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Daniel Wood

I take the 'the' out of psychotherapist.

About Me

I live a life that most can only imagine.A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, wrongly believing that he has the Gods on his side.
–Aristotle, Politica bk vBeware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
-William Shakespeare
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Daniel Wood
Birthday: 28 Nov 1981
Birthplace: Monterey, California
Current Location: Perugia, Italy
Eye Color: Brown with green borders
Hair Color: Black
Height: 190 cm
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Bitch, I'm yellow!
The Shoes You Wore Today: Sandals
Your Weakness: puppy dogs and bunny rabbits
Your Fears: The religious conservatives. Those people are crazy and a danger to civilized society.
Your Perfect Pizza: Boscaiola
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: So I saw a house for sale in Todi today for 600,000 Euro. Can that be my goal?
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: HA!
Thoughts First Waking Up: Fuck! I need coffee
Your Best Physical Feature: Chest, back, strong arms and shoulders, sloping nose, piercing eyes, do I have to continue?
Your Bedtime: 3 in the morning
Your Most Missed Memory: Driving west on 36, on the last hill after Louisville where you can see Boulder.....I miss that city
Pepsi or Coke: Neither
MacDonalds or Burger King: Stomach virus or explosive diarreah
Single or Group Dates: Why not?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: White tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate, 76% dark
Cappuccino or Coffee: With pleasure
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Constantly
Do you Sing: I'm a rockstar in my car
Do you Shower Daily: Hell yeah, I don't like to smell like an onion
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Finished that
Do you want to get Married: Yeah, but I'll be fortunate if I can find any woman who likes me!
Do you belive in yourself: I'm made of five parts win and three parts awesome
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Are you a Health Freak: Yes
Do you get along with your Parents: Well......that's an iffy
Do you like Thunderstorms: Thunderstorms make me run under the bed and piss myself
Do you play an Instrument: I tinker on a piano
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: I'm drinking now
In the past month have you Smoked: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Just cocaine and pain killers
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No dammit! The nearest sushi joint is in Rome--fukkin 3 hours away!
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Does this survey know who it is talking to?
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: Yes
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: A legend
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Dictator for life
What country would you most like to Visit: Egypt......I'm going to Barcelona soon!
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: These
Favourite Hair Color: Qualities
Short or Long Hair: Don't matter
Height: Much
Weight: To me
Best Clothing Style: Elegant
Number of Drugs I have taken: That has been a very long time ago
Number of CDs I own: about one and a half
Number of Piercings: None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I regret that Pat Robertson didn't join Jerry Falwell.
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My Interests

Travel, Athletics, Snowboarding, ULTIMATE FRISBEE, Cooking, Reading voraciously, Communism, Rise of the working class, Public nudity, Nightlife, TKD, Math problems at 3 in the morning, Corndogs, Meatwad, Showing off my hot body, Sowing wild oats, Punching babies, Clubbing baby seal

I'd like to meet:

I would have liked to talk about governmental philosophy with Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin

Music:

Classical, Tekno, Trance, Gotan Project, Thievery Corporation

Movies:

American History X, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Good Will Hunting, I'm a junkie for kung-fu movies

Television:

Off

Books:

Nietzche, A Mathematician's Apology, Age of Reason, The End of Faith, The God Delusion, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The Politics of Obedience

Heroes:

Julius Caesar, Mohammed Ali, Andrew Wiles, Sam Harris (the public intellectual, not the entertainer), Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, every Muslim woman who has died for daring to fight the veil, every secular Turk who has marched against theocracy

My Blog

H. RES. 847

RESOLUTIONRecognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christianfaith.Whereas Christmas, a holiday of great significance to Americansand many other cultures and nationalities, is celebratedannually...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:48:00 PST

This is so stupid, I literally forgotten how to smell UPDATED

I thought that using the example of rain-dancing was only a metaphor of the irrational superstition of the religious.  I never understood how wrong I could be.   http://www.boston.com/news/...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:15:00 PST

It seems like god has a hard-on for smiting homosexuals

So Hurricane Katrina was the cause of god's wrath upon homosexuality and sinfulness in The Big Easy. Or at least it was according to Pat Robertson, albeit the irony of the hurricane leaving the French...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:33:00 PST

Europe is intentionally trying to kill Africans with the AIDS virus....

...and they're doing it by purposefully infecting condoms before packaging. Let me paint a picture using broad strokes.  Imagine a world torn by rival warlords vying to wrest power from another w...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:45:00 PST

A miracle has happened?

Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre of the "Congregation of Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood" in Aix-en-Provence, France is probably the answer to the prayers of the pilgrims who, upon hearing of the death...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST

100 things about me

1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?Eight hours of spine surgery2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?Water colors from my travels3. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COUNTRY?Italy and France were nice. ...
Posted by Daniel Wood on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:04:00 PST