Wanted to leave this for a few more days, but I find it easier to answer questions in short bursts, while the juices flow, y'know?
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Originally Posted by AWsquared
What made you change the title of this thread? What's the meaning behind it?
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Assuming you said this at the time I had changed it to "noecho", it was based on the fact that Chimecho is my favourite Pokémon (tut, tut, nobody asked me about my favourites yet!). So it was a simple play on words. At the moment I'm still between angels and insects on my title name. So it shall remain "untitled" until I can find the time to think of something I'm happy with. I'm forever changing up things when I can. Give me a chance to change my thread title and I'll wear it like clothes (changing it daily!).
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Originally Posted by Harlequin
Do you believe in a god/higher power?
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Yes, awesome. I always like questions like these, okay. Before I get into anything, I've never wanted to be bias or judgemental when it comes to faiths. So anybody who reads my views would do well to remember that as such.
For me, like many others, I struggle to believe that there was nothing to create all of this. There cannot be cause without action. I do think there had to be at least two things in the beginning. inexistence, and existence. For without one, there cannot be the other. For humans, we cannot think about what would be before life, or what would come after death, for as all we know is living, and existing. So the concept is hard for us to think about. I do think that whatever created us, does not currently have any sort of free will or conciousness. I do not believe that one day the heavens will come down from above. There was a creationist, but my mind is not powerful enough to ever say what it may have been.
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Originally Posted by Harlequin
What religion/religions are you most interested in?
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For the longest time before I had ever thrown myself into considering gaining proper knowledge of the faiths, I thought I would find Buddhism the most interesting. Later on in life I actually studied each of the 5 major religions in a good bit of detail. While I studied more foundational information in some than others, I pressed most into Islam. Out of the major faiths I find it to be extremely interesting. The complexity and dedication are definitely at the forefront of it. You hear a lot about Muslim extremists on TV, and it's easy to associate that with what the religion is, but to be honest, I wouldn't consider them to be interpreting the faith properly at all. The story surrounding the origins of the faith is really magical, it's really worth reading. In all honesty, I don't think that what the bible exclaims "is the greatest story ever told", I've read a lot of interesting ones within the Qur'an. Without babbling on about it too much, it was a faith I didn't expect to find so much in, it's a deep well, and worth looking into.
On top of that, I always loved reading about the Native American tribal stories. While not strictly a religion or anything, I always found origin stories to be really good to read. It's more on the line of Cherokee mythology, but as someone without a faith I find them all to hold the same sort of merit.
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Originally Posted by Harlequin
Why does religion as a topic interest you?
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I think religion has the essence of a story entwined with the human mind, it can teach you a lot about humanities' desire to belong, to know, to live, to always live. I've always found it to be a remedy for the fear of what we cannot know about until we no longer breathe. When you sit around a camp-fire, you tell stories to pass time, to envelop fear, when an author writes he aims to tell a story to make you think, to make you laugh, to make you feel. I feel that every religion is a story, that many choose to live by. It interests me to know what people attach themselves to, and the lengths they will go prove their faith.
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Originally Posted by Harlequin
As an ex-Catholic, I'm curious: what do you think about Catholicism?
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Hypocritical, not so much as the Protestant faith however. I simply think their ideals are in the wrong places, nor do I think it's really sensible to claim that am 80+ year old man preaches what should be the gospel of a billion people. It's out-dated and misguided. I never liked how closely Catholic countries link their faith with their constitution, as a secularist, I'll always believe they should be separate.
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Originally Posted by Kura
What's the worst/ meanest thing anyone has ever said to you?
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People have said mean things to me all the time, I could never point out the worst. It depends on who says it, that always has more weighting on how hard I take it. My parents are probably the ones who affect me most with their words. I'm someone who's had a million arguments, but apologized a billion times. I grew up through a lot of hardships and things were never easy, I had often and always been a target to some sort of mental abuse wherever I lived, and whomever I lived with.
It just makes you a stronger person, because after a while, you realize it comes from one place; their insecurity.
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Originally Posted by Drakow
. . . Why is your gender set to female lol
Also, you interested in swinging down to mine in July?
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It's male now! And so long as I have the right $$$ I'll be over to crash your house and eat your food.
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Originally Posted by Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers
Do you find me rude?
Have you ever tried meatballs? What do you think of them?
What is your favorite kind of soda/soft drink/whatever you call coca cola and the lot?
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Why would I ever find you (Rika) rude? Is the real question, I have never really thought that of you. Maybe at times I think you're a little dirty minded but it seems I've passed you out these days!
Meatballs are pretty good, but they need to be really fresh and homemade for me to like them a whole lot. I never get them on pizza because I find them to be kind of annoying. To be honest with you, I am a man of rougher meat, and thus I enjoy anything I need to tear apart with my teeth more than something overly succulent. Beef jerky and things like that are amazing, but they don't sell it much here. Steak too, I prefer stuff like that. I'd like to try a meat pyramid though...
My favourite soft drink, hmm. To be honest with you I prefer juice and/or ice tea. However, I do enjoy something which I don't think they serve internationally called "Lucozade". It's a glucose energy drink, which is pretty divine. I also like Mountain Dew, but again they don't sell that here, so I only had it while in the US. OH OH OH. No lies. My favourite drink in the world is Fanta. Disregard everything I've ever said in my life. Fanta <3