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Furry Chat => Furry Freezer => Topic started by: Nobi on January 25, 2013, 08:33:55 PM
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It was inevitable. Ladies and gentlefurs, start your questions!
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how hard would it be for you to answer in yolo speak?
What drives you on, on a day to day basis?
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how hard would it be for you to answer in yolo speak?
What drives you on, on a day to day basis?
Very hard. Very hard, indeed. Like, adamantium hard.
The thing I think drives me on—like, on a really deep level—is the desire to gain experience. To be able to go through life as the learning experience that it is. :)
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what is your ultimate goal in life? :D
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What was the strangest dream you remember?
Why do you call yourself Shinobifox?
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What was the strangest dream you remember?
Why do you call yourself Shinobifox?
Probably the strangest/coolest dream that comes to mind at the moment involved me fighting a group of anime girls in an area that sort of resembled my university. It was very intense; they were doing all sorts of crazy attacks and firing Dragon Ball Z-esque energy blasts everywhere. I could fire energy blasts as well, and could perform instant-transmissions/shimmersteps too. I could also do windcutters with my hands. I remember dodging their attacks for a while—attempting to evade them by jumping around in the trees and narrowly avoiding their enormous balls of energy as they ripped through the environment. Finally, I decided that my only way out was to fight. So I took them on one at a time, for the most part, although there were a few instances in which I had to fight two or three at once. Finally, there was only one left: a black-haired one wearing some kind of high-tech suit of incredibly light body armor. She charged and fired a pink energy blast, which I barely evaded by jumping over it and spreading my legs as wide as possible so it passed just under me, between my legs. This all happened in slow motion, by the way. Before touching the ground, I sent a windcutter at her, which sliced open the front of her armor. The second my feet touched the ground, I shimmerstepped/instant transmissioned directly in front of her and did a super-fast, super-powerful palm strike to her unarmored sternum, which sent her flying into the wall about 30 feet behind her. I had no idea why any of this happened, why they were after me, etc. All I know is that it was one of the most epic fights that I've ever had in a dream. XD
Now, on to the next question! I call myself ShinobiFox because it was the only username that I felt comfortable with when I was picking one. I've always loved ninjas, but I didn't want to have the word "ninja" in my username anywhere. That just seemed far too cliché, for some reason. So I decided on Shinobi to be a little different, even though it essentially means the same thing (it roughly translated into "to steal away" or "to vanish" if I remember right). As for the fox part, that's pretty obvious. :P I just wanted to keep it simple, I suppose. I see my fursona as myself, rather than a separate character or entity. I didn't want to give myself a different name, so I suppose you could say ShinobiFox is more of a title or a descriptor, rather than a name. Of course, I will answer to Shinobi or ShinobiFox.
It was also inspired by a nickname one of my friends gave me when I snuck up on him while wearing my fox-eared hat: "It's a Kitsune Ninja!" he said. He began calling me that, even when I wasn't wearing my ears or being sneaky. :)
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Haha cool! :D
Now because I do this to everyone with an AMA thread, I'm going to do this to YOU! RAWR
I threw a ball at a 37 degree angle from the horizontal and I throw it with a force of 60 N, disregarding air resistance and taking g as 9.8, how far will the ball land?
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Haha cool! :D
Now because I do this to everyone with an AMA thread, I'm going to do this to YOU! RAWR
I threw a ball at a 37 degree angle from the horizontal and I throw it with a force of 60 N, disregarding air resistance and taking g as 9.8, how far will the ball land?
But you left out the ball's mass! Regardless, it will never land! *quick-draws Mateba Unica 6 revolver and fires a caster round imbued with a disintegration spell at the ball as it flies through the air. the ball is no more*
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I did forget the balls mass, ordinarily it wouldn't matter but because I used force rather than initial velocity it does. Ah well!
WELL WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST ASPIRATION IN LIFE?
Also how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck norris?
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I think my greatest aspiration in life is to simply be happy, financially secure, and safe. Also to never become an a**hole. I never want to become like the people who I see walking around treating each other like crap, acting selfish, and generally believing that the world revolves around them. I suppose another way of phrasing my aspiration is that I want to be a loving, successful, content, and self-reliant person. And to never grow up.
And if a wood chuck could chuck norris...?
... Gods save us.
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What are your favorite furry artist(s) (if you know)?
What type of music are you into (if any)?
Also, by weather would you prefer your environment very hot or very cold?
