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Rafael

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

I am Rafael, a humanitarian, a hobbyist, an amateur composer, a guitarist, and an all around nice guy. I was born in Jutiapa, Guatemala but spent most of my younger years in Guatemala City. I moved to California in my early tens and the rest is history. I am a big fan of music and sports. New or old friends are of paramount importance to me, so feel free to drop me a comment and I'll reciprocate as I am able.

My Interests

General interest athletic and outgoing, I am an avid football and soccer fan. I am also a dedicated Dallas Stars fan. In addition, I have a passion for music, dancing, and play both acoustic and electric guitar. Usually spend most of my time studying and researching, working out, training mind and body, video games, watching movies, and hanging out with my family. Philosophy, arts, poetry, dance, acting, music, photography, architecture, painting, physical fitness, meditation, mental discipline, character development and building self-confidence.

I'd like to meet:

Well, most of the people I'd like to meet, but have not yet had the opportunity to, are, unfortunately, dead... Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, JFK, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Count Maurice Maeterlinck, Ambrose Philips, Antonio Vivaldi, and Django Reinhardt. But I always appreciate hearing from new people.

Music:

I like to listen to almost everything but far more intriguing are Classical, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Acoustic, Metal...

Movies:

40 Year Old Virgin, Donnie Darko, Wedding Crashers, Double Indemnity, Garden State, Closer, The Clearing, Tarantino Films, Sin City, Oliver Stone Films, Crash, Metropolis, Elizabethtown, Frequency, Angel Eyes, Stir Of Echoes, Sphere, Family Man, I Am Sam, Requiem For A Dream, Can't Hardly Wait, The Green Mile, What Dreams May Come, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, 3000 Miles To Graceland and many more.

Books:

My favorite author is J.R. Lankford. I also like books on mystery & crime, literature, history, religion, and self-improvement. Right now I'm reading "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.

Heroes:

Well, naturally, my best friend Alex Sevilla. And my friend Jimmy along with all the other troops who risk their lives to save ours.

My Blog

We are Light

Light is  "That Which Shines." Light manifests on various levels, from the utmost, supreme Lightsubtlest, absolute, invisible, that which you can only Beto the most gross form. From the glowworm, a...
Posted by Rafael on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:46:00 PST

Give us this day...

...our daily bread Take a breath. Every 3.6 seconds, or the time from one breath to the next, someone in this world dies from hunger. That's 24,000 deaths a day, or over 8 and a half million deaths ...
Posted by Rafael on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:05:00 PST

Humble Truth

What& is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the voice within tells you. How then, you ask, [do] different people think of different and contrary tr...
Posted by Rafael on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

Vision of Truth

To see the universal and all-pervading spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any fiel...
Posted by Rafael on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:39:00 PST

Beauty in Truth

I see and find Beauty in Truth or through Truth. All Truths, not merely true ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs are highly beautiful. People generally fail to see Beauty in Truth, ...
Posted by Rafael on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:01:00 PST