Philosophy, Theology, Science, Politics, GNU/Linux, Free Software, Open Source
Favorite Philosophers: Aristotle, Kant, and Husserl
Favorite Theologians: St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Leonardo Boff and Hans Küng
Favorite Activists: Richard M. Stallman, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, and Howard Zinn
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I can accept everyone from every belief system, almost every political view as friend, so don't worry too much about it. I can accept pagans, wiccans, hindus, moslems, jews and... of course... Christians of all kinds. I can have Republican friends, Democrat friends, far right friends, far left friends, far middle friends, capitalist friends, socialist friends, politically neutral friends, etc. etc. etc. But there are just few simple conditions for me to accept you.
1. You cannot have your profile in "Private" unless I know who you are. If you have it in "Private", I don't know you, and I have no possibility to know you through MySpace, or you do not provide an alternate profile (let's say in MSN or Yahoo!), then I will not accept you. If I took the initiative of adding you desptite your profile being in "Private", don't worry too much about this rule :D.
2. You cannot place as comments people having sex. Sorry! My rules! If you want to post some sexy image of women, that's fine, just as long as it has some good taste and limit. Just no image of them having sex. And please, avoid posting women masturbating.... :P. I think there are more artistic and clever ways to express sensuality. See the images in my comments to have an idea of what I'm letting people place in comments.
3. I don't mind if you are religious. As I said, I'm a very devout Catholic. But I will not accept people who are fanatics, damn people to hell, or worse... damn ME to hell for not accepting that God has sent them. If your space was created to promote Creationism or Intelligent Design ... sorry... That's a no no! As you can see in my "Top Friends", Darwin is one of my very best friends. I will not accept any sites with religious intolerance, or sites that promote racial hatred, hatred against homosexuals, or hatred of other religious beliefs. Satanist spaces are not allowed either. Satanism is nothing more than intolerant Anti-Christianity, the Anti-Christian fanatics. And most of all, I will not accept Anti-Catholic spaces. I can accept it if your space, for rational reasons, rejects religion, Christianity or Catholicism. Just don't make your space consist on blaspheming my Church or Christianity ... ok? You respect my religious beliefs, and I'll respect your beliefs. Deal? Deal!
4. If your site is about promoting your body, and more of your body, and much much much of your body without anything else except your body ... then I will not accept you. Sorry, although I do like sexy women, and have much of them as friends, I'm more attracted to qualities such as intelligence, good heart, and if they have something more interesting to offer than just their body. Besides, I'm not looking for any girlfriend. Just friends on the net with whom I can share my thoughts and ideas respectfully. So please, don't waste your time, if the only pictures your have are the ones showing your front and behind, telling me that you are available or divorced and that you're looking for a relationship. I'm not THAT kind of person.
5. I make lots of political and religious comments. In certain occasions I will express views people won't like. Sometimes I'll agree with conservatives on some issues, sometimes I'll agree with progressists on some issues, sometimes I will not agree with anyone. I'm politically incorrect in many ways. You don't like it? I'm sorry. You are, of course, invited to debate me on any issue you want. However, you are not permitted to insult me, nor to insult any other person who participates in the political discussion in my blog. Offensive comments will not be permitted in my space, sorry! Either you carry on a civilized conversation or debate, or leave good comments, or else I'll delete your comments and blog replies. If it goes too far, I might even block you. Please, don't make me adopt such an unpleasant measure.
6. Although I'm not exactly a fan of heavy metal or experimental music, I love gothic people. Don't know why. However, if you wish to add me, then you want me to like you, not to visit your overwhelming horrible space with a freaky picture of you, and make me want to run away! I don't mind some bits of horror or blood here and there. But don't make you space in such a way, that I get really sick ... ok?
As long as you follow these rules, I'll be happy.
