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what do you think happens after death
In regards to the 'answer,' I could not have said it better than Karim Temple, an acquaintance of mine. As an agnostic-atheist (a position I share), Karim contemplates the idea of becoming a father and having to answer 'the' question about the afterlife to his child, and sets up the following hypothetical conversation:

"Daddy, what happens to us after we die?"

"No one knows. I doubt anything happens. But if you live this life right, then once should be good enough."

HAHA oh geez, could not have asked for anything better. thank you.

you should just wear it out, get all of the ladies.
Heh, not sure about the wearing it out part. Would be funny, though.

yes, i am insistent. and stubborn too. would you consider yourself stubborn?
Yes, I am stubborn.

By the way, this question reminds me about a 'quiz' my fellow students and me took in a psychology class. The instructor asked those of us who disagreed with the results to raise our hands, and about half did (including me). When she told the students to put their hands down if they disagreed with the test determining that they are close-minded, everyone put down their hand except me and one other person. (I do not remember what I disagreed with though.)

The incident reminds me of something the American statesman Dwight Morrow said: "We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions."

Thanks for the questions!
 
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What interests you about animal crossing? o:
I suppose it may relate to how the game has no ultimate goal, keeps me attached because of a most silly desire to keep the villagers pleased, and because it has that Zen-like, slow-churning 'city building' (or, in this case, town developing) quality.

Another big part of it is the enormous online community for this game and its franchise. In fact, if not for the many people looking desperately for villagers, I would only be playing for a few minutes a day, rather than hours (most of my activity revolves around cycling).

Thanks for the question!
 
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do you remember your dreams?
if the above answer was yes, please describe your most significant dream.
 
do you remember your dreams?
if the above answer was yes, please describe your most significant dream.

*promptly cue Mind Heist*
(It'd be interesting to see you describe it - please feel free to share...?)

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: : Let's say, there is a certain point in time which you can travel to, be it your past, future(?), or even other peoples' timelines -
you can stay there for an hour, and do whatever you want. After that, everything ends (think pulling the plug on your TV or Gaming device, if you will) When/Where/What would it be? : :
 
Being a cycler yourself, have you obtained all your dreamies?

Share with us a memorable, heartwarming moment you experienced in ACNL. :3
 
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Note: By the way, if I sound less coherent than I realize, I am sleep deprived. At least that is my excuse, to a degree justified, heh.

do you remember your dreams?
if the above answer was yes, please describe your most significant dream.
Not sure my dreams ever 'meant' much to me. I never woke up and thought, Oh, my God, this must signify that I am growing distant from such and such, or have so and so anxieties about a job interview or something like that.

Here are some details I remember about one dream: In a large factory with what seems like an office room. Not lit and no natural light and yet somehow not pitch black; I can see just fine. Bit of an ominous feel, but nothing particularly amiss. Next thing I remember is being outside the factory, bright, sunny, albeit late afternoon. I am viewing the factory from above. Somehow I feel like these guys are involved in me flying over the factory:

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In another dream, more metal surfaces, but the atmosphere is more Zen like. So there are these metal walls and angles everywhere, bit of a cramped space, but there are gaps in between these metal structures. Even the floor is metal and there are rectangular ponds scattered throughout the floor. It is daytime. Quiet. I am on a skateboard just rolling through the gaps without a care in the world, and working toward no particular goal.

Welcome to Zulehan's dream world. Price of admission free, but why the hell would you want a ticket? Go visit the guy who dreams about action movie stuff...

Oh, yeah, I did dream once about being on a mountain fortress at night, surrounded by fellow Space Marines from Warhammer 40K, and we were waiting for some Orks or other monsters to show up so we could tear them up. But we were just waiting. It was very quiet and almost serene.

I have had more provocative dreams, but not sure this is the right place for details, not that I could remember them anyway.

