Heya Hive,
I was tagged by @rukeros to answer some important questions! 😀
The rules of this challenge, created by @jongcl are as explained here:
The first two questions for everyone:
How do we add value to Hive?
I provide original content and support original content. Through my written posts I encourage a domain in which dialogue is had regarding important issues of politics, society, philosophy and spirituality.
How would we make Hive a better place?
Encourage user activity that is not based on the rewards spectrum. I feel that the very idea of getting a reward for everything has limited how people express themselves on here.
And here are my answers to @rukeros 's very deep and soul searching questions:
Which are your favorite trees and why?
The Karri tree - the third tallest tree species in the world and grows in the region where I live. It is a eucalyptus variety. I once sold all my things and moved into a Karri forest - the trees were a massive canopy above me that provided shelter and life to the world below filled with many different species of plant, animal and fungi. The Karri is a native species of south-western australia that only grows in this particular region. Logging was common practice in early settlement but now remaining forests are protected.
The Redwood tree - the tallest growing tree species in the world. I lived near a grove of Redwoods when I lived in the forest squat in Runnymede near London in 2013-2014, They are a majestic tree that sit high above everything - only seeing their trunks unless you tilt your head upwards. These trees are native to America and a sub-species is also native to China.
Do you know your spiritual totem animal (if you do please tell us what it is and how you met it)?
No, I don't. I once thought it was a spider or a snake but this way of classifying and categorizing the human world has meant little to me in my lifetime.
Would you re-live old traumatic situations if you knew that it would help you heal them?
Absolutely! But would I choose to remain conscious through these replays?
It is a hard question - I feel we constantly reproject trauma onto the world around us and so we are doing exactly this. We repeat the trauma in cycles and we do it again and again to re-imprint trauma based identity.
It is a human thing to want to repeat what is familiar than face a new unknown that may mean less pain or no pain.
What kind of survivor would you be in the zombie apocalypse?
The lone ranger that lives on the edge of a large nature reservation occasionally popping his head into a nearby community for trade and helping them out with zombie infestations when necessary.
What kind of questionnaire is this? lol
What is the quality you most appreciate in other people?
Gratitude, innocence (though not naivety) and unconditional love. I appreciate people that can remain focused on a task regardless of the situation or the drama happening around them.
What kind of attitudes do you tend to judge from others?
So I didn't understand this question at first - so I gained some clarification -
Hey there Monty, what we mean is that we tend to have negative associations to other people’s behaviour, for example some people judge others for being lazy, others judge those who are workaholics, and so forth. So we’re asking what kind of attitudes ten[d]s to bother you about other people 👹
When people forego spelling and grammar. lol
Can't stand it. And when I do it myself - I get out a whip and start the flagellation... lol. Ok, not really. But yes, this does bug me.
In life in general - unconscious behaviours and conditioning by people that claim to be conscious or mindful.
Hypocrisy in other words. But often it is mindless hypocrisy - in that, many have become accustomed to doing certain things automatically (conditioned responses) that contradict their true intentions and so live their lives as a kind of paradox. Infact, I speak of most of the population as most of us have things we are unaware of in our behaviour that we would do well to be aware of.
Personally, I feel it is better to know the demons in your closet than to pretend they are not there.
From the point of awareness you/me/we have the capacity for change.
When we don't allow ourselves to see the elephants invading all the space in our minds we can behave in strange ways so as to make sure we never see them and thus avoid responsibility of having to face them and actually change.
In the long run this course of action often leads to more trouble than to face the demons/elephants directly now and acknowledge their existence - observing their effects on our lives.
In a process of self-observation we have the capacity to see whether these relationships strengthen or weaken our resolve in a greater purpose.
I choose you wonderful people to continue this tag challenge!
Hopefully I am tagging new people that haven't done this yet! I have simply gone down my list of notifications and picked accounts that have recently given me meaningful responses:
And here are five questions from me:
What motivates you to live? Why are you alive?
How do we solve issues caused by unequal distribution of wealth on a local community level?
What is one thing you would tell the world, should they listen?
Do you respect another person's bodily autonomy? Why/why not?
What was the catalyst that got you started participating on Hive?
I also invite @rukeros to answer their own damn bloody questions! lol
Regards,
Monty
Edit: It seems that this tag blog thing was in October, well @rukeros did their's recently (December 2021) and well... why can't this thing just go on forever... hmmm? We could just keep going until we have answered all the questions of life! What a great achievement that would be! 🙃
