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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #390 on: August 22, 2010, 09:16:14 PM »
Phoenix is hotter than all of them. ;)

Phoenix is unbearable too....but haven't lived there.

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #391 on: August 22, 2010, 09:17:14 PM »
Its roughly 2 blocks from hell. Count yourself lucky.
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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #392 on: August 22, 2010, 09:20:18 PM »
3. I am an atheist who goes to a catholic school....oh the irony.

Well if they aren't going in then I imagine many are going out ;)

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #393 on: August 22, 2010, 09:28:06 PM »

4. I am named after my father....so I am a junior.


So he's not GothamCity150?  Odd.

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #394 on: August 23, 2010, 05:26:13 PM »
1. I am a lapsed Catholic. I have done the full works all the way to being confirmed. At sixteen I turned around and walked home on the way to church with my dad. He didn't stop me but was incredibly disappointed about it. From  the beauty of particle physics to the wonder of astrophysics I tend to believe the universe is too amazing to have been any one entities idea.
Interesting, I believe that the universe is too amazing to not be designed by some divine entity.

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #395 on: August 23, 2010, 05:33:23 PM »
There is nothing remarkable about me, so this is a test to find five even remotely fascinating things to say.
You passed the test. :)

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #396 on: August 23, 2010, 06:06:02 PM »
1. I am a lapsed Catholic. I have done the full works all the way to being confirmed. At sixteen I turned around and walked home on the way to church with my dad. He didn't stop me but was incredibly disappointed about it. From  the beauty of particle physics to the wonder of astrophysics I tend to believe the universe is too amazing to have been any one entities idea.
Interesting, I believe that the universe is too amazing to not be designed by some divine entity.

That is why I'm polytheist...or something. I like to think of them as MPs and then you've got your head god...like Thor or something. Show me a man who can control the weather and I'm down on all fours.

HT: Coupling, a show that never fails to have a suitable reference.

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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #397 on: August 23, 2010, 09:22:04 PM »
1. I am a lapsed Catholic. I have done the full works all the way to being confirmed. At sixteen I turned around and walked home on the way to church with my dad. He didn't stop me but was incredibly disappointed about it. From  the beauty of particle physics to the wonder of astrophysics I tend to believe the universe is too amazing to have been any one entities idea.
Interesting, I believe that the universe is too amazing to not be designed by some divine entity.
...but I totally respect and am awed by other people's faith.

There is nothing remarkable about me, so this is a test to find five even remotely fascinating things to say.
You passed the test. :)
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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #398 on: August 24, 2010, 06:16:19 AM »
There seem to be a lot of religious things coming up on this list recently. I think it might be becoming a religious outcasts anonymous meeting......well........

1. Remember a few months back when Matty hypothesised that a Mormon Australian would have to be one of the nicest people on earth, and he would like to meet one......well......I was one. But I was not just any Mormon, I was the grandson of one of the leaders who had regular meetings with the president of the church in Utah. My father hopes to follow in his footsteps.

2. I was brought up in an extremely strict household. The combination of mormonism and my parents high aspirations and commitment to the religion, mingled with the fact that we lived in a small town and were the only mormons in the town and therefore had to be a super excellent example to all the non-mormons who lived there. We could not even drink coca-cola, or visit friends on sundays or watch any kind of tv on sundays.

3. When I was about 17 I told my Dad that I did not want to go to church one week. He told me I had the choice - I could either attend willingly or unwillingly. I went willingly........

4. When I turned 19 I served as a missionary in eastern Europe. I met two of my best friends there, and I vomited almost every morning because of the stress of the job. Please be nice to missionaries when they knock on your door. You probably do not want to hear what they have to say, but at least be nice when you tell them you are not interested. Like many missionaries I was there because of expectation and naive immaturity - not because I liked annoying people on their door steps. My best times there were when I was teaching free english classes in the universities and when I was sight seeing. I also enjoyed learning about nazism, communism, and socialist politics from the many many people I met.

5. When I got home two years later I moved into a "singles" ward so that I could meet a nice mormon girl (I had met very few up until that point), marry and have a nice mormon family. Instead I got more into politics, and philosophy and I realised that I had nothing in common with any mormon (male or female) I met there (I would totally disagree here that australian mormons are nicer!). I started dating non-mormons, and started critically analysing mormonism and my life, and realised this was not right for me. So after many internal struggles and lots of arguments with my family I finally left the church. Soon afterward I was excommunicated - something I kind of instigated. My parents stopped talking to me for about a year. It probably took a few more years of internal struggle before things started feeling right again. I have not been into a church since, except for one wedding reception, and I could not attend my brothers and sisters mormon weddings because I was not allowed. Despite this I have no regrets about my decision. flieger was really helpful around this time, even though he probably does not really know it. His is a voice of reason and logic. Noam Chomsky, Douglas Adams and Anne Rice helped out too!

6. I can probably count on one hand the number of films I saw in a cinema before I was 21. It wasn't even a mormon thing, it was more a money and locality issue - I totally made up for this at University ;)

7. Despite excelling in Taekwondo I only ever went in one competition (it was an interstate championship), but I freaked out when I kicked my opponent square in the face and knocked them over. I got top points for that, but I couldn't continue the fight, and lost my enthusiasm for taekwondo afterward.

8. I want to be lead singer in a gothic/black metal band, and mix in orchestral and noise art/glitch components. I want Dr Avalanche to be my drummer. I plan to start the band within the next 12 months!

9. I usually forget someones name within about 2 minutes of hearing it, although I will remember everything else about them.

10. My daughter was born at home without a doctor or midwife present. I caught her, cut her cord, and wrapped her up in a blanket. We took her to the hospital for a check up two days later - we were just too tired to rush there when it happened. The doctor got mad at me because he felt threatened that I did the job he paid all the money to be trained for, despite the fact that doctors only got involved with births in the last century.
 

(I did a list of 10 because I had to include a few more upbeat things!)
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Re: Five fascinating things you don't know about me
« Reply #399 on: August 24, 2010, 07:26:25 AM »
1. I was educated by:

The upshot of this was atheism, but I still believe my soul is in my left shoulder. The Nun's Story 1959

2. The Beach Boys sang Barbara Ann to me in an airside corridor at Heathrow, I can still recall the absolute joy of it. They then signed my LP.

That's a Wilson in the middle, but I can't remember which one it was. Anyone recognise the scrawl? Amadeus 1984

3. When I was an au pair in Val d'Isère, I had to feed Sylvia this 3 days a week.

Sometimes I wonder if she grew up dreaming of sheep. Blade Runner 1982

4. I hold the unbroken UK record for underwater bead-threading.

                                                  Catch Me If You Can 2002

5. I can not be alone in thinking that life is often like this.

                                                 Ma vie est un enfer 1991 jokes

 

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