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WRATH
1. Who did you last get angry with?
Marginally pissed off --My roommate, Benety, over silliness.
Actually, genuine, soul-breaking anger -- Rachel, for lying to me.
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Patience.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
4. How about of the same sex?
I have only struck another human (or animal) in anger once -- it was self-defense, a knee in the balls, and I'm not proud of it. Given the opportunity, I generally allow people to beat the shit out of me before striking them. It doesn't come up much.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
Marginally pissed off -- Benety.
Truly angry -- No idea. Possibly Marsha.
6. What is your pet peeve?
Things I am annoyed at frequently: Muddle-headed thinking, up to and including overused logic, self-justification, and over-relativism.
Things I really hate: Bravado, pride, idolatry, and putting ideas before people, which are all the same thing.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
I keep grudges in that my trust, once lost, is VERY hard to regain.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you have not done in a long time?
Work on my senior project.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
11 PM
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't?
Alissa.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
Hard to tell. I make so many.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
No.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?
This saturday, walking with my dad.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
6, then turned it off and slept in.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Enh?
I drink mostly ginger-ale...
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Extra-firm tofu.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one
sitting/outing/event?
1) Four twelve-ounce glasses of Code Red and vodka.
2) 3 coronas, two kaluhua and creams, a tequila sunrise, and a shot of straight tequila.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Nope. Other people do.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Spicy, I guess, but I like that and salt nearly equally.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought "i can eat that?"
WTF? I have looked at a chicken wing and gone "holy shit, that's a muscle like mine!"
AVARICE
1. How many credit cards do you own?
None.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Too poor for that... Gaming stores, I guess, or book stores.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Use it to support my writing, leave the rest to my children.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
If, by "famous," you mean, "has had a beneficial effect on the world, and many people's lives," then famous.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
9-5, sure. 8-8, no.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes, but I gave it back.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
4 days.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Helping others. Particularly, one day, a friend of mine told me "You are the wisest person I know. Thanks." Most proud of that, though apparently she doesn't know many wise people.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Making my own decisions, and not fucking that up overmuch.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
Make good art that people care about.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
No.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
Not one for contests.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
No.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?
Told a friend that I respected him.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
Love and Faith.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
No one.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? A specific person?
Uh, me?
Anyone in general?
Me, with a touch more focus.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
I hate my hair.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
Focus.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
I'm going to rock the boat here and say yes. But I'm lying.
Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?
I most often am struck by lust and sloth.
I am probably least unhappy with Pride, in that I like doing good work.
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
Vaguely Taoist, but really just visions.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Academic agnosticism, with rituals from America, Judaism, and Christianity. A nasty touch of Satanism, as well.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
Both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
I do not believe in magic as "supernatural phenomenon," because that doesn't parse, linguistically.
I believe in spontaneous knowledge and mystical experience, because I would be a moron not to.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
Failed to turn in a paper on time.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.") <-- The following is what I said when I missed the "not" above. Blergh.
Have I ever said the words of a prayer and not meant them? Not that I can remember. I don't know if it is a prayer if you don't mean it.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
By definition of "perfect," no.
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
Yes, and more.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
Triple Nobel prize: Physics, Literature, and Peace.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
All the time. Mostly girls.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
Once.
6. Do you gamble?
Yup. Don't let money rule you.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway?
Yup. Quantum Midterm.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
Human Rights
Environmental Protection
Zero-Emission Vehicles
Sex Education
Improvements on the Educational System
Money for the Poor
International Cooperation.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
Environmental Protection
Zero Emission Vehicles
Money for the Poor
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another type?
Yes, frequently I do.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
Yes, often.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like food and rent?
Yes, though only small amounts.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
Education, shoulder to cry on, couch to sleep on, shelter from awful parents.
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Being a bad person.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
Today I am cowardly.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
As a character -- Batman
As a person -- Spiderman
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
I do not know. I would hope so.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
Whatever is left over. I could use all three.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Not really, no...
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
I am willing to take on either role, as the situation allows, which usually means follower since our society is so type A driven.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
Nope.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it?
I have spent a long time thinking about this, as I have never registered for the draft (they just never sent me anything.)
I do not support our present military policies. At the same time, not registering means that someone else needs to die, and I cannot in good conscience say that I am more worthy to live than them.
That said, I would definitely apply for CO status, as I am a pacifist, and thus worthless in a battle.
Further, given that I have a lot of science training and am hopefully soon to be fluent in Chinese, there are a lot more useful things I could do to help my country than be cannon fodder.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
"Let a court which hands down one such sentence in 7 years be branded a bloody court!"
Yes, but only for genuine crimes against humanity, not as it is practiced.
4. Which should be guaranteed legal, prostitution or marijuana?
Either. Probably prostitution, since high marijuana prices keep my hometown's economy shored up.
5. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
It doesn't matter. Power belongs to those who seize it, sadly.
6. What was your favorite media circus trial?
I hate all of them with a passion.
7. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
Yes.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
Slacking off.
2. Do you collect anything?
Used to collect M:tG cards. Now, nothing.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
Porn, perhaps...
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Cash.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do?
Fallen in love with someone I couldn't have. Being reckless with the hearts of people I wasn't in love with.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
Yes.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Alissa, my first girlfriend, or Calder, my best friend, or my father. Close tie.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? Yes.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? I think about it hard.
4. What area are you wisest in? I would like to think decency.
5. Do you drive defensively? I don't drive.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Yes.
7. What did you learn today? The location of the secret Chocobo Paradise in FF9.
And of course, what is your favorite heavenly virtue? Chastity, the one you forgot.
