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choco_frosh) wrote2007-04-26 07:15 pm
choco_frosh) wrote2007-04-26 07:15 pm
Realm: Memes - Subrealm: ...etc.
About the Interview Meme: Religion
Various people have asked various other people: “If you had to choose some other belief system, what would it be?”
This is such a cool question! So cool that I want to answer it:
I would be Zoroastrian. (No, they don’t take converts, but we’re talking theoretically here, anyway. Because it goes along with everything you think is true:
The Universe was built as a cosmic battleground for good and evil, in which you are intimately involved…
There’s a supreme deity, but also lots of intermediate divine beings…
You get to worship fire.
Yeah.
About the Interview Meme: Friends
Several people also lamented to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sovay about the fact that they didn’t get to see her very often. She came to New Haven a couple of times this semester, so we’re luckier than most, but I and various friends agree that we STILL don’t see her enough.
In fact, that’s true of a lot of my friends. Including people I know from different context’s whom I’d love to introduce to one another.
So that got me thinking: wouldn’t it be cool if there was an inviolable custom that at certain birthdays (one’s thirtieth, for example), all your friends had to assemble from the four corners of the earth to hang out with you for a few days? So that you’d have a chance to REALLY catch up with everybody, and introduce them all to each other, as well as having a total blast.
Then it occurred to me that, even apart from the potential social difficulties (what if you have friends who hate each other? What if you have people who’ll be offended if they’re not invited?)…
…this would mean that people would have to spend most of their time attending people’s thirtieth birthday celebrations.
Then I started imaging a society whose economy and way of life would be geared around making this possible, anyhow.
About the Icon of me holding a forkful of something:
It’s Octopus!
…so we got back from visiting Ulm with a group from the University of Konstanz last year, and went out for dinner. For some reason, I had a massive craving for seafood, so when we went out for Italian I ordered a Pasta con frutti di mare. (Or however you spell it: mit Meeresfruchten, anyway.) Grace was amused by the dish, and my propensity for eating the miniature octopi whole. (Hey, cutting ‘em in half was too much trouble!) Hence, she got a photo, which I later adopted ‘cause I wanted an icon that showed my face.
Sadly, as such:
*The dangly bits are pasta, not tentacles.
*While it was good, the seafood was NOT exactly straight out of the Mediterranean.
*It is NOTosirisbrisbane’s famous Octopasta, which I have yet to sample.
Various people have asked various other people: “If you had to choose some other belief system, what would it be?”
This is such a cool question! So cool that I want to answer it:
I would be Zoroastrian. (No, they don’t take converts, but we’re talking theoretically here, anyway. Because it goes along with everything you think is true:
The Universe was built as a cosmic battleground for good and evil, in which you are intimately involved…
There’s a supreme deity, but also lots of intermediate divine beings…
You get to worship fire.
Yeah.
About the Interview Meme: Friends
Several people also lamented to
sovay about the fact that they didn’t get to see her very often. She came to New Haven a couple of times this semester, so we’re luckier than most, but I and various friends agree that we STILL don’t see her enough. In fact, that’s true of a lot of my friends. Including people I know from different context’s whom I’d love to introduce to one another.
So that got me thinking: wouldn’t it be cool if there was an inviolable custom that at certain birthdays (one’s thirtieth, for example), all your friends had to assemble from the four corners of the earth to hang out with you for a few days? So that you’d have a chance to REALLY catch up with everybody, and introduce them all to each other, as well as having a total blast.
Then it occurred to me that, even apart from the potential social difficulties (what if you have friends who hate each other? What if you have people who’ll be offended if they’re not invited?)…
…this would mean that people would have to spend most of their time attending people’s thirtieth birthday celebrations.
Then I started imaging a society whose economy and way of life would be geared around making this possible, anyhow.
About the Icon of me holding a forkful of something:
It’s Octopus!
…so we got back from visiting Ulm with a group from the University of Konstanz last year, and went out for dinner. For some reason, I had a massive craving for seafood, so when we went out for Italian I ordered a Pasta con frutti di mare. (Or however you spell it: mit Meeresfruchten, anyway.) Grace was amused by the dish, and my propensity for eating the miniature octopi whole. (Hey, cutting ‘em in half was too much trouble!) Hence, she got a photo, which I later adopted ‘cause I wanted an icon that showed my face.
Sadly, as such:
*The dangly bits are pasta, not tentacles.
*While it was good, the seafood was NOT exactly straight out of the Mediterranean.
*It is NOT
osirisbrisbane’s famous Octopasta, which I have yet to sample.