Ten Weird Things Meme
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errantemberI've been tagged by Myndsweep to do the:
10 Weird Things Meme
RULES: Each player of this game starts off
with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People
who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird
habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At
the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.
Online memes generally annoy me, and I usually don't participate in them. Because I like Myndsweep, I'll fill out my ten things, but I'm not tagging anyone. The insanity stops here. :)
1) Since we've been discussing circumcision recently, I'll mention that my penis was so big as a baby that it wouldn't fit in the circumcision machine. They had to do it by hand. I bear the uneven scars today. I was 9 pounds, 9 ounces at birth, and the nurses in the hospital called me "Buster."
2) I wage a constant (but fairly lazy) battle between being a humanist and an elitist. On one hand I think people are all more equally capable than they think they are, and should stop their hero worship and go out and be heroes themselves. When I finally get my music back in public again, the first message I'll be sending is "this could be you up here on stage." On the other hand, I'm constantly annoyed that anyone really believes that priorities other than my own are in any way relevant. I have frequent meglomaniacal/psychotic visions of mass destruction, death, and terror occurring to those who dare to annoy/oppose me. I frequently envision a totalitarian state in which my will is law and my whim is death. In my mind I still often observe myself interacting with the world from an "obey me or else" mentality. These days these things don't determine my agenda much, they're mainly an amusement.
I blame most of them on the relationship with my mother.
3) In the same part of my mind that obsesses about chickens (see #10 below) lives the firm belief that it is my destiny to some day be a waiter. I currently work in high tech and make a lot more money for a lot less effort than most waiters, but my current reality doesn't matter. I will be a waiter someday, whether I like or not.
This will really impress the manager to interviews me for the job. No one else will *ever* have told him this.
4) My only monogamous relationship, which was my first and happened in college when I was a freshman in college, lasted only a few weeks, at which point I gave my partner a "it's open or it's over" ultimatum. Although I've been theoretically open since then, I've only very rarely been involved with more than one person, and am only now finally attracting parters with whom I might actually have common enough interests to form lasting relationships. Despite this, the median length of my romantic relationships is still well over two years.
5) Although I stayed at Poly Paradise at Burning Man this year and hung out there most of last year, I've never actually had a sexual experience with anyone from that camp. In fact, in 5 years of Flipside and 3 years of Burning Man, I've never had a sexual experience with anyone I didn't already have an established relationship with before going, and never with more than one person per festival.
This is likely to change soon.
6) I live in a 2400 sq. ft. house alone with my dog and two rabbits. I have a hot tub in my bedroom suite. I'm working very hard right now to first move into my own garage, then into a < 200 sq ft. cob (monolithic sand, clay, and stray) house that I'm building in my back yard.
7) I'm a self-help relationship and psychology junkie. I read an average of 150 pages a week, if not more. Most of the significant beliefs I currently hold about the universe, human behavior, and how to interact with others came from these books correlated with my personal experience. Ideally I'd like to cross-index the good ones into a huge life-manual that would allow me to look up relevant info on a specific subject across all books instantly.
8) I've learned how to dis-associate from my mind/ego in the past year. I no longer view the thinking part of my mind as "me," only as part of me. This is probably the single most important personal development that I've ever achieved thus far. My self-worth is no longer dictated by my mind's judgments or my accomplishments. I've read many books on this subject, but The Power of Now by Tolle was the one that finally got me there.
9) I firmly believe that most forms of neurosis and mental illness, as well as a lot of physically illness, are caused far more by the mind then the body and are under some degree of conscious control. I agree that in some cases drugs are necessary to help some people, but think they are vastly overused and used mainly to get people to conform to an unhappy life rather than actually heal them. I think that happiness and control of one's life are the single most important aspect to treating these kinds of problems.
10) Somewhere deep in my mind lives the belief that chickens are the most important thing in the universe. I've actually considered getting a doctoral degree in music theory or performance just to prove that music consisting entirely of chicken noises is unconditionally superior to any other kind of music, probably with a proof that any existing music can, itself, be reduced to a composite of chicken noises. The most important untold stories percolating in my mind involve chickens. Cybernetic chickens. Frozen chicken fired at thousands of miles an hour from rail guns. Chicken deities summoned from beyond to save the world.