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3 questions
1: what does being a fur mean to you?
2: what "spiritural" stuff do you believe in?
3: what would you do (and i'm not saying this is happening to me.) if no fur or "regular person" would be your fiend?
p.s. please go in depth.
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3 questions
1: what does being a fur mean to you?
2: what "spiritural" stuff do you believe in?
3: what would you do (and i'm not saying this is happening to me.) if no fur or "regular person" would be your fiend?
p.s. please go in depth.
1. To be perfectly honest, I'm still kinda developing a concrete answer to that question. I enjoy looking at and creating furry art; I listen to the music of furries like Renard, Wolfgun, and Rchetype (of course I listen to plenty of other music, as well); I wear furry-related clothing when I can—so far that only consists of a fox-eared hat, which sadly I won't be able to wear soon due to the harsh Texan summer approaching. However, I would like to get more furry-related clothing. There are a few T-shirts I have my eyes on, and I would also like to get a tail and perhaps a collar.
Finally, I have a tendency to imagine myself as my fursona. I'll sometimes behave in a fox-like manner, and occasionally I produce mental images of how my tail and ears might be behaving if they were physically present. I don't consider myself Therian or Otherkin, though.
2. That, my friend, is a very difficult question to answer, especially without taking up hours of your time explaining it. XD But I'll see what I can do:
I suppose I will begin by saying that I don't affiliate myself with any religion, organized or not. I don't consider myself a religious person, and likely never will. I just don't like the idea of religion; to me, it seems to discourage people from exploring the world—both physical and spiritual—for themselves. It's too structured, at least for my taste. It doesn't really allow for change, which is one concept my spirituality is built on, considering how much it has changed with the arrival of new information and experiences.
Do I believe in a god or some other form of higher power? Yes, and no. I admit that I cannot fully explain it, and that the idea still confuses me, but I find myself attracted to the idea of a singular, "infinite consciousness." That is, all life forms—you, me, Anoni, Leaf, George Bush, your neighbor's dog, the trees outside, Hidetaka Miyazaki, etc—are all the same consciousness, simultaneously. Our selves as we currently experience them are just focal points of this consciousness. This idea, to the best of my knowledge, comes from Hinduism. In Hinduism, the infinite consciousness I mentioned is called Brahman. Imagine it being an everlasting ocean. From this ocean we have what is called Atman, which could be likened to the soul. Picture it as some water taken from the ocean. Then, we have your body, which we can imagine as a cup, a bottle, a bowl, etc. We're all from the same ocean, yet we're in different containers. When our bodies die, the water simply gets poured into a different container. One thing that my ex-mate's father said to me one day comes to mind: "You don't have soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body."
Of course, I'm not quite sure I subscribe to the idea of reincarnation. As to what happens to us after death, I really have no idea. Maybe there's a spirit world, maybe we are reincarnated. However, the one thing that I 100% do not believe in when it comes to what happens after death, is hell. I refuse to believe that such a place as hell exists, especially the Christian version of it. The way I see things, hell is nothing more than a tool for scaring people into becoming believers.
Anything else you'd like me to answer about spirituality? XD There's certainly a lot more to my beliefs. A LOT more. But I find that it's easier for me to respond to more specific questions.
3. What would I do if I had no friends, and everyone refused to be my friend? Honestly, that is quite possibly one of the saddest thoughts I can imagine. And it was kinda true for a good portion of my life. I felt very alone until I was about 16. I felt as if nobody wanted to be my friend, and that those people who were my friends didn't really like me very much. People treated me like crap, and I felt that I was generally disliked, misunderstood, and unwanted by everyone around me. While all that has certainly changed by now, and I have very good friends, both furry and non-furry, I would honestly like to stop my answer here. Those are memories I would not like to return to.
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[/size][size=0px]Do you prefer pie or pizza? Also what'd be in the pie / what'd be on the pizza?[/size]
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[/size][size=0px]Do you prefer pie or pizza? Also what'd be in the pie / what'd be on the pizza?[/size]
You may wanna preview your posts before you post them, dude. I see a lot of sizing and font code there. o.O
As for pizza or pie, I like both! Depending on my mood, of course. I have a massive sweet tooth (like, it sticks out about three feet from my face), so every time I have something savory, like pizza, I NEED to have something sweet for dessert, like pie. If I had the stomach capacity, I would have no problem with eating an entire large pizza, and then an entire pie. :D
As for the type of pie, I will never refuse a slice of apple pie with plain crust. In other words, not blasted with giant sugar crystals. And none of that interlaced-strips-of-crust crap. I need solid, plain, extra flaky and delicious crust. A scoop of vanilla ice cream doesn't hurt, either. As for the pizza, I am perfectly content with just pepperoni, especially if it comes from Home Slice—my favorite pizza place. However, on occasion I will order a pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and green peppers.
