meme: ask me anything

[belenen]

from queerbychoice:

Ask me anything, and I will answer as truthfully as I know how. And if you ask me something, and then post this on your journal, I will ask at least one question of you. No promises that I won't touch a nerve though.

Comments

[notquiteright]

explain who you are in one sentence

[belenen]

I am a constantly-questioning creature who yearns for communication, touch, creation, trees, and magic, and acts to create a better world.

[notquiteright]

that is an awesome sentence!

[classical_wolf]

Can you tell me how your thoughts on your gender (or lack there of gender) came to be?

[belenen]

hm, I suppose just through long-term self-examination. My understanding of myself evolved pretty slowly. Here's a relevant story: http://belenen.livejournal.com/551055.html#cutid2

[classical_wolf]

Thank you for sharing ♥

[queerbychoice]

In your own opinion, what are the best and worst things about you? (The things you personally are most pleased with or would most like to change . . . not your own opinion of what other people might like most or dislike most about you.)

[belenen]

oooohhh, cool question!

I like most: my efforts to give to others, and the various ways I have learned to do it (intimacy practice, crafty parties, energy work, art, etc).

I would most like to change: my ADD-PI/memory. If I was properly medicated I could do so many things, and be counted on to remember things and have energy to do things etc. I don't like that I can't predict myself or count on my brain.

[ssjspider]

If you had one superpower that only appeared once a year but for a full month (of your choosing), what would it be?

[belenen]

transformation: the ability to become any shape -- from a whale to a chair to a stream of atoms. I'd use it to do lots of removing people from power :D

[ssjspider]

Oooooo neat!

[blimeyzawn1]

I think I already posted this on my journal, so feel free to add a non-survey question ;-)

My question to you: How do you balance your interests in other cultures/religions with the tendency of white people to culturally co-opt? In other words, what (if any) steps do you take to ensure you're not using other cultures' spiritual beliefs as something akin to fashion? What sources on these beliefs do you trust to guide you on your path?

[belenen]

Hm, well, I don't know how exactly to explain so I guess I'll give my list of self-rules with regards to spiritual ethics

[llama_friendly]

Ohh this...thank you for the well thought out answer. I was wondering something similar.