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Joel

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About Me

I really don't like talking about me partly because I am not very good at it and partly because in order to talk about me I am required to evaluate me and to be honest that kind of scares me.Some Things I do Know About Me - I am pretty easy to get along with. I like to joke around alot and I give everyone a hard time whenever I can. I am overanalytical and obsessive compulsive about random things. I count loyalty to be one of the most important values and look for that when making friends. My friends are a very imortant part of my life and God has blessed me with some awesome ones.What I Want to Be - I really strive to be someone with some deapth or at least not shallow. I want to be the type of person who knows a lot but doesn't have to let everyone else know that. I want to be someone that friends can always count on. I want to be someone that not only thinks but more importantly acts.General Life Direction - As of right now I am an US Infantry soldier andtrying to move twoards a Double Major in Philosophy and Theology. Someday i would like to teach on the college level in those areas, but for right now its the Army life for me. Other than that I am simply always trying to focus on the areas of my life that I can improve in.
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My Interests

I love music, ill get to what kinds in the next section. Guns. Reading. Art, either creating it or collecting it. Going to the shooting range. Shooting pool. Philiosophy and Theology and reading books on those topics written by dead guys.

I'd like to meet:

My future wife (i hope shes hot). No just interesting people with common interests, people with oposite opinions, people outside the box, intelligent people who are not afraid of good deep conversations.

Music:

I could just about say that i like all music but ill have to limit it to i can appreciate all music. Favorite artists include Tommy Emmanuel, Chevelle, Alice in Chains, System of a down, Tourniquet, Shinedown, Death, carcass, Lamb of god, (early)Metalica, Megadeth, TOOL, Paramaecium, Necromance, The Crucified, Living Sacrifice, As I Lay Dying, Between the Buried and Me, August Burns Red, Mortification, Armageddon Holocaust, Horde, Antestor, Jacobs Dream, Underoath, Veni Domine, Virgin BLack, Ulver, Eluveitie, Balannce of Power, Crimson Thorn, Vengance Rising, Brad Paisley, Derek Webb, Avenged Sevenfold, Eric Johnson, Johny Cash, really I like good musicianship in about any style of music. To be honest most of the time I am either listing to Metal or Country/ Bluregrass, I know not your typical mix but it is what i like.

Movies:

Top 10..1 Boondock Saints ..2 Tommy Boy ..3 Dumb and Dumber ..4 Matrix Trilogy ..5 Unbreakable ..6 Lord of The Rings ..7 Fight Club ..8 Frailty ..9 Mothman Prophecy ..10 Exocism of Emily Rose

Television:

TURN YOUR TV OFF AND PICK UP A BOOK OR GO OUTSIDE!!!!

Books:

Here is a list of some of my favorite books. The Bible(specifiacally the books of Daniel, James, Romans, & 1 Samuel) The Biotic Message: Evolution versus the Message theory, Reasons, Mere Christianity, Screw Tape Letters, God and the Dock, Intelligent Design, The Birth of Tragedy, Nichomachian Ethics, Blue Like Jazz, and Screwtape Letters. Existentialism the Essentials, Bram Stokers Dracula, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Question of God, Norman Giesler Systematic Theology, Chasing Daylight, The Barbarian Way. Kierkagaurd an Anthology. I love books that are challenging and controversial and really make you think. If i am going to take the time to read something it has to have substance.Book I am Currently Reading: Existentialism: From Sarte to Nieztche.

Heroes:

The few people in the world and throughout history that are or were great thinkers and not only great thinkers but great doers. People who are not affraid to challenge the world in how it thinks and acts but also challenge themselves with the same ferver. And of course the person who most effectiveley accomplished the above Jesus Christ.

My Blog

Self Asteem: The Silent Killer or the Society Killer

I would like to start this blog with a story.  The following story is fictional, the characters are not real and the events as told did not take place.  This story is simply an assimilation...
Posted by Joel on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:16:00 PST

Desires

Desire is an interesting thing.  It can lead to great accomplishment or collosal failure.  What is desire?  In some circumstances it can lead to satisfaction or other torture.  It ...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:18:00 PST

Legislating Morality

I have struggled with the idea of "legislating morality" for quite some time now.  I seem to struggle because I am torn.  There are things that I definitely understand to be wrong (for...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:46:00 PST