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But it wasn't like that a minute ago agggh.
I think if I had the capacity I'd do so, too.
Mmm apple pie *drools*
Are you quite big into any sports? And besides furry what other hobbies and interests do you have?
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Why are you so awesome?
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But it wasn't like that a minute ago agggh.
I think if I had the capacity I'd do so, too.
Mmm apple pie *drools*
Are you quite big into any sports? And besides furry what other hobbies and interests do you have?
I've never really been into sports. In high school, I joined marching band instead of taking PE or joining an athletics team, but I quit that my sophomore year because I wasn't having fun, most of the people in the band didn't care enough to practice, and the band director was an angry nazi all the time. What I didn't know was that I was short 1/2 a PE credit. So my senior year, I joined the tennis team out of desperation to make sure I got that credit in time for graduation. I had fun sometimes, especially when my doubles parter and I were matched up against a pair that was even worse at it than we were. >w< Other than that, the only sport that I'm really interested in is Parkour, and even then, I'm not amazing at it. I can do some pretty basic vaults, some diverolls, and I can climb fairly well, but that's about it. Nothing too fancy.
As for my non-furry-related interests, I've played D&D since I was in elementary school. xD I've never really followed the rules, and as a result I've kinda developed my own style of playing that I've introduced to each new group of friends I meet. It's VERY different from the official rules, haha. The only thing that my style and the rules have in common is the dice and the stats (although I add one extra stat). I also write fantasy and science fiction, although I haven't had time to do so in a while with school and work. I'm a gamer; I collect knives, swords, and paramilitary gear; I sew by hand; I like wearing hats; I'm currently learning to play piano in school. There are probably a few things I'm forgetting, but I attribute that to the fact that I've recently woken up and have barely even gotten out of bed. xD
Quilgard: See above. :P Lol, I've never really thought of myself as being terribly awesome, in spite of other people insisting otherwise. That's low self-esteem for you, I guess. But thank you. :) I try to believe people when they say that now.
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Parkour... Never heard it called that before so I looked it up, I suppose I see it can be engaging.
I see you like a lot of combat related stuff, are you interested in joining the military?
Piano? Can you play anything by Frans the hands yet?
Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (1854) [André Laplante] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCHE-UPwBJA#ws)
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Parkour... Never heard it called that before so I looked it up, I suppose I see it can be engaging.
I see you like a lot of combat related stuff, are you interested in joining the military?
Piano? Can you play anything by Frans the hands yet?
Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (1854) [André Laplante] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCHE-UPwBJA#ws)
It's quite fun, yes. :) I just love jumping/rolling around and climbing on things. :3
And while I love knives and combaty things, I actually have no interest in joining the military. I honestly doubt they would take me, even if I wanted to join. XD I'm underweight, I have allergies and asthma, I experience panic attacks, and my vision sucks.
Holy crepes, man, I'm just beginning! :o I can barely play "When the Saints go Marching In," let alone Liszt! Although if I were to bust out with that Sonata, my grandpa would be about 10,000,000 different kinds of thrilled; he LOVES Liszt.
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I see. I'm underweight, apparently, I can get hayfever but I don't think any other and I do have very mild asthma so I doubt they'd take me either. You have panic attacks? Anxiety related? I have anxiety, tend to only have panic attacks alongside my phobias, I see how that could interfere.
A lot of Frans' techniques involve playing the scales and slices of rhythms with a slight rock to them, kind of like jazz, really except Liszt wrote what they play, jazz musicians tend to just ad lib.
And I bet your grandpa would be thrilled it's not something that easy to do. I can't play the piano or any other acoustic instrument for that matter, I don't find it that engaging, I prefer using synths and computers :)
Do you have any favorite western art music composers?
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I see. I'm underweight, apparently, I can get hayfever but I don't think any other and I do have very mild asthma so I doubt they'd take me either. You have panic attacks? Anxiety related? I have anxiety, tend to only have panic attacks alongside my phobias, I see how that could interfere.
