Member Questionnaire 1 (Jackobs)
What is beauty? What is love? a) Well, beauty has different meanings! Is a bit vague to define, for me beauty is freedom, landscapes and contact with nature is also beautiful and meaningful, cities' skylines are beautiful, knowledge is bauty! It has so many different meanings that depends on the context.
b) BABY DON'T HURT MEEEE, NO MOREEEE!!!
Anyway, love is a special bond formed between two people that find each other in the world, is what keeps this planet rollin' and is one of the most important strenght that mobilizes people to take action, IMHO
What are your most important values? Freedom of speech, giving and receiving Respect, Caring for others, Loyalty to the people I love, love for knowledge and always try to have fun while making the best out of every situation.
Do you have any sort of spiritual/religious beliefs, and why do you hold (or don't) those beliefs in the first place? This is a pretty hard question... Lately I found myself pretty interested in Buddhism, but still not satisfied;
I strongly believe in supernatural, occultism, spiiritualism and energy flowing, I'm pretty fascinated in voodoo and karmic exchange, but is hard for me to identify myself in a specific religion, but I feel the need of a spiritual research, even if I'm having troubles to realize it.
Opinion on war and militaries? What is power to you? Money and Charisma are power, they both can mesmerize people in one way or another (unluckily for the former...).
I believe in non-violence and diplomacy, but I think military is a necessary evil for defense purposes, since some rulers in the world are mad guys that won't wait to attack and kill each other in the moment that a spark is lightened somewhere, and because, with some forces, is impossibile to have a constructive exchange and debate and resort to diplomacy (Terrorism above all else)
What have you had long conversations about? What are your interests? Why? a) I like talking about everything, from common things to more nitpick themes, but I always prefer to have a long conversation about a theme that can benefit both parts of the discussion (lately I got into type theory and I'd like to talk exclusively about it xD) to grow, improve and learn something new! I prefer more serious topics, or discussion about helping others with their issues and try to help them solve their personal problems (I enjoy counseling others, and hope these conversations to be some use for them).
b1) I enjoy video-games, movies/animes and books a lot, especially the former, but I also play bass guitar in a band and tried a lot of different musical instruments, music is my other big passion! I'd like to learn cooking, but too lazy to focus on that xD
b2) I enjoy video games because they usally give a challenge to me and help me focus my attention to overcome them, but I also like the idea of living a imaginary adventures or exploring unfamiliar olaces (I love games in which you travel a lot, for example Uncharted Series, or make you explore giant worlds, for example skyrim or dragon age), and I love the competitive multiplayer sside of them. Movies, well, who doesn't like movies? xD They make me feel a lot of different things and, sometimes, also learn some life lessons.
Music is a big passion because I find pretty funny to learn new instruments and play them in a way or another, to try the pieces I love listening to.
Interested in health/medicine as a conversation topic? Are you focused on your body? I like to talk especially about the part of reasearch on health topics, but enjoy also the alternative medicine discussions (herbalism/oriental medicine).
I try to live in a healthy way because I'm a bit hypochondriac, but I'm pretty flexible on it (I don't feel the need to have a certain lunch/dinner time, preference or a certain sleep schedule, I prefer to focus on things I find interesting or pastimes like smoking cigars/pipe, and I can easily lose hours of sleep becaus prefer to dedicate my time to my hobbies or because I am with my friends). I love being in a good physical shape, that's why I go to the gym, but is hard for me to keep a routine on it, preferring to improvise on different activities (I love riding a bike, walk in nature and so on, and hardly back down when I can live a new physichal adventure, even if I'm a bit lazy too actively search for them).
I'm pretty aware of my health situation, for example knowing when feeling tired or hungry, but I'd say is not my top priority.
What do you think of daily chores? B O R I N G.
Unfortunately necessary, I hate the idea of living in a dirty or non-hygienical house, my five and aesthethic senses suffer in thos situations xD
Books or films you liked? Recently read/watched or otherwise. Examples welcome. Birdman, Chronicles of Narnia (book), Tales from Earthsea (Both Ghibli/book cycle), Mists of Avalon, La La Land about the recent things.
Into the Wild is my favorite film of all time.
What has made you cry? What has made you smile? Why? Hmmm, I can't remember the last time I cried, for me is nearly impossibile to do so! Moved a bit after Boheme opera, and when I broke with my ex, but didn't cry in these situations, just moved a bit and lucid eyes.
I smile a lot! I like meeting new people and socialising with them, and I have always fun with my buddies, and I also smile a lot on comedies or good ending in tales, films or video-games!
For the former, because the Boheme was pretty powerful for me, really shaked me, and my ex GF, well, we had a good love story, even if pretty short (and for pride because she cheated on me xD)
For the latter, well, I like having fun and doing fun things with my friends, and enjoy creating a good atmosphere that they could enjoy too in some way, while for the stories, well, they just make me feel happy
In nature I found my totality, especially if relaxing and enjoying my surroundings, I feel a very powerful bond with nature, especially with animals!
But I feel pretty well with my beloved buddies too, but not so strong as in nature.
