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Kagen4o4 06-03-2006 05:37 PM

You are the Eagle. People respect you and for good reason. You are a creative person who likes to do things abstractly. You tend to be a healer, either with yourself or with others.

Eagle
83%
Stag
75%
Dog
75%
Horse
75%
Crow
75%
Salmon
75%
Deer
67%
Dragon
58%
Bear
58%
Fox
50%
Ram
50%
Wolf
33%
Bull
33%
Snake
17%

limey 06-03-2006 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf
Take as a given that the test may not be accurate ...

But fox is about invisibility, secrets, and the ability to hide in plain sight. Like many canids, she also tells us about maintaining a safe and stable home and relationship.

Caveat noted. But even so the comments are interesting ...

richlevy 06-03-2006 05:57 PM

I'm %100 dog.:p

Quote:

Yeah, this is a story of a famous dog
For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy
These are clapping dogs, rhythmic dogs
Harmonic dogs, house dogs, street dogs
Dog of the world unite
Dancin¡¯ dogs
Yeah
Countin¡¯ dogs, funky dogs
Nasty dogs (Dog)

Atomic dog

Atomic dog

marichiko 06-03-2006 06:44 PM

My totem animal is "Bill, the Cat," of Bloom County fame. In my past life I was a serf who got killed in a very minor Russian border skirmish. My name was "Billeteski." 19 publishers have already rejected my manuscript. :p

xoxoxoBruce 06-03-2006 07:13 PM

I knew you were a damn alien.:eyebrow:

footfootfoot 06-03-2006 07:42 PM

I was sure I was the oyster, but quiz farm has this to say:

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rkzenrage 06-03-2006 07:55 PM

Find Your Totem

Beestie 06-03-2006 08:11 PM

100% Fox.

Kind of interesting because I saw a red fox on the front porch last night.

Kagen4o4 06-03-2006 09:21 PM

really? Red Fox?

Ibby 06-03-2006 09:31 PM

Redd Foxx.

Beestie 06-03-2006 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kagen4o4
really? Red Fox?

Yep. He's just a cub. I'll try to get a pic next time. He only comes in the middle of the night.

zippyt 06-03-2006 11:32 PM

You scored as Dragon.



You are the Dragon. You store a lot of knowledge about everything. You are generally one who is good with personal growth and can regenerate yourself after a bad experience.

Salmon

92%

Dragon

92%

Dog

92%

Wolf

83%

Horse

83%

Crow

83%

Bull

83%

Stag

75%

Eagle

75%

Fox

67%

Ram

67%

Bear

50%

Snake

50%

Deer

50%

lumberjim 06-04-2006 12:05 AM

Stag

92% Horse

83% Crow

83% Eagle

75% Bear

75% Deer

75% Fox

75% Salmon

67% Wolf

58% Dog

58% Dragon

58% Bull

50% Ram

50% Snake

http://images.quizfarm.com/1110823552stag.jpg

zippyt 06-04-2006 12:13 AM

As knoble as that looks , it sounds like a mouse with his BALLS cought in a mouse trap

lumberjim 06-04-2006 12:27 AM

this is why i'm not worried about computer tests replacing my big medicine.

Happy Monkey 06-04-2006 12:32 AM

I got Deer in a tiebreaker with Dragon.

marichiko 06-04-2006 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I knew you were a damn alien.:eyebrow:

Hey! What could be more American than Bill the CAT? What's alien bout him?

The trouble with totem animals is that they seem to be far more complex than most white folks realize. My Zuni friend is from the Badger clan, so you'd think his totem would be the badger, right? Wrong! When he did his coming of age ritual, he encountered bears, so the bear is his totem animal, but his affinity is for the lynx.

I think its too easy to get caught up in New Age BS and accidently misunderstand or even disrepect other people's traditions. Its easy to take a quiz on the Internet and decide your totem is a cocker spaniel or something; its quite a different thing to go to a sacred, wild space for 5 days with no weapon, no trail mix, no sleeping bag and encounter a bunch of bears (or whatever).

Tonchi 06-04-2006 01:51 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormieweather
If you were reincarnated and in your past life you were Jack the Ripper, would you admit it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna
I so totally would.

No, Brianna was not Jack the Ripper in a previous life. But she screwed him.