: : Let's say, there is a certain point in time which you can travel to, be it your past, future(?), or even other peoples' timelines -
you can stay there for an hour, and do whatever you want. After that, everything ends (think pulling the plug on your TV or Gaming device, if you will) When/Where/What would it be? : :
Hypatia of Alexanderia, the pagan mathematician and astronomer of the transition period between ancient Rome and the Christian period. I want to meet her, talk to her. Historian Richard Carrier puts into perspective some of the more fantastical claims about her in a recent film depiction of Hypatia, but to me leaves a quite interesting person. Speaking of interesting Greek females in a time when they were encouraged to be anything but scholars, I would like to meet Sappho the poet also.

Being a cycler yourself, have you obtained all your dreamies?
Yep. They are all listed in my signature, the inhabitants of my main town. Keaton was the final 'dreamie,' and he was obtained last night. Thank goodness for being a night owl.

Apple, Molly, Bonbon, Amelia, and Erik were given to me by fellow cyclers, the latter four for free, and the last one for a steal of a price. Molly in particular is a heartening case because, as I detailed in the topic 'Changed my mind about having guests,' my town was recently devastated when a cycler offered to give me Molly for free.

And Maruchan rescued Bonbon from the 'void' for me when I accidentally time traveled her out of my second town.

Share with us a memorable, heartwarming moment you experienced in ACNL. :3
Every visit to the town of or by Arwen of Rivendell was a heartening experience. That player made me feel comfortable, exchanged awesome gifts, never was suspicious of me, and helped me realize how fun online play can be on ACNL. And is a large part of why I did not give up playing the game when my town was devastated.

So not a 'moment,' but a series of moments put together.

Thank you for all the questions, everyone!
 
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i feel as though someone ought to have already asked you, so i apologize if this has already been asked but:

what are you top 3 favourite books? and why.

and also:

what are your top 3 favourite quotes?
 
what are you top 3 favourite books? and why.
Hard to choose three.

Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. An autobiography disguised as a novel. The author was advised to pass the book off as a novel because she was not a well-known name. So the story is about a second generation Irish-American girl in Brooklyn during the 'Machine Age' (1880s to 1920s America, which a lot of historians know as America's transition to the First World country). What I find so captivating about this story is its humble retelling, as if I am looking at diary, and also because I am getting a portrait of a much different America than the one I know now. Francie, who grows up in a loving but impoverished family, paints simple portraits of the world around her, from the women washing themselves off over the kitchen sinks next to their 'brownstone' apartment windows, to a group of women harassing a pregnant unmarried women, and her haggling with the butcher to get his leftover scraps of pork.

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which is also a portrait of a much different America. The author draws us near with engaging narrative (felt I was reading a novel) with a plethora of personal letters weaved into it. I got teary-eyed at the retelling of President Lincoln's final moments, and most of all learned about how every person is capable of surprising you (one instance that came to mind was a would-be assassin's choice to not carry out the murder of a statesmen, and instead ditching his group).

Frank Herbert's Dune. Societies that can travel through space but have banned AI, and that live in a medieval-like state. The main protagonists are House Atreides, a royal house betrayed by rival houses and left for pickings from the Emperor and House Harkonnen. Paul Atreides, son of the lord of that house, survives exile on the desert planet Arrakis and rallies the powerful but scattered 'desert people' around him to retake control of Arrakis and the 'spice,' an essential 'fuel' for interstellar travel without which the entire feudal system would crumble. I like that every scene in this story is infused with so much nuance and meaning that you can be reading what on the surface appears to be a simple dinner table scene, but would get the reader munching down popcorn as quick as if Arnold Schwarzenegger was mowing down terrorists with a machine gun. The story is highly quotable, has well-developed character, and delves into numerous issues such as politics, religion, morality, and family.

and also:

what are your top 3 favourite quotes?
Oh, God, it is again hard to choose. The one that comes most readily to mind because I try to live by it:

'No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.'—Aesop, 'The Lion and the Mouse.'

Also, when thinking about how I treat others, but also about how I am treated, the following aphorism by the German statesman and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe comes to mind:

'You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.'

