Learning new things; reading; audio books; traveling; friendships; sleeping; LDS history; hacking; TECHNOLOGY; philosophy; religion; religious philosophy; debate; psychology; computers; bio/mechanical&genetic engineering; evolution; wrestling/sparring/sword-fighting; magic the gathering; solving things; discovering loopholes; IQ tests; P2P; games like same time risk, Solaris, warcraft3, Unreal Tournament, Catan, etc; friends; falling asleep while typpppppppppppppppppppppppppp
OPEN MINDED, friendly INTELLIGENT PEOPLE (I know, I'm asking a lot...) who like to have fun and a good laugh. Especially those interested in religion, philosophy, metaphysics, technology, telecommunications, hacking, religious philosophy, travel, culture, sociology, psychology, LDS history/doctrine, etc. Anyone that wants to talk about Haiti? I'm game! Love that PLACE/people! Don't just add me as a friend without sending a message to go along with it unless I really know you. If I don't know you and haven't ever talked to you in the group forums we're in together then I'll assume you're a spam bot or a friend hoarder and you're probably wasting your time. I am not here to help boost people's popularity contests of adding as many strangers as they can. I think that's a retarded part of myspace culture. If I know you, or we talk/debate in the forums together a lot great, I'll accept. If I don't know you but you have a valid reason for considering me a friend (maybe we think alike, have similar opinions, etc), send me a message so I know what's up. :) If I do actually know you...why on earth are you admitting it? j/k
LOTS! I used to be hardcore into rap when I was in Junior High, then I moved on to R&B, and then Rock/alternative and heavy metal through High School, then punk and emo...warped tour type stuff, and pop, some more recent country is alright, especially if you can Western swing to it. Some of the newer half rap hybrids are OK again so long as they have a point, especially a political/social point.I don't like Jazz, rarely in the mood for boring...er I mean classical music either.
LOTS! Mostly the intelligent movies that make you think...also I really like action movies.
CSI's (though CSI Las Vegas is the best); Criminal Minds; Alias; 24; Smallville; Battlestar Gallactica; The 4400; The Simpsons; Southpark; Lost; Prison Break; Numb3rs; Day Break; Heroes; One Tree Hill; Sleeper Cell; The Unit; Torchwood; Vanished
Favorite Non-Fiction Books: God's Debris by Scott Adams; A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzwell; Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau; More than Human by Ramez Naam; Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor; CS Lewis Books; The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins;SOME Favorite Fiction Books: The Religion War by Scott Adams; Harry Potter series (except the 5th book which drove me nuts, and the first book took forever to get interesting); Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow series; Pretty much anything by Orson Scott Card is a good read; The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini; JRR Tolkein; Gerald Lund Books; Most books written by Chris Heimerdinger including all the Tennis Shoes Series; I love COUNTLESS other fiction books but this will suffice for now off the top of my head.Favorite LDS/Mormon Non-Fiction Books: Most anything by D Michael Quinn, like Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, & the Mormon Hierarchy Books; Evidences of the True Church by Dennis K Brown; The Dead Sea Scrolls and other important discoveries by Vernon W Mattson Jr; Jesus the Christ by James E Talmage; Unpublished Revelations by Fred C Collier; Satan's War on Free Angency by Greg Wright; The Bible Says 1830 by Chris Tolworthy; Encyclopedia of Mormonism; LDS Library 2006 (I know not A BOOK, but it's hundreds/thousands of books I can search through easily); Evolution and Mormonism by Trent D Stephens & D Jeffrey Meldrum; History of Joseph Smith by his Mother Lucy Mack Smith the Unabridged Original Version compiled by R Vernon Ingleton; Black and MormonObviously I could list hundreds of books that I really love, but for now we will leave it with the ones I currently have listed here.
Charles Darwin; Galileo Galilei; Martin Luther; D. Michael Quinn; Joseph Smith; Leonard Arrington; Bishop Edward Bunker; Jeffrey Nielsen; Richard Dawkins; Lance Corporal Matt Croucher; Jack Bauer...oh wait, fiction doesn't count does it? ~~Feel free to ask me why any of these men should be and are heroes