Interview Questions
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baeritone...
1. Is fear a positive or negative force in your life and why?
I'd say it can be both. Fear of the unknown has always been a driving force in my life. Things that unnerve me are often accepted as challenges. I try to meet them head-on as much as I can. Coming out of the closet was a big hurdle with the potential fear of rejection from family and friends, but I managed it and am happier for it. Fear is a natural emotion, but how you logically deal with it dictates whether it's good or bad. I do have some irrational fears, like snakes, and I've not dealt so well with that one. :)
2. What is the activity in life without which you could not live?
Drawing! It's been the one consistent thing in my life since I was a little kid. It relaxes me, it makes me happy. It can run the full gambit of emotions and helps fuel an active imagination as well as give it an outlet. If I could no longer do it, I'd likely stress out and kick off this mortal coil.
3. How does a nice guy like you end up in a place like this?
LOL.. Blamehylandr! He encouraged me to start this journal before I left the country for the very first time, back in the Fall of 2003, in order to document the experiences. Thanks Don! I've continued it because I've enjoyed reading experiences from other folks and enjoyed meeting the authors on occasion.
4. Do you believe in a higher power, and if so, what are the characteristics of said power?
I do believe in God and I do believe that the tenants of Him (or Her depending on your point of view) is that we are here for a purpose and that He does watch over us and loves us. However, I am not so much religious in that I think every church group has put their own spin on the Bible, etc., in order to pursue their personal and political agendas. I don't mean that just in the current context, but all though history. The bottom line is that I am spiritual, but not religious. It is not for the Pope or whoever to tell me how to live my life or to tell me that I'm going to Hell for (insert sin or reason here). I often wonder what God would say about the whole mess....
5. You've just won the Powerball for 157 million dollars net to be paid to you immediately. After all the usual stuff (give money to friends and family, pay off bills, buy a house, etc.) wears off...what would you do with the rest of your life?
I'd travel some in the beginning, see the world a bit. When I got back, I'd likely go back to college and get an art degree or an English degree, at my own pace, try my hand at acting or writing or some other activity I've always wanted to give a shot. Maybe I'd open a coffee house where people can relax, play board games, etc. So many possibilities, it would be hard to figure until the event you described actually occured.
baeritone... 1. Is fear a positive or negative force in your life and why?
I'd say it can be both. Fear of the unknown has always been a driving force in my life. Things that unnerve me are often accepted as challenges. I try to meet them head-on as much as I can. Coming out of the closet was a big hurdle with the potential fear of rejection from family and friends, but I managed it and am happier for it. Fear is a natural emotion, but how you logically deal with it dictates whether it's good or bad. I do have some irrational fears, like snakes, and I've not dealt so well with that one. :)
2. What is the activity in life without which you could not live?
Drawing! It's been the one consistent thing in my life since I was a little kid. It relaxes me, it makes me happy. It can run the full gambit of emotions and helps fuel an active imagination as well as give it an outlet. If I could no longer do it, I'd likely stress out and kick off this mortal coil.
3. How does a nice guy like you end up in a place like this?
LOL.. Blame
hylandr! He encouraged me to start this journal before I left the country for the very first time, back in the Fall of 2003, in order to document the experiences. Thanks Don! I've continued it because I've enjoyed reading experiences from other folks and enjoyed meeting the authors on occasion.4. Do you believe in a higher power, and if so, what are the characteristics of said power?
I do believe in God and I do believe that the tenants of Him (or Her depending on your point of view) is that we are here for a purpose and that He does watch over us and loves us. However, I am not so much religious in that I think every church group has put their own spin on the Bible, etc., in order to pursue their personal and political agendas. I don't mean that just in the current context, but all though history. The bottom line is that I am spiritual, but not religious. It is not for the Pope or whoever to tell me how to live my life or to tell me that I'm going to Hell for (insert sin or reason here). I often wonder what God would say about the whole mess....
