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Captain Concept

The Dionysian Assassin

About Me



Hi, I'm Nick - arguably insane and wholly incredible. I’m a poet, a dreamer, an iconoclast, and a romantic, with an unparalleled lust for life and a strong partiality for mischief. My hobbies include; creating imaginary worlds, pursuing self-actualisation, transforming my friends into hyperbolic characterisations of themselves, performing, and pushing back the boundaries of 'normality'. You can take me seriously, but don't take me literally. Or should that be the other way around?
At the moment - aside from revelling in the freedom of an existence outside of consensus reality - my goal is self-realisation. I seek to better understand the world, and then change it for the better. My life primarily revolves around my imagination, my art is my destiny. After my imagination, love and nature are the two most important things to me - the three go hand in hand. I abhor cruelty and attacks upon freedom, which ever species that may concern. I'm a critic of culture, and work tirelessly as the sort of intellectual who thinks he can tell you how to live (a philosopher of wisdom, as opposed to a system-building philosopher or academic). I'm almost unique among philosophers in that I find everything funny.
For everything I destroy in the world through my ideas, I seek to give back twice fold, I want to open people‘s eyes to the magic of the world, usher away harmful delusions, create new wonders, and foster an environment of joy.
I’m as unique and diverse a character as you will ever meet, one of the more interesting characters in human history - if indeed I exist at all, which is open to debate. I’m at war with the aggressive banausic pragmatism, interventionalism, puritanical authoritarianism, and nihilistic anti-emotionality that pervades our culture, but I became a warrior for sake of liberation and self-preservation, ultimately I just want to play - or simply be.
I would describe myself as; Imaginative (greatest understatement of all time), inimitable, passionate, magical, sensitive, romantic, introspective, trustworthy, sentimental, charismatic, unique, loving, mischievous, sincere, creative, individualistic, sensual, figurative, special, veracious, anarchical, mercurial, spontaneous, intuitive, expressive, honourable, maniacal, adventurous, exciting, idealistic, untimely, timeless, funny, fun-loving, divine, strong, tough, talented, deep, emotional, melodramatic, disconcertingly paradoxical, heroic, larger than life, a day dreamer and a super genius. If you can read all of that without any kind of bitter reaction, then I like you already.
I can see the funny side of everything, and if there isn’t one, then I make one - if the mood calls for it, but really there are far more sublime experiences than comedy. I am the polar opposite of a social butterfly - I like to actually know and care about people, rather than flutter about making meaningless banter for its own sake. Am I an artist, a comedian or a philosopher? Whatever way you find me interesting - go with it, and if you don't, then I wish you well.
An existential and intrapersonal thinker, and a psychedelic pandemonium, I seamlessly cross between worlds.
I’ve sometimes asked myself why I don’t write music, the answer was - I am music, and my imagination is always dancing. My tragedy is that I’m probably not immortal, and I think I should be, wouldn't you agree?
Likes:

Freedom, spontaneity, individualism, romanticism, libertarianism, antispecism, animism, taoism, antinomianism, imagination, intensity, integrity, instinct, beauty, adventure, passion, poetry, pride, rhetoric, heroes, surrealism, expressionism, elitism, mystery, wonder, nature, animals, humour, paradise islands, warriors, creativity, charisma, euphoria, depth, fantasy, the enchanted, intellectual honesty, plotting, play, scheming, thinking, writing, creative writing, philosophising, laughing, mischief, mirth, day dreams, dance, wisdom, waterfalls, wrestling, fortitude, inner peace, excitement, the extreme, the unpredictable, the exotic, the moon, pirates, sensitivity, serenity, fighting, survival, self-expression, self-exploration, the sea, growth, affection, originality, the orgiastic, emotionality, capitalism, atheism, mythology, mythopoeia, honour, mountains, aphorisms, natural aristocracy, love, respect, meaningfulness, self-actualisation, self-realisation, immersion, intuition, rapture, focus, forests, psychedelics, sailing, cruising, evolution, influencing people, forming cliques, slow-paced life, tea.
Dislikes:

