interesting meme

[helenic]

(from blackmetalbaz)

1. Does my username suit me?
2. Is my journal's title cryptic or descriptive? What do you think it means?
3. Does my journal expand your knowledge of me?
4. Do you think my bio describes me well? If you knew me in real life and found it, would you be able to guess who it was describing?
5. Which of my interests surprises you the least?
6. Which of my interests surprises you the most?
7. Which of my interests needs explaining?
8. Which of my userpics suits me best?

Comments

[verte.livejournal.com]

1. I like your username because it says so little about you, other than suggest that you might be a classicist! And the simplicity of it means there's no preference for it suiting you or not. Obviously it suits the journal...
2. I like the fact that it kind of means the joining of things, or perhaps even transition.
3. All journals do this, but yes, most definitely. And it handily keeps me up to date on what you're doing!
4. Yes, and yes. I meant to tell you that it's a good bio - mine still needs a little work...
5. spiritual awareness
6. college scarves - wouldn't have thought all that silly malarky was your bag (baby)
7. Well, I don't know what epicurean physics is...
8. miles away dead of night - but that might just be because it's my favourite. I don't like icons with text on them, generally.

Woohoo! Stealing this!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

College scarves are great in Cambridge. Wearing them outside either term or the city is beyond pretentious. I like being able to identify people by them, and in a way I quite like the cliqueyness of the college system, if only because it's such a big, inclusive, meaningless clique. I very nearly bought a choir scarf, which is Downing colours (black and purple) with two smaller stripes of white, but I decided I didn't need both. It is silly, but it still appeals (with a healthy amount of irony, of course).

As for Epicurean physics ... it's basically early atomism. Epicurus was an Hellenistic philosopher who was a very material metaphysicist (even the soul was made a particular kind of atom, he claimed, and sensory experiences were caused by the transfer of atoms from the object to, for instance, the eye), reasoned empirically, and had a hedonistic ethics (although his definition of "pleasure" was the avoidance of pain, rather than any decadent extremes). When we were first lectured on it last year I was just stunned by how advanced the physics was, especially since it was all conjecture rather than the result of experiments.

anyway yar, lesson over. I'm meant to be thinking about Horace - the essay's going nowhere fast. Gah.