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J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay

Tonight, the one thousand grand prize winners of the Scholastic's Open
Book Tour Sweepstakes along with a companion got the chance to see
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling read from "Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows," answer questions and sign books at New York City's
Carnegie Hall. We have exclusive information this evening on the myriad
of "Deathly Hallows" questions she answered as well as in-depth details
on a number of subjects she spoke about.



A caution now. Parts of the following WILL contain book seven SPOILERS.


First, the biggest revelation of the night came when Jo revealed to
her audience the fact that Albus Dumbledore is gay and had fallen in
love with fellow wizard and friend, Gellert Grindelwald. This elicited
a huge reaction and prolonged ovation. So much so, it promoted Jo to
say:

"If I had known this would have made you this happy, I would have told you years ago."

Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

JKR: My truthful answer to you... I always thought of
Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with
Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed
himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused
Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an
extend, but he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like
Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly,
terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In
fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and
they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I
knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little
note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter,
"Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] "If I'd known it would make you so
happy, I would have announced it years ago!"

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

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of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to
focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
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imagination rules
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present and future
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can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
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impetuous
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The World As I See It - Albert Einstein

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

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