Beestie 06-04-2006 02:05 AM

You mean he screwed her.

skysidhe 06-04-2006 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zippyt
As knoble as that looks , it sounds like a mouse with his BALLS cought in a mouse trap

hehehe ... :lol2: I giggled myself off the chair for no other reason than I watched those nature shows growing up. They do sound like huge mice!


Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf
Take as a given that the test may not be accurate ...

I know.....Tests like these are only as good as the persons answers and the creator of the test. I think the person who made the test did a pretty good job? I guess.* shrug * It's fun to explore anyway.


Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

You came up with more options for tests than I could rk.I will have fun exploring them. Thanks for that.

Trilby 06-04-2006 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonchi
No, Brianna was not Jack the Ripper in a previous life. But she screwed him.


HEY! And Et tu, Beestie?


/*begin muttering/*you think some people are nice enough then they go and say you did the nasty with Jack the Ripper when you're only trying to figure out your totem animal AND be honest about your past lives but NO ONE listens to you they just make sick jokes about you sleeping with JTR and not actually BEING JTR but what do they know, huh? I'll tell you what they know: bupkis! don't worry about them, they'll get theirs oh yes they will it will all come together as planned and foretold by the family oh yes they will be sorry...*/end muttering*/

xoxoxoBruce 06-04-2006 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marichiko
Hey! What could be more American than Bill the CAT? What's alien bout him?

~SNIP

Quote:

In my past life I was a serf who got killed in a very minor Russian border skirmish. My name was "Billeteski."
;)

Stormieweather 06-04-2006 11:04 AM

You scored as Dragon.



You are the Dragon. You store a lot of knowledge about everything. You are generally one who is good with personal growth and can regenerate yourself after a bad experience.

Dragon

92%
Salmon

83%
Eagle

83%
Stag

75%
Wolf

75%
Crow

75%
Horse

75%
Bear

67%
Fox

67%
Snake

58%
Bull

50%
Deer

50%
Dog

50%
Ram

42%

Trilby 06-04-2006 02:10 PM

When I drank a lot? My totem was the olive. It simply chose me.




Now. Has ANYONE ever heard of or had a House Tomte?

skysidhe 06-04-2006 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marichiko
~snip
The trouble with totem animals is that they seem to be far more complex than most white folks realize. My Zuni friend is from the Badger clan, so you'd think his totem would be the badger, right? Wrong! When he did his coming of age ritual, he encountered bears, so the bear is his totem animal, but his affinity is for the lynx.

I think its too easy to get caught up in New Age BS and accidently misunderstand or even disrepect other people's traditions. Its easy to take a quiz on the Internet and decide your totem is a cocker spaniel or something; its quite a different thing to go to a sacred, wild space for 5 days with no weapon, no trail mix, no sleeping bag and encounter a bunch of bears (or whatever).


I think there is alot of truth in that. I don't though understand your signiture line however.





Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I knew you were a damn alien.:eyebrow:

No she isn't an alien. Mar is smart and funny and has a creative mind. If anyone is going to lay claim to the alien thing that has to be me. I am an alien.
I have proof . I have no chin, big eyes, spindly legs yet no upper body to speak of. :alien: :( yep, gotta be true aye?

skysidhe 06-04-2006 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna
When I drank a lot? My totem was the olive. It simply chose me.

:lol:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna
Now. Has ANYONE ever heard of or had a House Tomte?

I had to look that up. I thought a House Tomte was some british drink :P

We call them garden gnomes but they look the same?

Ayway Yes, when my grandmother passed they lived at my moms house awhile then I think I gave ( not sold ) the crusty little things away in a garage sale last summer. I can't tolerate them. I like frogs and dragonflys for the garden instead. Do you? Why do you ask? Do you want a gnome of your own?


This ones not bad but I still don't like them for some reason.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomte http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../53/Nisse1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nisse1.jpg

footfootfoot 06-04-2006 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna
When I drank a lot? My totem was the olive. It simply chose me.




Now. Has ANYONE ever heard of or had a House Tomte?

I've had a rum tum tomte, and a rumbling in my tomte...

warch 06-05-2006 02:27 PM

You are the Salmon. Despite first thoughts, you have wisdom abound. You rejuvenate yourself and others often just by your presence and you never give up, always pushing upstream.

