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Janet

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About Me

I consider myself a sensitive and pragmatic dreamer with a passion for life and learning. I am a voracious reader, write poetry and prose, dabble in art of various forms and love to watch movies – enjoying anything from a dark, gritty sci-fi flick (Blade Runner, Matrix, etc.) to a sappy Jane Austen romance, depending on the current frame of mind. Attending concerts is another favorite pastime (rocking out to a great metal band or being serenaded by a soothing symphony would suit me equally). Just relaxing with a good cup of coffee and my cats on a rainy spring day is high on my list of guilty pleasures. Spending time with a few special people to share my thoughtful musings and sardonic rants with is paramount.

I am a lifelong learner in the autodidactic sense who believes that people can be boundless founts of knowledge, as well as books. Delving deeply into the life and physical sciences, philosophy, psychology, technology, or any fairly fascinating natural phenomena is the crux of my mind’s existence. I possess an infinite, insatiable curiosity about the universe and everything within it, from nebulae down to neutrons. At any given time I will be thinking, reading, reflecting, analyzing, or on some sort of information reconnaissance mission - I need to figure things out!

My sense of spirituality, I think, is fueled by a sense of wonderment for all that surrounds me. I am forever in awe of the splendor of nature with its power to reinvigorate the soul, whether it is standing on terra firma imbibing the serenity of mountain and desertscapes or floating on the misted shores of the cosmic ocean. Having explored a number of belief systems and philosophies, I try to incorporate the best of these into my own personal sense of ethics and overarching worldview. I believe in universally respecting, nurturing and living in harmony with other human beings, animals and nature; and regard my own search for truth and beauty in the universe as a continual work in progress. On the wings of imagination, I aspire to travel from the corners of my mind to the ends of the earth with my fellow wonderers… :-)

INTJ - "The Free-Thinker"

INTJs are strong individualists who seek new angles or novel ways of looking at things. They enjoy coming to new understandings. They are insightful and mentally quick; however, this mental quickness may not always be outwardly apparent to others since they keep a great deal to themselves. They are very determined people who trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of what others think. They may even be considered the most independent of all of the sixteen personality types. INTJs are at their best in quietly and firmly developing their ideas, theories, and principles. 1.5% of total population.
Your Personality Profile
You are dignified, spiritual, and wise.
Always unsatisfied, you constantly try to better yourself.
You are also a seeker of knowledge and often buried in books.
You tend to be philosophical, looking for the big picture in life.
You dream of inner peace for yourself, your friends, and the world.
A good friend, you always give of yourself first.

Personality tests by similarminds.com

Fall Over The Edge

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~Albert Einstein


You're a Type 5 - The Experimenter!
Friends, family, and colleagues probably appreciate your probing intelligence and open-minded approach to life. They're also apt to know that when they come to you with a problem, you can be counted on to give them a carefully considered answer based on keen observations. As an Experimenter, you're likely to be seen as a capable and competent individual with a visionary outlook.

Being a member of this type puts you in good company. Renowned painter Georgia O'Keefe, with her reclusive nature and intense focus on her craft, and Albert Einstein, with his groundbreaking theorems and unprecedented view of the spacetime continuum, were also Type 5s.

This means that compared to the eight other Enneagram types, you have a strong sense of perception as well as a curious and innovative mind. In fact, like many Experimenters, you have a strong drive to understand how things work.

The Enneagram Test
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My Interests

Jonathan!

Being a night owl

Drinking too much coffee

Stream-of-consciousness pattern matching

Visualizing Creamed Corn instead of Whirled Peas

Spacing out to the iTunes Visualizer (See above)

Human and animal rights

Environmentalism

Power yoga

Veganism

Cycling

Futurism

Architecture

Abstract art

Poetry & prose

Theoretical physics

Any subject that can be classified as a "science"

Buying more books when I haven’t read all the ones I’ve got

Thinking about the future instead of living in the moment

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I'd like to meet:

Whoever is on the other end of the wormhole.

The Pacific Northwest

Release - Afro Celt Sound System


Liquid Architecture 2007



"The building stood on the shore of the East River, a structure rapt as raised arms. The rock crystal forms mounted in such eloquent steps that the building did not seem stationary, but moving upward in a continuous flow - until one realized that it was only the movement of one's glance and that one's glance was forced to move in that particular rhythm. The walls of pale gray limestone looked silver against the sky, with the clean, dulled luster of metal, but a metal that had become a warm, living substance, carved by the most cutting of all instruments - a purposeful human will." ~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead - 1943


Music:

Moby, Afro Celt Sound System, Rush, Secret Garden, Massive Attack, David Gray, Peter Gabriel, Cake, Incubus, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, U2, Sarah Brightman, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Metallica, The Cure, Royksopp, Tori Amos, Chemical Brothers, Brad, Collective Soul, The Cranberries, Yes, Genesis, Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, Foo Fighters, Korn, Swing Out Sister, Loreena McKennitt, 311, The Police/Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duncan Sheik, Bush, Sade, The Sundays, Engima

Alternative & classic rock, new age, ambient, electronic, jazz, not to exclude various flavors of Indian, Celtic, Middle-Eastern, World – basically any novel music that fuses genres, forges new ones or transcends spacetime...

