Oaksong's Nemeton - May 2nd, 2008

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mactavishology

What are three things that you probably have different opinions about than many of the people on your friends list? (If you're able, please make at least one or two of them fairly controversial things like "how I feel about abortion" rather than "peanuts on ice cream suck, almonds all the way.")
I'm glad this question says "many of the people" on my friends list, because you're such a diverse group of people that I'm not sure I have any opinions that are different from every single one of you. Anyway, how about: religion, genetically modified organisms, and ice cream toppings :P

what do you think happens to your soul (mind, spirit, "self," etc.) when you die?
Either:
1) Consciousness (and by this I mean specifically subjective experience, i.e. having an inner world) is in some way fundamental to the universe, in which case I suppose that individuality may survive as a pattern in that substrate, with a continual degradation of the personality which was created and maintained by the wetware which is now worm food, until the pattern has faded and the individuality is either reabsorbed into the sea of consciousness or incorporated into a new form. Or eaten by monkeys.
2) Consciousness is an epiphenomenon of physical processes and ceases when they cease.
Either way, I would really like to avoid the whole dying thing.

TECHNOLOGY
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
Currently, it's some type of optical nanofiber coil gizmo that I thought was pretty. I change my wallpaper every couple of days, and it's usually something from APoD.

Q. How many televisions you have in your house?
One.

BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Right.

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
By someone else, you mean? Hair, blood, adenoids, tooth, gallbladder, semen.

Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
Weights.

Q. Have you ever been knocked out?
Only by an anesthesiologist.
(He had a hell of a right hook)

BULLSHITOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No, and it's not possible anyway, so who cares?

Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
Well, I can change my name. Anyone can (change their own name, that is-- not mine). But I wouldn't.

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
Green. Pumpkin. Earth tones.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item?
Yeah. Medicine, dirt, paper.

DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
Sure, unless they had tuberculosis or something.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
No.

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
No.

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
Yes.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
Maybe.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
No.

DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
Air (lots of nitrogen, some oxygen. Bit of carbon dioxide and argon and other hangers-on).

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
I haven't seen it, but it looks horribly stupid so I don't plan to.

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
Carpet.

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
Stand, or sometimes hang upside down from the curtain rod and yodel.

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
None. Sometimes I borrow Abby's.

LASTOLOGY
Q: Last person who texted you?
No one has ever texted me. I do not have a cell phone.

Q: Last person who called you?
My mom.

Q: Person you hugged?
Abby.

FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
Ever since I was seven years old, I've liked the number seven, because I turned seven years old on the seventh day of April in nineteen seventy-seven. Currently, I'm also very fond of e, pi and i, without which my schoolwork would be rather more difficult.

Q: Season?
Autumn.

Q: Color?
Green, especially the warmer greens. Green combined with peach rocks. I'm a fan of unakite.

CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
Nope.

Q: Mood?
Happy.

Q: Listening to?
I'm not listening to anything. If I stop and listen, I hear the dog snoring and occasionally cars passing outside. The hum of the computer.

Q: Watching?
The computer screen as I type these words. Duh.

Q: Worrying about?
I'm not especially worried about anything; I seldom am. There are some medical tests for a family member which I would like to see the results from, but no cause for worry there yet.

Q: Wearing?
T-shirt in a subdued dark green. Grey sweatpants.

RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
The front yard, to empty the dog.

Q: What can you not wait to do?
Well, getting my PhD will be nice, but I'm also having fun along the way.

Q: Do you smile often?
I don't really know. I'm happy often, but my moods and expressions aren't always connected. You'd have to ask someone else.

Q: Are you a friendly person?
I'm an introverted person, but I get along with people. Usually. I don't know, you should probably ask someone else again.

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