5. You've just won the Powerball for 157 million dollars net to be paid to you immediately. After all the usual stuff (give money to friends and family, pay off bills, buy a house, etc.) wears off...what would you do with the rest of your life?
I'd travel some in the beginning, see the world a bit. When I got back, I'd likely go back to college and get an art degree or an English degree, at my own pace, try my hand at acting or writing or some other activity I've always wanted to give a shot. Maybe I'd open a coffee house where people can relax, play board games, etc. So many possibilities, it would be hard to figure until the event you described actually occured.
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Date: 2005-04-21 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-21 05:07 pm (UTC)2. If you were stranded on an island with one companion for several years, who would it be and why?
3. You're elected the new Pope, what would be your agenda?
4. What are the best and worst aspects of your job?
5. Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
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Date: 2005-04-21 04:58 pm (UTC)Turnabout being fair play, if you have questions for me, I will answer. :)
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Date: 2005-04-21 05:14 pm (UTC)1. What would you consider to be a perfect date?
2. What year of your life would you relive and why?
3. If you could travel through time to the past for one day, what event would you go to observe?
4. Who do you see as the perfect person and why?
5. Are we alone in the universe?
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Date: 2005-04-21 05:36 pm (UTC)1.) The perfect date for me would be dinner - anywhere, be it McDonald', Fogo de Chao, or Le Cirque 2000 - and then coffee, most likely. Anything that gave the other guy and me the chance to actually speak to each other, because to me, the locale and order of a date is immaterial; anything can be fun with the right person. Well, maybe not dental work, but almost anything.
2.) 1996. That was the first year that I marched with the Westshoremen Drum and Bugle Corps, and it was the year we won the championship. I will never be able to describe the feeling I got when we were announced as the winners - and it was al the more pernicious because I had started the season never really having played a brass instrument. *sigh*
3.) The death of Mozart - because I want to know what actually happened.
4.) The perfect person would be a person who is inherently flawed, but with good intentions. A theoretically perfect person is flawed by nature of his perfection - he cannot help but cause ill feeling in others, who are either envious of his perfection, hurt by the unattainability of it for themselves, or disbelieving its actual existence. Thus is the perfect person flawed, because he hurts others by existing. So the perfect person would be the person who owns his flaws, acknowledges them, and tries to do good anyway. Of course, he'll fail sometimes - but he will be, most perfectly, human.
5.) You know, I sit on the fence on this issue. I can see both sides. The simplistic answer is that we'll never know until we have contact from another life form, but to me that's facile and an exercise in avoidance; we can hypothesize. So, hypothetically, there are two arguments of equal validity. The first, that given an infinite universe, other intelligent life must exist, because infinite space means infinite possibility; this is particularly popular with those who believe in a god. There there is the other side, which says that life here at ALL was an unlikely event, following a chain of events so incredibly coincidental that an accident of that nature could never happen twice. For me, I cannot say that one argument is better than each other; the cancel each other out. So my answer ends up being one based entirely on emotion - I think that there IS someone else out there, but I have no proof for it. I'm not sure that answers your question, but it's what I've got, I'm afraid. :)
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Date: 2005-04-21 05:18 pm (UTC)2. If you left Canada, what other country would you consider living in?
3. Your life is a sitcom, who is in the cast and what characters would they play?
4. What is your description of Heaven?
5. You're one of the two last contestants on Canadian Idol, what song do you perform to ensure a win? A loss?
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Date: 2005-04-21 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-21 07:00 pm (UTC)Hello from another LJ-er
Date: 2005-04-22 12:16 am (UTC)I'm glad I stopped by. Unfortunately, a lot of my journal has become "friends only" because of my impending divorce, but I hope you'll want to take a look.
Blessings.
Re: Hello from another LJ-er
Date: 2005-04-27 03:03 pm (UTC)Sorry for the slow response, but I don't get the email notifications from LJ like some folks do. Thanks for taking a look here :)