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John

Aloha Nui Loa

About Me

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You scored as Existentialist, Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist


100%

Materialist


88%

Idealist


75%

Cultural Creative


56%

Modernist


56%

Postmodernist


44%

Romanticist


25%

Fundamentalist


13%
What is Your World View?
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My Interests

hawaiian islands, buddhism, taoism, freethought, humanism, libertarian party, public speaking (toastmasters), life extension, the prometheus society, transhumanism, science, string theory, cosmology, neurobiology, psychology, physics, astronomy, neurolinguistics, kung fu movies, classical education (trivium and quadrivium), critical thinking, philosophy, intelligence enhancement, civil rights, real estate investing, holistic health, organic gardening, the zone diet, body building, meditation (all forms), yoga, tai chi chuan, judo, dancing, biking, hiking, surfing, kiteboarding, wind surfing, snorkeling in hanauma bay, hanging out at the dragon's hole and toilet bowl, lanikai beach, sandy beach, sunset, pipeline, waimea bay, skin diving, sailing, kayaking, rock climbing, science fiction, psychology, self-help, poetry, web surfing, survivalblog.com

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who loves life and is peaceful (Ignis Aurum Probat) ..

Music:

I love all Polynesian music, all classical, Reggae, The Beatles, Abba, Don Ho, Bruddah Iz, Kealii Reichel, 311, Tool, DJ Hyper, Tangerine Dream, New Age

Movies:

The "Meatrix" film series at http://www.themeatrix.com, Razor's Edge, Kung Fu Hustle, Reign of Fire, The Chinese Connection, The Shaolin Temple, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, The Fifth Element, Contact, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wheel of Time, Ong Bak, Amadeus, Any Given Sunday, Seven Samurai, The Ninth Gate, The Big Lebowski, Zardoz, Enter The Dragon, Frailty, 5 Deadly Venoms, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, Doctor Zhivago, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy , The Butterfly Effect, AI, Equilibrium, The Quiet Earth, Groundhog Day, Kundun, Seven Years in Tibet, Raiders of the Lost Ark, They Live, Schindler's List, Iron Monkey, Once Upon a Time in China, Shortbus, Legend of Drunken Master, Ushpizin, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Pi, Requieum for a Dream, The Prestige, A Beautiful Mind, Kill Bill, I Heart Huckabees, Empire of the Sun, Blood Diamond, Titanic, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Conspiracy Theory, The Pianist, Bladerunner, Donnie Darko, Forrest Gump, Brazil, Mad Max, Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, 1984, Red Dawn, To Live, Fairwell My Concubine, Amelie, Fight Club

Television:

Heroes, PBS series on Evolution, Survivorman, Human Weapon, Penn & Teller:BULLSHIT!, PBS, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Frontline, History Channel, Simpsons, Southpark, Family Guy, 24, The Universe, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Charlie Rose, Glenn Beck, The BBC Singing Detective series

Books:

Ishmael, The Road, Secular Wholeness, Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Prophet, What Would Buddha Do? Tractatus, As a Man Thinketh, Guns, Germs, and Steel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, Buddhism without Beliefs, Diet for a New America, Fast Food Nation, Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion, Neuromancer, The Hot Zone, The Demon in The Freezer, Stranger in a Strange Land, God is Not Great, Avebade Bade (Everybody's body) Hawaii's Pidgin Poetry, The Rapture Of Maturity: A Legacy Of Lifelong Learning, The Elegant Universe, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Embracing the Power of Humanism, The World is Flat, The Age of Reason, The Selfish Gene, Taking Responsibility, Patriots - Surviving the coming Collapse, Starship Troopers, The Art of War, We The Living, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, Anthem, For The New Intellectual, Being and Time, Dune, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion, Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, God: The Failed Hypothesis, Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism, The Handmaid's Tale, Bible Stories Your Parents Never Taught You, The Gods Themselves, Solaris, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cryptonomicon, The Prince, Aloha Niihau, Fight Club, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The God Delusion, Trivium, Tao Te Ching The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lucifer's Hammer, Alas Babylon

Heroes:

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, The Greek Philosophers, The Founding Fathers, Ajahn Brahm, Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Ingersoll, Thich Nhat Hanh, King Kamehameha, Sir Winston Churchhill, Tiger Woods, Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Alexander the Great, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Ayn Rand, Sojourner Truth, Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama), Carl Sagan, Prometheus, Robert Heinlein, Mahatma Ghandi, Langston Hughes, Lao Tzu, Martin Heidegger, Ben Carson, Nathaniel Branden, Karl Popper, Dan Barker, Confucius, Mencius, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rumi, Frederick Douglass, Ibn Warraq, Isaac Asimov, Paul Kurtz, James Wesley Rawles, Dogen Zenji, Geshe Tashi Tsering, Thurgood Marshall, Albert Einstein, John Robbins, Richard Feynman, Rumi

My Blog

Bruddah Iz Gets Belated Buzz (Wired)

Bruddah Iz Gets Belated Buzz Iz's wife, Marlene, brushes his hair in preparation for a photo shoot. View Slideshow .. close pic --> To get a sense of how diverse people's musical tastes are the...
Posted by John on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:36:00 PST

What Buddhist Meditation has to Tell Psychology About the Mind

Eleanor Rosch, Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley One of the best kept secrets of the last several centuries may be that some of what we clas...
Posted by John on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:41:00 PST

Is your life a computer simulation?

Your Lives, Controlled From Some Other Guy's Couch ..> ..>By JOHN TIERNEY Published: August 14, 2007 Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxfo...
Posted by John on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:05:00 PST

Humanistic Buddhism

Buddhists around the world number over three hundred million, just about six percent of the world's population.  It is a small slice of the pie, but it is also a relatively stable demographicrem...
Posted by John on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

Faith-Based Policy Is Not Good For Society

When some discussions turn to Islamic Fundamentalism, one of the biggest concerns is Islamic Law. The law, as seen from a western perspective, seems cruel, unbending and often misogynistic. The bigges...
Posted by John on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:30:00 PST