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About Me

I do not play well with others. I walk my own path and in general, walk alone, except for a small circle of close friends. Quality over quantity. Not only am I a mother of two beautiful daughters, but I'm a damn proud Granny!

Before you read on, I am a Satanist. Deal with it or go away.
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In general I like being around animals more than people, Walt Whitman's, "I Think I Could Turn and Live With Animals" really sums it up for me.

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfiedâ€”not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth."
[Leaves of Grass 32, ll.682-689]

I really enjoy working with children. Their minds are so open to aquire knowledge, and it should be a crime to bind and blind that which has so much potential. I had personal experience with this when I combined my Montessori training with stratification principals.

I enjoy teaching children to have pride in themselves, encourage them that the best DO rise to the top, that things which are naturally most enjoyable are not "sins", and to learn to think and make decisions for themselves and not to follow the pack (unless the pack happens to be traveling a while in the same direction).

I am one of those extremely lucky people who make a comfortable living doing things I enjoy. My home is my castle, I live amongst my dogs, cats, birds, lizards, and exotic fish, surrounded by plants and fountains, and the things I love. I am a voracious reader.

I am a MENSA escapee whose Myer-Briggs Personality Type ranges from INTP to INTJ.

When I want to chill out, I hike alone in the Golan, snorkel with dophins in Eilat, or play in the dirt - there's always interesting excavations going on from the remains of long gone cultures.

There is so much to do, so many places to explore, experiences to be had, knowledge to be absorbed - how will I ever fit it all in?
A NOTE TO ALL THOSE WHO SEND INVITES: Who are YOU? I do a perfectly fine job letting you know a bit of who I am; please do not send me a page that says NOTHING about you. What is interesting about someone who can't think of anything to say about themselves either in a message or in their profile? With the myriad of info I put forth here, is it really so hard to send a note saying what you saw that made you respond?

I expect all those asking to be my friend and on my friends list to be responsible, adult members of society. I will not accept members to my friends list who condone acts which are illegal in this country or the country in which that potential "friend" resides. I do not and will never condone illegal, irresponsible behavior such as using illegal drugs, committing acts of unjustified violence, drinking blood, participating in cannibalism, or anything of that nature. Please note this before asking me to be your "friend." And if you are denied by me, this is likely the reason why I have done so. Thank you.
I DO NOT JOIN HAREMS!!!
DON'T WASTE MY TIME. IF YOU ARE MALE AND ONLY COLLECT WOMEN I SIMPLY DELETE YOU. THIS PLACE IS PACKED WITH MYSPACE WHORES WHO APPROVE ANYONE. GO SNIFF THEM OUT.

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My Interests

Black and white photography
haunted places, circuses
outdoor classical concerts and theatre, museums,
Hopi culture, kachinas
archaeology, anthropology, astronomy,
Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side
magic, illusions
Mardi Gras, the electric light parade at DisneyWorld
scare-the-crap-out-of-you roller-coasters
M-theory, chaos theory, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, holographic memory,
people watching, manipulating my environment and weaker people,
being alone outside under the stars, shapeshifting
telepathy, psychokinesis, remote viewing
tonfa, bo, knives
creating, writing
politics, psychology
Greek and Roman history-philosophy-mythology
Social Darwinism, eugenics, right-to-die issues
Thai food, gardening, pinball, the smell of leather, carosel animals, refinishing old furniture
puzzles and brain teasers
parasailing, fencing, archery
Victorian and Renaissance clothing
player pianos and nickolodeons, 1940's-50's jukeboxes
logic, philosophy
classical horror in literature and film
cats-ferrets-reptiles- spiders
Esperanto, home schooling

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Anton LaVey, Albert Einstein, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), Jim Henson, Walt Disney, P.T. Barnum, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), the Marquis de Sade, Alfred Hitchcock, George Carlin, Penn and/or Teller

Music:

Jazz, Ragtime
Big Band (Count Basie, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller)
Classical (Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Voltaire, Wagner, Bach, Brahms)
Bing Crosby, the Rat Pack (Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.)
Rush, Meatloaf, The Police
pre-1980's Alice Cooper, Aerosmith
Led Zepplin, Deep Purple
"Weird Al" Yankowic

Movies:

Casablanca, Key Largo, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Cat People, The Black Cat, Brazil, Alien, The Elephant Man, Bell, Book and Candle, The Seven Samurai, Song of the South, X-Men, Angel Heart, The Devil's Advocate, Mary Poppins, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Singing in the Rain, Westworld, Lost Boys, Rosemary's Baby, Farenheit 451, They Live, The Labyrinth, Dawn of the Dead, Prince of Darkness, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Little Shop of Horrors, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Time Machine, most Vincent Price movies (too numerous to mention), The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, Japanese monster movies, Marx Brothers-Abbott and Costello-Monty Python movies, the old horror classics - The Werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, King Kong, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde, The Fly, Nosferatu, The Invisible Man.

Television:

I don't watch it, but everything I've ever really liked, I've bought the video or DVD collections: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Dead Zone, Outer Limits, Kolchak the Night Stalker, The Munsters (the series and movies), Gilligan's Island, The Three Stooges, The Simpsons, South Park, The Muppet Shows, Penn and Tellers "Bullshit!", The Day The Universe Changed, The Best of Monty Python, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Connections and Connections II series, Looney Toons, Star Trek, The X-Files, several programs from The History Channel and the Discovery Channel.

Books:

It would be difficult to keep this list current, as I am usually in the process of reading 3-4 books at any given time. Long time favorites include: In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality, Schrodinger's Rabbits, The Circus of Dr. Lao, The Sea Wolf, Critical Thinking, The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Witch, An Outline of History, Physics of Immortality, The 48 Laws of Power, Might is Right, The Holographic Universe, The Bell Curve, Parallel Worlds, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Riding the Tiger, Atheism: The Case Against God, The Quantum Brain, The Decline of the West, The Naked Ape, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Watership Down, Something Wicked This Way Comes
FAVORITE AUTHORS: William Shakespeare, Epicurus, Goethe, Carl Jung, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman,Fredrich Nietzsche, Jack London, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Edger Allen Poe, Stephen King

Heroes:

Very few people do I regard with awe, respect or even enthusiastic admiration.
One of those rare people is Anton LaVey, the few others are special people to me who may never be well-known.
Hero-worship is man-worship, and people who are busy idolizing other people's lives generally don't accomplish anything themselves, and live soon-to-be-forgotten lives of mediocrity.
My other hero is me. I have made myself who I am this day, I am the constant recreator of my environment.
I choose who I come in contact with.
All of the riches, pleasures, and accomplishments in my life comes by my hard work, intelligence, and ability to play the malleable herd of people across the gameboard of my life.
I play to win.
It's the nature of the beast.