Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Week 173
Some quizzes from OKCupid
What Kind of Psychic Are You? Test
Shaman
You scored 5 Empath, 5 Channeler, 1 Medium, and 10 Shaman!
You are a SHAMAN
As you are vividly aware of nature and the spirit in animals, plants, and trees, your style of psychism is shamanistic. You derive a highly tuned sense of danger from your instinctive link with wild animals; this is a great asset–your intuition literally saves lives. You can sense impending danger in all situations, whether it’s on the sidewalk, in traffic situations, or in the workplace. You may also have natural healing ability–an innate sense of what will harm or help someone who is ill.
Ravnos
43% P, 56% W, 38% H, 53% G
Play a Ravnos.. Trust me.. Illusion and deceit, your trickery is more than just sleight of hand, your illusions are as real as your enemies are willing to believe. You can speak to the animals, and take one hell of a beating, but your true trump card will usually be your ability to make people (and vampires) see, hear, feel, etc. whatever you want. This power is the most costly of powers, but it never fails, no roll of dice needed.. You must, however, when creating your character, choose a vice, be it theft, murder, white lies, or a taboo fetish, your character can’t resist the urge to engage in some immoral activity as often as possible. Better be careful, even fellow Ravnos might get annoyed with your habits after long. In the end, though, all Ravnos share some common goals, spreading east of their ancient homeland in India as they did to the west, releasing the energy that powers their illusions into the environment (powerful enemies seem to hold a lot of that sweet stuff), and bridging the generation gap between young Ravnos and the elders with a better understanding of each other… Before something messy happens..
“Exactly how nuts are you? test
Peanut
Congratulations! You scored 51%!
You’re so normal, I’m tempted to ask you: Please explain to me what normal is? I mean, since you are, you ought to have some understanding of it! Anyway, peanuts are good nuts. Especially when they are made into peanut sauce.. And you do do things that are nuts.. once or twice a year.
What Coding Language Are You Test
PHP
You scored 57 Problem Solving, 59 Common Sense, and 63 Creativity!
Although generally used for pretty specific functions, PHP pretty much does it all. It has to employ front-end interfaces but relies heavily on back-end structure, so both problem solving and creativity is important. And because PHP is predominantly used for dynamic web-based content, a little common sense and “knowing your audience” is pretty important.
According to our research, you’ll be dead by
February 2045 at age 81
Probable cause: cancer
AVERAGE FEMALE LIFE SPAN: 77.1 years
As you can plainly see, you have more health & vitality than the average woman.
WHY YOU DIE?
56% cancer
24% ulcers/bowel toughness
13% loneliness
5% drowning of the lungs
2% wounds
You have 14177.8 days left on this earth.
You’ve already lived 52% of your life.
What Type of Human Are You? Test
Goody Two Shoes
You scored 73% Do Gooder, 72% Drive, and 96% Intellect!
Aw, don’t be hurt by that. You’re a good person…very nice and helpful to others, always lending a hand. Always, always offering to lend a hand, even perhaps when it’s not called for. Oh, and is that your raised hand in the air again? Why not let someone else answer next time? But seriously, there should probably be more people like you in the world. Super-smart, driven, and warm-hearted. There would be many less problems in the world if there were more like you, and you should be proud of that. Just don’t forget a little ‘me’ time now and then, you deserve it.
How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 50% on Do Gooder
You scored higher than 67% on Drive
You scored higher than 95% on Intellect
Amun
Indeed, you are 79% erudite, 83% sensual, 50% martial, and 54% saturnine.
Amun was a mysterious God indeed. His very name basically means “what is hidden”, “what is not seen”, “what cannot be seen”, and though even his form was said to be “unknown”, he was depicted as a man with the head of a uraeus (cobra), or a man seated on a throne and holding in one hand the sceptre, and in the other the ankh.
All secrets aside, what we do know is that Amun was the Egyptian King of the Gods, not unlike his counterparts Zeus (Greek mythology) and Odin (Norse mythology). With his ruling might over the Gods, Amun soon became associated with the Pharaohs.
Being responsible for the creation of the world, it is not surprising that he was also the God of fertility, reproduction, and sexual power, and thus also the God of agriculture. With the combined powers of regeneration and royalty, Amun became linked to the sun and the great God Ra, becoming known as Amun-Ra, which pretty much consolidated his status as Supreme God.
In spite of Amun’s political ascension, he also enjoyed popularity among the common people of Egypt, who came to call him the vizier of the poor, the protector of the weak, and an upholder of justice.
How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 45% on erudite
You scored higher than 37% on sensual
You scored higher than 50% on martial
You scored higher than 45% on saturnine
Global warming, climate change – however your political gurus “frame” it – is a global issue. Yes, it’s a moral issue. Yes, it’s a political issue. It’s also a survival issue.
Wake up.
I applaud Al Gore. Thank you for not giving up.
Go see An Inconvenient Truth.
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom — think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his “traveling global warming show,” Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media – funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our “planetary emergency” out to ordinary citizens before it’s too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point – and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore’s personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective, to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life – convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Week 172
Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Week 171
My friend Grateful Bear is celebrating the birthday of Pulizer-prize-winning Zen eco-poet Gary Snyder, and I’m joining the birthday party!
Happy Birthday Gary Snyder!
The Modern Poetry site (Dept. of English, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has an interesting subsite on him that includes the following:
“Conservatism has some very valid meanings,” he says. “Of course, most of the people who call themselves conservative aren’t that, because they’re out to extract and use, to turn a profit. Curiously, eco and artist people and those who work with dharma practice are conservatives in the best sense of the word-we’re trying to save a few things!
“Care for the environment is like noblesse oblige,” he maintains. “You don’t do it because it has to be done. You do it because it’s beautiful. That’s the bodhisattva spirit. The bodhisattva is not anxious to do good, or feels obligation or anything like that. In Jodo-shin Buddhism, which my wife was raised in, the bodhisattva just says, ‘I picked up the tab for everybody. Goodnight folks…’ “
I can’t resist reposting one of the poems, considering my tagline!
For All
Ah to be alive
on a mid-September morn
fording a stream
barefoot, pants rolled up,
holding boots, pack on,
sunshine, ice in the shallows,
northern rockies.Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters
stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes
cold nose dripping
singing inside
creek music, heart music,
smell of sun on gravel.I pledge allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.