Also, you can feel free to add me to your MSN Messenger ([email protected]) or Yahoo! Messenger (prosario_2000). PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE A PROFILE IN MSN OR YAHOO! (whichever the case) IF YOU WANT ME TO ACCEPT YOU. IF NOT, PLEASE SHOW ME A PLACE WHERE YOUR PROFILE IS DISPLAYED. Don't mean to be rude or anything, but I'm tired of people asking for cybersex, or people who want to preach at me, or men who are horny and want to "talk" to me thinking that I'm a woman .... Please, provide, at the very least, a good profile. I'm not asking for more. And pleaaaaaseeee, don't add me to your messenger and then ask me to call you without telling me who you are. I WILL BLOCK YOU AND NOT CALL YOU. As I said: At least have the courtesy to tell me who you are, THEN I will decide whether I call you or not.
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Music:
I love all series of artists such as Gilberto Santa Rosa, Juan Luis Guerra y 440, Olga Tañón, El Gran Combo, Diana Krall, Shania Twain, Dido, among other artists. However, I try my best not to buy from RIAA labels, unless I consider they are really really worth it.
Most of my support goes to independent artists and labels. Here is my favorite record label:
My favorite artists from Magnatune are Lara St. John, Lisa DeBenedictis, Ehren Starks, Baroque Philarmonia Orchestra, Suzanne Teng, American Baroque, Anamar, Brook Street Band, Laurel Zucker, Kitka, Shane Jackman, Stellamara, Marginal Prophets, among others.
I know that many of you are asking, well, if it's not Magnatune.com, how will I know that the CD I'm buying is from a record label that belongs to the RIAA? Very easy. Use the:
RIAA Radar
Also, you may look in the following site, where you will find lots of high quality, independent music:
CD Baby
Other independent labels are using more progressive views ..right, and they are also using Creative Commons Licenses extensively. Here are two of them.
Loca Records
Fading Ways Music
For more information on how you can help artists and create conscience about the tyranny of major labels and the way they screw artists and consumers, go to this site:
Downhill Battle
Join our struggle to eliminate DRM:
Protect your freedom!
Movies:
I like all kinds of movies except cheap horror movies, or movies with very poor plots. My favorite movies are Star Wars (except Episode I), Star Trek (except the first movie), Mary Poppins, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Morlang, Alexandra's Project, Agata and the Storm, Le Grand Voyage, The Middle of the World, Inch'Allah Dimanche, Marion Bridge, The Libertine, Stephen Hawking's Universe, The Elegant Universe, Universe: Cosmology Quest, Underworld, Good Night and Good Luck, Steamboy, Spirited Away, Jumanji, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Castle in the Sky, The People v. Larry Flynt, Batman Begins, Dances with Wolves, Carmen, St Paul, The Corporation .... among many many others.
Television:
Mostly I watch the news, but I also like Monk, House, Psych and Law & Order Series. Also watch a lot of documentaries in the Discovery Channels and TLC. Love cartoons, like the Superman cartoon series, the Batman cartoon series (not the "The Batman" series), the Justice League, Bugs Bunny and company (the old cartoons), Family Guy, American Dad, among others.
I also watch TeleSur .., "Nuestro norte es el Sur":
Books:
My favorite is the Bible. My all-time favorite book after the Bible is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Also love philosophy books such as Aristotle's Metaphysics, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations. I also absolutely love Hans Küng (great theologian), specially his book Does God Exist?. I love many books written by Leonardo Boff, but none like these: Trinity and Society, Francis of Assissi, Sacraments of Life: Life of the Sacraments, The Maternal Face of God, and The Destiny of Man and the World. In the field of science I like Brian Green's The Fabric of the Cosmos, Eric Lerner's The Big Bang Never Happened and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Also in some of my activism in free software and copyright reform I like Richard M. Stallman's Free Software; Free Society, Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture , and Siva Vaidhyanathan's Copyrights and Copywrongs. Other books about other religions or thought paths, I like Kenneth Wapnick's Forgiveness and Jesus and A Vast Illusion; Buddhism by Edward Conze, The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto, and After Capitalism: PROUT's Vision of a New World by Dada Maheshvarananda.
Heroes:
Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Mahatma Gandhi, Emma Goldman, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Monseñor Oscar Romero