Finally, when reflecting on the importance of, well, reflecting, I think of my favorite line by American writer Edgar Allen Poe, as taken from his poem 'To___':

'... years of love have been forgot / In the hatred of a minute.'

And as a bonus, I said Dune was highly quotable, so here is one example:

'There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.'— 'Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib' by the Princess Irulan, p. 102

on a scale of 1/10 how hot is barry the bee this is vital information
I had to look up Barry the Bee. He is not my jar of honey. Get it? Hon— all right. As for the movie itself, seems people were mixed about it, though I did think it interesting that Jerry Seinfeld was involved in the writing.

Thanks for the questions!
 
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i really appreciated your in-depth responses and am simultaneously enthralled by your wicked memory. why did you choose the quote by dune as your bonus quote?

and what is your favourite song to listen to when sad. consequently, what is your favourite song when trying to hype yourself up?

EDIT : ack. i'm like, taking over your thread. apologiessssssss
 
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i really appreciated your in-depth responses and am simultaneously enthralled by your wicked memory. why did you choose the quote by dune as your bonus quote?
Because you do not talk about highly-quotable Dune without quoting it.

and what is your favourite song to listen to when sad. consequently, what is your favourite song when trying to hype yourself up?
When melancholy/sad, or not necessarily heartbroken but just in a 'reflective' mood:

(1) 'Anytime' by Brian McKnight, an American R&B singer.


(2) 'The Reason Why' by Rachael Yamagata, an American adult alternative singer.


As for pumped up, 'Inis Mona' by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie:


I want for them and Amon Amarth to compose the soundtrack for a live-action Legend of Zelda movie. :eek:

EDIT : ack. i'm like, taking over your thread. apologiessssssss
Take over all you want, and thanks for the latest set of questions. :p
 
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Why did you choose Zulehan as your username?
I would need to consult a linguist to understand its appeal to me. When I saw someone using 'Zulehan' as a user name at one of the many forums I visited, I was immediately struck by it. I do not know why: just sounded cool to me, as if I were saying the name of a ancient Greek god or something equally powerful with a rich story behind it. The only comparable name I can recall is Zulu, name of the largest ethnic group in South Africa.

Thanks for the question!
 
What's your gender? Also why did you choose your current job?
Male. Members of this forum may get confused since they are more likely to see my cycling town, which has a female mayor. But in my main town the mayor is male.

As for my job, I wanted something where I can respect myself, and enjoy what I do. After working a dead end job where I was disrespected constantly, and from which I still have a severely dry hand from all the chemicals I handled (despite the gloves I constantly wore), I swore to never do that kind of work again no matter how much I wanted the money.

So I found out about tutoring at the school ('tutor 2,' or teacher's aid, which is integrated with the classroom and has mandatory attendance; there is 'tutor 3,' or the writing center guys, but the guys there have Masters degrees), and that you can work as many hours as you can handle. I love that I get paid to do what I already do on the an unofficial basis all the time, and that it is official employment by the school through the state with benefits and everything.

Relatedly, it is very relevant experience, since my goal is to teach at grade school, and even eventually at the college.

Thanks for the question!
 
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Have you ever considered moving to another country? If so, which one(s)?
It would have to be some place with a cool climate. So as much as I love the Philippines, the tropical weather there is just not my thing. So... Japan is one country that came to mind, especially as I started reading more about the country as it is today, and watching Japanese programming through the NHK World app. Korea also interests me, and I have read a few books about it so far for leisure.

As for a country outside of Asia, I am curious about the Netherlands, especially Amsterdam, as well as Belgium and Switzerland, both countries I have been reading up on.

Mm... I really like it here in the States, though. If I could, I would probably move the northern California, or at least to the coast, as the oppressive heat of the Inland Empire valley makes me uncomfortable, and means high energy bills even with some conservation efforts.

However, as mentioned earlier, even if I could leave, I have a good reason to stay: I want to help the community I grew up in.

Thanks for the question!
 
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