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If I had to label myself I'd choose "Transhuman/Techno-Progressive Rational Hedonistic Empiricist" ...something like that. Oh, and I like to play video games too. So squeeze that somewhere in there. Heh.
To those who claim the world is deteriorating due to a lack of "belief in God", I counter that IF it is declining, it is due to a preponderance of said belief(s). If anything, what's lacking nowadays is the use of critical thinking skills and applied logic. Let's try to bring those back in vogue, shall we?
"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet it is the only light. Extinguish that and nought remains."
-Robert Ingersoll
"The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable."
- Warren Buffett
"That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die."
-H.P. Lovecraft
To those who claim the world is deteriorating due to a lack of "belief in God", I counter that IF it is declining, it is due to a preponderance of said belief(s). If anything, what's lacking nowadays is the use of critical thinking skills and applied logic. Let's try to bring those back in vogue, shall we?
"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet it is the only light. Extinguish that and nought remains."
-Robert Ingersoll
"The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable."
- Warren Buffett
"That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die."
-H.P. Lovecraft
About Me:
Warrior-Poet. Empiricist. Sex Fiend.
Mindful Hedonist. Pastafarian.
Country:
United States
Interests:
Survival, life extension, the sciences (particularly quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and biology), history, classical literature, traveling, nanotechnology, cryonics, martial arts, nutrition/healthy living, THE FUTURE and the potential possibilities it contains. These are my interests above all else...in addition to having fun, of course!
Movies:
Blade Runner, Vanilla Sky, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Being John Malkovich, Secret Window, A Clockwork Orange, Gattaca, Nightmare Before Christmas, Stargate, Apocalypto, Equilibrium, Chronicles of Riddick, Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao, American Psycho, Matrix, Idiocracy, Fight Club, Afro Samurai, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Terminator Trilogy, Alien Trilogy, From Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Pan's Labyrinth, Usual Suspects, V for Vendetta.
History Channel, Discovery, Science Channel...whatever else I could maybe learn from or might find interesting. Family Guy, Boondocks, Futurama, South Park, Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Office, Always Sunny in Philadelphia - I find these entertaining. Frankly, I could do without television; I'd rather read or play video games, and anything fascinating can usually be purchased on DVD, commercial-free and without those annoying pop-ups at the bottom of the screen that seem to plague every channel nowadays. I guess my attention span isn't short enough haha...
Music:
Various types, although not genre- or artist-exclusive. Just because I like one song by a musician doesn't necessarily mean I'll like others. It depends on the emotions and thoughts the music seems to personally invoke.
I enjoy the musical creations of: John Coltrane, Incubus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lupe Fiasco, Fryderyk Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wu-Tang Clan, Djivan Gasparyan, Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Kanye West, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Frideric Handel, 311, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, A Perfect Circle, NaS, Led Zeppelin, Johannes Brahms, Uskaru, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Jill Scott, Beatles, Talib Kweli, Nirvana, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Outkast, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Common Sense, Linkin Park, The Roots, Peter Gilmore, Richard Strauss, Tool, Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Oasis, Mos Def, Jimi Hendrix, Sergey Rachmaninov, Full Time Villain and many others...
Books:
How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World - Harry Browne The First Immortal: A Novel of the Future - James Halperin The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot A New Guide to Rational Living - Albert Ellis Engines of Creation - Eric Drexler Ending Aging - Aubrey de Grey The Prospect of Immortality - Robert C.W. Ettinger Man Into Superman - Robert C.W. Ettinger The Scientific Conquest of Death - Immortality Institute Psyche and Symbol - Carl Gustav Jung Human, All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche The Aeneid - Virgil The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer ...and other writings, most notably the individualist trifecta of Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, and Ayn Rand, along with writings by Abraham Maslow, Truman Capote, James Patterson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack London, Clive Barker, William Shakespeare (personal favorite is Midsummer Night's Dream), William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyam, Henry David Thoreau, Rudyard Kipling, as well as many others... Magazines: Scientific American, National Geographic, The Economist, Wired, Discover, Reason. There's too much to list here; I read a lot, especially non-fiction.
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To the darkening and lengthening of Shadows-
Success to crime!
And power to the mighty-
Hail Satan!
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