One Day My Mind Opened Up
Your Score: The Oracle
33% Extroversion, 53% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 66% Perceptiveness
Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fualt, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy.
You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing.
Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel
Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite
Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus
| Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
The sun shines on this funeral
just the same as on a birth.
I was a guest of my Aunt and my Brother, his wife, and their son. We ended up spending most of the day at Dutch Wonderland.
It was fun, as always, to see my Nephew at play, as well as see my Aunt and Brother play as well.
But something odd crept into my mind, something that the quote from a song by James Taylor brought into my head.
You see, five years ago this weekend, my Grandmother passed away. This was something had seen coming as her health was failing. But I was also at some odd level scared of watching her decline. In my opinion, I spent far too little time with her than I should have. Fortunately, my Aunt forgave me of this perceived infraction.
But there was also an odd decision made by my family that day. Since my Grandma passed away on a Saturday, we couldn't prepare the body until Monday. My parents decided to have one of my sisters stay with my Aunt and her twin would travel with me; we would leave Monday.
That Sunday, I can honestly say that nothing happened, save for us watching an auto race and going to get gas.
Well that Monday, it came time for my Sister and I to make this journey back to Western PA. For our purpose, we were surprisingly upbeat. We talked a bit of Grandma, and a lot more of a lot of other stuff. My CD player and the radio provided a beat as well.
Tuesday was more about the viewing and those preparations; many of my Dad's friends paid respects, as did a few of my Grandmother's friends who were alive.
The funeral was nice, and was in the church my Grandma had attended while she was living in Northeast Ohio. The priest used what my Aunt and my Father told him to do a good eulogy, and the wake was well-prepared.
Thursday, I returned to my home in Central PA with a surprise message on my machine. A job I had applied for while my Grandma's health was fading was interesting in hiring me. Almost like my Grandma's final wish was granted. ¶ 8:42 AM