A lot of Frans' techniques involve playing the scales and slices of rhythms with a slight rock to them, kind of like jazz, really except Liszt wrote what they play, jazz musicians tend to just ad lib.
And I bet your grandpa would be thrilled it's not something that easy to do. I can't play the piano or any other acoustic instrument for that matter, I don't find it that engaging, I prefer using synths and computers :)
Do you have any favorite western art music composers?
I suppose it's anxiety related, yes. I have a few specific triggers that I've been able to discern, which I won't go into here.
Are you asking about classical composers, or just western musical composers in general?
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How are you?
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How are you?
I'm doing pretty well! Thank you for asking, Ventus! ^_^ How are you doing?
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I see. I'm underweight, apparently, I can get hayfever but I don't think any other and I do have very mild asthma so I doubt they'd take me either. You have panic attacks? Anxiety related? I have anxiety, tend to only have panic attacks alongside my phobias, I see how that could interfere.
A lot of Frans' techniques involve playing the scales and slices of rhythms with a slight rock to them, kind of like jazz, really except Liszt wrote what they play, jazz musicians tend to just ad lib.
And I bet your grandpa would be thrilled it's not something that easy to do. I can't play the piano or any other acoustic instrument for that matter, I don't find it that engaging, I prefer using synths and computers :)
Do you have any favorite western art music composers?
I suppose it's anxiety related, yes. I have a few specific triggers that I've been able to discern, which I won't go into here.
Are you asking about classical composers, or just western musical composers in general?
Ok I can understand.
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[size=78%]Western art music, first class or academically experimental music.[/size]
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Hey man I completely understand. But those memories are what make me push forward away from that again and to be honest I have currently discraced my self not but 30? Minutes ago. I am Christian and I just believe in a place that is full of "not" pain and death but of a place where you live in a place that's full of your fears and anything else. But as I say do you want to find out what happens after death right now? And that usually stops the topic in its tracks. Not to be mean but wearing a color is creepy and weird. Sometimes I've wanted to see what happens after death. But he will come for me, and you, and my father, brother. Time comes around at the end of this line. Like scissors to fish line. But any way! :) How was valentines day for you?
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Hey man I completely understand. But those memories are what make me push forward away from that again and to be honest I have currently discraced my self not but 30? Minutes ago. I am Christian and I just believe in a place that is full of "not" pain and death but of a place where you live in a place that's full of your fears and anything else. But as I say do you want to find out what happens after death right now? And that usually stops the topic in its tracks. Not to be mean but wearing a color is creepy and weird. Sometimes I've wanted to see what happens after death. But he will come for me, and you, and my father, brother. Time comes around at the end of this line. Like scissors to fish line. But any way! :) How was valentines day for you?
You seem to be in a very cheery mood nixon :)
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Are you surprised at that? :?
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Are you surprised at that? :?
Are you asking me or Shinobi? o_o
But yes, no, oh idk now :P
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I am asked youz kio. How do you pronounce that?
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Pronounce what :?
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Hey man I completely understand. But those memories are what make me push forward away from that again and to be honest I have currently discraced my self not but 30? Minutes ago. I am Christian and I just believe in a place that is full of "not" pain and death but of a place where you live in a place that's full of your fears and anything else. But as I say do you want to find out what happens after death right now? And that usually stops the topic in its tracks. Not to be mean but wearing a color is creepy and weird. Sometimes I've wanted to see what happens after death. But he will come for me, and you, and my father, brother. Time comes around at the end of this line. Like scissors to fish line. But any way! :) How was valentines day for you?
Uhh... I can't tell if I was just threatened or not... Also, by "color" I assume you mean "collar," and that you are referring to my desire to wear one. You're free to have your opinions, but please, do try to phrase them in a more respectful way. Putting "Not to be mean" at the beginning doesn't really help when, directly afterwards, you insult something that another person is interested in.
If you feel like discussing things like what happens after death, I'm fairly certain that there is a thread for that.
My Valentine's Day was fine.
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How are you?
I'm doing pretty well! Thank you for asking, Ventus! ^_^ How are you doing?
I'm doing pretty good myself, thanks for asking back x3
So, I'm not sure if this has already been asked, but: If you could choose anything as an element, what would it be? (take into consideration not onlythe 'western' elements, but also the 'eastern' ones :))
And what power/attack would you have with that?
