Intrrrrrrrriguing :-?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
If you're alert, people whose magic you had become deadened to will reveal stirring secrets. Places you've visited a thousand times may seem to have undergone an overnight transformation, exposing you to a series of mini-awakenings that ultimately add up to a full-blown *aha.* You may find yourself penetrating to the heart of mysteries that you previously didn't even realize were mysteries. By week's end, if you're brave enough to keep welcoming the surprises, you will be ripped free from an especially sneaky illusion and reunited with a lost fragment of your soul.

Well, I like the sound of that....


Speaking of odd little mysteries, what would you do if your clock radio goes off and it's people saying their Hail Marys, when previously you'd had it set to a classic rock station? /:-?

I'll buy it /:-)

The Oracle 33% Extroversion, 66% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 80% Perceptiveness

Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fault, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy. You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing. Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Extroversion You scored higher than 99% on Intuition You scored higher than 99% on Emotiveness You scored higher than 99% on Perceptiveness

Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Hmmm, yes and no. I'm actually quite interested in accomplishment and the realization of ideas. The world's not going to change for the better if we aren't willing to make it. I will accept a leadership role, but generally only if I can't think of anyone better suited. I also suck at math. ;-P

The rest stands well enough.

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Ganked from aureantes LJ, When you see this meme on your friendslist, quote Shakespeare.

There is a willow grows askant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make
Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
Thereon the pendent boughs her crownet weeds
Clamb'ring to hang, and envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and endued
Unto that element. But long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

(I've always been awfully fond of Ophelia :-?)

GNAR

My but doesn't this bring back fond memories. I was never stabbed, but god to I know what it's like to be singled out because you're not some perfect little cookie-cutter example of mainstream culture. I swear I'd dearly love to hunt down these people and strangle them!
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I want to stop school gang culture, says stabbed girl
By Stewart Payne
(Filed: 31/08/2006)

A schoolgirl, who was stabbed in the eye with a pair of scissors during her lunch break, yesterday described the "gang mentality" based on fashion and music tastes that led to her attack.

The 15-year-old had been taunted by three girl pupils in her year as she queued in the school canteen.

They threatened to cut off her long hair and, a short while later, returned with a pair of scissors.
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After more name-calling one of the three, aged 14, stabbed the girl several times including in the eye, a jury at Guildford Crown Court, Surrey, was told.

The victim was said to be fortunate not to suffer permanent loss of sight.

She gave evidence yesterday by video-link during which she said she was scared to return to school.

"It's this gang mentality that my generation seems to insist upon and I want to stop it," she said.

She had been labelled a "metaler" – a reference to heavy metal music – by her alleged assailant and her friends. She had also been singled out because she dressed in "goth" style.

She said any pupils who didn't like chart, pop, rap or hip-hop music were labelled as metalers and it was a category she was pushed into and had not been able to shed.

"I look like any other girl but obviously something stands out. Maybe I've got a big flashing sign that's invisible to me saying 'metaler — don't associate with'."

She said she was called "Neo" from the character in the film The Matrix because she sometimes wore a long black coat which, she said, was shredded by a pair of scissors in one incident. She said that in the alleged attack one of her tormentors came at her with the blade in her hand "like in the movie Psycho".

She felt the blade enter her eyelid, an injury that narrowly missed puncturing her eyeball. As she fell to the ground she felt further blows to her head and her back.

She was left with a number of gashes that required stitches and still suffers from blurred vision.

"I've never been in a scenario where I felt so intimidated," the girl said, but added that school etiquette meant that she could not report the girls to a teacher when they first taunted her.

One faces a charge of wounding with intent and a lesser, alternative charge of wounding. Her two co-defendants, now 15, face charges of perverting the course of justice after they allegedly disposed of the scissors following the attack. All three deny the charges.

The victim explained in a recorded police interview shown to the court how she had been "forced into a category" as soon as she arrived at the school. "Somebody asked me on the first day what kind of music I listened to, so I said AC/DC."

She said that, as a result of this, she was told she was a "metaler" and found herself shunned by classmates.

"I'd never heard of these categories," she said. "It seemed ridiculous. I realised I was being shut out, so I made friends with people who would accept me who were also metalers. But I just wanted to be friends with everybody."

She said she had been knocked out in an art class when a girl hit her with a studded bag but the art teacher had done "absolutely nothing about it".

On one occasion she was chased through a town centre by a gang of 13 girls and she said that it took six security guards to wrench two of her attackers off.

Police were involved when a pupil began making calls to her home, breathing heavily and making threats.

Referring to the alleged scissors attack, she said that after the canteen queue taunts the three classmates returned and one said: "Have you got anything to say to me now?" The girl responded: "Other than the fact that I think you are all pathetic whores and I want you to leave me alone, no, I don't."

She denied suggestions by Barry Kogan, the barrister acting for the girl charged with wounding, that she had begun the fight by racially abusing his client and that the scissors stabbing was accidental.

The trial continues.