Gaia Community: Matthew's Blog

Finish the sentence: "My destiny involves...."

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:42:04 -0000

by definition nothing i can forsee with much certainty

Would you prefer to go to heaven, or be reincarnated?

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:00:33 -0000

    Reincarnated. Because the whole idea behind reincarnation is progression through attainment of wisdom and insight... and also the idea of a permenant heaven or hell has never appealed to me- it is just so fixed and permenant.
    Religions that teach of heaven and hell say that a person has only one lifetime- one tiny horrifyingly miniscule dot in the scope of existance, and your decisions in that microscopic lifetime have ETERNAL consequences. In the scope of eternity, that just seems like such small hope.
   But, skeptical as I am, I don't really believe in either reincarnation or heaven. But I would like to believe in reincarnation.

About what are you most judgmental?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:12:57 -0000

intelligence

What was the greatest spiritual challenge of your life?

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:20 -0000

Renouncing Christianity. I grew up in a Christian household and went to a Christian school, and it was exrtremely hard to go against everything I had been brought up with. Christians in general are not accepting AT ALL and if my friends parents knew at the time they wouldn't have let their kids have anything to do with me. My mom still cries, and tells me every time we talk that she "has been praying for me"

Would you rather live in a treehouse or cave?

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:10:50 -0000

A treehouse. Despite the obvious aesthetic differences a cave would be much too conducive to head colds

What's your favorite day of the year?

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:26:27 -0000

Christmas Eve. It's always so exciting and the weather is usually nice. (I live in fl and look forward to the cold.) Christmas Day is always a little dissapointing, because its so hyped up I start to overestimate it, but nothing beats the goodwill and anticipation of C.E.

What do you wish to have happen this month?

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:03:01 -0000

I really hope to meet some new friends by the end of this month. I just moved 400 miles away to go to college and don't know anyone in this town.

Whose smile makes you happiest?

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:47:12 -0000

they are running out of good questions

When have you had to demonstrate the most willpower?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:07:28 -0000

turning down cocaine

What's the most positive thing that religion offer?

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:00:35 -0000

Joy, but my answer is not objecetive. My view is that the only way a person can be truly happy is to follow their convictions to the point of eliminating all contradictions, i.e. be true to themselves. If someone believes a certain religion to be the absolute truth, than they will find joy through that religion. My personal convictions have not led me to a religion yet, so for me (unlike my mother and millions of other people) religion does not = joy.

We are all searching for the same thing, yet we find it in different places.

It's not what you do, how you do it

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:50:03 -0000

Any job can be the best in the world. It really depends on the attitude and attributes of the person who is performing the work. An example that comes to mind is a religious leader- some pastors, rabbis, etc... are in their profession because they sincerely care about what they do, and earnestly want to help others. But, the same job category contains Catholic child molesters and greedy televangelists who use their job as a fix for a lascivious craving for money, power, sex and other wanton acts.
It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

What, right now, do you most want?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:01:24 -0000

I always want most what I can't have.

Would you want to be friends, or housemates, with yourself?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:57:18 -0000

If I met my double, I'm sure we would become casual friends and comfortable housemates. I enjoy quiet at home, and loathe television. This aspect of our shared personality would provide a thick buffer if any problems did arise, and keep us from getting annoyed with one another. Also, since we would have the same music preferences, he would be a wealth of great new bands, and visa versa.
    Of course, it would probably get boring without any casual conflict after a while, so I don't think we would become best friends. My favorite people to spend time with have always had very interesting and individual personalities. We wouldn't experience any new outlooks from each other, and we wouldn't grow laterally at all.
    It seems the main problem with being friends with a duplicate personality would be a lack of good conversation- I'm resigned that this would get very stale after a while. Every idea and statement would be deserted in it's infancy by a casual "I agree." How uninteresting.
    Although my double and I would get along great, minus the boredom, I realize that for other personality types it would probably be very different. Someone pushy (reverse tug-of-war) and bombastic would be sure to get in some caustic fights and thundering arguments. Just look at The Real World.