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Thomas

Sans vous je suis seulement un ver de terre

About Me

"In a 1992 paper entitled 'Why Do People Need Self-Esteem?', published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American psychologist Thomas Pyszcynski developed the 'terror-management theory'. Retail-supported self-esteem is, he argues, 'a shield designed to control the potential for terror that results from awareness of the horrifying possibility that we humans are merely transient animals groping to survive in a meaningless universe, destined only to die and decay'. To mask this possibility, we have created a society that proffers us clothes to transform us into fashion gods, and kitchen utensils to make us domestic deities. Pyszcynski adds that we may have no more significance in the universe than 'any individual pineapple or porcupine' - except have you ever seen a porcupine damage the ecosystem with its retail forays?"

That said - Faith Looks Up.

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My Interests

Puppies, kittens, ponies and Islamic militants. Though in all seriousness I'm really into Sailing, Kayaking, old European Cars, Dystopian Fiction and otherwise laying around being useless. I'm currently hip deep into Astronomy. It reminds me that everything we have in the here and now is fleeting.

I'd like to meet:

Pretty much anyone...

Music:

My tastes range from Jazz to Industrial (AKA as Crazy Germans Banging on Electronic Shit)

Movies:

Film Noir and Sci-fi.

Television:

I pay lot's of money for cable every month and I'm still pissed off there is nothing worth watching other than Family Guy.

Books:

Currently Reading:
A Power Governments
Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn

Heroes:

Jesus, Rumi, Pol Pot, Oliver North and General Noriega

My Blog

This would funny if it the news was coming from the Onion.

Summit that's hard to swallow - world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisisRead all about it. Disgusting really....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/a...
Posted by Thomas on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:31:00 PST