What are you "First"?

I'm first at replying. :lol:

 

I'm a geek first.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Apr 18 2007, 11:32 PM) [snapback]425885[/snapback]</div>

You should have put the POF on the list cause nothing else is even close for me. B)
On occasion I wander into the christian area but never manage to stay very long.
Wildkow

 

I'm a mother first.
Then a friend.
Then a Virginian.
Then an Appalachian-American.
Then a Hokie. (Even before this event.)
Then a professional.
Then left-leaning centrist.

I guess that's the way I scale it...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ Apr 19 2007, 09:40 AM) [snapback]425966[/snapback]</div>

You made me laugh so hard I squirt my morning coffee out my nose.. You're so far left.. "Left Leaning Centrist" doesn't even come close.

--anyway

I'm an American

 

To the right, everyone is "so far left"...

For me, i'm a gentleman above all else. then a Phi Tau. Then an Eagle Scout.

 

I am not anything "first" because I don't consider that categories properly define us. I am just myself. I have many characteristics, but if I were to list them in this context, someone would insist that whatever I happened to put at the beginning of the list was what I consider myself "first" because I had put it first.

Many people do indeed consider themselves to be "first" a nationality, or a religion, or a color, etc., and perhaps this is a natural product of the human mind. But I resist the impulse.

I am not any category, though I have characteristics, and others will categorize me according to their own views of me. I am just who I am.

 

i'm a survivor. the rest of my life couldn't have happened without me doing that first.

 

I am ALIVE!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Apr 19 2007, 09:50 AM) [snapback]425973[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, you should be a political moderate, like, say, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Apr 19 2007, 11:23 AM) [snapback]425993[/snapback]</div>

Well said.....

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Apr 19 2007, 10:50 AM) [snapback]425973[/snapback]</div>

LOL :lol: :lol: :lol: Been there done that, even got the button...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Apr 19 2007, 10:30 AM) [snapback]425999[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, you should be a political moderate, like, say, Michael Moore or Al Gore.

 

Somehow none of those really fit. Guess that makes me Other.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Apr 19 2007, 10:35 AM) [snapback]426006[/snapback]</div>

Tee-hee. You ultra-conservatives are funny. Equating hard left Michael Moore with slightly left of center Al Gore; with such lack of perspective, is it any wonder you got trounced the last election? But please, do keep it up, so the Good Guys will walk away with the 2008 election, too!

 

I am a 'mystery':
to my kid,
to my wife,
to my self,
to my dog,
to the CA bar,
to my students,
to my family,
to my neighbors,
to my life,
to my self,
to the judges I serve,
to the property associations I serve,
to the bosses I serve,
Only Christ knows what the hecks going on in here

 

I appreciate Daniel's perspective and his urge to resist at least openly classifying himself.

Personally I resist that in an ideological way too, but in practice, I can't help but categorize myself based on my thinking and my behavior. I chose the "avocation/profession" first because any time I'm faced with a new situation, a challenge or problem, my first thought is always how I can integrate it into my art, or how I can solve a problem with art. Lots of life's problems sadly can't be solved through art though.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Apr 19 2007, 11:21 AM) [snapback]426057[/snapback]</div>

The Democrats are doing a great job in making sure a Democrat President won't be elected. With their lack of desire to support our troops and all..

That is funny though, "slightly left of center Al Gore"..

 

The passion part is what got my vote. I do identify with my passion. It is something that nobody gave me and now seems to define me.