My interests include and are not limited to: God and all of his creation(s), my children, family, literature, world histories and religions.
Other interests are: music especially U2 and music that takes a person to a higher spiritual or emotional realm.
I also am interested in: Near Death Experiences (N.D.E.) Politics, Automobiles and Sports-Go Jazz.
I'd like to meet:
All people from every walk of life- especially those that I may be able to help. I consider myself a broad open minded, “thinking man's†compassionate conservative. I try to always think outside of the box. My Faith teaches that we are to help those less fortunate than ourselves and judge not upon how those we are helping arrived at their circumstance.
I love conversing about music, art, religious view points and different philosophies either modern or ancient and celebrate when our commonalities may coexist harmoniously with one another. I consider myself a much more spiritual person than an outwardly religious one.
I find in conversations that the human race has much more in common with itself that past generations once thought.
Music:
U2, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Peter Gabriel, Tom Petty, Tori Amos, Bjork, The Mission UK, Muse, Killers, Paul Oakenfold, Keane, Neil Young, Moby, Sisters of Mercy, Cat Stevens, David Lanz, Springsteen, not Springfield, Peter Murphy, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, Supertramp, Echo and the Bunneymen, Seal, The Alarm, Talk Talk, Waterboys, The Call, The Outfield (don't laugh) Willaim Orbit, Eddie Money, Siouxsie And The Banshees
Movies:
Preferences are usually Independent, Non Fiction, edgy documentaries films and/or biographies. Schlinder's List, What Dreams May Come, Glengarry Glen Ross, Starman, The Untouchables, Wall Street, To Live and Die in L.A, Pride and Prejudice, My Girl, The Onion Field, Cinderella Man,Gladiator, Munich, August Rush, American History X, To Kill A Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, American Beauty, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Elephant Man, The English Patient, Black September, Before The Fall, Ghost, Coming To America, Work and Glory, States of Grace, Marathon Man, Rainman, Less Than Zero, Say Anything,The Nutty Professor (E Murphy),Winged Migration, Breathless, No Way Out, Highlander, Purple Rain,
Sideways, Ghosts of Mississippi, Ghosts of Rwanda, The Red Violin, Gandhi, New York Doll, Mississippi Burning, Rabbit Proof Fence, Whale Rider, Heat, Scarface etc...read me? Love quality cinema and weep often during films.
Television:
24, 60 Minutes, CNN, BYU Television, NFL Playoffs, NBA Playoffs, Crime Stories and Unsolved Mysteries. My list is limited, I wish there were better choices on the tele.
Books:
Man's Search for Meaning, As A Man Thinketh, A Child Called It, The Bible- KJV, The Book of Mormon, Divinci Code, In Contempt, A Purpose Driven Life, Rough Stone Rolling, They Knew The Prophet, The First Mormon, The Four Agreements, Black Like Me, Under Fire, The Choice,Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Greatest Salesman in the World, A Soul's Rebemerance, Embraced By The Light, The Little Match Girl, I Stand All Amazed, Biko, The Prodigal Father...umm I like to read lots and usually reading is my own form of a nightcap before entering slumberland.*smiles*
Heroes:
Heroes are those millions of people who go unnoticed thru out history doing charitable acts of kindness everyday. These are they who give of their time and talents willingly, under the radar and without fanfare. My belief is their reward is recorded in a Higher Realm and it will be made known to them in the here after by their Creator.
Only our Creator and those that willfully participate in helping their fellowmen know
of the true motives of their charity and generosity and at a future date in the hereafter will reap their eventual reward by our Creator -for their joyful and willful acts of kindness here.
My personal heroes are and not limited to:
Christ, all others start arriving in at a close or distant 2nd place. Joseph Smith, The Apostles, my dad, Mother Teresa, The Christian Martyrs, Gandhi, David Pelzer,Viktor Emil Frankl, MLK, Bono, Brigadier General Alexander Doniphan, Lady Thatcher, Golda Meir, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Joan of Arc, Stephen Hawking, Medgar Evers, William Wallace, Nelson Mandela, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe, Helen Keller, Flo Jo and so so many others -those who stood or stand for timeless principles, righteousness and faith and who endure it well.
