OoCT Answers, part the second, from shortest answer to longest

[featherynscale]

For infintysquared: Cylons, all the way.

For beckygardens: I was 18, and I did it by myself in my college dorm room. I tried to get my boyfriend at the time to do it with me, but he wouldn't.

For adammaker:The bit in music where something has been discordant and suddenly goes all tonic (there's a name for that, but I can't remember what it is), drinking a good scotch, and Pop Rocks. Don't ask about the Pop Rocks.

For celtic_elk: As far as the religious aspect of the thing goes, I'm practicing a monism that often looks like polytheism and/or animism from the outside. As far as the magical aspect goes, I do what works. I was trained in a Brit Trad Wiccan coven, and I'm still into the high ritual frou-frou approach. I'm drawn to Western Mystery Tradition stuff -- ceremonial magic, cabala (in its various spellings), and so on. I'm also the sort that wants to boil things down to their concepts and rebuild new forms onto their bones, so I'm just as likely to be invoking The Tick as St. Michael the Archangel, and so on there. That's one half of my magical practice. The other half has a lot to do with analyzing systems of things I wish to effect change on, finding the right place to push in order to make the change with least effort and least backlash, and pushing gently. I also have a drive to be competent in many systems, keeping the magical toolbox full, so to speak. I have three deities/powers that I work with/worship/focus on primarily, and the thing they have in common is the ability to find a way to solve any problem, and often it's an unconventional way. So I try to manifest that ability in myself. You can probably see why people glaze over. :)

Comments

Nitpicking my pedantic nose...

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

See, I always thought that there were two. There's a Saint Micheal, who was some guy who did something that the pope though was worth canonizing, because saints are humans. The other was Micheal the Archangel, who was this other worldly being who acted like Jehovah's bouncer and kicked Lucifer out of the club for him. In my years of Catholic school, some priest somewhere along the lines told me these details, saying that everyone gets that confused, and/or merges the two.

Wikipedia, however, seems to disagree:

Roman Catholics refer to him as Saint Michael the Archangel and also simply as Saint Michael ("Saint" is a title meaning "holy", and is not meant to indicate that Michael is a human soul in heaven).

I guess I should just go and ask someone who talks to him regularly how he likes to be addressed.

Re: Nitpicking my pedantic nose...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

There are actually about 10 Saints Michael on the register, including St. Michael the Archangel. :)