What have people seen as your weaknesses? What do you dislike about yourself? I dislike that I tend to overthink a lot and can be pretty indecisive, I would like to be more carefree and impulsive ( I rely a lot on improvisation, but with a bit of preapartion too, but the second is not so necessary), and also I would like to be more sure about my choices, more living in the moment without caring too much on the long term.
People say I can be pretty accomodating and not very firm/decisive, even if when threatened I can be pretty stubborn and fierce.
What have people seen as your strengths? What do you like about yourself? People say I am always very helpful, that I strive to help others and try to find a solution for them, or just listening to their issues and problem and talking about them; also, they say I'm pretty upbeat and outgoing, they say I have an "Aura" that puts them at ease and make them feel that they can count on me.
Well, I like this, is something that I notice too and try to use it at my advantage to make them others feel better.
In what areas of your life would you like help? Executing things, getting them done, planning a way of action, I kinda suck at it, I try to be organized but have troubles doing so xD
Ever feel stuck in a rut? If yes, describe the causes and your reaction to it. Yeah, I get very nervous and angry, I start feeling a burden on me that overwhelms me; when this happens, I become very impulsive and aggressive, lashing out at people and trying to find useless activites to distract me from this state, because I start feeling "Caged" in some situations and destroy my usual optimism.
This happens usually when I feel boxed in in certain situations, for example in mylast job that I really hated, or when I realized that my closest friend was an opportunist bastard; It's pretty rare because I have a High treshold, but when it happens I really explode and feel the urge to release everything with force (yelling, throwing things in the room).
It's a bit strange, I know xD
What qualities do you most like and dislike in other people? What types do you get along with? I like reliability, sincerity, cheerfulness, people that think out of the box and try tho see things from other perspecttives.
I like knowledgeable people that can teach me a lot of things, with which I can have serious discussions about important social issues and thing like that.
I dislike phoniness, opportunism, agrressive and trampling kind of people. stuck in their way that cannot , at least, try to understand others because they only see their egotic self. People who deliberalty hurt others, both in physichally or psychologically ways. People who resort to their authoritative position to abuse others that are weaker.
I have a some EII friends, my best male friend is SLI (and we have a lot of contrasts, but also help each other a lot) and the female one IEI, another close friend of mine is an ILE; I get better types who mostly values Fe-Ti, but, luckily, I'm pretty adaptable.
How do you feel about romance/sex? What qualities do you want in a partner? I am in love with love itself, I feel as one when I live a happy relationship, knowing that there is someone who can love me with the same intensity that I do. I enjoy sex, I really like it a lot, but only when meaningful in some way, backed up by affection and love, never had a one night stand.
I like an open minded partner that respect my ideas, or can help me grow in some way or improve my perspectives; someone who I can rely on that also respects each other's needs for privacy and preferences. I like someone who can make me realize something and motivates me to act out my ideas.
If you were to raise a child, what would be your main concerns, what measures would you take, and why? First of all, I would like to give him "blank paper", I don't wanna impose my beliefs on him, I want him to realize his potential, without giving too many inputs, I want him to be a free thinker.
But I also would like to defend him and make him know that he could always rely on me and I'll be always be there for him in every situation, coming hell or high water. I would like to gtransmit him some qualities to be a decent human being, but will always respect his choices.
(I used the pronon Him, but I don't care about his genre ans long as he could be happy)
A friend makes a claim that clashes with your current beliefs. What is your inward and outward reaction? Well, I'd ask him for his motives behind his claim and try to see things from his point of view. I would tell him that I don't agree with him, but I'll be as comprehensible as possible, while exposing my idea to him hoping we can exchange some different insights about it, but at the same time I could demonstrate a harsh and firm side, depending on the gravity of his action/claim
Describe your relationship to society. How do you see people as a whole? What do you consider a prevalent social problem? Name one. I start by the end, saying that the biggest problem is Egoism; I consider society as a structure formed by humanity as a whole, but, somehow in some way, a big bad guy gains some kind of powe r for his personal gain, and so tend to "enslave" in some way the people inferior to him in the position of the gerarchy, and that0s when humanity should mobilize to throw of t this power (that, IMO, somehow fin another way, manages to impose again in a different time and there is the need to throw it off again. The problem is that most people prefer cultivating their little business, forgetting the need of the society, and the people that tries to stick their nose out of this gets shut off immediately. It's kinda sad, even if I'm guilty to do it too....
How do you choose your friends and how do you behave around them? Mostly on gut feeling, I easily get when someone is compatible with me or not and get when a friendship is woth to be cultivated, and can easily get away from people that I think are not compatible, but I don't judge them in a way that is impossible to change, I wnat to give everyone a chance and try to learn more things about them as possible, and then I believe that both people understand when a friendship is meant to born after knowing each other. They see my real self, they are the only people with which I completely expose myself and behave naturally!
How do you behave around strangers? I like to meet strangers and have idle talks with them, especially when exchanging jokes and stories, but i rarely show to them my true colors, I prefer to play by their way and adapt at their needs, when I start to form some kind of bond is the moment that I start to show myself little by little and giving them a bit of trust, because I'm pretty skeptical and reserved, even if pretty sociable and outgoing!
Member Questionnaire (Jackobs)
Originally Posted by Sol
