Bahahaha. Tolkien ripped off everything in the book but not Harry Potter, obviously. The Edda, though? Sure. Beowulf? Definitely. Got most of those fancy names from Old English sources and such.

you could be right with the drug reference, I never thought of that.

That is fine, I never meant to imply people had to do the whole list and post it, just the result. although it would be interesting to see what people have tried. Like you and Backmasking, which I only learned the term for today. Another victim of Barry Potter. I guess that makes you 100% as well, but as we are counting only the score, you get a 12, which so far makes you the most demonic. :-)

*big demonic hug*

That does not sound so good. Sorry to hear the new ones are not so good. I hope the next set will work out a lot better. I remember you having trouble before with your lenses?

Don't worry, you are not the most demonic, so far Agent is. :-)

And I am not sure to be honest if Demonism is a word, my spell check does not complain. Either way it can be a word now. :-)

*big not the most demonic hug*

I am only being playful about Barry Potter. I personally can't stand them, or the author, but I know people really enjoy them. I am just having a bit of silly fun. Plus they really are demonic. I am surprised you can't feel them sucking your soul as you read them. :-)

That's unfortunate. I watched the first 7-8 episodes of season 1 and i really liked it....

Good evening, dd.

I'll join you. Listing only those I can relate to.

+/- - Cyberpunk Culture (I find some aspects very interesting)
✔ - LOTR
✔ - Video Games
✔ - Harry Potter (Burn me at a stake if you want. :-) It was a good reading in my opinion.)
✔ - Dungeons & Dragons (I assume it's the pen&paper RPG. Played a lot in my youth)
✔ - Fornication (I'll use the same considerations you used here.)
✔ - Rock Music

~7 of 47.

Yep. Basically I was doing fine but my optician was not pleased and switched my contact lenses around, and I've been struggling ever since. I've tried to put up with it because it's supposed to be better for me but right now my eyes are telling me that it's definitely not. :P They switched me from month lenses to half a year ones and I really want to go back to getting nice new ones every month. But yeah, still have a couple more months to go before this half a year is up. I've been wearing my glasses a lot.

Mwahahahaha! On that note, I'm rereading Macbeth right now for one of my courses. Double double toil and trouble! Fire burn and cauldron bubble!

Great, I made a word! I also coined a new Dutch word for my contact lens problems. It's "droogbal" a contraction of "droog" and "oogbal", which is "dry" and "eyeball" and it combines in a great way in Dutch.

*super happy not so demonic hug*
Yeah, season one was excellent. Two was all right. Halfway through season three I was really starting to get upset with all the arbitrary changes they were making (the woes of having read the books first) and by episode nine I decided to give up. I recently rewatched season three, though, and am now stuck at the third episode of season four. I have to keep watching though as we're reaching the moment where the series gets further along the storyline than the books are so I have to tune back in for that.

Another Harry Potter culprit. So it is officially a cult now, that darn book has corrupted the souls of everyone but me so far. Is out thread doomed? :-)

Thank you for taking part. So we are tied at 7 each. But sadly Harry Potter pushes your percent to 100. :-)

Can you not just ask for monthly ones if you prefer them? I have some glasses at the moment, but not for eye sight as such, they are for my headaches and to help block out the light a little. I have been wearing them all the time for a while, but I can't wait to not need them anymore. I think I look nice in them, but I prefer to not have to worry about looking after them or nodding off while wearing them.

So Demonism and witch craft. Maybe Agent is not the worst. :-)

So two new words, we shall have to start the unofficial thread dictionary or made up words. :-)

*big hug for the possibly demonic and witch craft loving Fearful* :-)

Uh oh... my bishop won't like the sound of this ','',',:-|
What can I say? Everyone my age loved Barry. I read the books when I was roughly the same age as the characters, which was fun :-p

*big extra evil hug* >:-)

I know...that's made that comment so ridiculous...oh and the fact that Tolkien is dead for decades :P


Consider me surprised that you're being playful about Barry Potter ;)
Imho they are decent books but the movies are terrible (except for the third one)
It may help that i'm not christened :P

I blame my sister and her son for this. They indoctrinated me. :-)

I could, but the half year ones are supposed to be better because they can fit them to the shape of my eye, whereas the monthly ones were apparently a bit too tight. Still, this is really not working out as I've never had so many problems in the eight or so years I've been wearing lenses. Yeah, I don't like glasses either. The pressure of them on my ears sometimes gives me headaches, and I don't like not having clear vision from the corners of my eyes. They get wet when it rains and you can't see anything, and it's much harder to do sports with them. :P

Secretly I'm just evil. I've been toying with the idea of writing a book this november that basically loosely takes Shakespeare's Richard III and sets it in space. I'm messed up in the head. :P

That might be fun! I'm sure I could think of a couple more. Along with some really bad puns.

