meme stolen from sabrina_pandora

[2eclipse]

1. My username: 2eclipse. i like the pun the number adds, but mainly the 2 is there because it is my favorite number and because eclipse was already taken. eclipses are special to me. they are an image of light refusing to be stamped out by darkness

2. My name: heather jane hall anderson. i have a love/hate relationship with my name. for myself i like it. i like being named after a flower that refuses to die in harsh conditions and makes the heath more beautiful. i like having a name associated with scotland.
i hate most other heathers. now, i should be clear. i DO have friends named heather. but they are exceptions. mostly i find other heathers to be catty, entitled, precious women. i can't STAND it. give me an earthy heather any time.
i also just wish it were a less common name. i hate hearing my name, turning and finding that it is not me who is wanted.

3. My journal is titled: the darkness has not overcome it. this is a reference to john 1:5, a bible passage that has been an inspiration in my life since before i admitted to myself that i was christian. but i don't think you have to be christian to buy into it. there is darkness in this world, and hate, and treachery, and weakness. i want my life to shine like light against that darkness. i use that title, and the image of the eclipse, to remind myself to work at it.

4. My friends page: doesn't have a name. i don't see a need for it. my friends are my friends.

5. My default userpic is: an eclipse. for all the reasons previously noted.

Comments

[mustardseedsize.livejournal.com]

Can we be friends?

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i don't see any reason why not (other than i am an opinionated, foul-minded person with a weird sense of humor and you may get sick of that).
i like to pretend i know the people on my f-list though, and therefore i am listing a bunch of weird questions for you. you can also ask me whatever you like.
how can you get past superman's "goodness" to actually like him? let me explain. my objection to him is that he feels 2 dimensional. i don't believe i ever really know someone until i've argued with them or seen them do something i don't approve of... otherwise they are too perfect...they are on their best behavior all the time and i don't trust people who do that to be honest with themselves.
what was the first moment you knew you were in love with your wife?
do you think there is any benefit to being a cradle christian to being born again, or vice versa? or something else?
which do you think are more interesting, zombies or nuns? zombie nuns?
what makes you choose oklahoma as a place to live? you are only the second person i've ever met from oklahoma...if i hadn't me the first one in person, i might still believe its existance was a joke played on the world by people who live in texas...the texans i know would do that. tell me something you love about it. besides the good rollerskating. :)

[mustardseedsize.livejournal.com]

A pop quiz? Awesome. I am up for a little self disclosure. I think that I want to mull over these for a while and then answer them in my journal. It will also give me an opportunity to think of some questions for you in return.

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

*laughs* neat. Some questions I had been meaning to ask just randomly answered.
Why is 2 your favorite number, out of curiosity?
And yes, that is one of the reasons I have always been fascinated by eclipses as well, and I had wondered if that had been one of the reasons for the name for you, but hadn't gotten around to asking yet.

I love the flower, and had always wished the heathers I had met were more like it and less like the Christian Slater movie... You've redeemed the name for me.

You do not have to be Christian to "buy into it" - as I am not, and that is a verse I remember.

*ponders* Well, more to the point, I do not consider myself a Christian. I have had it stated to me that I am and I'll figure it out someday... which never made much sense to me, but that is an entire other thread.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i think that i don't really have a great reason for 2 being my favorite number since it became my favorite number in elementary school for no particular reason, but here are some reasons i have come up with SINCE then.
2 FEELS to me (in my head like synthentheasia*sp?*)like it has the roundness and symmetry that 0 should have - but 0 has emptiness instead. 2 is balanced.
2 is the number of relationship - the most important thing in the world to me, around which i build my life. not A relationship, mind you, but all relationship. tension; relationship is what makes life interesting to me.
2 is the lowest number required for change in math. you can add one to the other, or you can subtract one from the other.

thanks about the name thing.i love the flower too. i have met a couple other heathers since i moved here that have redeemed the name for _me_! if you ever come up here i will introduce you to 2 of them. heather kieweg, who grew up in upstate new york tapping maple trees to make her own maple syrup and who is a new mother and a landscape architect, and heather...you know i don't know her last name. she is bubbo on ravelry and she's a hoot. she sings songs about chicken buts while she gives you directions to her house.

being a xian vs. not being a xian but living by the same law is a mystery i have struggled with since i was in high school (and did not consider myself a xian). it's rough....because in my heart i didn't reject christ as _i_ understood him. i rejected christ as he was foisted upon me. i rejected his divinity. and i rejected the rosy, goody-two-shoes feel that the adults in the church seemed to cast on him....which frankly was never something he embraced in the first place. i guess i didn't have faith which saves - which made me not a christian...but saving is for God to judge, not humans....which always leaves me wondering.

2 is the only even prime number.