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[percival]

Gacked from aome:

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

Comments

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

1: If you weren't living in the city you do, but instead had the pick of the entire planet, where would you choose?

2: what is your favourite massage oil?

3: if you could play a musical instrument (or attain greater proficiency on one), which would it be?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1) Well, Edinburgh is where I want to be, but if I had to choose another city, I'd go for Bonn in Germany. Beautiful countryside, the river Rhine, great amenities, proximity to Cologne, very easy to get to any place in Europe from there, relatively warm climate. I love that place to bits.

2) Lavender.

3) the piano. Despite ten years' training, I never became really proficient, because my teacher was more bent on picking on faults than on encouraging me to enjoy playing. To this day, I can't play pieces on sight, because I'm too afraid to stumble. With hindsight, I would have required a less perfectionist teacher, somebody who could communicate the joy of music, and somebody who encouraged free expression.

[cynthia-black.livejournal.com]

1. Do you dream in English or German?

2. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be and why?

3. Why did you lose your belief in the physical resurrection of Jesus?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1) Usually silently, but the English is encroaching on the german

2) I would be thin, because I always wanted to be. My biology is working against me, though.

3) I started reading more and more about the historical Jesus, and what I read made sense to me. I never lost faith in His spiritual resurrection, though - to me, He lives on in His followers. Also, focussing less on His death and more on His life gave me a greater appreciation of Jesus as a person.

[queenriley.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE THIN! When you were here, I kept wanting to feed you because I think you are too skinny. Goodness, woman, even I wear larger sizes than you.

[cynthia-black.livejournal.com]

I agree with queenriley here: you *are* thin already!

The reason I asked about the language of your dreams is because I found when I'd been in Germany for 9 months, I still dreamed predominantly in English, but nightmares were in German!

[katiedarling.livejournal.com]

That's actually really interesting. Yippee! I am not a freak.... maybe.

I do not speak Greek conversationally, and I have a REALLY hard time understanding it when it is spoken. I do OKAY with written Greek, but it takes me a while. And yet, I still don't dream in English more than about 25% of the time.

[acusa-dora.livejournal.com]

1. What makes your husband perfect for you?

2. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you take your next holiday?

3. If you could say anything to your parents and they would actually listen, what would you say? (I guess if you think that's too personal, I can give you another question)

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1. His patience, his sweet nature, his looks, his generosity, his stability, his unwillingness to be fazed by anything life throws at him

2. Iceland. We've been dreaming of it for so long now ...

3. cheer up, live your own lives and don't force me to return to Germany. Life's not as bleak as you paint it.

[queenriley.livejournal.com]

1. You learn a third language and become fluent in it almost overnight. What language is it?

2. Say something like the Holocaust happened again. Would you risk your own life to hide Jews or whatever religious group was being hunted and systematically wiped out?

3. Why did you become a vegetarian?

I have another I wanted to ask, but I won't as it's quite personal and not exactly meant for here.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1. difficult. Probably Japanese, because Sanskrit is doable.

2. Depends on where I was in my personal development. As a 18-year-old, if my parents had been fervent Nazis, not. Now, probably. But then, I'm not doing too much for asylum seekers at the moment ...

3. Because the way in which animals are kept that are destined for consumption appals me. Also, because I think killing an animal means to take life, and I'm more and more hesitant to sanction that by buying products that involve killing animals.

[katiedarling.livejournal.com]

You said that you are a CATHOLIC Buddhist. You also said that you don't believe in the PHYSICAL resurrection of Jesus. Not being Catholic, myself, I am not sure what that specific Church doctrine is, but I know that my uncle the minister is very adamant that belief in Christ's physical ressurection is imperative. So how does this work for you?

Are you planning another trip to the States any time, and, if so, how would you feel about a side trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and/or New Orleans? *wink*

Would you be interested in reading the filter in which Amy and I meticulously pick apart the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek and use it to debate with poeple? *chuckles*

[perceval.livejournal.com]

The Catholic element is very much cultural, because I also don't believe in the Virgin Birth anymore etc. pp. Not wanting to chuck out the baby with the bathwater, I still retain links with and a fondness for the church I grew up in.

not any time soon, and New Orleans ... would be nice, but may be too expensive for another couple of years :(

Yes!

New Orleans

[katiedarling.livejournal.com]

well, if you do come back over here in the next few years (I am most likely here for at least another five), I can make New Orleans pretty inexpensive. Screw hotels, stay with me! :) It's all of about an hour drive in traffic.

[hildigunnur.livejournal.com]

1. Let's say that HP 7 is coming out. We need to have a Moot to end all Moots. Where, what and how?

2. What place in Iceland do you most want to see?

3. What song, musician, band, piece of music etc. is your absolute favourite?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1. Probably Edinburgh would be the most fitting place. Or a version of what the Professors did. Get the books, retire, read in a secluded space with plenty of food.

2. From what I've read, the Northwest and the Geysirs. I'd like to swim outside

3. Madness

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

We do, indeed, need a Moot to end all Moots for book VII (if it's ever published).

And Edinburgh does make quite a sensible choice, given the blatant, direct JKR connections and it's closer to Hogwarts than a lot of places...

But we're talking four years off, I'd have thought, at least...

[mollymcgonagall.livejournal.com]

1. If you could sit down with God (or Jesus) right this very minute, what would be the very first thing you would say?

2. Turn about's fair play to be cliche, how and when did your husband propose?

3. If you were given the option to go back and do your education all over, would you? Why/not?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1. Thank you.

2. He never really proposed; I started to argue one day that we might as well make it official, seeing that we were living in each others' pockets and that we were very, very close.

3. I would, because it's been varied, it's been exciting, and it exposed me to various different paradigms of working (scholarly vs. scientific)

[mollymcgonagall.livejournal.com]

1. If you could sit down with God (or Jesus) right this very minute, what would be the very first thing you would say?

2. Turn about's fair play to be cliche, how and when did your husband propose?

3. If you were given the option to go back and do your education all over, would you? Why/not?

[aome.livejournal.com]

1) What do you miss the most about Germany?

2) What is one of your favourite feel-good movies?

3) What do you love most about your husband?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

1) The bread, flavoured buttermilk, sunshine, lush forests. In that order.

2) I don't really have one. But at a pinch, the Airplane movies.

3) That he is a rock in stormy waters.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, the bread. I remember how a bread truck used to come by my Austrian host-family's neighbourhood every few days, and we'd have fresh Semmeln and other things. I don't blame you for missing that!

[loup_noir]

What drew you to massage?
What quintissentially German food do you miss the most?
When you meditate for Reiki, do you ever see flashes of color?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

I still owe you an answer - sorry!

1) the challenge of doing something very active that requires manual skills and does not rely on brains only. it's a total departure for me

2) the bread. It has a firmer texture here and uses more whole grain

3) No. I have mental images of white light flashing through me, along my spine, and of white light streaming into the top of my head and my feet.