{"id":3423,"date":"2009-07-02T05:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2009-07-02T05:05:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:05:57","slug":"facebook-quizzes-to-tell-us-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/facebook-quizzes-to-tell-us-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook quizzes; every little bit of insight helps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this year flying by or what?? <\/em>Yesterday I drove to Ormond Beach, Ocala and Cassadaga and it’s a trip I love to make.\u00a0 Usually I am returning phone calls as I drive, hands free of course.\u00a0 I have this mega stereo headset that really blocks road noise and I put it on when I know there will be an hour or more of calls.\u00a0 The Bluetooth is fine, but at 70 mph on I-95 in my little Toyota Prius, I have to keep a finger on it to keep the earpiece deep in the ear channel.\u00a0 I like to use two hands when I drive, and pay attention – 10 and 2, baby.\u00a0 Hands at 10 and 2!\u00a0 So with the mega headset, I can be completely hands free.\u00a0 There is about an hour each way along highways 19 and 40 that does not have AT&T cell phone service, so I get to enjoy that nice ride in the silence, just watching the cowfields and horse fields and open savannah.\u00a0 I saw some baby goats that were so cute and right near the fence, I could have petted them.<\/p>\n

I first stopped at Crystal Connection<\/a> in Ormond Beach, then got gas and drove west on 40 into Ocala.\u00a0 I put the July Horizons magazines<\/a> at Mother Earth Market<\/a>, then picked up some hummus and a package of rice crackers for lunch.\u00a0 I ate it on the way to Cassadaga<\/a>, my silent ride time, where I dropped more magazines off.\u00a0 When I got back home, I sat back in my big comfy chair and looked to see what my Facebook buddies had been up to.\u00a0 That’s my form of mindless entertainment.\u00a0 I saw some friends had posted the results of the different quizzes Facebook has, such as:<\/p>\n

Where will you be 10 years from now?
\nWhat’s Your Hidden Super Power?
\nHow long would you survive in the ghetto?
\nWhat’s your Native American Indian name?
\nWhich side of your brain is dominant?
\nWhat ethnicity are you, really?
\nWhich corny pick-up line suits you best?
\nWhich Desperate Housewife are you?
\nWhat flower represents you?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Those are not the most ridicuous, they are just the ones I took.\u00a0 Oh, here’s a good one, the Zombie quiz:<\/p>\n

1. A group of zombies is blocking your path what do you do?
\nPull out an M1 and aim for the back of the neck.
\nCharge in and try to kill them with my bare hands.
\nBring out my pistol and aim for the head.
\nOrder my fellows to charge and kill.
\nThrow a pipe bomb.<\/p>\n

2. You have a person who has been wounded by a zombie what do you do?
\nLeave them.
\nShoot them in the head
\nKeep them in your group.
\nDisposeof the body in a fire.
\nAmputate the infected area.<\/p>\n

3. What are the best weapons to have on you?
\nPistol and ammo
\nM1 and Machete
\nElephant gun and uzi.
\nAssault rifles,shotguns,pistols and combat knives
\npen knife and my hands.<\/p>\n

4. Where do you go if you are in a big city?
\nstay home and board up all points of entry.
\nMilitary base just outside of town.
\nHospital
\nEvacuation Site.
\nMy friends house.<\/p>\n

5. Where do you go if you are in the country?
\nOutside and stand in a field
\nGo to the big city.
\nstay home and wait for rescue
\nIt’s a small town kill all the zombies!
\nBoard up the windows and doors.<\/p>\n

My answer was that my character would be “Bert from Tremors. You are awsome at this! Have you been in a zombie apocalypse before or would this be your first time? You will definetly survive.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’s interesting that the quizmaster could spell apocalypse, yet could not spell awesome nor definitely.\u00a0 Of course none of the answers would have been my choices.\u00a0 Not having seen a zombie movie since the original Night Of the Living Dead, I could only guess what Hollywood had been putting on the screen.\u00a0 So I guessed and my answers were obviously correct: I would definitely surive a zombie apocalypse.\u00a0 That’s good to know.<\/p>\n

Actually, that was a pretty empowering quiz.\u00a0 I like taking quizzes that make me delve inside myself for answers I didn’t know I had, to find strengths I didn’t know I had.\u00a0 That was one reason I created the website at Sisters of the Circle<\/a>.\u00a0 Not everyone has the time to run off to a weekend retreat for reflection, but everyone can either take an hour to sit at the beach or under the clothesline, or 10 minutes in their bathroom to mentally go into another place and do a mini-soul searching.<\/p>\n

Why do we want to soul search?<\/em> Because we reach a phase in life where we begin to see through the illusion and no longer find satisfaction in our current daily life.\u00a0 We can either sit around and pout and mope and complain about everything going wrong with our life and the world, or we can know that there is more out there, and set out to find it.\u00a0 This phase can come at any age and has nothing to do with being smart.\u00a0 It has to do with waking up and getting conscious.<\/p>\n

But Andrea, why embark upon a course of self discovery and personal development when doing that causes the world to crash down upon you?<\/em> Because (1) the world doesn’t always crash down upon you and (2) if parts of your life do come crashing down, it’s simply the beginning of the restructuring that will be so much more to your satisfaction that it’s so worth it to do it.<\/p>\n

Much of the crashing down<\/em> has to do with the karma of past momentum catching up and leveling the playing field.\u00a0 That’s all that is.\u00a0 The sooner you fess up with yourself and cop to your past whatever<\/em>, the sooner you reach ground zero.\u00a0 Then you simply begin to act and react in a conscious way, giving thought to choices as they come up, setting and reflecting on goals, helping those around you, and thus begin a whole new pattern of attraction.\u00a0 You are no longer in vibrational resonance with the old life, so the old life simply drops away.\u00a0 Your new life begins to include people and activities you find more meaningful, as old associations drop away.\u00a0 You will be surprised at who remains and who falls away.<\/em><\/p>\n

So these silly Facebook quizzes, written by people who can neither spell nor form sentences (like me, right now) <\/em>these quizzes still give us insight into our own personality.\u00a0 They keep the brain neurons firing as we consider new information. That helps keep our brain young and our mental processes clear.<\/p>\n

So when people complain that a lemming public is relying on unqualified others to tell us who we are, I say “I welcome it all.\u00a0 Every thought or criticism is helpful to me.\u00a0 Every silly game or snarky comment gives me cause for reflection.”\u00a0 Does that mean we are really super heros or a particular song like the quizzes tell us we are?\u00a0 No, but we’re not zombies either.<\/p>\n

We may be the walking wounded, but we’re working on that and we’re not dead yet.<\/p>\n

I’m just discovering Facebook<\/a>
\nManaging Incoming Information; What Is Facebook For? <\/a>
\n<\/a>Facebook posts; I\u2019m in charge of what I attract <\/a>
\nFacebook friends to the rescue, helping me Excel<\/a>
\nIf a Friend Asks For $$ In Facebook, Ask A Personal Question<\/a>
\nYou Want To Be My Friend On Facebook?<\/a>
\nHow To Stop The Stupid Facebook Posts On Your Wall <\/a>
\nThe Zen of Farmville on Facebook? WTF? <\/a>
\nAre Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends? Don\u2019t Assume Mine Are Either
\n<\/a>What I post on Facebook<\/a>
\nFinding childhood buds on Facebook, flashback to age 18<\/a>
\nPutting personal details on Facebook and Myspace<\/a>
\nIs it ok to break up with someone over Facebook?
\n<\/a>Why I like Facebook<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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