Movies:


Blade Runner, High Fidelity, Pi: Faith in Chaos, Primer, Broken Flowers, The Age of Innocence, Love Actually, The Shawshank Redemption, The Red Violin, LTR, Star Trek, Matrix and Harry Potter series, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hotel Rwanda, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mumford, Stranger Than Fiction, Mystic River, 21 Grams, Contact, The Remains of the Day, The Piano, I Heart Huckabees, Smoke Signals, Rushmore, Being John Malkovich, Shine, Garden State, Elizabeth, The Departed, Dangerous Beauty, About Schmidt, Next Stop Wonderland, Michael Collins, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Office Space, The Constant Gardener, The End of the Affair, An Ideal Husband, Dead Poets Society, The Bourne Identity, Good Will Hunting, Munich, Awakenings, The Life of David Gale, Much Ado About Nothing, A Beautiful Mind, Serenity, A Scanner Darkly, Conspiracy, Dead Again, Inside Man, Nell, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, K-PAX, Veronica Guerin, The Usual Suspects, The Princess Bride, Sense and Sensibility, Peter's Friends, Identity, Jacob's Ladder, The Game, Chocolat, Damage, The Importance of Being Earnest, Serendipity, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, In the Name of the Father, Hamlet, Fallen, Henry V, Malcolm X, Napoleon Dynamite, The Ladykillers, The Illusionist, Dogma, Lord of War, Pleasantville, The Mothman Prophecies, Point of No Return, The Hunt for Red October, Shopgirl, Walk the Line, Goodfellas, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, A Bronx Tale, 2046, Finding Forrester, The Fifth Element, Conversations With Other Women, Capote, Before Sunrise, Good Night and Good Luck, The Prestige, The Painted Veil

Books:

Contact, Parallel Worlds, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Singularity is Near, Many Worlds in One, Warped Passages, The Selfish Gene, The Demon-Haunted World, Atlas Shrugged, Siddhartha, Tales of the Rational, What We Believe But Cannot Prove, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The House of Sand and Fog

Heroes:

Dreamers, Scientists, Artists, Writers, Poets, Musicians, Philosophers, Healers, Rational Thinkers, Philanthropists, Soothsayers, Seekers, Visionaries, Peaceful Revolutionaries.

Anyone who has broken in the ground ahead of me so that I may tread unhindered.

Unconditional Love and Humanism.

My Blog

Fragments

Fragments Pieces of people Come with me on the journey Faces unfocused their elements diluted As time warps on unphased and transmuted Fragments of moments memories sublime   The ecstasies and to...
Posted by Janet on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:27:00 PST

Hypnogagia

hypnogagia ten dreams lean over my earwhispers on lines of past livesopens the scene ripped from the depthof a crumpled up receipt in my pocketsitting smug in a landfill askewa locket full of hearts a...
Posted by Janet on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:08:00 PST

Non-Zero-Sum: To Be Or Not To Be

Game theory, the "truly original idea" stemming from mathematician John Nash's beautiful mind  has now been applied within fields as diverse as economics, computer science, philosophy, biology, psyc...
Posted by Janet on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:13:00 PST

Blossom

Blossom If only the soul could flower yet undermine the power Of the ripple effect inciting bottlenecks in our brains We seem to imply that nobility stems From what we are not who we are There will ...
Posted by Janet on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:29:00 PST

Awe

AweMountain to plain to sea I sit plaintive as my soul tries to be Everything to no one yet nothing to everyone The din in the air speaks and I hear its wisdom whisper About all those who came befo...
Posted by Janet on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:12:00 PST

The Wellspring of Life

This poem is quite literally a metaphor for the journey of life, written just after returning from a jaunt along Anchorage's beautiful, meandering trail system. Alone with my thoughts, I was reminded ...
Posted by Janet on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:42:00 PST

There I Go, Turn The Page

There have been people I've known over the years who have referred to me as a seeker or a wandering soul. So does that mean I'll be walking down the street one day and get hit by a lightening bolt of ...
Posted by Janet on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:59:00 PST

The Dream of the Blue Aurorae

We are rapidly approaching the longest day of the year here in Anchorage, as the summer solstice is preparing to descend upon us June 21st. This time of year brings to mind such movie titles as "...
Posted by Janet on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

Play That Funky Music Universe

 Psychedelic Space Funk Spin me around on my galaxy turntable At 10,000 light years per picosecond Supersonic symphonic base-booming sky box Waxing harmonic on space dust grooves   Sentience...
Posted by Janet on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:49:00 PST