What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
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You scored as Hedonism
Your life is guided by the principles of Hedonism: You believe that pleasure is a great, or the greatest, good; and you try to enjoy life’s pleasures as much as you can.
“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!â€
Hedonism
100%
Strong Egoism
95%
Existentialism
75%
Nihilism
75%
Justice (Fairness)
65%
Utilitarianism
30%
Kantianism
25%
Apathy
10%
Divine Command
0%
Individually, I love you all with affection unspeakable; but, collectively, I look upon you with a disgust that amounts to absolute detestation. "Not fair? I wonder what your basis for comparison is..." Residence: East Village, NYCSigh... PLEASE NOTE: I absolutely do not have time to sort through all the friend-requests that pile up here... if you want to request me, feel free, but SEND ME an e-mail letting me know who you are, or I probably won't ever get around to even looking at your profile... and even if I did, I very well might not recognize that you were my best friend in 3rd grade or whatever... I am really happy to make new friends... but I want to actually "meet" you, not just have your picture around taking up space... tell me something interesting!
It should go without saying, but apparently it doesn't, that I'm not going to answer any form-letter dating requests from men with no pictures. Does ANYONE really respond to this approach? One of the worst possible things I can imagine someone saying about me would be that I was: down-to-earth (dount-ûrth, -t-) adj. 1. Realistic; sensible. 2. a. Not pretentious or affected; straightforward. b. Not overly ornate; simple in style.Although pragmatic, I'm still an idealist and a dreamer, and proud. I know how I'd like the world to be, even if I know it's never going to be that way. But hey, if you want to be it, you need to dream it first. All art, all glamour, all beauty is pretention and affectation - and also all that makes life fun and worthwhile. Give me pomp and panoply! Give me glitter and eyeliner! fashion and tattoos! fantasy and Photoshop! porn and poetry! Give me books and music and myspace vanity pages!!! Give me Neuschwanstein, the Vatican, and Versailles! (seriously, really, I want them)
I may speak my mind in a straightforward manner, but I'm not afraid to follow the argument through its tortuous convolutions... I love complexity, nuances, details and patterns, the ornate and the baroque... go over-the-top!
never enough, until your heart stops beating...I like to travel. A lot. SEE my Travel Map at tripadvisor HERE!
Countries I've been to:
Austria
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia & Hercegovina
Canada (a lot)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
England (a lot)
France
Germany (a lot)
Grenada
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
Italy (3x)
Jamaica
Japan (2x)
Macao
Mexico (2x)
Montenegro
Netherlands
Scotland
Switzerland
Thailand
United States (duh)
Vatican
Next travel plans:
PERU - (including Lima, Cusco, Lake Titcaca and of course Machu Picchu!) in the early fall, I hope! [update: it looks like this will NOT be happening, because most likely in the fall I am going to be in court fighting eviction. Suck.]
Places that are on my list of to-see-before-I-die:
Cambodia, Angkor Wat
Venice - (at Carnival)
Italy - San Gimignano, Venice - (at Carnival)
Spain - Barcelona & Madrid - Prado
Thailand - rural areas & beaches
India
France - rural areas & castles
Poland - maybe for castle party!
Greece - small island cruising...
Taxco, Mexico - when I have a load of cash to spend on silver jewelry!
I'll be adding to this as the mood strikes me....
Anyway, if you've never left your own country, don't try to tell me about how yours is the best place on the planet. But if you want to tell me about all your favorite places and why they're awesome, I would love to hear...
I just got signed up with kiva.org . They let you give 'microloans' to individuals in developing countries. It's pretty cool.
I tend to say what I think, to be highly opinionated, and to have a high opinion of myself.During the day, I work at a large art museum in Digital Collections/Libraries and Archives. (that's the order part). Evenings, I work at a midtown office.I was a bartender at CBGB from 1991 to the bitter end - Oct. 2006. Currently available for working bar shifts! ;-)When I'm not working (or sometimes when I am) I tend to be running around getting drunk, having fun, and generally making a spectacle of myself... (that's just part of the chaos part... then there's my apartment... there's really just so much more time for the good things in life if you just eliminate all household chores from your daily routine... ;-) )If I had to run into a burning building and save either a unique and irreplacable manuscript or some random person, I'd save the manuscript. No question. There're plenty of people on the planet; life is transient, but cultural heritage belongs to us all...
Of course, if the person were someone I personally cared about, things might get a little emotionally complicated...I promoted goth clubs, DJ'ed, and booked bands for over a decade. My first club was TOCSIN, located at The Far Side, which later became Meow Mix. When the ownership changed, I moved the night to Alcatraz, and then Kaleidoscope Lounge. When that bar closed down, I created ALCHEMY at CBGB 313 Gallery, and that went for just shy of a decade. During that time, I also did Wasteland (named after the Mission UK song), Absolution (which I named after the Gary Numan song), and many many many other club nights at many different venues. (I've worked at Limelight, Pyramid, Z Bar, Flamingo East, Coney Island High, etc, etc.) I also did graphic design for zillions of flyers throughout this time. But then, once it was beginning to look pretty definite that CBGB was getting closed down, I had to concentrate on a career change. Grad school and now new jobs have meant that my energies have been focused elsewhere than into club nights.
Now it's my turn to have fun and let other people entertain me.I did music journalism & band interviews for quite a while, most frequently for SECONDS. A couple of things I did are in the recently published book .45 Dangerous Minds . There's some other stuff out there as well...I read a lot, I listen to music a lot, I travel as much as I can, and I have a killer collection of souvenir keychains (only from places I've been).I am happily childfree and remaining that way. I don't think babies are cute. I think kids are cool in about the same ratio as adults - which is to say, rarely. I'm going to have to make an exception for my new nephew, though...other stuff... you're not supposed to discuss religion, politics or sex in polite society, right? Here goes. If you violently disagree with this, we might not like each other very much.... then again, I love arguing...I've gradually gone from assuming that I would go to hell if I said a swear word (ok, I was very young), to a studiedly open attitude of respect to all peoples' religious beliefs, to a recognition that not only is it all bullshit, religion has been and is one of the most destructive forces in the history of human society.
I fail to see how a reasonably educated person can look at the history of religious institutions in various societies and not see that religions have been designed as a method of controlling the populace - they set up rules, threaten terrible punishments and promise rewards - which conveniently never have to be given out, seeing as they come after you're dead!
Religion, of course, has also been the number-one excuse for slaughtering untold millions of people for no particular good reason.
*Without* religion, it is easier to be an ethical person, with consideration and respect for others - acting in the way you believe is right for your own sake, not for some theoretical deity.
I do understand that religion can give people a social network, and for some people it fills a need that they have... but I just don't have a "jesus-shaped hole in my heart."
I still find religion weirdly fascinating, if only because I really don't 'get' it.I used to be an anarchist (ok, I was very young). Then I realized people are too fucked up for that ever to work. Now? Can't say I'm a fan of Republicans."The word of Sin is Restriction... There is no bond... but love: all else is a curse...take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will!" "Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light...
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way." Note: This profile does not use web-safe colors, and is designed to be viewed using Firefox on a PC. If you're not, it probably looks crappy. Too bad. ;-)