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I like your spirituality, it's humbling but also sheds light on the ideas of consciousness. We define a consciousness as being self-aware, but how do we define awareness. If we define consciousness as a moving, constantly shifting and evolving shape that reacts to it's external stimuli in complex ways, then the universe could be given the idea of being conscious.
I want to ask you a few questions on it,
First, how did you end up believing in this spirituality, did you believe other things before it and if so what? I'm interested to see your evolution of beliefs
Second, how has this spirituality affected your life, has the effect been significant and in what ways has it affected you?
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Sorry for all the spelling errors. I'm doing this on my I phone and it auto corrects something's. and sence I don't know how to talk about collars and I don't want to lose more friends I think I will just end it here if that's fine. :(
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I like your spirituality, it's humbling but also sheds light on the ideas of consciousness. We define a consciousness as being self-aware, but how do we define awareness. If we define consciousness as a moving, constantly shifting and evolving shape that reacts to it's external stimuli in complex ways, then the universe could be given the idea of being conscious.
I want to ask you a few questions on it,
First, how did you end up believing in this spirituality, did you believe other things before it and if so what? I'm interested to see your evolution of beliefs
Second, how has this spirituality affected your life, has the effect been significant and in what ways has it affected you?
Thank you, anoni. :)
I'll try to give the short version, because the long version can get VERY long if I'm not careful. XD I actually enjoy telling people about how my beliefs have evolved, so I'm very happy you asked that question!
I was never raised with any sort of religion. I wasn't raised specifically to be an atheist, it was just that religion was a subject that never came up in my house.
One day in elementary school, a kid that I didn't even know randomly ran up to me at recess and asked, "Hey, are you Jewish or Christian?" I had heard neither of these words before, so I simply picked one. "Christian...?" I replied. He just said, "Good," and then ran away to continue playing. I was very confused, but the idea had just been put in my head that I was supposed to be Christian. Eventually, I found out through other kids—mostly by overhearing them talking—about this person called god, and this other person called the devil. God lived in heaven and was good, the devil lived in hell and was bad. If I was good and worshipped god, I would get to go to heaven, but if I was bad and didn't believe in god, I would go to hell and be tortured for the rest of eternity. Not a fun thought for a small child. I spent a good portion of my childhood—up until middle school—living in a pretty constant state of fear/paranoia, worried that I would accidentally do, say, or even think something that would damn me to hell (using "damn" as an in-context verb, not an expletive). It screwed me up pretty hardcore.
As I transitioned to middle school, though, I began to think more about it, and I eventually realized, "All this stuff about god is a bunch of BS!" Having been presented with no evidence that what Christianity taught was true, and finally realizing just how much it relies on fear to subdue its followers and deny them their humanity, I became the angriest atheist you ever did see. Oftentimes I would mock, laugh at, and/or verbally attack people if they revealed that they were Christian. I thought they were stupid, and I made sure they knew it.
Over time, though, I just grew less concerned with what other people believed. As long as they weren't trying to shove it down my throat, I let them be. If they did try to shove it down my throat, though, I would still react with hostility. I became more of an agnostic than an atheist, opting for a more open spiritual worldview than what atheism offered. Maybe there's something more to the universe, but I just can't see it. I haven't been presented with any evidence to prove that there's something more, but maybe I will be.
And boy, did something present itself. In my sophomore year of high school, I met a girl who would soon become my girlfriend. Let's call her J. She was a self-proclaimed Wiccan (I say self-proclaimed because, when I actually researched the religion and its tenets, I found that she was a massive hypocrite). Her father was a shaman, and a follower of a particular Incan religion I can't remember the name of. So the two of them, along with her stepmother, were very much the New-Agey types. J would try to explain things to me that they believed, with regard to things like magick, chakras, and all that good stuff. However, for the longest time I wasn't quite sure what to think of it. Then one day, we were all having dinner at a restaurant. A friend of ours had come along, too. Let's call him W. The conversation had turned to an esoteric subject, and it was revealed to me that W was very familiar with that J and her family believed, as well. I was the only one at the table who didn't understand a thing that was being said. When I expressed my confusion and my feelings of being left out, they agreed to show me what they were talking about when we got back to J's house.
It was on that evening that they essentially reached down my reality's throat and pulled it inside out.
Disclaimer: What I came to believe that night is not the same as what I believe now. I've continued to evolve since my time with J ended, and much of my spiritual beliefs are very ambiguous at this point.
