Got this quiz from new friendslist member drkminded

BTW, I posted my LJ user name on a Pagan mailing list I'm on, in case anyone there wants to get to know me better one-on-one, as I mostly lurk on the list. So don't be surprised if you see a lot of new friends getting welcomed, here.

The gods love you! That's why they made your world
so nice.


Do the gods hate you?
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ehh... I rated this quiz a 3 out of 5. It basically confirms the old saying that the world is how you see it. If you wear rose-colored glasses, the world is rosy to you. But it looks pretty putrid if you wear puke-green lenses.

A few days ago, on the mailing list mentioned above, there was a discussion of the Neo-Pagan Three-Fold Law (That whatever you send out into the world will be returned to you three fold -- good for good and bad for bad).

Several expressed the opinion that this was just a modern "nice-nice," -- an artificial constraint we put on ourselves so as not to scare the Christians. Others said that no, it was a "natural law" -- like the "law" of of gravity (btw, if I can ever find a loophole around that law, you know I'm taking it! :-P).

I think the truth falls somewhere in the middle -- that the amount of good and bad stuff flowing through our lives remains in more or less a state of balance, but that the intent with which we act on a day to day basis acts as a kind of polarizing filter for the attention.

When we act with a general intent to be generous to others, then our attention is tuned in to the generosity that is flowing in our direction, and we meet with all the selfish crap that comes our way with: "Oh, well! That's his problem!"

And conversely, if we act with the general intent of being greedy, then we are suddenly aware of how "everybody" is trying to rip us off -- and those poor fools who give stuff away are just naive.

But I doubt, in truth, that an outside observer would notice any difference in our lives either way.

The Amount of positivity and negativity remains constant, but the Count (as in what "counts" as significant and what doesn't) is in constant flux...

At least, that's my theory.

And if I had to choose between rose-colored and puke-colored glasses, I'd take the rose -- or, as those who know me best, know -- fuschia (with purple polka-dots)!

Another borrowed quiz from Pagan List friend (nyxks

Which dog breed are you?

this quiz was made by Erin


Awww... this makes me think of one sweet dog we had, a black lab mix named Gypsy Davey... Now, at the time, we lived in nearly the middle of nowhere (nearest neighbor 1/4 mile away, our driveway a narrow one-lane track pinned between rows of densely growing trees that was 1/5 mile long), and this little black puppy barely old enough to be weaned (maybe a couple of months old) was sitting in the doghouse by our front door just as if he had always lived there.

At the time, we were in the midst of a gypsy moth population boom (couldn't move, practically, without getting cattipillar silk in your hair), and Mother had to sweep a carpet of cattapillar webs off the dog house to see the puppy inside... So we named him Gypsy Davey, after the old ballad:

It was late one night, when the lord came home,
Asking about his Lady, O!
The only answer that he got, was:
"She's gone with the Gypsy Davey-O!"

We never did figure out how he got there (we already had two dogs, and neither of them made any sort of fuss -- which they normally would have done, if some human had come walking or driving up to leave the puppy on our doorstep). But Davey just belonged with us, you know?

Sweetest little thing you'd ever seen.... Sadly, he died young and suddenly from canine luekemia... our older dog, Trevor downright wept that morning... and we all moped for months...


Awww....