What an inviting little white rectangle.
Recent Responses
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My ideal crime would be excess mirth, or stealing food to feed the earth. Though you may be killed for upsetting convention, the best crimes are crimes of the best intention.
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I would keep sight, because our society is so geared towards people who can see that it would be horrifyingly difficult to navigate the world without it; hearing, because I like singing way too much to stop that, and touch, because how far would that go? Would my satiety response disappear? Would I not notice if I got punched or lost a limb or what? I don't need taste and smell very much, and it would make eating the styrofoam fruit in the commons way easier, so I'll just go for it. I'd miss them, but it's a better choice than losing things that still keep me alive.
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I have many, but they're not so much deep dark secrets as they are things I just happen to never tell people. For instance, I think these pants I'm wearing are a little too tight, but I like the pocket size so I keep wearing them.
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My substitution would be by whale. The bulk of those animals cannot fail. Plus, death by whale is a badass conclusion To what can only be called an execution solution.
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Berries! Raspberries to be precise.
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I think I left them in my other pants
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Go out for dinner most nights, although sometimes I am in a cooking mood. This is of course assuming that price is not an issue
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I admire a good deal of people for different reasons. I admire every single one of my friends for all of their best characteristics. I admire the people who spend their lives making creative and interesting art. And I admire the ancient people who, given so few resources (especially in terms of modern society) made such huge advances in so many fields just by using their brains.
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Ireland. Right now. Ireland is definitely the place I want to get back to the most, and a place from which I can get to other cool places (London, Scotland) with relative ease.
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I'm sorry I can't hear my answer over my incoherent squeeing
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Rich. I could do a lot of good from behind the scenes with a lot of money (mostly in the form of donations) and I wouldn't be tripping over assholes with cameras all the time.
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Probably a toss-up between Terry Pratchett (real person but not that famous) and Micky Mouse (very famous but not real also huge and terrifying)
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A mummy. More intelligent than a zombie, with the added ability to curse people - always a plus.
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The ipod and similar music players = pretty sweet. Not a huge fan of ridiculous copyright and such, but the size and quality of my ipod is very good to me.
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PANCAKES.
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Uhhhhhhm... Not anything specific, I think. Mostly just little tidbits, like hearing the rubber ducky song from the Sesame street sing-along cassette tape. It has to be something that I haven't thought about in a long time
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I think of an old school arcade system that plays Doom
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This is a complex question that you already know the answer to >.<
Long answer: I think gods are as real as we make them, we being anything and everything living. As far as I can tell, religion is how we compartmentalize morality and rules for living that we can't rationalize, and gods are the often anthropomorphized personifications of ideals. That doesn't necessarily make them not real. I think gods need us to exist. And that's not to say "oh the more followers a god has the more power it has," I actually think that gods cannot exist without people believing that they exist. They start out as ideas, essentially, and as more people share the ideas, they become better defined, to the point of developing personalities and habits and basic necessities.
And all that doesn't mean that I think gods are nothing but figments of our collective imaginations. For instance, I think Anansi would be stealing other people's fruit whether or not anyone told the (many) stories about him doing so. But that's because that's the Anansi that exists because of the collective beliefs of many, and eventually someone will tell the story because he did it, or possibly he did it because someone told the story. It's a complicated thing that I have trouble articulating, but I promise it is making sense in my head, for what it's worth.
I guess the real question you're probably asking is "do you believe in some sort of raw divinity that exists that is something higher than mankind or whatever." And I guess my answer is that I really don't give a shit. I think we're always finding divinity only because we look for it, and whether or not it's there to begin with doesn't matter even a little, because as soon as we found it, it was always there. It's like Schrodinger's fuckin' divinity time here in my brain guys. It's crazy.
Philosophically I believe that every single religion, ever, has had a grain of truth to it, because if you look at the bare bones of any belief system it's basically "don't be an asshole you guys." As far as the gods go, to me they're all different interpretations of the basic divinity that we all manage to find somehow or other.
My personal beliefs revolve around nature. Mostly my beliefs align with those of Druids, so I guess calling myself a Druid wouldn't be too out of line. The reason for that is that once my philosophical stance on divinity (i.e. that wall of text above) got sorted out in my head, I realized that the place that I actually saw divinity was in nature (as opposed to humanity) and my personal relationship with it. Which doesn't mean much for me habit-wise since I've never been thoroughly religious, but it does mean that I think about things differently than before I had that realization. When I need religious guidance, as it were, I look for it in my personal beliefs, which revolve a good deal around my relationship with nature. That's why it helps me to take a walk around outside to think things out, sometimes. That is not to say that I actively ask nature to tell me what to do. It's not nature's problem, and I don't speak tree. It's more like giving me a new lens through which to see the world and any situation, which makes things make more sense.
And that's what's up with me. I guess it's 90% philosophy, 9% religious standpoint, 1% chocolate.
tl;dr: Yup.
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Lindsay’s Bio
Here and there
I like books and music and ancient history and outer space and magic. And you.
