Pleasant little poll, this...
Depending on your ideals, anyway. Found this in Yevon's journal...
ANGER:
1. Who did you last get angry with?
Completely unrecalled...
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Lajatang
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
Only as a desperate measure (i.e. at risk of life and/or limb).
4. How about of the same sex?
Likewise.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
Unrecalled.
6. What is your pet peeve?
Willful imperfection.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
Grudges? What grudges?
SLOTH:
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?
Persistent exercise.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
10 a.m. Only because I completely lost track of time.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't:
Hermit that I am...
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
I don't think I've ever made "lame" excuses...Further definition?
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
G1 Transformers aside, no.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?
I've never kept to a specific workout regimen...I tend to walk a lot, however.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
Zero. I don't use the snooze button for any reason.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
"Yuppie beverage"? Please define...
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
I tend to favor white meat.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?
Nil. Both sides of my family have had alcoholism issues, and I'm not about to tempt fate.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?
No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Not really...
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Sweets, with mildly spicy a distant second.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH"?
Absolutely not.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?
Zero.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?
Zero.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?
No.
4. Have you "done it"?
No. I prize my chastity...
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
The face.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
No, and even if she tried to, she'd never succeed...
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?
No.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?
One.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Electronics Boutique
3. If you had one million dollars, what would you do with it?
Affordable housing in Boston comes to mind...THAT ought to help de-despair a good many homeless...
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
Rich. Fame, for a recluse like myself?
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
Depends on how long I'd have to be in that job...
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
No.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
About 300 (all of them from out-of-print game music CD's, or games whose soundtracks were never published)
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Writing my first fanfiction.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Uncertain at this time.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
Undetermined.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
Mildly.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
No.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
NEVER.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?
Work on my research paper.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends' would you most want to have for your own?
Uncertain...
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
Unknown.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
{grin} Who won the latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
4. Have you ever been cheated on?
I've occasionally been gulled. But thankfully, not for much.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
A narrower face might be nice...
6. What trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
More patience with the world's irrationality.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
No.
What is your favorite deadly sin? Pride: the anchor of sanity.
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FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
Deist.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Wasn't raised in a religion (it helps that my mother's an agnostic).
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
Both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
No. The laws of reality in this cosmos won't allow for it.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
{scowls} Can't remember...
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
I don't keep to pre-written prayers.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
Yes. I don't see how that's an impossibility--why can't the bounds of finiteness be pierced?
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
To a desirable degree, yes.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
To sum it up in one word: tranquility.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
Rarely.
4. Do you believe in fate?
No. How can Fate and Free Will co-exist?
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
When I was about 7, yes (through my father). But I was more interested in the number arrays than anything else...
6. Do you gamble?
No.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then went ahead and did it anyway?
No.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
None at this time.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
{scowls} Can't remember...
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group?
Constant travel? No thank you.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
No. I may, occasionally, buy them some food...
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food?
No--no one's asked (hermit, remember?).
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
Unrecalled...
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Large dogs.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
I don't think I'd classify anything I did today that way...
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
I'm not terribly into superheroes...
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
If there aren't any other volunteers...And I weren't paralyzed with fear...
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
More heart. Might help disable my depression.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Interview fright, yes...
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
Neither one, but a knight-errant.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
Yes.
2. If they reinstituted the draft(for both genders)would you go?
No--besides, they wouldn't consider me (autistics like myself are terrible at unquestioning obedience).
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
No.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
No (although I don't think he genuinely realizes it). It doesn't help, though, that Gore was apparently trying to tweak the vote as well. Even the political machines were probably better than this.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial?
None to speak of.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
No.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
Food.
2. Do you collect anything?
Yes--Armada/Energon Transformers.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
No.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Cash/coins.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do?
Some DVD's that just weren't worth the candle...
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
At times, yes.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Probably the (apparently soon-to-be-retired) Dalai Lama.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil?
No.
3. Do you take advice when it's given?
If it sounds viable, yes.
4. What area are you wisest in?
Uncertain...
5. Do you drive defensively?
I don't drive, period.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage?
Still chaste.
7. What did you learn today?
Best way to study: Near a large window with gently humming machines nearby.
Your favorite of the seven virtues?