1. Who did you last get angry with?
Marginally pissed off --My roommate, Benety, over silliness.
Actually, genuine, soul-breaking anger -- Rachel, for lying to me.
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Patience.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
4. How about of the same sex?
I have only struck another human (or animal) in anger once -- it was self-defense, a knee in the balls, and I'm not proud of it. Given the opportunity, I generally allow people to beat the shit out of me before striking them. It doesn't come up much.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
Marginally pissed off -- Benety.
Truly angry -- No idea. Possibly Marsha.
6. What is your pet peeve?
Things I am annoyed at frequently: Muddle-headed thinking, up to and including overused logic, self-justification, and over-relativism.
Things I really hate: Bravado, pride, idolatry, and putting ideas before people, which are all the same thing.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
I keep grudges in that my trust, once lost, is VERY hard to regain.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you have not done in a long time?
Work on my senior project.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
11 PM
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't?
Alissa.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
Hard to tell. I make so many.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
No.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?
This saturday, walking with my dad.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
6, then turned it off and slept in.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Enh?
I drink mostly ginger-ale...
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Extra-firm tofu.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one
sitting/outing/event?
1) Four twelve-ounce glasses of Code Red and vodka.
2) 3 coronas, two kaluhua and creams, a tequila sunrise, and a shot of straight tequila.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Nope. Other people do.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Spicy, I guess, but I like that and salt nearly equally.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought "i can eat that?"
WTF? I have looked at a chicken wing and gone "holy shit, that's a muscle like mine!"
AVARICE
1. How many credit cards do you own?
None.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Too poor for that... Gaming stores, I guess, or book stores.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Use it to support my writing, leave the rest to my children.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
If, by "famous," you mean, "has had a beneficial effect on the world, and many people's lives," then famous.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
9-5, sure. 8-8, no.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes, but I gave it back.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
4 days.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Helping others. Particularly, one day, a friend of mine told me "You are the wisest person I know. Thanks." Most proud of that, though apparently she doesn't know many wise people.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Making my own decisions, and not fucking that up overmuch.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
Make good art that people care about.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
No.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
Not one for contests.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
No.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?
Told a friend that I respected him.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
Love and Faith.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
No one.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? A specific person?
Uh, me?
Anyone in general?
Me, with a touch more focus.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
I hate my hair.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
Focus.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
I'm going to rock the boat here and say yes. But I'm lying.
Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?
I most often am struck by lust and sloth.
I am probably least unhappy with Pride, in that I like doing good work.
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
Vaguely Taoist, but really just visions.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Academic agnosticism, with rituals from America, Judaism, and Christianity. A nasty touch of Satanism, as well.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
Both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
I do not believe in magic as "supernatural phenomenon," because that doesn't parse, linguistically.
I believe in spontaneous knowledge and mystical experience, because I would be a moron not to.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
Failed to turn in a paper on time.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.") <-- The following is what I said when I missed the "not" above. Blergh.
Have I ever said the words of a prayer and not meant them? Not that I can remember. I don't know if it is a prayer if you don't mean it.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
By definition of "perfect," no.
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
Yes, and more.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
Triple Nobel prize: Physics, Literature, and Peace.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
All the time. Mostly girls.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
Once.
6. Do you gamble?
Yup. Don't let money rule you.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway?
Yup. Quantum Midterm.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
Human Rights
Environmental Protection
Zero-Emission Vehicles
Sex Education
Improvements on the Educational System
Money for the Poor
International Cooperation.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
Environmental Protection
Zero Emission Vehicles
Money for the Poor
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another type?
Yes, frequently I do.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
Yes, often.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like food and rent?
Yes, though only small amounts.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
Education, shoulder to cry on, couch to sleep on, shelter from awful parents.
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Being a bad person.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
Today I am cowardly.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
As a character -- Batman
As a person -- Spiderman
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
I do not know. I would hope so.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
Whatever is left over. I could use all three.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Not really, no...
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
I am willing to take on either role, as the situation allows, which usually means follower since our society is so type A driven.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
Nope.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it?
I have spent a long time thinking about this, as I have never registered for the draft (they just never sent me anything.)
I do not support our present military policies. At the same time, not registering means that someone else needs to die, and I cannot in good conscience say that I am more worthy to live than them.
That said, I would definitely apply for CO status, as I am a pacifist, and thus worthless in a battle.
Further, given that I have a lot of science training and am hopefully soon to be fluent in Chinese, there are a lot more useful things I could do to help my country than be cannon fodder.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
"Let a court which hands down one such sentence in 7 years be branded a bloody court!"
Yes, but only for genuine crimes against humanity, not as it is practiced.
4. Which should be guaranteed legal, prostitution or marijuana?
Either. Probably prostitution, since high marijuana prices keep my hometown's economy shored up.
5. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
It doesn't matter. Power belongs to those who seize it, sadly.
6. What was your favorite media circus trial?
I hate all of them with a passion.
7. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
Yes.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
Slacking off.
2. Do you collect anything?
Used to collect M:tG cards. Now, nothing.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
Porn, perhaps...
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Cash.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do?
Fallen in love with someone I couldn't have. Being reckless with the hearts of people I wasn't in love with.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
Yes.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Alissa, my first girlfriend, or Calder, my best friend, or my father. Close tie.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? Yes.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? I think about it hard.
4. What area are you wisest in? I would like to think decency.
5. Do you drive defensively? I don't drive.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Yes.
7. What did you learn today? The location of the secret Chocobo Paradise in FF9.
And of course, what is your favorite heavenly virtue? Chastity, the one you forgot.