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| User: | cuddlefairy (5727746) Fairy Fun
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| Name: | Julie | |
| Location: | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | |
| Bio: | I am an athiest, eco-friendly, vegetarian philosopher who values empathy and deep, rational thought. And Fun! I am, as my name tells you, a cuddle fairy. Close physical contact with others helps to keep my brain pumped with happiness-inducing neurotransmitters. I am also a garden fairy. I like to play in the dirt and watch things change (either grow or decompose). I have an Arts degree (Anthropology Major) and a Teaching degree (hons). I currently teach grade 1/2 students in Primary School. I love to sing! I am a choral singer, with a passion for the Australian Intervarsity movement. My Boast: I have a 4 octave voice range (from 1 octave below middle C to 3 octaves above)! My favourite music to perform is Bernstein's Mass! Thought of the moment: My system of morality is all about reducing suffering and increasing happiness, so how do I reconcile causing suffering to others with my ideal of what is morally good? Could I have avoided causing suffering if I had tried harder, sacrificed more? Should my own suffering count in this equation? Is it immoral to alleviate my own suffering if it causes someone else to suffer? Previous thoughts from previous moments: (this is where i record thoughts that have great significance to my outlook on life & i don't want to lose them in the wild jungle of journal posts) *Could it be that the Cosmos (time and space) does not flow, but flashes? It is not continuous, but made of discrete parts? Is the concept of movement a construction of our perceptions? Fluidity an imagined conception? If change does not occur through movement, then what/how does change happen? If it is something unfamiliar, could we even comprehend it? *To know is to cease contemplation and stagnate. To never know is to never stop thinking! *It is a fruitless pursuit to try to gain or hold control over how others interact with me, think of me or feel towards me. It is not up to me to tell someone else how they should feel or act towards others, or what they should give of themself to any other. I should not think someone as in the wrong for giving less or differently to what i expect, if that is what they feel comfortable, safe and content in giving. Such choices are theirs alone. *Jealousy is perhaps the most fascinating yet also the most infuriating of human emotions. While its existence is somewhat understandable from an evolutionary perspective, much like aggression in males, such banes are abominable from the perspective of an appreciation of mankind. I don't like being struck down by the intense desire to feel 'more' special than someone else in the eyes of another. I detest it. And yet I can't prevent it from happening to me, and having then to spend a good while trying to retrain the negative and positive emotion links in my brain to particular events, such that more appropriate and rewarding associations will exist and occur. * Memory: The missing link in explaining my 'happy brain'. When I talk about strengthening neural pathways through shear effort at being happy and positive thinking, perhaps what I am actually strengthening is the automatic associations between various experiential, thought and/or mood memories and the brain's physical/chemical memory of how to reproduce that greater intensity of euphoric state. *How do happiness and truth compare in value? What is the value of living in deluded happiness compared to truthful misery? If suffering and happiness are to be the major tenets of a system of objective morality, where, how and why does truth fit in? Why does truth matter to us? *My goal of life is to experience happiness (of the many different varieties) as frequently as I can, and to help others (now and in the future) to do the same. *We humans are just smart enough to be able to see all the things that we could and should be able to know and do, but not smart enough to be able to actually do them. Is AI and the singularity really the answer to this problem, or is it a Eutopian belief-based dream? *If people think but do not share their thinking how will they ever progress, for who will be able to point out to them the flaws of their thinking? Many important personal decisions are based upon conclusions made in the privacy of one's own brain, that is - unchallenged conclusions. *HUGS* TOTAL! give cuddlefairy more *HUGS* Get hugs of your own  Crush this person! Get your own ThisCrush.com CrushTag! | |
| Memories:: | 1 entry | |
| Interests: | 81: achievement, aicsa, argument, awareness, being, bisexuality, challenge, change, children, choir, choral singing, competence, confest, confidence, consciousness, crushes, cuddles, cuddling, curiosity, desire, diary writing, dirt, dreaming, endorphins, environment, epicurius, ethics, euphoria, existence, feedback, flirting, forests, friends, fun, gardening, genetics, growing things, happiness, hugs, humming, imagining, intelligence, intervarsity choral festivals, kisses, laughing, lust, memetics, monucs, morality, orange, personal growth, philosophy, physical intimacy, physics, planning, playing, poly, polyamory, polyamoury, questions, rational thought, rationality, richard dawkins, sartre, science, self-growth, self-improvement, singing, smiles, snuggles, squishy bits, sunshine, teaching, thinking, thought, trees, warm evenings, water, wattle, wikipedia, women | |
| Schools: | Ferntree Gully Primary School - Melbourne, Vic, Australia (1986) Coonara Community School - Melbourne, Vic, Australia (1987 - 1991) Camberwell Girls Grammar School - Melbourne, Vic, Australia (1992 - 1994) Ringwood Secondary College - Melbourne, Vic, Australia (1995 - 1997) University of Melbourne - Melbourne, Vic, Australia (1998 - 2005) | |
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| Mutual Friends: | 102: actrealdon, alaranth_88, apex_chio, asmodel, bar_barra, beachy_woods, blankheadspace, blindmouse, brong, clare_a_belle, clarrie, cuddlefairy, daharja, danman80, dcrisp, de_chel, diz_beth, dragon_and_dawn, dzurlady, em_81, emancible, ericaordinary, evil_s, expandakarl, fin, fire_babe, foxe, frankiefan13, gabyvarius, gelignite, geserit, giggly_crunchie, greenforest_elf, greenkat73, gromm, heehidiho, hierodule, highlyharried, hometime, i_weasel, icansinghigher, inverse_spiral, ironicshell, jer_s, kadooshka, kikialakiki, kirmish, kitchenslut, knave_scurvy, kolb, lukeii, madrigalis, maggishness, maniac_angel, matty_jt, mawaridi, mesongles, midwifealice, millyinpink, mistersteve, mstakenidentity, musosian, naked_wrat, naturalredhead, nclean, nessbrain, nitedula, ockyflam, omnifarious, onceler21, originaluddite, pandalu, pezzae, phi1ip, pink_soprano, pop_pony, pyrrha17, rhyannonf, ruth_lawrence, saltire, seaburke, seagoon, shadowlands, sjl, smangesable, sonador_corazon, spiff_mysmask, splatchtrock, splunkles, sticky_toffee, subtle_eye, teleksterling, thehappyhobbit, ti_met, tigerdenbodu, traeemery, unfoldedreality, uniqueid, vonnila, why_am_i, wolfpeach, zenmetheus | |
| Account type: | Basic Account | |
