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Shaun B.

Learn to suffer.

About Me

Where to start? I'm hard to know, and slow to trust. However, those closest with me know who I am, and what I'm about. I would willingly lend a hand to those that I love -- the select few. I'm currently attending Gadsden State Community College, pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice (prone to change), while going through the ROTC program to pursue a career in the U.S. Army. I enjoy various forms of physical training: martial arts, kettlebells, and running. Anything to enhance strength, flexibility, conditioning, and power endurance. I love the outdoors, and wander aimlessly through the countryside (usually barefoot). I enjoy uncommon thrills, pain, and anything else that sends my adrenaline soaring. I love all seasons, though I lean towards warmer climates. I want to live out west one day. I'm very competitive in the things that I'm passionate about. I am contemptuous of political correctness. I'm elitist in my lifestyle, but usually quiet-natured. However, I am courteous when I break my silence. I enjoy stimulating conversations, a draft of dark beer, and a good book. I enjoy being around those that are unconventional.

My Interests

linguistics(semitic languages), zen, pragmatism, martial arts(ving tsun, boxing, muay thai boxing), military training, tai chi, qi gong, rock climbing, swimming, art, english & modern hebrew literature, military science, biology, political science, militarism, primitivism, survivalism, "The Troubles" (N. Ireland conflicts), Mideastern culture & history, kettlebell training, strength & flexibility training, nature, animals, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Lycurgus, Gen. George S. Patton, Leonidas I, Moshe Dayan, Jonathan Netanyahu, Golda Meir, G. Washington, Hannibal Barca, Napoleon Bonaparte, Devin Townsend, Zinedine Zidane, Bono, Ahmed Massoud, Augustus Caesar, Richard Marcinko, J.R.R. Tolkien, Eric Haney, Bruce Lee, Steve Vai, Fedor Emelianenko, Mark Twight, Pavel Tsatsouline, Steve Cotter.

Music:

U2, Type O Negative, anything Devin Townsend touches, Aphex Twin, Alice in Chains, The Roots, Strommoussheld, Jute, Idan Raichel Project, Orphaned Land, Behemoth, Arcturus, Ulver... World music: Latin, African Rhythms, Greek, Middle eastern; Arabic, Iranian, Israeli, Mediterranean, Indian, classical music, etc.

Movies:

Gladiator, 300, The Last of the Mohicans, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart, The Last Samurai, Fearless (Huo Yuanjia), LOTR, Equilibrium, Bram Stoker's Dracula, American Psycho, The New World, etc.

Television:

I don't watch it.

Books:

The Accidental Empire, Arab & Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, A History of God, The Brothers Karamazov, W.B. Yeats, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, Tao of Jeet Kun Do, The Shaolin Grandmaster's Text, The Wing Chun Compendium, LOTR, Six Days of War, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Dods, G.W.F. Hegel, Neitzsche, The Arab-Israeli Wars, The Torah, The Qur'an, Holy Bible.

Heroes:

... And any other who has lived a life of discipline.