Hope
(Well, this wasn't on the original from Yevon, but...)
ANGER:
1. Who did you last get angry with?
Completely unrecalled...
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Lajatang
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
Only as a desperate measure (i.e. at risk of life and/or limb).
4. How about of the same sex?
Likewise.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
Unrecalled.
6. What is your pet peeve?
Willful imperfection.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
Grudges? What grudges?
SLOTH:
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?
Persistent exercise.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
10 a.m. Only because I completely lost track of time.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't:
Hermit that I am...
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
I don't think I've ever made "lame" excuses...Further definition?
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
G1 Transformers aside, no.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?
I've never kept to a specific workout regimen...I tend to walk a lot, however.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
Zero. I don't use the snooze button for any reason.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
"Yuppie beverage"? Please define...
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
I tend to favor white meat.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?
Nil. Both sides of my family have had alcoholism issues, and I'm not about to tempt fate.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?
No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Not really...
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Sweets, with mildly spicy a distant second.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH"?
Absolutely not.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?
Zero.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?
Zero.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?
No.
4. Have you "done it"?
No. I prize my chastity...
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
The face.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
No, and even if she tried to, she'd never succeed...
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?
No.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?
One.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Electronics Boutique
3. If you had one million dollars, what would you do with it?
Affordable housing in Boston comes to mind...THAT ought to help de-despair a good many homeless...
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
Rich. Fame, for a recluse like myself?
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
Depends on how long I'd have to be in that job...
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
No.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
About 300 (all of them from out-of-print game music CD's, or games whose soundtracks were never published)
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Writing my first fanfiction.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Uncertain at this time.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
Undetermined.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
Mildly.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
No.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
NEVER.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?
Work on my research paper.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends' would you most want to have for your own?
Uncertain...
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
Unknown.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
{grin} Who won the latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
4. Have you ever been cheated on?
I've occasionally been gulled. But thankfully, not for much.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
A narrower face might be nice...
6. What trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
More patience with the world's irrationality.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
No.
What is your favorite deadly sin? Pride: the anchor of sanity.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
Deist.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Wasn't raised in a religion (it helps that my mother's an agnostic).
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
Both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
No. The laws of reality in this cosmos won't allow for it.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
{scowls} Can't remember...
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
I don't keep to pre-written prayers.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
Yes. I don't see how that's an impossibility--why can't the bounds of finiteness be pierced?
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
To a desirable degree, yes.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
To sum it up in one word: tranquility.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
Rarely.
4. Do you believe in fate?
No. How can Fate and Free Will co-exist?
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
When I was about 7, yes (through my father). But I was more interested in the number arrays than anything else...
6. Do you gamble?
No.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then went ahead and did it anyway?
No.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
None at this time.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
{scowls} Can't remember...
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group?
Constant travel? No thank you.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
No. I may, occasionally, buy them some food...
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food?
No--no one's asked (hermit, remember?).
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
Unrecalled...
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Large dogs.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
I don't think I'd classify anything I did today that way...
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
I'm not terribly into superheroes...
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
If there aren't any other volunteers...And I weren't paralyzed with fear...
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
More heart. Might help disable my depression.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Interview fright, yes...
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
Neither one, but a knight-errant.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
Yes.
2. If they reinstituted the draft(for both genders)would you go?
No--besides, they wouldn't consider me (autistics like myself are terrible at unquestioning obedience).
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
No.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
No (although I don't think he genuinely realizes it). It doesn't help, though, that Gore was apparently trying to tweak the vote as well. Even the political machines were probably better than this.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial?
None to speak of.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
No.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
Food.
2. Do you collect anything?
Yes--Armada/Energon Transformers.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
No.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Cash/coins.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do?
Some DVD's that just weren't worth the candle...
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
At times, yes.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Probably the (apparently soon-to-be-retired) Dalai Lama.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil?
No.
3. Do you take advice when it's given?
If it sounds viable, yes.
4. What area are you wisest in?
Uncertain...
5. Do you drive defensively?
I don't drive, period.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage?
Still chaste.
7. What did you learn today?
Best way to study: Near a large window with gently humming machines nearby.
Your favorite of the seven virtues?
Hope
(Well, this wasn't on the original from Yevon, but...)