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Ask me a question about each of the following:

1. Friends
2. Sex
3. Music
4. Drugs
5. Love
6. Livejournal

No matter how rude, sexual, or confidential. Then post this in your journal and see what questions you get asked.

Comments

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

1. Do you like your friends? Why or why not?
2. Is sex overrated? Why or why not?
3. Why does it seem there is so little good music out now?
4. Have you ever done drugs -- of any kind? If so, do remember them all?
5. How does the seeming current societal definition of love not resemble that of past periods of history?
6. Is LJ overrated?

[lyssiae.livejournal.com]

1. Would you say that you have many friends, or a select few but many acquaintances, or something else? And (if I might ask a second) do you find it easier to make friends online or irl?

2. Have you read (or studied) Theology of the Body? If so, what did you think of it?

3. Why do the cool dances tunes have to be ruined by stupid videos that seem to be more than a little pornographic?

4. I can't really think of a drug-related question I'd like to ask, sorry.

5. What do you think would be an effective way of communicating to the world the real depths and nuances of human sexual love, in such a way that more people would come to recognise the unique nature of marriage?

6. How did you first come across LJ?

[jennilee.livejournal.com]

Who was your first best friend? Do you still know/keep in touch with that person?

Is there any sex act between a man and woman (within their marriage) considered sinful? By what/whose standard?

What song or artist do you like that other people may think is uncharacteristic for you?

Would you ever take marijuana for medicinal reasons if it was legal for you to do so?

Do you believe there's another great love in the future for you?

If livejournal disappeared tomorrow, never to return, would you move to another site? Which one?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

1. Have you met many friends from LJ in real life?

2. What do you think of it?

3. What type of music do you like best?

4. Have you ever tried drugs?

5. When is the last time you fell in love?

6. What made you decide to start a LJ?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

1) Well, if I did not, would I stick with them?
2) I might write an article on this. Yes and no. Yes, because modern society places it in places where it does not belong; no, because it is addictive and thus a formidable force in human life - like drugs and all addictions.
3) It always does. When John Lennon returned his OBE in the mid-sixties - a time we rightly regard as a golden age of popular music - he was complaining not only about Vietnam and Harold Wilson's policies, but also about the presence of a now-forgotten hack among the best-sellers. Last I looked, though, I thought that the worst influence was the power of discos, in which thousands of doped teen-agers drive themselves to dance for hours to sounds - rather than music - supplied by dj's who play around with discs as if content did not matter. Clearly, anything with an electronic drum in it will do for such a market.
4) Only alcohol. And the last time I was drunk was in 1987.
5) Oddly enough, in asking too much. There is an assumption that unless you not only marry for love but stay in love all your life - which is possible, but not universal - your marriage is a failure and you had better stop and try again. Our ancestors knew that marriage was something you had to live with - so your wife is a nag or a slattern? Well, that's the way it goes. So your husband's been sleeping with his secretary? Well, men are like that. They did not ask for perfection from a relationship, whereas we do.
6) Well, who does the rating?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

1) I regard all the people I correspond with as friends, and I have a certain concern with their private lives - not enough, perhaps, to drop everything and run to someone's bedside if they are ill, but certainly enough to worry, wish them good luck, and perhaps suggest remedies if I know of any. On the other hand, I have had enough relationship, both RL and online, break down for whatever reason, not to expect permanence. And that is another reason why I try to show an interest and be helpful: friendships, like flowers, do not live unless constantly watered.
2) No, I regret to say.
3) Dance was always about young people of both sexes meeting each other and romancing. Stevenson, in Catriona, has a Cameronian Puritan, no less - that is, an extremist - describe dances like this (in the course of a brilliant tale of sorcery): I hae seen lassies, the daft queans, that would lowp and dance a winter's nicht, and still be lowping and dancing when the winter's day cam in. But there would be fowk there to hauld them company,
and the lads to egg them on; and this thing was its lee-lane. And there would be a fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side; and this thing had nae music but the skirling of the solans. And the lassies were bits o' young things wi' the reid life dinnling and stending in their members; and this was a muckle, fat, creishy man, and him fa'n in the vale o' years. Notice the allusion to the lads egging the lassies on. Unfortunately, modern culture brutalizes sexuality (in the context, oddly enough, of an excessively romantic view of marriage, as I said to patchworkmind above). But the connection of dance with courtship is fundamental.
4) All right. I cannot think of anything cool and witty to answer, either, so we're even.
5) In the modern culture? Blow everything up and start again from the stone age. Otherwise, those who have a natural sanity that preserves them from the worst of propaganda will love and let themselves be loved anyway, and have families, and bring up children; and the rest will - well, try to. But the enemy propaganda is so pervasive that Robinson Crusoe, today, would be lucky if he could avoid it.
6) Through the Harry Potter fandom. I started with reading those of two writers I admired, Hijja and Kayla Rudbek, and then I started my own. But mind you, I think I would have started blogging somewhere anyway - it is fairly natural to me.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

