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About Me



I do things on my own terms. Insecure people find this threatening, which is ashame...or maybe just funny. It's an alienating quality, but I follow my heart and do things for myself, knowing full-well that I will be misunderstood, pigeon-holed, and marginalized. Some of the people who know me best say that I'm just asking for trouble. The truth is, I express myself in spite of it.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



No idea. The longer I live, the more I grow apart from everyone.

Quotes:

"Sartre has called man a "useless passion" because he is so hopelessly bungled, so deluded about his true condition. He wants to be a god with only the equipment of an animal, and so he thrives on fantasies." -Ernest Becker

“We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means - all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.” -Derrick Jensen

"Violence is dreadfully, dreadfully effective. That's why they use it." -Derrick Jensen

"At some level, we know that everything is far from okay, that in fact we are alienated, disconnected, cut off from Nature, from other people, and from ourselves. Deep inside, we know that we are poisoning our environment, poisoning our bodies, poisoning our spirit. Such pervasive disconnection leaves us with an inarticulate emptiness of the soul. Rather than face that emptiness, we participate in the lie. If we are to be really truthful, we have to face our emptiness. But we get really angry at people who ask us to do so." -Sharif Abdullah

"Don't fight forces, use them." -R. Buckminster Fuller

"Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted at all." -John Lennon

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -William Shakespeare

"Poke any saint deeply enough, and you touch self-interest." -Irving Wallace

“The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.” -Daniel Quinn

"Theologians of the school of Teilhard de Chardin--Matthew Fox, Thomas Berry, and so on--conceive that the universe turned a great corner when man was born. In us, as they see it, the universe became conscious. This is rather like thinking that, when Edmund Hillary stood on top of it, Mount Everest became tall." -Daniel Quinn

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." -R. Buckminster Fuller

"It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction."-R. Buckminster Fuller

"It's unfortunate. I'm not against big companies, except I think they ought to forget the damn dollars... And I don't mean that to the extent that they shouldn't do right by their shareholders, and themselves, even. But music is too fine a thing, and too absolutely, emotionally helpful to so many different people. The greatest diplomat in the world is that thing you call music. That's the name: Ambassador Music. It's going to be tougher. But it may be around the corner, and I'm too old to do it, but online and stuff, that thing may be worked out to where some of these people that are doing some of these amazing things, it may come back where people with nothing can do something. I sure hope so. I really do. I really hope so." -Sam Phillips

My Blog

***The Genius Of The Crowd***

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity inthe average human being to supply any given army onany given dayand the best at murder are those who preach against itand the best at hate are th...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:47:00 GMT

The Story of B

"The point I want to make here is that I have no idea what people with changed minds will do. Paul was in the same condition as he traveled the empire changing minds in the middle of the first century...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:42:00 GMT

Ishmael

"The gods have played three dirty tricks on the Takers. In the first place, they didn't put the world where the Takers thought it belonged, in the center of the universe. . . . "The second of the gods...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:37:00 GMT

well being

"The Maya walked away from their cities under their own steam--they weren’t whisked away in flying saucers. The Olmec themselves defaced and abandoned San Lorenzo and La Venta, and Teotihuacán w...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:54:00 GMT

Derrick Jensen

"False hopes bind us to unlivable situations and they blind us to real possibilities." -Derrick Jensen "That's one of my secret fantasies. That suddenly we begin using all of this cleverness that we t...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:00 GMT

music: quick & to the point

I hate labeling things...but it is an inevitability...so here are my issues:1. "Emo" should not be a separate category of music. If music isn't emotional, then what's the point? Single most useless & ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:33:00 GMT

Rebel Poets of the 1950s

"America demands a poetry that is bold, modern and all-surrounding and kosmical, as she is herself." Although Walt Whitman wrote that prescription shortly after the Civil War, it also vividly describe...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:55:00 GMT

THE 60s

"People can't just give up a story. That's what the kids tried to do in the sixties and seventies. They tried to stop living like Takers, but there was no other way for them to live. They failed becau...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:35:00 GMT

The Homeless

The "Homeless Problem" is only a "problem" because we frame it that way.The way that we, as a society, treat the homeless is contemptible.Consider the following:"We know what "combating" homelessness ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:18:00 GMT

***MEMES***

Genes leap from body to body by way of reproduction. Memes leap from mind to mind by way of communication: in lullabies heard in the cradle, in fairy tales, in parents' table conversation, in jokes, i...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:10:00 GMT