matches them. Those who shun Love are hateful to the gods, but if we befriend the gods and cease to quarrel with them, we shall find the one we are ment to love, as so few do today.”
To them, the ancients, it mattered not what gender the partners were, merely that there is an unending well of love between the two. If we in this modern era could adopt a view similar to these ancients, much of the strife dividing cultures would be eliminated. Love is blind, much like justice, and no one should be judged against the gender of the person that they love.
Just a thought,
Yours,
HB
University Days
First year of college for me is officially complete tomorrow after my dreadful physics exam. SOMEBODY GET ME OUTTA HERE.
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AnonymousWhite: Three facts about my personality
- Well, I’m the first to admit that I’m really eccentric, so you can take oddness as one trait
- I prefer the company of books over people due to my shyness
- I’ve been told I’m incredibly sarcastic and snarky at times and that people really enjoy my dry wit, if they can understand it
Read
Guys.
If you want a totally enlightening book, check out Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus. It opens up quite a variety of topics over humanity’s pursuits and how we view nature, the natural instincts and the forces driving the nature and scenery that we may take in every day. It also explores these things while the main character is on mind-altering drugs, a step not entirely necessary for examining the minutiae that surrounds us.
Told in three stages: The Ram, The Wolves and Animus, the novel explores the changes that young Berkeley man Sam Altman undergoes in the pursuit of his heart’s desires and the calling of the mountain god that inspires him and acts as a driving force in his enlightenment quest.
Read for the sake of joy and love for the printed page. Turn of your televisions, computers and electric lamps (needed for night reading) and enjoy the hard work of others for a few hours, expanding your mind and ideas. Read whatever strikes you.
Yours in love of literature,
HB