Now that you're all hot, you know where to find me. ;)
10 Weird Things Meme
RULES: Each player of this game starts off
with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People
who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird
habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At
the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.
Online memes generally annoy me, and I usually don't participate in them. Because I like Myndsweep, I'll fill out my ten things, but I'm not tagging anyone. The insanity stops here. :)
1) Since we've been discussing circumcision recently, I'll mention that my penis was so big as a baby that it wouldn't fit in the circumcision machine. They had to do it by hand. I bear the uneven scars today. I was 9 pounds, 9 ounces at birth, and the nurses in the hospital called me "Buster."
2) I wage a constant (but fairly lazy) battle between being a humanist and an elitist. On one hand I think people are all more equally capable than they think they are, and should stop their hero worship and go out and be heroes themselves. When I finally get my music back in public again, the first message I'll be sending is "this could be you up here on stage." On the other hand, I'm constantly annoyed that anyone really believes that priorities other than my own are in any way relevant. I have frequent meglomaniacal/psychotic visions of mass destruction, death, and terror occurring to those who dare to annoy/oppose me. I frequently envision a totalitarian state in which my will is law and my whim is death. In my mind I still often observe myself interacting with the world from an "obey me or else" mentality. These days these things don't determine my agenda much, they're mainly an amusement.
I blame most of them on the relationship with my mother.
3) In the same part of my mind that obsesses about chickens (see #10 below) lives the firm belief that it is my destiny to some day be a waiter. I currently work in high tech and make a lot more money for a lot less effort than most waiters, but my current reality doesn't matter. I will be a waiter someday, whether I like or not.
This will really impress the manager to interviews me for the job. No one else will *ever* have told him this.
4) My only monogamous relationship, which was my first and happened in college when I was a freshman in college, lasted only a few weeks, at which point I gave my partner a "it's open or it's over" ultimatum. Although I've been theoretically open since then, I've only very rarely been involved with more than one person, and am only now finally attracting parters with whom I might actually have common enough interests to form lasting relationships. Despite this, the median length of my romantic relationships is still well over two years.
5) Although I stayed at Poly Paradise at Burning Man this year and hung out there most of last year, I've never actually had a sexual experience with anyone from that camp. In fact, in 5 years of Flipside and 3 years of Burning Man, I've never had a sexual experience with anyone I didn't already have an established relationship with before going, and never with more than one person per festival.
This is likely to change soon.
6) I live in a 2400 sq. ft. house alone with my dog and two rabbits. I have a hot tub in my bedroom suite. I'm working very hard right now to first move into my own garage, then into a < 200 sq ft. cob (monolithic sand, clay, and stray) house that I'm building in my back yard.
7) I'm a self-help relationship and psychology junkie. I read an average of 150 pages a week, if not more. Most of the significant beliefs I currently hold about the universe, human behavior, and how to interact with others came from these books correlated with my personal experience. Ideally I'd like to cross-index the good ones into a huge life-manual that would allow me to look up relevant info on a specific subject across all books instantly.
8) I've learned how to dis-associate from my mind/ego in the past year. I no longer view the thinking part of my mind as "me," only as part of me. This is probably the single most important personal development that I've ever achieved thus far. My self-worth is no longer dictated by my mind's judgments or my accomplishments. I've read many books on this subject, but The Power of Now by Tolle was the one that finally got me there.
9) I firmly believe that most forms of neurosis and mental illness, as well as a lot of physically illness, are caused far more by the mind then the body and are under some degree of conscious control. I agree that in some cases drugs are necessary to help some people, but think they are vastly overused and used mainly to get people to conform to an unhappy life rather than actually heal them. I think that happiness and control of one's life are the single most important aspect to treating these kinds of problems.
10) Somewhere deep in my mind lives the belief that chickens are the most important thing in the universe. I've actually considered getting a doctoral degree in music theory or performance just to prove that music consisting entirely of chicken noises is unconditionally superior to any other kind of music, probably with a proof that any existing music can, itself, be reduced to a composite of chicken noises. The most important untold stories percolating in my mind involve chickens. Cybernetic chickens. Frozen chicken fired at thousands of miles an hour from rail guns. Chicken deities summoned from beyond to save the world.
Now that you're all hot, you know where to find me. ;)
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