Salmon

92%
Crow

75%
Bear

75%
Eagle

75%
Fox

75%
Dog

67%
Ram

58%
Horse

58%
Deer

58%
Dragon

50%
Bull

50%
Snake

50%
Wolf

42%
Stag

Ummm. Salmon.

BigV 06-05-2006 04:08 PM

Quote:

You scored as Dragon

You are the Dragon. You store a lot of knowledge about everything. You are generally one who is good with personal growth and can regenerate yourself after a bad experience.

Eagle -- 100%
Dragon -- 100%
Deer -- 83%
Dog -- 83%
Fox -- 83%
Bear -- 75%
Wolf -- 75%
Salmon -- 75%
Crow -- 58% (about right, considering my diet)
Ram -- 50%
Stag -- 42%
Bull -- 42% (waaay low to hear my friends' commentary)
Snake -- 17%
Horse --17%
That was fun. Dragon and Eagle are very flattering but I am humbled by wolf's astute observation about the amount of hot air it takes to get that much ego aloft.

skysidhe 06-06-2006 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV
That was fun. Dragon and Eagle are very flattering but I am humbled by wolf's astute observation about the amount of hot air it takes to get that much ego aloft.

It wouldn't have been as fun without wolf I agree.



Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf
I was of the geek/nerd clique in high school from that site.

no way! :eek: So you reconnected?

wolf 06-06-2006 12:46 PM

I have always been in touch with my inner geek, and I have the pile of Star Trek Memorabilia to prove it.

I think you have become the victim of assumption based on clumsy phrasing on my part ... What I was saying was that there was a test for "find your high school clique," which accurately sorted me into Ravenclaw ... I mean geek/nerd.

skysidhe 06-06-2006 04:38 PM

well I could have told you that :P


I would have graduated my junior year. Not really smart but dedicated enough of a book worm I could have skipped a grade for the second time in my life.

That is until I ventured into another kind of learning.:D http://images.quizfarm.com/110704146...3079_thumb.jpg

Tse Moana 06-07-2006 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf
I have always been in touch with my inner geek, and I have the pile of Star Trek Memorabilia to prove it.

I am still in touch with my inner geek and have the Star Trek stuff to prove it. :D

Live long and prosper to all Geeks! Oh, alright, and everybody else as well.

skysidhe 06-13-2006 11:16 AM

IF I were to choose a totem it would be the Dragon for it's primal energy and strength. I like to cut right through the chaff and get right to the meat of the matter so I respect the dragon. It's been around for a long long time.

BigV 06-13-2006 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim
what's wrong with a squirrel? you're industrious, playful, and have a bushy tail, are you not?

I am no longer in denial. See new avatar.

wolf 06-13-2006 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skysidhe
IF I were to choose a totem it would be the Dragon for it's primal energy and strength. I like to cut right through the chaff and get right to the meat of the matter so I respect the dragon. It's been around for a long long time.

But you don't get to choose ... you get chosen.

skysidhe 06-13-2006 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf
But you don't get to choose ... you get chosen.

Actually I don't think the symbolism of the dragon can be given or taken. Like the pentagram and the cross can't be a totem in the typical sense because it is just a symbol of energy. I just happen to think the dragon symbol is primordial energy. I think animals posses a spirit. I don't believe energy is a singular spirit.

That's why I said IF because I don't think it is possible to have only to harness.
I've never chosen a totem 'for real' either but if the dragon were possible to have I would chose it. I should have said I didn't actually think it was possible before.

I am drawn to the symbolism of it. More so than the thought of any 'totem' ever could. I know my strengths. Having seen the wolf and the swimming thing for what it means I see that those strengths I do have but have 'no power' in themselves.

I am kind of rambling. Hope that makes a little sense. I got brain fog happening.


http://dragons.monstrous.com/signifi...of_dragons.htm

capnhowdy 06-13-2006 01:57 PM

I'm not sure I want to know mine.......

glatt 06-13-2006 01:57 PM

Brain fog is better than a brain cloud. You might have to find a volcano to get healed.

skysidhe 06-13-2006 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnhowdy
I'm not sure I want to know mine.......

...but...but....I thought it was....you know....* whispers* the captain howdy doll?

