Check out my amazing personal sponsor:Artistiques Salon19063 Lake Rd.Rocky River, Ohio 44116440-333-8223"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price." Kahlil GibranLife-time student, Burning River Roller Girl, Librarian, Full-blooded Clevelander, history buff, bookworm, lover of dancing. I have multiple personalities and even I myself never know what I may do next. But that's half the fun, experiencing life, writing your own story. I have a love of taking photos...my fellow Rollergirls can attest to that. :) Each picture to me is a reminder that we really lived life well, had fun, and enjoyed it. I am ordinarily quite shy, though people sometimes misconstrue it as being a bit snobby. I tend to overthink, analyze, and stew over the minutest and most seemingly insignificant details while forgetting the blatantly obvious. But I love to learn...and there is always something to learn. I am a fan of irony, it is life's little bottled humor (funny that the term for those who fear long words is Sesquipedalophobia). I crave conversation, from the most deep to the absurd...I love to talk taboo. To meet at least one new interesting person a day is a blessing. Family is a gift as are friends. I have a slight obsession with books, though read slow so my house is a treasure of unread works waiting to be cracked open. My goal before I die (among many things) is to learn another language. I live in the abstract...I don't like the practical very much...a necessary evil at times. I love to observe and experience though can be a bit reluctant at first to motivate myself. When I do, I am appreciative. I am intrigued with both truth and chimeras...do either exist? The obscure is always fascinating even if it is frustrating.
The human mind is a mass of complexities. Who will ever understand every crevice and direction in its labyrinth. To understand yourself, your own path, is to understand every man? Or is each individual another enigma altogether? We must have a tie, a bridge of sorts to one another for how could we communicate, like, or even love another without having some connection. Perhaps, through exploring who we are, we may in fact begin to understand others. And, through others, we in turn learn even more of ourselves. But this must be done with an open mind and eye, for if we decide to filter or judge, we fail to receive the raw truth and we only do ourselves an injustice by not permitting ourselves to experience everything life has to offer, the "Good" and the "Bad". Once we do away with these dichotomies, we see life in naked realness. And then, from that, we can begin to explore and learn. It is through this, the good and the bad, the joys and the struggles, the failures as well as successes that we must understand. They are the dynamics of life, the great stories of life, and we ought to enjoy every page.I like the ancient Greek and Roman myths simply because they are imaginative stories illustrating the psyches of human beings. It shows how man struggles, longs, strives, fails, wins, attempts to surpass himself. It demonstrates that life is far from a fairytale--man struggles and often suffers as a result, read the story of Icarus, Phaethon, Sisyphus--but that we have an opportunity to make our own choices, be accountable for our own outcomes, and stare the Fates in the eye.
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You scored as Platonism.
You are a Platonist. You believe with Plato and Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living and that wonder through reason can help us perhaps to discover truth.
Platonism
100%
Empiricism
92%
Existentialism
75%
Aristotelianism
75%
Monism
67%
Stoicism
67%
Cynicism
42%
Idealism
33%
Hedonism
25%
Skepticism
25%
Sophism
17%
What Philosophical School do you follow?
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You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
--Blaise Pascal