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  1. jonny2mad

    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    I dont know what I would have done with the fame as Im not very keen on fame

    and not for a while I dont really feel like growing a big beard or a beard at all for a while
     
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    You used to be a Mormon priest, now you're a staunch athiest. What made you lose your faith?
     
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    lithium frogboy

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    What is your best skill and what is your worst? What would you like to be better at?
     
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    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    what made me lose my faith was reading the old testament (I read the bible i think 34 times ) and thinking if there was a god what would he do if he was wise and good .

    I didnt think he would allow slavery or some of the other things that go on in the old testament so concluded that it was fake

    my best skill is that Im very good in emergencys, Im also good at predicting things....worst skills well I cant ride a bike or swim Id like to be able to do really good close up magic tricks
     
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    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Yes, I can imagine you being good in emergencies. But I saw you falter when your beard caught on fire. It was like: *Eeeeeek! What do I do? What do I do? Do I run around? Do I roll my head on the ground? Eeeeeeeek! Pat pat pat pat!*


    Do you plan on learning to ride a bike or swim?
     
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    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    nope dont plan to .
    and I thought my reactions to the beard fire were fast and effective, I may have played up the appearance of confussion for comic effect but I did the most logical thing to do in the circumstances
     
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    It was several hours before you put your beard out, the panic just made time seem to go faster for you. Then you wouldn't talk for the rest of the night [​IMG] What is your favourite cheese of all time?
     
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    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    favourite cheese tricky I like bree and stilton but favourite is most likely chedder
     
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    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Have you ever been in love?
     
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    hahaha jonnys beard.. fire... one of my most memorable glastonbury memories :)
     
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    lithium frogboy

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    Haha, still kick myself that I missed the whole beard fire incident!

    So ... beard fires excluded, I think you would be quite good in an emergency. Where or how do you think you gained this skill? What is the biggest emergency situation you've had to deal with?
     
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    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    well most of my life I put off love or was scared of commitment or had other things to do , the nearest Ive ever come ended in disaster .

    one thing you learn is life often times doesnt turn out how you expect or the way you want .

    funny enough this was what the angel told me years ago in glastonbury likely the angel was something being generated by my own mind, anyway you do what you can and accept the things you cant change

    it may be your fate to die young , or get really sick , it may be your fate to live alone and never be loved by anyone , this doesnt mean you have to live a worthless life .

    real romantic love in the traditional sense is rare or not that common in that not many people have the sort of love you may find in wuthering hieghts , I think most people want to find that sometime in their life because not much is as valuable .
     
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    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    Where or how do you think you gained this skill? What is the biggest emergency situation you've had to deal with?

    I think reading and my general outlook, my father was very simular actually his father was like that , my father was quite tough what I mean by that is he was very logical when he found himself in a tough situation .
    he was the sort of person who would have cut his own hand off if he got it caught and that was the only way he had to survive ,Im not joking or building him up as I saw how he reacted to having motor neurone and dieing he wasnt just surface brave , really from his and my point of view he died well

    he loved the desert and had cheated his age to get into the navy in world war two he was either 14-15 when he was doing convoys across the atlantic he did convoys to russia .

    The biggest emergency was probably keeping people from moving me when I was paralysed from the neck down , I helped get some people out of a house fire once and dealt with incidents in festivals but my neck injury was most likely the most scary because I knew my only chance of getting better was not being moved and I had a crowd of drunk people who wanted to move me .

    dealing with aggressive people can be quite hard stopping that man jumping on that womens head a few monthes ago was challenging as your trying to stop him whomping you as well as trying to look after the injured women
     
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    I'm still giggling at the beard incident years on
     
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    well at least growing the beard and setting it on fire proved useful for Impromptu situational Comedy
     
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    Who would win, a horde of orcs or the French Foreign Legion?
     
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    lithium frogboy

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    Do you hear the theme song from Rocky in your head?
     
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    Do you have a favourite playing card?
     
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    What are you doing for your birthday?
     
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    if it was the entire french foreign legion the legion would win , if it was a small group of the legion the orcs might win but the small group of the legion would most likely die well and the rest of the legion would come and avenge them .

    Really you should define win , because to for example a samurai winning isnt just about being alive at the end of a battle

    And in fact there is the old saying he who goes into a battle to live will die and he who goes into a battle to die will live , Im not sure if thats from the hagakure but its samurai .

    Now this is partly because if you go into a battle or a fight and your afraid of death or being hurt your not relaxed and that makes you slow anger can make you slow too and this means your more likely to get killed , but also there is a deeper meaning to do with what it meant to be samurai and how to live life

    from the hagakure
    The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
    We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaming one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he pains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.
    The above statement needs some thinking about and not everyone will be able to understand it but with that approach to life even a group who "lose " and get wiped out can win some traditional japanese would understand that .

    a long and rambling answer and although this philosophy has a great appeal to me its not for everyone , I dont think everyone even in ancient japan applied it and you need to be in the right frame of mind , which Im not much of the time , to be that degree of fearless is hard


    Do you hear the theme song from Rocky in your head?

    at times if I think of it but not now I really should do some running , actually when i finish replying to this I shall run and may well play that on my mp3 player

    Do you have a favourite playing card? not sure but I think jack of clubs or hearts I like the queen of clubs too.

    what are you doing for your birthday ?

    have no plans so far so no idea
     
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