1) I do not think that childhood or adolescence BFs tend to last into adulthood. What is more, until I was about eighteen, my family tended to move - and to change - every year or two, so I never developed any great friendships. I have a very dear friend whom I met when I was eighteen and he twenty, and we certainly do still keep in touch - we would not think of moving out of each other's lives, even though he lives in Rome and I in London.
2) The Church regards any act that does not allow for the possibility of conception as wrong - hence, oral, anal, mutual masturbation,etc. On the other hand, I can tell you that they are widely practiced in Italy, and that laws against, for instance, sodomy between consenting adults - such as existed in some American states till recently - are universally regarded as ridiculous. I would say that, while these things are sinful, they are not very serious sins in and of themselves.
3) I cannot imagine. Jim Steinman & Meat Loaf, because they are vulgar and excessive? Jackson Browne, because he is too West Coast and liberal? Schubert, because he is unwontedly touchy-feely? That is something that others should tell me. I know what I like and why, not whether it looks odd on me.
4) Yes, of course. In fact, I am in favour of legalizing most major drugs. The discussion that goes with this is much too long, but I think that though legalization would do harm, the harm done by prohibition is much greater.
5) Please God, no. Let us get one thing clear. Women do not, repeat not, fall in love with me. In fact, they find me repulsive. So any love is one-sided. And if I ever were unlucky enough to feel attraction again towards anyone, I can assure you, you would not see me for dust.
6) Yes. Blogspot, probably, because I am fairly familiar with it and it affords nice graphics.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

1) Only kagome_sama so far.
2) Well, she is even better in the flesh than in her LJ: not conventionally beatiful, but small, square, lively, with wonderful eyes, intelligent, sensitive, and keeps her head in a crisis.
3) Classical, for a number of reasons. First, classical music is by definition music that has been sifted by time, in which only the good stuff has survived. When you buy a classical music record, you are almost certain to buy something beautiful. Second, much though I admire all kinds of popular music - pop, rock, folk and country, jazz, etc. - classical music contains a much larger and more profound store of devices, and is capable of infinitely larger statements about life and death. One day when I was mourning for a disaster in which 96 people had died, I could not think of any pop music to express what I felt, but Mozart's Requiem did so to perfection.
4) No. I once was the only person in a room not to be smoking a joint.
5) 1988
6) As I told patchworkmind, I started by reading the LJs of two writers I admired, Hijja and Kayla Rudbek, and then I started my own. But mind you, I think I would have started blogging somewhere anyway - it is fairly natural to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi - it's rfachir. You would post this the week I'm out with "technical difficulties" (mood=frustrated) See you later.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No need to rush. I'm glad you're still kind of around - I had been worried to see your name come up with a stripe over it.

[(Anonymous)]

I stupidly forgot I was logged on at home and logged onto LJ from the work account. My ID was splashed across anyone's PC at work when they logged onto LJ, and I don't feel very happy about that. fortunately, there is another girl who has that problem, and her LJ is much more interesting. I figure if I lie low for a bit, we'll be back to normal soon.