To summarize the events of that evening: J assisted me in the process of opening my chakras, albeit in an unusual order. My third eye was the first to be opened, and only afterwards did she walk me through the other six. When we did the third eye, we performed a little experiment involving telepathy in which she transmitted a thought to me without telling me what it was. After a few moments of "listening" I was to tell her what I thought she had sent to me. When I got it right on the first try, that was pretty much enough to convince me that what she was speaking of was very, very real. I also felt physical sensations during the opening of my chakras.
After this, her father put a chair in the center of their living room, and told me to sit in it. He asked me permission to give me a healing. At this point, I was far too enthralled to say no to anything they wanted to show me. So I agreed. Candles were lit, and J's father proceeded to wave his hands slowly above various areas of my body, as if brushing away negative energy and "fluffing" my aura (that is an actual term, from what I've discovered). If you've ever been on a roller coaster, you know the tickly feeling you get in your stomach when you shoot down a steep incline. That's precisely what I felt throughout most of the healing session, and at one point, I found myself unable to stop giggling. Afterwards, I felt amazing.
From that point forward, I pretty much went with almost whatever J told me. There were some exceptions, of course, and also some things that I wasn't quite sure I wanted to dabble in just yet. However, I did do my fair share of dabbling. However, I gradually found myself disagreeing with many of the things J seemed to require of me to be a part of her life. Among these was the fact that I basically had to remove my capacity to feel things like jealousy and anger, because they were negative emotions. No matter how much I seemed to learn, how many visions I had, how many times I opened and cleared out my chakras, she always spoke to me as if I still needed to be "woken up;' as if I still needed to be unhooked from The Matrix. I grew to dislike the rigidity of her beliefs, and began to explore more on my own. I still believed many things similar to what she did, yet as I did my own research, experimented with things my way, I began to stray from what she wanted to teach me. My beliefs became much more flexible, and open to change as new information and experiences arose.
After I broke up with her, I continued to pursue these supernatural phenomena, if you'd like to call them that. I participated in mass astral projection groups (although I stopped before we actually got to project—my dabbling in that area is another massive post entirely), continued to experiment with things like telepathy and chakras and energy, and generally just continued investigating that side of reality that she and her family had shown me for two and a half years. However, as life began to seep in—as I became busy with work and college—my pursuits in this area began to slow down. At this point, I've essentially placed that side of myself on the back burner. It's still there, although many of the things I vehemently believed were true are now in the saucepan of uncertainty. As I said earlier, my beliefs have evolved significantly, and I've grown much more skeptical and analytical when it comes to strange happenings. I don't dismiss them immediately, but I no longer jump on them and immediately assume they're due to supernatural or metaphysical phenomena. This is partly due to my discovery that those who consider themselves "New Age" can easily be just as dogmatic, close-minded, and cruel as the Christians I so passionately hated in middle school.
If this evolution has affected me and my life in any way, it has taught me to be open to new and unusual things, but to still approach them with caution. To be curious, but to investigate adequately and think critically before drawing any conclusions. My time with J taught me many valuable things, which I still apply today even after all the terrible things that happened with her. One thing she said still resonates with me: "Run things through your heart," she would always say. By this she meant that I should really think about what I'm planning to do or say before I take action, especially when it involves other people and their feelings. During my time with her I learned the importance of smiling and surrounding myself with the people and things I love, as well as just how powerful positive thinking really is. I also hold people and my relationships with them in very high regard. Those I love are often the most important things in my life.
Although the scars from her emotional and mental abuse are still visible on me at times, I've learned the importance of not letting others tread on me, especially in the ways she did. I've also begun to put much more effort into understanding others, especially in times of conflict. I do my best to approach conflicts calmly, and with the intent of resolving them peacefully. I've learned to acknowledge when I'm wrong or made a mistake, yet I've also learned not to buckle under the pressure of others.
So yeah... I think that about covers it. Is there anything else about this subject that you'd like to know?
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That's a very unique and interesting story! And quite a long short version, xD
It's nice to see how someone can have so much effect on someones elses life, you seem to have a very complex relationship with J, you make out the entire formation of J as being a rigid, harsh but spiritual instructor, yet at the same time, in certain sections you talk of mental abuse.
I'd like to ask more about said abuse, as in tell me more about it, but you reserve the right to not answer.
Regardless, a fun question, if you had 3 wishes what would they be?