[edit- not doll! I know it's the spirit thing. It just inhabited her doll once. I thought that was the scariest part. I saw that dang movie when I was 13]



Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt
Brain fog is better than a brain cloud. You might have to find a volcano to get healed.

:)
funny, got a chuckle out of me but then I was thinking that volcanos have to deal with nasty 'getting thrown into the volcano'rituals and that's just not my style:P

capnhowdy 06-13-2006 04:04 PM

Quote:

....* whispers*
pssttt....

DanaC 06-13-2006 05:54 PM

My totem is the nightmare rabbithead creature from Donnie Darko.....
either that or a bearded collie.

footfootfoot 06-13-2006 06:27 PM

Breaded Collie?
Do you want fries with that?

DanaC 06-14-2006 03:41 AM

Heheh. Bearded. Similar to Border Collie but way more hair. Only chosen because I own a bearded collie (known by colllie owners as 'beardies').
He stays on guard for me....and only ever expects lots of treats, cuddles and hour long walks in the country in return.

xoxoxoBruce 06-14-2006 05:33 PM

Hell, I'd take that job. :lol:

limey 06-14-2006 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC
My totem is the nightmare rabbithead creature from Donnie Darko.....
either that or a bearded collie.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Beardies!

DanaC 06-14-2006 05:58 PM

aheheheheheh a beardie fan huh?

When I find my recharger for my digital camera, I'll post some pics on the pet thread. he is absoultely gorgeous. He was chocolate brown as a pup with ginger flashes at the backs of his legs and a proper white collie flash on his neck....now he's a sort of pale cappuccino froth colour, with a pale brown (almost pink) nose and and green gold eyes.

limey 06-15-2006 05:00 PM

I grew up with Beardies, they're great.

DanaC 06-15-2006 05:40 PM

Great...but mental:)

Buddug 07-10-2006 01:19 PM

The book 'Totem and Taboo' by Freud .

KinkyVixen 07-18-2006 10:43 AM

Do you have to believe you've been reincarnated to have a totem?

Kitsune 07-18-2006 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddug
The book 'Totem and Taboo' by Freud .

A horribly outdated and very enthnocentric book. Inapplicable. How the man drew the connection from totems and animism to the prevention of incest in tribal cultures, I will never understand. He should have stuck to studying oversexed housewives in Vienna.

Quote:

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen
Do you have to believe you've been reincarnated to have a totem?

Not always, no.

Buddug 07-18-2006 01:04 PM

Freud = irrational belief . Thank you for being one of the few who ALMOST got my point , Kitsune .

KinkyVixen 07-18-2006 01:08 PM

So...I guess I don't understand this totem ish...sounds like it's something made up. A state of mind, er something.

Buddug 07-18-2006 01:11 PM

What you have just said is the conclusion that most people come to after they have been in university for twenty years , KinkyVixen .

Buddug 07-18-2006 01:15 PM

This means that you should come up with a BETTER definition ( unless of course you are one of the sad louts who have been in university for twenty years . I know that in American universities , strange things like washing socks and drumming count towards having a degree )

Kitsune 07-18-2006 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddug
Freud = irrational belief . Thank you for being one of the few who ALMOST got my point , Kitsune .

I had no idea that dropping a single line and referencing a work by title and author constituted a complex facet of discussion, so you'll have to pardon me if I only managed to grasp the very edge of your point that you managed to fit in such a concise and perfect package. Care to elaborate on your comment beyond the eternal depth of "Freud = irrational belief", or should I give you some time to relax from your mentally strenuous musings and post that this simply "dovetails into your original message"?

Buddug 07-18-2006 01:46 PM

I shall forgive you .

Kitsune 07-18-2006 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddug
I shall forgive you .

Thanks fatfingers, I appreciate it. Since we're on the topic of obvious equations...

Buddug = http://fox.org/~vince/out/troll.gif

Stop trolling the threads, jackass.

KinkyVixen 07-18-2006 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddug
This means that you should come up with a BETTER definition ( unless of course you are one of the sad louts who have been in university for twenty years . I know that in American universities , strange things like washing socks and drumming count towards having a degree )


A better definition for what?
I haven't been in college for 20 years...but considering I'm 26 I have been in school for almost all of my life.


EDIT: nevermind :) I'll just mind muh bidness.


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