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[jawnbc]

Uriel. You’re most like the ArchAngel of
Transformation. You like teaching, and
bringing the joy of learning new stuff to
others. You have limited patience for stupid
people despite having an amazing amount of
patience otherwise.


Which ArchAngel are you most like?
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surveys

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Since I've seen a few of you LJ users with these surveys I have been tempted to take them myself. They can be interesting but they also seem so culturally limiting. I took the one you did, "Where does your soul come from," and it offered colors that I would never choose, hair types that exculded mine, and said my soul was from the Middle Ages? If a more culturally aware person was making up a survey I wonder if it could give the option of being a Mayan royal, or Rootworker for instance. I know you know what a rootworker is. :-)

Additionally, my weakest area in art history is the Middle ages. I find the aggressiveness of the early Christians an affront. By the time of the Baroque African slavery was in full tilt and the so-called heathens were being lead to a new and better life (obviously not for those enslaved). Anyway, the assumed cultural superiority of northern Europe at that time is an interesting choice but, I wouldn't want to be part of the Middle ages. Goth... gawd! :-)

Re: surveys

[jawnbc]

yeah I don't disagree at all. There is a mechanism on quizzila.com to create your own (dunno how it works). But I do it as a form of whimsy more than anything substantive.

Of course, when I did the "what nationality are you?" quiz and it said I was English, I was right pissed off!

Re: surveys

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Yeah... whimsy is a good word for it. However, it can be insulting at times. You don't dislike like me because I have some English blood a few generations back do ya? In this case I think it was consensual. *wink*

BTW, I noticed a reference to Foucault in one of your recent postings. Gawd, I find him difficult to read. I prefer Deleuze & Guattari, although they are difficult to read in a different way. I used "Thousand Plateaus" for one of my essays in my 3rd grad semester's paper. I got the book via interlibrary loan and arrived at the beginning of Dec. and the semester ended in Jan. How's that for causing a heart attack when I opened it to read? Obviously, I got thru grad school but that baptism was a shock.