September 25, 2005

• NOT A REAL POST

  My blog for today was posted just after midnight and has some substance
  to it.  This is just some needed housecleaning.  You see, I
  do these quizzes and I don’t suppose there’s much point in doing them
  if I don’t post them and posting them along with my more substantial
  text causes a jarring juxtaposition, so I save them and post the
  accumulation occasionally, usually on a weekend when the rest of the
  world has gone silly, so that I can feel like I’m part of the culture
  that surrounds me.

  Only about half of the paragraph above is true.  Your guess on which half is as good as any.

  
  
  You are THE REAL THING!
  You are just a regular person with alternative
  beliefs.  You don’t feel you have anything to
  prove and are just enjoying life.  Good for
  you!

  What kind of pagan are you?
  brought to you by Quizilla

  Hathor You scored 57 Affection and 45 Chaos!

  You are a maternal figure and your family is your life. You help outyour mate as much as you can, and create an environment of love andhappiness around you. You don’t always think of your own needs and canget lost in the shuffle. Hathor is seen as a woman with a cow’s ears or with cow’s horns and a sun disk. She is the wife of Horus (Her name means “Temple of Horus”)and she is sometimes seen as the mother of the Pharoah. She is a protective, nurturing Goddess.

  My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Affection You scored higher than 99% on Chaos

  Link: The Ancient Egyptian Goddess Test written by kitsunechild on Ok Cupid

  Your Inner Child Is Happy

  You see life as simple, and simple is a very good thing. You’re cheerful and upbeat, taking everything as it comes. And you decide not to worry, even when things look bad. You figure there’s just so many great things to look forward to.

  How Is Your Inner Child?

    I’m thinking of adding another quote or two to my list of favorites.

  There’s this one that appears to be making the rounds of the web misattributed to Nelson Mandela:

  Our greatest fear is not that we are
  inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
  not our darkness, 
  that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
  gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who
  are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not
  serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
  shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were
  born to make manifest the glory of God within us. 
  It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light
  shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As
  we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates
  others.

  from A Return to Love, Reflections on A Course in Miracles
  Marianne Williamson

  This other one is an old favorite of
  which I was recently reminded by someone who felt humiliated by my
  response to a comment she had left here:

  “It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

  authorship uncertain,
  commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln

  …and, by the way, it is never my
  intention to humiliate anyone or hold him or her up to public
  ridicule.  I just have a strong liking for honest and open public
  discourse, as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into ad hominem insults or
  boring, repetitive flamewar.

  I don’t know if I’ll add those to the list.  It’s so long now….

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