I chose "I could say that I love character A from so and so movie" as an example, I didn't outline a particular movie nor did I say it was the HP movies. Please don't immediately take offence in my replies. It's not that I don't want to answer them, I do and I could give you some very long answers to those particular questions, but like I said, I don't really get how that really helps. I know they're default sorting questions and I've been an appeal judge before and seen through communities and their change of questions every few months and I've never seen a correlation between character preference and house. It's obvious I would be entertained by the characters in the book if I would stay in the fandom for so many years. So, if I were to spend time answering those questions for a formal situation like this, I'd like to know how they'll help. I could go on for hours and hours about this character and that character in an informal and friendly setting, but; when I talk to friends about my interest in characters, they won't use that to judge me in any way. Please tell me you understand what I'm trying to say with that, I'd be happy to answer them if you tell me in what way they'll help you judge me, because that is ultimately what you're going to do here.
Is it more important to you to be a good person or to be successful?
Those two questions are pretty keyword intense, no?
- Successful, as I have already mentioned several times in the original application and above in the articles that I wished to elaborate on. That doesn't mean that just because I choose the word successful that I wouldn't choose 'a good person' either. The world is very material in this day and age, what I see and learn of those around me only serves to further prove this. The only good people that get recognised are those who have done an extraordinary amount of good like Mother Theresa, etc. There are people who donate their kidneys to the kid with cancer across the country, they make one ot two headlines on the second and third page and that's it. After you read about it inthe paper you would just go, "oh, what a wonderful thing to do," close the paper and then forget about it the next day. There also doesn't seem to be much in terms of rewards (in life, I'm not talking about medals and all that, just in life, in general) for those who do good as opposed to those that are successful. At least with successful you might get the chance to be your own boss instead of working for someone else, score with a beautiful wife or husband and successfully raise kids who won't turn out to be drug addicts or the next bums on the road.
-- Do you admire those who've become successful in life more if they became that way through intelligence, or do you admire them more if they became successful from hard work?
- Intelligence and hard work are related. Someone who scores high on tests can only do so after putting in a lot of time studying and that is hard work, isn't it? There are ocassions where certain people are just quick at picking things up the first time around but I wouldn't call that "intelligence," they're just people who are quick learners instead. So, there's really no difference in how I would feel towards these two groups.
I'll answer the others when I'm home. I'm normally blunt with my words, and I'm told you've been feeling offence in it. Since this is a judging and not an interrogation, I thought I could ask questions back to clarify what's being asked of me in return. I apologize if it's coming off in the wrong way.
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Is it more important to you to be a good person or to be successful?
Those two questions are pretty keyword intense, no?
- Successful, as I have already mentioned several times in the original application and above in the articles that I wished to elaborate on. That doesn't mean that just because I choose the word successful that I wouldn't choose 'a good person' either. The world is very material in this day and age, what I see and learn of those around me only serves to further prove this. The only good people that get recognised are those who have done an extraordinary amount of good like Mother Theresa, etc. There are people who donate their kidneys to the kid with cancer across the country, they make one ot two headlines on the second and third page and that's it. After you read about it inthe paper you would just go, "oh, what a wonderful thing to do," close the paper and then forget about it the next day. There also doesn't seem to be much in terms of rewards (in life, I'm not talking about medals and all that, just in life, in general) for those who do good as opposed to those that are successful. At least with successful you might get the chance to be your own boss instead of working for someone else, score with a beautiful wife or husband and successfully raise kids who won't turn out to be drug addicts or the next bums on the road.
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Do you admire those who've become successful in life more if they became that way through intelligence, or do you admire them more if they became successful from hard work?
- Intelligence and hard work are related. Someone who scores high on tests can only do so after putting in a lot of time studying and that is hard work, isn't it? There are ocassions where certain people are just quick at picking things up the first time around but I wouldn't call that "intelligence," they're just people who are quick learners instead. So, there's really no difference in how I would feel towards these two groups.
I'll answer the others when I'm home. I'm normally blunt with my words, and I'm told you've been feeling offence in it. Since this is a judging and not an interrogation, I thought I could ask questions back to clarify what's being asked of me in return. I apologize if it's coming off in the wrong way.