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Topic: ~*^YOUR SELF IDENTITY^*~
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Kamilla
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From: NJ USA
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posted March 27, 2007 09:36 PM
 
I was told by many people, sometimes strangers, that I remind them of Isabella Rosselini
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Mirandee
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posted March 28, 2007 03:31 AM
I thought this thread was supposed to be who we identify with for the type of person they are, not who we think we look like or who so and so told us we look like??
At any rate someone else that I thought of who I identify with but definitely don't look like is St. Jerome. He was a Scripture scholar, translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew. The guy also gives me hope that I might make it too. 
Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is remembered too frequently for his bad temper! It is true that he had a very bad temper and could use a vitriolic pen, but his love for God and his Son Jesus Christ was extraordinarily intense; anyone who taught error was an enemy of God and truth, and St. Jerome went after him or her with his mighty and sometimes sarcastic pen.
Jerome was a strong, outspoken man. He had the virtues and the unpleasant fruits of being a fearless critic and all the usual moral problems of a man. He was, as someone has said, no admirer of moderation whether in virtue or against evil. He was swift to anger, but also swift to feel remorse, even more severe on his own shortcomings than on those of others. A pope is said to have remarked, on seeing a picture of Jerome striking his breast with a stone, "You do well to carry that stone, for without it the Church would never have canonized you"
Quote from St. Jerome: "In the remotest part of a wild and stony desert, burnt up with the heat of the scorching sun so that it frightens even the monks that inhabit it, I seemed to myself to be in the midst of the delights and crowds of Rome. In this exile and prison to which for the fear of hell I had voluntarily condemned myself, I many times imagined myself witnessing the dancing of the Roman maidens as if I had been in the midst of them: In my cold body and in my parched-up flesh, which seemed dead before its death, passion was able to live. Alone with this enemy, I threw myself in spirit at the feet of Jesus, watering them with my tears, and I tamed my flesh by fasting whole weeks. I am not ashamed to disclose my temptations, but I grieve that I am not now what I then was" 
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fayte.m
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
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posted March 28, 2007 10:27 AM
Mirandee 
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I thought this thread was supposed to be who we identify with for the type of person they are, not who we think we look like or who so and so told us we look like??
True! It just segued a bit as more people posted.
But yes, that was my original intentions for the thread. 
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Mirandee
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From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
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posted March 28, 2007 12:02 PM
Yeah, I know, Fayte. Those things just happen. I was in one of my St. Jerome moods when I said that.  Sorry if I offended anyone. I have been in kind of a bad mood lately. I had a bomb laid on me Sunday when my oldest son told me that he and his wife have decided to get a divorce after 11 1/2 years of marriage. I love my daughter in law like she was my own daughter.  IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted March 28, 2007 02:44 PM
Mirandee
I certainly was not offended! This is all interesting and if a few segues pop in that are still, as one can see, related to self identity, or even the way we see others,(which can say something about ourselves)...
I do not mind. It keeps the thread going.
But I hope when folks segue to others they stick to siblings, spouse(Xs)and Relatives.
But yes....
The original intent was ones's self identity.
I will continue with myself.
Starting with fictional.
Dr Robert Campbell played by Sean Connery, in Medicine Man.
Stephen Rea as Detective Viktor Burakov, in the movie "citizen X".
Chow Yun-Fat as the monk with no name in "The Bulletproof Monk.
V in "V For Vendetta".
I certainly do not look like any of them but can identify on certain levels with each of them.
There are more fictional characters, but enough for now.
Some non-fictional people:
Nikola Tesla
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac.
Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Mirandee
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posted March 28, 2007 03:54 PM
Knew you weren't offended, Fayte but just in case I offended anyone else I wanted to apologize. I posted Audrey Hepburn but I don't think that I look like her. What I identify with about her is the way she cared about more than just being a famous star or being cute. It was her caring and compassion that I identify with, along with her quiet manner, her just being herself. She did a lot of work with organizations that cared for others in the world. Particularly her thing was tending to the starving children in the world and those children living in war torn countries and poverty. It was her caring for others outside of herself in the world that I related to and admired about her. If you look like Russell Crowe it is no wonder I am drawn to you. I think he is a stone babe. Not too crazy about him if he is anything like I read about him as a person ( which he may not be at all ) but love his acting, love his looks and he just overall exudes animal magnetism. edited to add: Even though I don't look like St. Jerome, I do get that same expression he has on his face in the picture above when I am aggaravated by someone. LOL IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted March 28, 2007 05:33 PM
Mirandee
Yeah it is spooky, Russell Crowe's body language and facial expressions are so close it spooks me!
Its the way he movies and uses his voice and face....its so me, if I were a guy!
After watching him I can easily fall into his patterns of expression. I do not find him exceptionally handsome.....but maybe that is why! Too close and it weirds me out!
But I do enjoy his movies and can identify with him in Gladiator, and loved his acting in "A Beatiful Mind" and "Cinderella Man".
What is interesting is I just noticed that three of the actors I mentioned, with whom I could identify with in certain roles, I got as my celebrity face matches at Heritage.
Russell Crowe...Older Sean Connery....and Chow Yun-Fat! 
HHHHmmmmmmm.....wonder what that means?
You said about St. Jerome: quote:
I do get that same expression he has on his face in the picture above when I am aggaravated by someone. LOL
Yeah...I can see that in you! Just like I said about Russell Crowe, it is the expressions and the way he moves that does it look wise I think. As petite as you are I bet when you were like 30ish you could have done the Audrey impersonation in the looks department and you already identify with her lovely personality and aspects of being how she was.
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Mirandee
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From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
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posted March 29, 2007 01:47 AM
HSC, If you want to know what Mother Teresa did, what she believed and what she was as a person you should rent or buy the DVD about the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A very inspiring movie. Yes, the quote posted here by Slayer is accurate. Mother Teresa did say that. The quote is in the movie of her life in fact. When she began her mission the people were upset about it because she was a Roman Catholic. One of the government officials visted her at the mission. He told her " So you are baptizing these people Catholic before they die." Mother Teresa stated to him, " If you are a Muslim, be a good Muslim, if you are a Hindu, be a good Hindu, if you are Christian be a good Christian. It doesn't matter to me what the religion is of these people. I am here to give them a dignified death." She went around the streets picking up people who were left to die on the sidewalks. Most of them abandoned by their children and families. She took them in and cleaned them up, gave them a clean bed and took care of them so that they would die with dignity. After he talked for a time with Mother Teresa he went out and faced an angry crowd that had gathered. They wanted to know if he was going to stop her. The government official told them, " If any of you can or will do for your relatives what this woman is doing for them, then I will stop her." Truly a remarkable woman. She often stated that what motivated her to do what she did was these words of Jesus': "What you do for the least of these, you do for me." IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted March 29, 2007 02:23 AM
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Mirandee
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From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
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posted March 29, 2007 12:56 PM
I hope that my grumpiness didn't kill this very interesting and nice thread of yours, Fayte.
I need to try harder to keep some things to myself.
Keep in mind that I am in the "lapse" period of life - relapse, mental lapse and prolapse. Not to mention at times, general collapse. IP: Logged |
Dulce Luna
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From: The Asylum
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posted March 29, 2007 01:30 PM
Halle Berry's Character in CatWoman is another I could relate to because of the mousy-quiet-girl....turned bad a$$Before:
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Dulce Luna
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posted March 29, 2007 01:34 PM
Sandra Bullock's Character in The Lake House is another that resonated with me. 
And Natalie Wood (and not just because she's a Cancer like me )
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Lei_Kuei
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posted March 29, 2007 01:39 PM
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