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Ben

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


"Blessed are those who have no expectations, for they shall never be disappointed."

Music:

Just about anything that doesn't suck. Hard to be precise with that, but here's a point of clarification: any musician/group that is frequently referred to in the tabloids on a first name basis, i.e "Britney", or "Jessica" most likely sucks. Here are some alltime favorites by genre, Rap: Gangstar - Country: Toby Keith and J. Cash - Punk/HC: Sheer Terror, Life of Agony - OI! OI!: Bruisers, cocksparrer - New Stuff: I really like the White Stripes.

Television:

Don't have a TV, but if I did I would watch Stargate SG-1

Books:

The True Believer, Neuromancer, the work of Dostoevsky, "Kim", and other books and poems by Rudyard Kipling. (If you like Kipling, check out M.M. Kaye's novels as well.) George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are "must reads", of course. I've been going back over some of C.S. Lewis's books as well. Loved the "Narnia" series as a kid, right now I'm reading "The Screwtape Letters" and "Mere Christianity". Did you know that Lewis was an atheist until J.R.R. Tolkien converted him to Christianity?

Heroes:

Odysseus, Nikola Tessla, America's founding fathers, Winston Churchill.

My Blog

The Wisdom of Eric Hoffer

Here are some quotes by Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), sociologist and political philosopher: "The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle do...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Kipling as prophet

Rudyard Kipling wrote this poem in 1919, yet so much of it rings eerily true today. Even though he was writing about the socio-political events of his day, and couldn't have known about the rest of th...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST