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About Me

Well, my name is Damien, but just call me Ian. I like that better. It's less apt to get confused with that little kid from the Omen.I live on the end of the Universe in a little town that's about 2 miles in every direction, surrounded by farms and COWS!!! Yes. Cows. And some horses. And Cornfields as far as the eye can see in between.Currently, I am a student at Monmouth University studying Secondary Education/Special Education and History. I really can't wait until I finish everything completely in 2009. I get to be a full teacher then. Hopefully, the old codgers in the History departments will have retired so I can get a position full-time.Oh, an I am so in love. =DYou know who!Currently, I tutor and do provisional instructing via the field co-op programme.Hobbies? Well, I like to read, and am a big fan of different genres. I like science-fiction the best, though. I do, however, read political philosophy, ethics (primarily Peter Singer), and topics that deal with evolutionary biology (I really like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens).I am an Atheist, gay, and an asianophile =D Hur hur. Oh come now...everyone loves asians. They're hot.I am also going to make a youtube account soon for videos, but I need to think up some good topics to talk about first--well, that and a new handpuppet.

My Interests

History, Reading, Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Star Trek, Starwars, Philosophy.

I'd like to meet:

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, etc. Someone cute and funny (well, I have already, but he lives in California).

Music:

Tatu. Helmut Lotti. Foreign music (not spanish-esque). German music is cool. I frequently listen to die Aerzte. I got a lot of Japanese Music as well: I am such a fan! zOMGs! Succinetly, my tastes are ecclectic; like my dress, I have no definite style.

Movies:

The Fifth Element (awesome movie). Starwars series. Spiderman/2.

Television:

I love Stargate SG1, and I hope the new spin-off series Atlantis will live up to the SG legend! Married with children (used to love it). History channel specials that don't focus on the west or the history of refrigerators.

Books:

Anything by Brian Jacques. Keep Ayn Rand away. Yuck. Long, boring political diatribes in the middle of a book filled with 2-D characters. No thanks.

Heroes:

Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins.

My Blog

Abortion: A Critique of Some Anti-Arguments Pt. 1

There are some flaws with some of the typical anti-abortion arguments. They often cl..1. It's human, so we can't kill it!2. It's alive, so it's wrong to kill it. Let's look at argument one. While it's...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

"Good Christians" extend a Warm Welcome to UCC.

I do say. I find it exceedingly amazing, but rarely suprising that God, the Omnipotent dictator in heaven, for all his power and glory, can never be bothered to do his own dirty work. Instead, this Go...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Great War: A Fair and Balanced Analysis.

A Just War: A Fair and Balanced Analysis. War. The very word strikes an emotional cord as one thinks of the blood spilt, of the needless death and frivolous waste. In the Histories of Man, myriad ...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Ode to God.

I pledge allegiance to the Cross of the United Fundamentalist States of America, and to the Bible, for which it stands: as one contradction sequeing into another, virtually indistinguishable from soph...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

COmmunity college woes.

BCC: A Journey to NowhereWe can get you there. My High school officials told me Community College was a wonderful place where all of the counselors and academic advisors helped the students to cho...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wow...yes to movies!

That movie Kyle and I saw was very violent : Passion of the Christ. Perhaps that is what it was so good!!!! It wasn't as violent as the Bruce lee movie; every five minutes he was getting into some fig...
Posted by Emu The Bird on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST