| User | Comment |
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| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 25-Apr-2008 4:46pm |
I like myself so I will not trade places with anyone |
Melf    | | posted 25-Apr-2008 6:48pm |
That 'Melf' girl. Seriously, she's just the coolest. |
| Galomorro | | posted 25-Apr-2008 9:38pm |
I guess just myself. But the problem is here that there are more SC members in total than there are profiles on the Users page. I go to look up new people sometimes and can't find 'em. |
Kristal_Rose   | | posted 26-Apr-2008 1:20am |
Definitely myself. I didn't expect that to be an option in a survey which collects any interesting data. |
| Biggles | | posted 26-Apr-2008 10:23am |
It would be interesting to be someone completely different to myself (as long as I will definitely be turned back to myself) - maybe I should try to be LJD for the day? |
| Van | | posted 26-Apr-2008 5:04pm |
Right now I don't know anyone well enough to make a choice. There are a few who I wouldn't want to be based on comments we've exchanged. |
| Van | | (reply to Melf) posted 26-Apr-2008 5:05pm |
Yeah, you're pretty cool. |
| Melf | | (reply to Van) posted 26-Apr-2008 6:42pm |
Thanks  |
| Crayons | | posted 26-Apr-2008 6:47pm |
I want to be Bill. He's on top of it all. |
| jettles | | (reply to Biggles) posted 26-Apr-2008 10:56pm |
> It would be interesting to be someone completely different to myself
> (as long as I will definitely be turned back to myself) - maybe I
> should try to be LJD for the day?
but what if you got stuck???? and then who would she be for the day???
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| LJD | | posted 27-Apr-2008 12:21pm |
Be true to thyself.... |
| Biggles | | (reply to jettles) posted 27-Apr-2008 2:28pm |
I'd just have to make sure it happened on a day when the wind wasn't likely to change!
Maybe she would be her as well, so we would be sharing a body - if we got stuck we would have to become L_Jiggles or something... |
| verouge | | posted 27-Apr-2008 6:23pm |
Ok I am satisfied with myself, not totally satisfied, I gotta some fat than I have to loose.... BUT I would be Bill, for some reasons... |
| jettles | | (reply to Biggles) posted 28-Apr-2008 9:03am |
hhhhhmmmm, frightening! |
| cerealkiller | | posted 28-Apr-2008 1:53pm |
ScubaScott |
| thecomic22 | | posted 28-Apr-2008 6:16pm |
Why me of course.  |
southernyankee  | | posted 28-Apr-2008 9:43pm |
EOC, so that I could take naked pictures of myself. Kristal, so that whatever she is on I can have some of that. No, seriously, she did mention she likes pot and if I do it in her body I wouldn't get in trouble or suffer the side-effects. |
| Kristal_Rose |
I said I like, not do. It's been awhile. I don't care to jeopardize my housing situation. If I owned my home in No. Cal. or Costa Rica it would be a slightly different situation. I'd still probably only smoke every couple months at most. I'd want to grow some plants though if I could. |
| they |
If it were for just one day... I'd give all of you a shot.
The first one that came to mind was Enheduanna.... Maybe Maarten.
I find them both interesting.. and they both live in places I'd like to visit.. so it would be convenient. |
| ballin1000 |
ME?!!! |
cloudhugger  | | posted 5-May-2008 10:46pm |
I cannot imagine being someone else here. I read their answers to these surveys...I don't want those issues. |
| Kristal_Rose |
That brings up an interesting question.. could one (such as myself) have the strengths they have without the ccompanying issues? |
| cloudhugger |
I don't know, that is interesting. The more I try to answer that, or come to some conclusion, the more I se it as two seperate things. I understand what you are asking, but I can't wrap my head around a clear answer. |
| Kristal_Rose |
My thought was that people build strengths by tackling issues in a domain. One doesn't answer medical or political problems unless they have medical or political concerns to begin with. It's akin to learning from ones mistakes. the insights we glean are the results of the traumas we immerse ourselves in.
Answers or a body of skills in dealing with situations of emotional office politics will generally belong to those who plague themselves with the miseries of such a realm, rather than to people in the office oblivious such things are even going on in their midst to be angstly concerned with. On the other hand, answers to such situations may come from those thinking outside the box because they were never immersed in such issues in the first place, and provide their clarity by annhilating any fabricated fog.
Yet further out on the same other hand, while some stregths come through passions, I think more often than not that solutions come through detachment. The tricky balance is to be too detached to ever be worried, yet not so detached as to not bother to find a resolution. Actually, the more I think of it, answers can be found through a passionate love for the process of finding answers, and so I'd say that 'having issues' while an aspect of the domain of immersion, is not in itself that which leads to strenghs. |
| cloudhugger |
> My thought was that people build strengths by
> tackling issues in a domain. One doesn't answer
> medical or political problems unless they have
> medical or political concerns to begin with. It's
> akin to learning from ones mistakes. the insights
> we glean are the results of the traumas we immerse
> ourselves in.
Yes, I agree.
> Answers or a body of skills in dealing with situations
> of emotional office politics will generally belong
> to those who plague themselves with the miseries
> of such a realm, rather than to people in the
> office oblivious such things are even going on
> in their midst to be angstly concerned with. On
> the other hand, answers to such situations may
> come from those thinking outside the box because
> they were never immersed in such issues in the
> first place, and provide their clarity by annhilating
> any fabricated fog.
That would be denial?
> Yet further out on the same other hand, while
> some stregths come through passions, I think more
> often than not that solutions come through detachment.
> The tricky balance is to be too detached to ever
> be worried, yet not so detached as to not bother
> to find a resolution. Actually, the more I think
> of it, answers can be found through a passionate
> love for the process of finding answers, and so
> I'd say that 'having issues' while an aspect of
> the domain of immersion, is not in itself that
> which leads to strenghs.
It's about wanting to be better. Relishing change. Rolling with the fog, yet clearing the way through so as to see how to get throough it. Strengths come from with in and those strengths are already in place for the challenges we put n front of us. So to have the strengths, I feel, do not neccesarily mean that there is absolutely a weakness. Maybe. I'm not sure. Perhaps a strength I am thinking of that I already have was an issue worked out so long ago that I overcame such weakness I didn't know I ever had. Fear of enclosed places is not an issue wth me, nor do I remember it ever being one, yet I consider it one of my strong points. I was the one volunteering to go where others would fail. |
| Kristal_Rose |
"That would be denial?"
Things are only 'problems' if you consider them to be problems. This is especially true with emotional problems.
Someone could go crazy trying to figure out how to fight traffic and see a movie that comes on at 8, and someone else blinded by immersion in the context could suggest casually enjoying the drive home, and if you arrive after 8pm, pick up the movie at a video store on the way home.
The specific sort of thing I had in mind in my example was the office politics problems my neighbor brings home. If it were me there, I probably wouldn't notice or play their games of suspicion, back-stabbing, one-up-manship, etc, and just mind my own business as it tangibly occurs. She watches those Survivor shows I can't stand, and her office world is just like that. My world doesn't resemble those shows at all, even when I'm in work groups and office situations. I use the term 'fabricated' for problems only some people can even see.
One of my strengths is being able to counsel computer programmers on simple solutions. The reason I can do so though is that I weave myself such disabling complex labyrinthe programming situations that any problem they've dreamed up for themselves is a piece of cake for me to deal with in comparison.
That example comes closest to what I meant by issues and strengths coming as a set.
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LindaH  |
I noticed that people who have a personal stake in how something turns out tend to not ride through it or solve it as easy as someone who doesn't. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LindaH) posted 9-May-2008 7:52am |
Yep. |
