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Name: stever
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Diego
Birthday: 10/11/1980
Interests: ballin', tennis, guitars, drums, music!, and snowboarding if i ever stop spending all my dough on new guitar gear.
Expertise: being dangerous!
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AIM:  steverliu
Member Since:
1/31/2005
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| ok i did this for jmak! hmm i guess my mind is almost perfectly symmetrical between L/R and auditory/visual. and also i would get slightly different results each time i do this quiz, which is interesting since i can get different results doing those myers-briggs tests even by doing them one after another. anyways reading the description, i think i agree with it a lot, but usually i think i end up generally agreeing with test results of this type of nature, i think i kinda agree with it a little more than ususal, so maybe there's something to it.
http://mindmedia.com/brainworks/profiler
Your Brain Usage Profile: Auditory : 40%
Visual : 60%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%
steve, you exhibit an even balance between left- and right- hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you complete this self-assessment quiz. You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a "thinking" individual, you "take in" entire situations readily and can act on intuition. You sometimes tend to vacillate in your learning styles. Learning might take you longer than someone of equal intellect, but you will tend to be more thorough and retain the material longer than those other individuals. You will alternate between logic and impulse. This vacillation will not normally be intentional or deliberate, so you may experience anxiety in situations where you are not certain which aspect of yourself will be called on. With a slight preference for visual processing, you tend to be encompassing in your perceptions, process along multidimensional paths and be active in your attacking of situations or learning. Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself -- and of others -- while maintaining an "openness" which tempers that tendency. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity may not be in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, obvious and the more functional
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| i love zachary's pizza in the bay area. i always get it each time i go up there.
until then though, i discovered a very good substitute, though not quite as awesome as zachary's.
http://www.sweethomechicagopizza.com/
it's certainly a bit of a drive into poway, but not as far as driving to berkeley!
also i started an instructional guitar blog, please check it out and leave some comments if it helps you learn something. steverpraise.wordpress.com
stever
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| ok i'm sure most of you probably don't need to hear this or have already figured out stuff like this, but please allow me to do my own little christian apologetics monologue/greg koukle impersonation.
Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080907/pl_politico/13217_1
So basically Pastor Rick Warren asks Obama and McCain when life begins. Obama responds that the question is “above my pay grade" while McCain responds life begins at conception.
the article i referenced above is Obama's later comments on his own answer. here is a paragraph of it.
Now, Obama tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
in an interview taped for “This Week”: “What I intended to say is that,
as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does
the soul enter into … It's a pretty tough question. And so, all I meant
to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these
kinds of theological questions.”
So basically Obama is saying he doesn't know when life begins...but if that's the case then why is he for abortion rights? let me illustrate this with a simple illustration.
You hear a rustle in the bush, or a bump in the night. do you grab your gun and shoot it? of course not, if you don't know what it is, you err on the side of caution. if Obama doesn't know when does life begin, why doesn't he err on the side of caution?
Also, as a Christian, having humility about understanding things is a good and important thing, but that is why we have the Word, the Bible as our guide. How does he explain away Psalm 51:5, 139, and many, many other verses about the bible's ban against the "shedding of innocent blood"? This is in part kind of a rant against a much larger issue: Politics is often about rhetoric and what moves the people to vote for you. it's not at all about proper reasoning and logic and carefull explanation about the what's and why's of a stance on an issue. In fact often times they hide their views and reasons etc so people don't know about them, so they won't vote against them. I once emailed a politician running for office a question if he was pro-life or not and why or why not since i couldn't find the answer on his website. i got no response. the whole thing is BS. and the people who actually stand on issues based on reason and openess etc just don't get elected i guess.
Also, if Obama doesn't presume to know about "these kinds of theological questions"...then which kinds of theological questions does he presume to know about? isn't that what being a christian is all about? We presume to know that Jesus is the messiah, and all kinds of other things. And why does he presume that the question is a theological one and not a scientific one? I don't have specific references but i'm pretty sure all scientists agree that life begins at conception.
so what do you guys think? is my reasoning sound? any Obama supporters want to defend him or explain his comments?
steve
PS- to be fair, if McCain believes life begins at conception, then why is he for embryonic stem-cell research? especially when it's been shown that they can do the same type of research from non-embryonic stem cells?
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| this is amazing and a little scary...
humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall, robot humpty not so dumbty and puts itself back together
http://www.snotr.com/video/1114
steve
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| something that i learned about myself this weekend:
i like to create awkward social moments with my awkward comments. maybe i've been influenced by the office, especially the ricky gervais british version. that toe-curling soul shriveling type of humor. that's part of the reason why i like the puns. the best part of my shady pun this weekend was that i told it while sitting in the shade. i used to think that i just like to be funny and make people laugh but now maybe i think i'm just an evil person and like to torture people with my brand of humor. i should have my own show- like punk'd except mine would be pun'd. or pun'dished, a combination of pun, punish, and dished. do you know what the awkward turtle and awkward balloon are? they're these hand motions you make during an awkward moment. isn't that neat? something i just made up, my new thing, is after creating an awkward moment, ask the person, on a scale of 1-10, how awkward do you feel right now? today at church i was chatting with a poor freshman with maggie and annice and this poor freshman girl felt soo awkward you could totally tell by their body language...just totally body turned to the side, and really physically squirming. ha ha ha. hopefully this aspect of me will change once i get a taste of my own medicine. but will i ever talk again?
on a more serious note, i just started to read "thriving as an artist in the church" by rory noland. highly recommend so far. really good stuff for me at least. http://www.heartoftheartist.org/
SWAT performance at reflections went pretty well i think. hopefully we can get the words on screen next time, the stage is too small for us not to use the middle. i picked up a painting. my first ever artwork bought for the house. it went to my room straightaway.
stever
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