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Benjamin

I am here for Friends

About Me

Hello. I figured I would streamline the profile, so here it goes.I am a 20 year old student majoring in Biology at Arizona State University. I can occasionally come off as an arrogant, sarcastic, bitter jackass. This is true. I am all of these things. But once you get through the outer layer of bitterness, I really am a very nice pleasant individual.If anyone wants to get in direct contact with me, my AIM handle is AIIFHarbinger. However, dont spam me. I may like eating spam, but only at a time and place of my choosing. I have no need for gift spam.

My Interests

Science. Especially Biology and the Social Sciences like Evolutionary psych and sociobiology. Role Playing Games (dungeons and dragons etc) and discussion of ethics. I also enjoy lively intellectual debates. I am lame, I know.

I'd like to meet:

In friends? Intelligent sincere individuals who can put up with my odd personality traits, personal quirks (which are many and varied)and who isn't annoying as all hell.Romantically? That depends. It would be really refreshing to meet a nice, healthy, intelligent,guy around my age who can A)put up with socially awkward little old me and B)likes to cuddle while talking about science. But I am not overly picky. Especially on the latter part.

Music:

Nerd music. Blind Guardian and Nightwish are my favorite bands. I Also like Tool, Disturbed, the Berlin Philharmonic (and pretty much all classical), Breaking Benjamin, Crossfade, and MC Hawking. ANd dont forget YO YO Ma.

Movies:

Kinsey, The Bone Collector, Shrek, Dogma, Star Wars, Star Trek 2, Finding Nemo, A Bugs Life, Saved, Donnie Darko, Inherit the Wind, October Sky, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philidelphia, A Beautiful Mind, Equilibrium, Gladiator, The Boondock Saints, Victor Victoria, Serenity, Over the Hedge.And generally any movie where reason and intelligence triumphs over ignorance.

Television:

Law and Order, Naked Science, Cosmos, Gargoyles, Darkwing Duck, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Family Guy, South Park, The entire discovery network

Books:

The Origin of Species, My collection of textbooks, 1984, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Demon haunted World, Contact, and generally anything else by Richard Dawkins or Carl Sagan. Biophilia, The Plausibility of Life.

Heroes:

Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, E.O Wilson,

My Blog

Growing up Gay

Growing Up Gay Would it shock you to find out what it is actually very difficult to be gay? Yeah, yeah I know the question seems silly. Of course it is. But the sheer magnitude of it does not hi...
Posted by Benjamin on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

The War On Christmas

Well, it is the holiday season, and I cant help myself. There are those, like Bill O' Reilly who think that Christmas is under attack by the Political Correctness Police. They think that words like...
Posted by Benjamin on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:10:00 PST

Prayer and the Null hypothesis

Hey guys. Well, my friend Todd, whom I like to call the Badass of Atheism agreed to be prayed over yesterday. He has had problems with his feet and one of the numerous christian clubs on campus agreed...
Posted by Benjamin on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:13:00 PST

Ben is stressed out and being emo

Ever have one of those periods in your life when you are under a lot of stress and that stress causes you to start thinking about things best left shoved into the back of your mind by your amigdila?&n...
Posted by Benjamin on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:42:00 PST

On the nature of God.(only applies to the Fundy Jehovah)

OK. First thing is first, they both assume the Fundy Johovah. IE. That he is omnipotent, omniscient, and only Jesus gets you into heaven. Bog standard fundamentalist christian dogma. OK.The first reli...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:42:00 PST

Social Insect Floor Shakedown

Hello folks. Well, this has been something on my mind for a while. For those of you who know me, and people reading my profile and who are on my friends list usually do know me personally, you will kn...
Posted by Benjamin on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:20:00 PST

My Bio-Nerdiness

Well folks, this is my first blog entry.  I figure I can use this as an outlet to rant, rave, and post things that I write for my own self-aggrandizing purposes.  Dont really have much to sa...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 22 May 2006 10:22:00 PST