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I think you forgot my question, lol xD
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Gah! Sorry, Ventus! I guess I got all swept up in Anoni's question. >.>
Anyway, I've always been fond of lightning (so original, I know XD ). And I guess I'm especially into it right now, since I've been playing the demo for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. So I'd love to have lightning-based powers. However, rather than being like Cole McGrath from inFAMOUS (or however the title is stylized), being able to shoot electricity and absorb it and do all sorts of crazy explody things with it, I'd rather have it be a more close-range power; Like, I could move incredibly fast and I could imbue my physical attacks with lightning. So basically a really blurry taserfox! :D
Anoni, I will be responding to your follow-up question soon. It'll also be a bit of a long response, and for now, I must concentrate on homework for the evening. 0:)
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Ah, ok, interesting ^^
Thanks :)
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What's your favorite furry artist? What's your favorite non-furry artist?
And what furry / non-furry comics do you read (if any)?
Also, how would you personally pronounce "Shinobi"? :3
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I'll answer the three wishes question, Anoni. :) Right now, I think my first wish would be to have a limitless amount of real money at my disposal that nobody would question the existence/legitimacy of and that didn't need to be drawn from an already existing source. My second wish would be for the ability to slow down time at will, so that every second equalled an hour for me. However, I this wish would require that I only expend as much mental, physical, and emotional energy within each hour as I would if I was experiencing time normally. That way, I would get much more done, without expending nearly as much energy! Finally, for my third wish, I wish that I could be with my mate right now.
What's your favorite furry artist? What's your favorite non-furry artist?
And what furry / non-furry comics do you read (if any)?
Also, how would you personally pronounce "Shinobi"? :3
Well, I don't know many furry artists, but I do like Squeedge's style. And i think my favorite non-furry artist would be... I honestly don't know. XD I don't pay as much attention to actual artists as I do to their art. >.>
"shin" like the part of your leg, "O," "B."
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What is your favourite kind of snack?
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What is your favourite kind of snack?
Hmmm... Probably PB/J! :D
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What is your favourite kind of snack?
Hmmm... Probably PB/J! :D
:o Mine too! :3
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What is your favourite kind of snack?
Hmmm... Probably PB/J! :D
:o Mine too! :3
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Image is broken, Shinobi.
Candy or savory?
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Image is broken, Shinobi.
Candy or savory?
Grrr... Well, it was an epic high five animated gif. Here it is: http://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Well+i+have+Master+Chief+doing+a+Epic+Brofist+so+_3413e203abfc1d88085c25dcf955e0a3.gif (http://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Well+i+have+Master+Chief+doing+a+Epic+Brofist+so+_3413e203abfc1d88085c25dcf955e0a3.gif)
I like both, really. I usually have to have something sweet after I have something savory, though.
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Still not there, might be worth dling it and uploading it to tinypic or something and linking here. Are you sure you're linking the actual URL of the image file? :P
I can go with your preferences there.
Plain cookies or choc chip cookies?
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Still not there, might be worth dling it and uploading it to tinypic or something and linking here. Are you sure you're linking the actual URL of the image file? :P
I can go with your preferences there.
Plain cookies or choc chip cookies?
Blegh, I be a lazy fox...
And what in the deepest, coldest recesses of Cocytus is a "plain" cookie? o.O
Chocolate chip, please. No. Double chocolate chip. No. TRIPLE chocolate chip. NO. EXTRA LARGE DARK CHOCOLATE COOKIE WITH DARK, MILK, AND WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS, BLUEBERRIES, A SCOOP OF VANILLA ICE CREAM, AND A PLANT-CUP OF ORANGE MILK BECAUSE THAT USED TO BE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE COOKIE LOUNGE CLOSED!! *furiously smashes through everything/everyone in the immediate area, tears streaming down face*
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What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
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wait, there was a place called the cookie lounge? :?
sounds supper cool! ^_^
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wait, there was a place called the cookie lounge? :?
sounds supper cool! ^_^
Yes!! It was a super-colorful cafe-like place where you could order custom cookies; you could choose the type of dough you want, and put all sorts of toppings/fillers in it. You could also pick from all sorts of flavored milks! Unfortunately, it closed down rather quickly. :( I only got to go three times!
What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
I think that varies from person to person, Puncia. But for me, I get pretty agitated if people make fun of my mate.
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i never have never will have a "mate" wife/bf. what ever you want to call it. @.@