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Paladin

Of course, just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character.

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorAt my core I'm a very dualistic being. In a day's time, I can be rather outgoing and then, later on, very introverted and speculative. I suppose it depends on my mood in the moment. I'm someone who was terribly shy as a child and adolescent, and that solitude, even around others, led me to become who I am: A loner who is just as content and comfortable alone, playing guitar, reading a book or listening to an album, or conversing with friends and cracking jokes. That duality and juxtaposition seems quite strange, I know. However, I am just myself, I suppose. Not much more that I can say...Enough, of listening to my incoherent ramblings! I'm sure you have much better, more productive things to do.

My Interests

Music and musical theory, guitar, reading (a lost art), history, comparative religions, science, logic, politics, nutrition, exotic foods(Indian, Japanese, Thai, etc.), EMS, etc.

I'd like to meet:

No one in particular. Just intelligent, nice, and/or interesting people in general.


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Music:

Fusion: The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Tony Williams Lifetime, Bruford, Return To Forever, Weather Report, UK, John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty, etc.Progressive Rock: King Crimson, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Liquid Tension Experiment, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Doors, Santana, etc.Alternative Rock: Goo Goo Dolls, Jeff Buckley, Incubus, U2, The Smiths, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Bush, Soundgarden, etc.Jazz: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, etc.Modern Classical: Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Richard Wagner, Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, Krzysztof Pendereki, etc.Indian Classical: Ravi Shankar, Lakshminarayana Shankar, Zakir Hussein, Ali Akbar Khan, etc.

Movies:

Some favorites would be: Bringing Out The Dead, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Eastern Promises, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, El Mariachi, Desperado, The Godfather Series, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Casino, Goodfellas, Ronin, Heat, The Departed, Donnie Brasco, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter, The Professional, The Untouchables, The Usual Suspects, Mystic River, Die Hard, Sin City, Star Wars Trilogy, The Matrix, Equilibrium, Mad Max, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Troy, Crash, Se7en, Brother, Fight Club, Kill Bill, Match Point, Goldeneye, Cool Hand Luke, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tombstone, Enter The Dragon, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Tokyo Story, Legend, Sword of Doom, Hero, Last Samurai, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978), From Dusk Till Dawn, Shaun of the Dead, Clerks, Dogma, Mallrats, Rushmore, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Boogie Nights, High Fidelity, Groose Point Blank, Friday, Rush Hour, Before Sunrise, O Brother Where Art Thou?, American Beauty, Magnolia, Lost In Translation, Exotica, Kama Sutra, Mostly Martha, Americano, Lila Says, L’Amant, Les Miserables, A River Runs Through It, etc.

Television:

News and Politics: Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Henry Rollins Show, HANNITY and colmes, O'Liely Factor(for daily indoctrination and for the laughs), Any show where they know the difference between subjective and objective news, etc.General shows: Seinfeld, The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, etc.Comedy: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Comedy Central Presents, Premium Blend, World Stand Up, etc.Anime: Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Hellsing, Rurouni Kenshin, GTO, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Trigun, Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll, etc.

Books:

Some favorites would be: The Brothers Karamazov, Pygmalion, Ulysses, Dubliners, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dracula, Paradise Lost, Beowulf, Le Morte d'Arthur, Ivanhoe, 1984, Brave New World, The Secret Sharer, The Heart of Darkness, Pride and Prejudice, Gulliver's Travels, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, A Merchant of Venice, A Midsummers Night's Dream, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Pilgrim's Progress, The FairTax Book, Somebody's Gotta Say It, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Truth with Jokes, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, New Rules, Faking It, Philosophy on the Go, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Mere Christianity, The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer., Letter To A Christian Nation, The End of Faith, The Science of Good & Evil, Why Darwin Matters, How We Believe, Why We Believe Weird Things, many EMS books(I have a good bit), many guitar books (I have even more of those), various poems (i.e. from Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost), and I'm also a sucker for good album liner notes.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr, C.S. Lewis, Socrates, Sir Issac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennet, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bill Maher, Henry Rollins, Eddie Izzard, Neal Boortz, Ron Paul, John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Robert Fripp, Miles Davis, Bruce Lee, etc.

My Blog

On Divine Intervention

~On Divine Intervention~ We as a species tend to count the hits and not the misses. This is because we are pattern seeking individuals (also the reason why we see the Virgin Mary on toast). On XM sat...
Posted by Paladin on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:19:00 PST

Group Mentality

I'm very ambivalent about the south. On the one hand, the people down here are typically very pleasant, and genuinely so. However, there is a lot of ignorance here. People are inculcated with social, ...
Posted by Paladin on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:08:00 PST

Atheistic Morality

Atheistic Morality Critique:  Over the past month or so I have read posts from atheists discussing the non-existence of God. To do this, they inevitably appeal to good, evil, right and wro...
Posted by Paladin on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:28:00 PST

Quotes About Religion

Quotes About Religion"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." "If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not ...
Posted by Paladin on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:58:00 PST

Common Arguments For God

Common Arguments for the Existence of God -The Cosmological Argument- Whatever begins to exist has a cause.The universe began to exist.Therefore, the universe had a cause. The question ...
Posted by Paladin on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:07:00 PST

Favorite Things

Favorite Things-Favorite Albums- The Inner Mounting Flame - The Mahavishnu OrchestraBirds of Fire - The Mahavishnu OrchestraNatural Elements  ShaktiDizzy Up the Girl  The Goo ...
Posted by Paladin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:54:00 PST

Free-Will: God and Man

Free-Will: God and Man   A reflection on the Judeo-Christian conception of God:   In the Bible it describes God (Yahweh) as many things, a few of which being fair, just, omnipotent (all-...
Posted by Paladin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:49:00 PST

Common Misconceptions About Evolution

Common Misconceptions About Evolution In biology the word evolution describes the changes in gene frequencies that occur in populations of living organisms over time. Describing these chang...
Posted by Paladin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:45:00 PST

Serious Questions for Christians

Serious Questions for Christians   Part of the reason that I have abandoned my faith in a God, in general, and in Christianity, in particular has been reading the Bible itself. Some of the vers...
Posted by Paladin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:41:00 PST

Faith

Religion simply asks you to believe, without any evidence to support it. We have to sift through many religions to decide which one is right, for whatever reason we think. I feel that it's logical to ...
Posted by Paladin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST