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Tacitus

jintatsu

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts."
~William Shakespeare

It's all fiction. The Tao provides a person with a particular role to play and the secret is to discover this role and embrace it, whatever it may be. To accept one's role, whether good or bad, is to live according to the Tao, even if it defies the conventional Way. My place is that of a historian; a storyteller. Like Tacitus before me, my part (at this junture) is to learn and then record the events that have unfolded before the Tao and to relate them to future generations of players. How do I know this is true? To quote Lao Tzu, "I look inside myself and see."

My Interests

History, philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, seeking what can't be found, dukkha, languages, linguistics, politics, the human condition, strategy/roleplaying games, romanticism, watching and observing, simplicity, complexity, paradoxes, conflict, flags and symbols. .. ..

Music:

Iced Earth, Kamelot, Blind Guardian, HIM, L'âme Immortelle, Gamma Ray, Demons & Wizards, Helloween, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Opeth, HammerFall, Slayer, Megadeth, DragonForce, Powerglove, Billy Joel, Rhapsody, Pink Floyd, many more I can't remember...

Movies:

Lord Of The Rings, The Last Samurai, Seven Years In Tibet, Kingdom Of Heaven, King Arthur, Dr. Shavago, Pirates Of The Carribean, Star Wars, Lawrence Of Arabia, Gladiator, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Kung Pow, Saiyuki Requiem...

Television:

House, The Simpsons, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Lost...

Books:

The Catcher In The Rye, War And Peace, Paradise Lost, The Phantom Of The Opera, Dante's Inferno, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Tacitus, Plutarch, Suetonius, I Am America (And So Can You)...

Heroes:

Tacitus, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Napoleon...

My Blog

Otho

I think I’ve decided who I want to write my first real biography about.  Otho, the 7th emperor of Rome.  I figured I’d start with a Roman one as I’m currently still qu...
Posted by Tacitus on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:04:00 PST

Cheers.

Well, I tried.  Now I'm tired, so I'll be around less.   Cheers, mates.  Stay alive.
Posted by Tacitus on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:56:00 PST