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I do not use one.

If you own a cell phone, which carrier did you by it from?

Always Mac

I have no idea what Linux is. I've only heard of it on WP. lol


Would you rather take a grad course in The Faerie Queen or The Odyssey?

The Odyssey. I love Greek and Latin literature, though I struggle to read it in the original. By contrast, I'm not really familiar with any works of English literature from before the eighteenth century, with the obvious exceptions of Milton and Shakespeare.

I am typing this on an Android.

What sports, if any, do you follow?

Sports ... I can't say I follow any or know any athletes. I have difficulty understanding any team sports because the rules and strategies overwhelm me. I can't follow what they're doing.

I will watch individual Olympic sports, particularly those that are objectively measured. Track and Field, swim races, etc.

Figure skating is pretty to watch but I have no idea how it's scored and I don't like subjective judging.

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I am not a sports fan, but I have played on some teams at my school on my own free will.

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I follow cricket and football. I've always loved both sports, particularly the statistical side of them. As a child, I used to invent fictitious football leagues and fill them with fictitious teams so I could construct all the relevant statistical data, usually on paper, but sometimes on an Excel spreadsheet. This was maybe the first sign that I had Aspegers, though nobody in my family, including myself, had heard of the condition at the time. I wasn't diagnosed until around my sixteenth birthday. I'd known that I had the condition for at least a year before that, but nobody would listen.

Sum up, in a few sentences or words, your philosophy of life.

Death will make it all worth it

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Do things that feel calming for myself, without hurting others. "The right to swing my fist ends where the other person's nose begins". JS Mill.

Otherwise known as The Golden Rule.

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I think these words from Bertrand Russell, the only modern man I truly admire, sum it up:

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instil faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need--of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy as ourselves. And so, when their day is over, when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed.

I've included the rest of the quote, too.

Yes, I remember exactly where I was when I first realised "I can read": in the waiting room, with my mother, of the local piano school where my older sister was taking a lesson.

Are you a chess player?

Funnily enough, I can remember first reading the Russell quote in MY university library a few years ago - not in Free Man's Worship, the book in which it was first published, but in a book by a follower of that repulsive philosopher, Ayn Rand, where Russell's position was being scathingly condemned.

I've never played chess in my life. I'm not a strategy person at all. I've never even played checkers / draughts. I don't play cards at all either. Anything strategic or interactive like that has always intimidated me.

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Butting in between a good convo between Prometheus n Isabella:
No i suck at it n always have - my siblings are all good at it n enjoy it

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