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crawley@bham

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

About Me


I'm Justin. 24 years old from Birmingham.

It is only when you're rowing with the stream that you have to make no effort, is it not so?


Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.. The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.. There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.. When the solution is simple, God is answering.. God does not play dice with the universe.. God is subtle but he is not malicious.. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.. The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.. The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

My Interests

music, computers, technology, art, culture, guitar, poker, piano, history, graphic design, web development, football, nature, music production, music composition, astronomy, spirituality, meditation,

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people with love for their mind body soul and Earth =]

Music:

The Stop, PHISH, String Cheese Incident, GRATEFUL DEAD, Particle, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Galactic, Keller Williams, M. Ward,Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic, Disco Biscuits, The Big Wu, Gov't Mule, Addison Groove Project, Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Dave Matthews Band, Dispatch, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Acoustic Syndicate, Jazz Mandolin Project, Four Tet, North Mississippi All Stars, The Doors, Steve Miller Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, Umphrey's McGee, MOFRO, Perpetual Groove, Jerry Joseph, Iron & Wine, moe., Michael Franti/Spearhead, Medeski Martin &; Wood, Benevento/Russo Duo, John Butler Trio, VIDA BLUE, Greyboy Allstars, The Funky Meters, The Flaming Lips, The Codetalkers ft. Col. Bruce Hampton, Bela Fleck &; The Flecktones, Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, The Mars Volta, The Beatles, M. Ward, Sublime, 311, The Word, HENDRIX, Trey Anastasio, ZERO 7, The New Deal, Theivory Corporation, Ben Harper, Los Lonely Boys, Counting Crows, Jack Johnson, Wilco, The Word, james Taylor, shit, theres too much to list, WWW.SOMAFM.COM, broken social scene, brothers past, john coltrane, team sleep, groove armada, saint germain, unkle, sasha, shulman, simon posford, younger brother, little brother, john digweed, seb fontaine, judge jules, dj icey, a perfect circle, a trbie called quest, basment jaxx, air, beta band, bela fleck and the flecktones, beck, bob marley, BRIAN ENO, Chris Bell, BT, Cafe Del Mar, coldplay, los lobos, DEAD CAN DANCE, Deepsky, derek trucks band, JOHN SCOFIELD, deftones, dentel. doves, eels, faultline, fear of fours, four tet, frank sinatra, funky meters. george gershwin, G LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE, gorillaz, gregory issacs, harold budd, INCUBUS, iron & wine, Jason mraz, jazzanova, JIMMY BUFFETT, john browns body, john frusciante, john lee hooker, john lennon, johnny cash, juvenile, keller williams, KING CRIMSON, King tubby, kruder & dorfmeister, KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH, (--fave cd of 2005), led zeppelin, lemon jelly, louie armstrong, LTJ BUKEM, M. Ward, Matisyahu, Mice Parade, moby, my mornign jacket, n.e.r.d, nas, neptunes, Nick Drake, Nightmares on Wax, Nine Inch Nails, Nuspirit Helsinki, Oasis, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pain, Pat Methany, Paul Oakenfold, PEARL JAM, Phil Lesh, Pharcyde, Prefuse 73, Primus, Radiohead, Ray Charles, SHPONGLE, Skynet & Stakka, Steely Dan, STEVE KIMOCK, Telepopmusik, Tesla, The Avalanches, The Beatles, THE SHINS, tom petty, trey anastasio, toots & the maytals, ugk, umphrey's mcgee,At the Drive In, Al Kapone, Aphex Twin, The B-52s, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bjork, Bloc Party, The Bravery, Blonde Redhead, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, The Cure, Cursive, DeFacto, Death from Above, DJ Danger Mouse, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Dan the Automator, DJ Spooky, Engine Down, Fiona Apple, Foo Fighters, Ghosts and Vodka, Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Incubus, Iron and Wine, Incubus, Jem, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, The Kent 3, Kidney Thieves, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Metric, Mindless Self Indulgence, Minus the Bear (Check out New Album "Menos El Oso"), Modest Mouse, Mouse on Mars, Mos Def, The Postal Service, Q&NotU, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, The Ramones, Refused, RJD2, Say Anything, The Shins, Sunny Day Real Estate, Talib Kweli, Tori Amos, Traindodge, Weezer, The White Stripes, Mix Master Mike, Rob Swift, Alchemist, Emperor Penguin, DJ Honda, DJ, Qbert, DJ, Babu, DJ Frog, DJ Quick, DNTEL, Blonde Redhead, Prodigy, Mos Def, Blackalicious, Dieselboy, Fantomas, Franz Ferdinand, Hive, Interpol, John Legend, The Killers, Le Tigre, Madvillain, Mercury Program, MF Doom, DangerDoom (DJ Danger Mouse & MF Doom/ Adult Swim Produced!!), Muse, Pixies, Prefuse 73, Primus, Public Enemy,Sound Tribe Sector 9


Digital Soundboard Radio
Nugs.net Radio
Groove Salad Radio

Movies:



biscoradio

Television:

I would turn on the TV but it's so embarrassing To see all the other people I don't know what they mean And it was magic at first when they spoke without sound But now this world is gonna hurt you better turn that thing down Turn it around

Books:


My Blog

Love In This Club

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Posted by crawley@bham on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:58:00 PST

Out Of My Head

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Hornings Hideout 2007

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Right In Tune

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Bo Diddley

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Posted by crawley@bham on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:45:00 PST

Waiting For A War

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Posted by crawley@bham on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:46:00 PST

Crickets

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Posted by crawley@bham on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 PST

Phil Lesh Vegoose 2005

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Bottle Of Blues

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Posted by crawley@bham on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:53:00 PST

Man of Constant Sorrow

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Posted by crawley@bham on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:00 PST