Cartesianism, collectivism, cynicism, creationism, chauvinism, censorship, coercion, conformity, counter-culture, cities, intellectual cowardice, emotional cowardice, common people, crowds, cars, guns, society, speciesism, sensationalism, bitterness, pretence, destruction, guilt, fear, formality, normality, regulations, unoriginality, uniformity, regularity, authoritarianism, egalitarianism, pragmatism, paternalism, monotheism, democracy, bureaucracy, hypocrisy, fashion, repression, restraint, interventionalism, ageism, socialism, sexism, scrutiny, squeamish spirits, gender stereotyping, closed mindedness, prejudiced people, oppression, social oppression, self-deception, social engineering, tyranny of the majority, bullying, political correctness, the banausic, bravado, taboos, systems, interference, expectations, judgementalness, dogma, drug prohibition, national hysteria, moral panic, aggressive people, passive people, passive-aggressive people, aggressive stupidity, the general public, mainstream feminism, religion, anti-life mentality, anti-physicality, herophobia, traffic, yobism, lack of respect, emotional distance, pollution, noise pollution, concrete, caffeine culture, winter, townies, chavs, the rat race, the education system, the puritanical, externally imposed order, people who take themselves too seriously and/or don’t have a sense of humour, people who acquire their opinions through hereditary rather than independent thought, people who try to control everything, boring people, ‘busy’ people, unimaginative people, people who never challenge themselves.

My Interests

Wisdom, Philosophy, Astronomy, Psychology, Mythology, Cosmology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Intelligence, The Human Condition, Consciousness, History, Art, Ethics, Qualia, Zoology, Ethology, Physics, Politics, Political Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, Ontology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Neuroscience, Meta-Physics, Life-Extension, Ego-Death, Quantum Mechanics, Life, Nature, Animals, Biology, Romance, Romanticism, Culture, Identity, Meaning, History of Ideas, Philosophy of History, Immortality, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Consciousness, Pattern Recognition, Technological Singularity, Poetry, Self-Realisation, Deontology, Perspective, Perception, Empathy, Secular Spirituality, Anarchism, Mixed Martial Arts, Ancient History, Fantasy, Meta-Psychology, Creativity, Imagination, Introspection, Astrobiology, Epiphenomenalism, Dinosaurs, Libertarianism, Games, Gaming, Mysticism, The Universe, Individuality, Storytelling, Writing, Acting, Directing, Meditation, Love, Exploration, Sailing, Grappling, Satire, Surrealism, Myself, Eugenics, Environmentalism, Warhammer, Sociology, Syncretism, Dancing, Religion, Electronic Usurpation, Depth Psychology, Drugs, Psychedelics, Genetics, Psychosomatic Conditions, Transpersonal Experience, Atheism, Adventure, Germanic Paganism, Anglo-Saxon Polytheism, European Folklore, Taoism, Health, Power, Value.

I'd like to meet:


On this site?

Well ideally I would like to make friends with like-minded people, meet my spiritual brethren so to speak. I'm happy to talk to anyone who is interested in talking to me - though honesty is very important to me, so I would prefer to avoid disingenuous people where possible - which rules out almost everyone :)

Music:

The imagination is not a state, it is the human existence itself
~ William Blake ~

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard ~

A man's character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus ~

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Movies:

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~ William Blake ~

Live your own life, for you will die your own death
~ Latin Proverb ~

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

Become what you are
~ Friederich Nietzsche ~

Television:

Discovery Civilisation, Animal Planet, Monkey World, Going Ape, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Monty Python, Jim Henson, South Park, Black Adder, Hornblower, Ducktales, the Dream Stone, Fraggle Rock, Thundercats, Dogtanian, Count Duckula, Transformers, Heman, Knightmare, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Trap Door, Gummie Bears, The Smurfs, The Real Ghostbusters, The Muppet Show, etc, etc.

Books:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Joseph Campbell.
The Portable Nietzsche
- Friederich Nietzsche, Edited and Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Conversations with Goethe
- Johann Peter Eckermann.
The Blind Watchmaker
- Richard Dawkins.
The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alain De Botton
Democracy: the God That Failed
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
The World as Will and Representation
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
- Murray N. Rothbard
The Mind Made Flesh
- Nicholas Humphrey
You Are a Retrospective Soul
The most misunderstood of all the soul signs.
Sometimes you even have difficulty seeing yourself as who you are.
You are intense and desire perfection in every facet of your life.
You're best described as extremely idealistic, hardworking, and a survivor.
Great moments of insight and sensitivity come to you easily.
But if you aren't careful, you'll ignore these moments and repeat past mistakes.
For you, it is difficult to seperate the past from the present.
You will suceed once you overcome the disappoinments in life.
Souls you are most compatible with: Traveler Soul and Prophet Soul

Heroes:

Myself, Friederich Nietzsche, Ray Kurzweil, Democritus, Chuang Tse, Aeschylus, Michel De Montaigne, William Blake, George Byron, Thomas Jefferson, Jim Henson, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sophocles, Joseph Campbell, Epicurus, William Shakespeare