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Gary Moore is awesome, Miss Dagger! ^^

Hmm, yeah, I'd love to see a tornado. From a distance...

What terrifies you more than anything else?

Mm. I'm not that scared of very many things. I don't like the concept of aliens and fire makes me geek out.

Same question.

Oh dear, hm... What am I most afraid of.....?
I haven't had the chance to be afraid of much, so I'm not sure. I deliberately avoid horror movies, and I'm generally a safe, peaceful person, so... I dunno. Let's see... not afraid of dying, not really afraid of heights, not afraid of fire, water... bugs sometimes are gross, but that's not much of a fear.... Falling, maybe. I've never been comfortable with the idea of falling.


Have you had any creepy fortune-cookie or magic-eightball type moments, where random things seem to KNOW stuff about you? Any instances in particular? And how do they make you feel? Creeped-out? Wowed? Meh-ish?

I don't believe in that generally. I believe things like fortune cookies and horoscopes are just vague, generic statements that could apply to anyone and could be twisted to fit any situation. That's what makes them seem so accurate.

I know this because I ran a newspaper. Our horoscopes section was written anonymously by whoever felt like doing it at the time. It's all a bunch of horse crap.

Of course there could be legitimate psychics out there. I don't believe you can discredit anything's existence, only prove that it does exist. I just don't believe they're wasting their time writing horoscopes and fortune cookies.

So, short answer, no, I haven't had any of those experiences.

My question is this: do you believe in abilities such as being psychic, telepathic, telekinetic? People who are medians, etc.

Well, I think that abilities like that are out there (not Telekinetic) but not like they are in the comic books. I have heard to many things and felt a few to think that its all BS. Though I don't think there are people out there that definitively know exactly what will happen in the future. So I guess I agree that they are out there but remain skeptical as to the amount of power they have.

If you could pick only 3 senses of the 5 to keep which ones would they be?

Eyesight, hearing, feeling, easy.

And I agree about the it could be out there, because I don't believe you can prove something doesn't exist, only that it does.

Do you believe in aliens?

I do. There are billions of billion of billions of planets in space. How utterly pompous of us if we believe we are the only 'intellegent lifeforms' in space. The odds are against it.

Do you believe in the 'inner goodness' of people?

Of course not! Being a determinist, compounded with the fact that people-watching is my favorite sport after basketball, I reckon it can sometimes hide really far beneath the surface, but every kind gesture is, at its barest, done for the self, be it to feel charitable or in the hopes that some audience takes note of it.

Where d'you wish you'd been born?

I'm perfectly happy being born where I was. I love my neighbourhood, I love my city and I love my country.

Have you ever done drugs?

Quoth Mitch Hedberg: "I used to do drugs; I still do, but I used to, too."

Do you support the death penalty?

Uh. I don't know really. I'm kind of a believer of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves us all blind and toothless. It's really not the best thing. You can't fight fire with fire. And it's hypocritical to murder someone for killing someone else. What kind of message does that send?

No. No I don't support it.

Do you?

No, of course not. Death is not punishment, it is instant solution to every one of the person's problems; people who commit the atrocity of murder should be made to rot and go insane by being kept in a cage for decades upon decades.

What d'you wish your name had been?

I love my name, honestly. And it fits. Plus, the alternative was not so good in my opinion. Though I do like the name my parents had picked out if I was a boy: James.

If you could, would you rather explore space or the bottom of the ocean?

The question hinges on just how much of space I am allowed to explore. If I am capable of exploring all of it, then I would certainly go with that; while there are likely thousands of species we've never even laid eyes on in the depths of our planet's oceans, there are just as likely entire civilizations light-years away. So, yeah, durfinitely space.

Which of your five basic senses, forced to choose, would you opt to live without?

Scent, easily. I hardly use it as it is and I love all other sensations, so... I'd definitely choose to lose that over any of the other four.

Also, I'd like to explore space too over the ocean for the exact same reasons.

If you could make the sun appear any color, what color would you pick?

Black would be quite awesome.

Given fifteen minutes to spend an infinite amount of money, which city d'you tell them to drop you in?

Oh dear. I'm not material at all. So I don't know what I'd even want to buy much less where to get it. I want to continue living in the country. I have everything I want except an old-ass truck and a couple horsies. And maybe a pool.

And of course all the music ever made. XD

So uh, Idk. NYC? I'll buy lots of strange shit there. Plus, I just love that city.

If you could bring back one extinct creature, what would it be and why?

Homo erectus, for sure; it'd be really interesting to be so alike in appearance to a species and yet so different in brainpower.

Do you consider the theory of evolution to be a sound explanation for the diversity of life on our planet?

I believe in very strange things that I don't want to get into discussing in depth unless someone is very very interested.

I believe in both religion and evolution, to be short. But my religion is my own. Unless someone else practices it and I don't know what it's called.

I think it would be interesting to see that too.

If you had to drink one drink for the rest of your life other than water (you get water), what would it be?

Lemonade probably. Since that's good, and still on the healthy side.

If you had to eat only one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Pasta salad.

Knowing what you now do about what it means to be human, would you prefer having been born a different animal? If so, which?

I like my intelligence, thanks. Although I like animals more than I like most people.

Same question since it is an interesting one and I'd like to hear someone else's opinion on it.

If I was born an animal, I would no longer know the significance of what it is to be human, and thus why it might be nice to be something different. That would kind of...ruin it, I think. So same answer, I guess. Though I've always wanted to be an eagle...

The dead are rising. The zombie apocalypse has come. What is your plan? (Come one...everyone has a plan for the zombie apocalypse!!)

Shotguns. Lots of them.

And fire.

And then I"m raiding WalMart and the gun stores. There are lots of those around here.

*nods*

Final step: kick ass.



Hmm... do you prefer sad endings or happy endings?

Definitely happy endings. Mostly because the sad endings I've written have left more like tweaking the reader's nose, than trying to be a good ending. I have read good, sad endings and they are okay. But I prefer happy endings. They don't have to be happily ever after, but if you get a sense that everything might just be okay, that's enough for me.

When you role-play, what kind of personalities or traits do you enjoy playing the most?

I prefer a variety. But I do not like playing meek, lay-down, walk-all-over-me characters. I just cannot do it. Anything else though, I can do from shy to obnoxious.

What's your favorite meal of the day?

My favourite meal... that would have to be dinner. I don't usually eat breakfast (even though I know I should) and lunch just isn't awesome. Dinner is when you have all the amazing foods.

What are your two favourite animals, and if they had to battle it out, who would win? :3

Panther and...hmmm...tiger or dolphin...I'll go with tiger. So panther against tiger. The panther wins, duh.

What's your least favorite animal?

Onions. By far. I cannot eat them. Anything else I can choke down at least, usually, but not those. Makes me sick. I used to eat them like apples though when I was little. Maybe that's why I can't eat them now.

Oh and Dagger, a tiger would kill a panther in a real fight. Tiger's are the biggest wild cats. Lol.

If you could learn any skill without having to do the work necessary to learn it, what would it be and why?