*big hug for the really not demonic DD because she is 100% free of Barry Potter*
Yep. Ripping off Harry Potter would have involved some serious time-travelling action. :P

Okay, here goes:

✔ - Eastern Religions (I'm not the religious sort, but I really enjoy reading religious texts from around the world, and relate quite a bit to some branches of buddhism)
✔ - Yoga (so long as corpse pose counts! j/k I do actually do some yoga with my wife, but I'm pretty awful at it at the moment. Hoping we'll have enough time to get back into it regularly, just so I can get my moving parts used to moving and stretching again)
✘ - Freemasonry
✘ - Illuminati Groups
✘ - New Age Religions
✘ - Church of Satan
✘ - Scientology
✘ - Rosicrucianism
✘ - Astrology
✘ - Tarot Cards (I used to give readings to friends, and really enjoyed researching and reading up on them when doing it, but I was never able to see it as more than an interesting and odd card game of sorts)
✔ - Ouiji Boards (I don't actually use it, but I have an original wood William Fuld Ouija board, which was made sometime between 1938 and 1945... found it in my grandparents' attic, which is particularly strange considering my grandparents were the sort to see a list like this and believe it... in fact, my name "akhliber" came from toying with the Ouija board with a friend when I was 12. For some reason I just started using it as a nickname and it's been my profile name just about everywhere and email ever since.)
✘ - Remote Viewing
✘ - Palmistry
✘ - Voodoo
✘ - Earth Worship
✘ - Wicca
✘ - Cyberpunk Culture
✘ - Divination
✔ - Meditation (used to be quite central to my life for spiritual reasons, now it just brings me peace of mind and some nice, well-needed inner calm from time to time)
✘ - Vegetarianism
✘ - Lycanthropy
✘ - Postmodernism
✘ - Backmasking
✘ - Astral-Projection
✘ - Necromancy
✘ - Re-birthing
✘ - Kabbalah
✔ - LOTR
✘ - Fire Waking
✘ - Levitation
✘ - Alt "Comix"
✘ - Trilateralism
✔ - Marihuana & Pot Parties (if "medicating by myself so I can hold down an Ensure" counts as a party. That's about as close as I'll come to a party of any sorts anyway, so I suppose it counts?) ;)
✘ - LSD/Shrooms (not checking this, though it was something pretty central to my life for several years. I get the "benefits" naturally now though, thanks to my wonky brain) ;)
✔ - Video Games
✔ - Harry Potter (well, I really want to like them. They were some of my wife's first favorite books growing up, and I've enjoyed watching the movies with her. Not a way I'd choose to spend my time otherwise, but I doubt that excuse will save me from damnation!)
✘ - Dungeons & Dragons
✔ - Hallowe'en
✔ - Fornication
✘ - Skull & Bones
✔ - Rock Music
✘ - Heavy Metal
✘ - Burning Man
✘ - Twilight Films
✘ - Raves & XTC
✘ - Goth Culture

So, 11 of 47 I suppose. You do the math, I'm all sleepified again. ;)

Hm...that make me thinking about watching the show first and then reading the books or reading the books and ignoring the show altogether.....

Watch the show first if you want to watch it at all. As a book reader it's an utter disappointment and it really makes me sad because it could have been so awesome. :(

Hmm...don't you think Tolkien would've been capable of that...maybe he also ripped off the time machine Einstein used in C&C Red Alert :P

Hm...in that case i should watch it first indeed....

Should I be scared now? I mean, I am outnumbered by Barry Potter loving demonic worshippers. Hopefully the others will be on my side, but even then I fear the Barry occult will outnumber us. :-)

*big pure and angelic counter hug* :-)

I know, it is very risky to insult religious figures, and those occultists are quite funny about insulting Barry. :-)

Well, as I said, I don't like them but people do, so who am I to say anything. We all like different things. It would be very boring if we all liked the same, especially if that meant I had to like Barry. :-)

That seems to be the way with cults, they always try to get new members to corrupt. :-)

I have no real problem keeping them clean, I just forget I am wearing them as I am not used to them. I know it sounds silly forgetting you are wearing them, but I just do. Maybe it is due to me being ill and not being able to concentrate on things properly, or I am just not used to them. I will keep my fingers crossed you will get your lenses sorted soon. If not we can mail your optician a Barry Potter book, doming their souls for all eternity as punishment. :-)

That sounds like a nice idea. The wonderful thing about Shakespeare's plays is that they can be adapted quite easily (as is evident by all the movie adaptations, although apparently many of them are rubbish, but that is due to the modern writing, not the plot as such).

*big return hug*