Brandon

I am currently a college student pursuing a Bachelor of the Arts Degree in Philosophy/Psychology. I attended the University of California, Berkeley, for the academic calendar year of 2003-2004, but currently attend American River College to gain some more general education credit. I plan on either returning to Cal or beecoming a member of the law enforcement community here in Sacramento while completing my education locally.I've played lacrosse for Cal and though it remains an avid passion of mine, I must admit it doesn't fit into the schedule for now.Now, I guess I'll cut to the chase. Personally speaking, I'm not too big into this myspace phenomenon, as it seems to me a large, convenient distraction for most attempting to avoid the lack of meaning in their lives. Regardless, a friend of mine put this page up and I guess I might as well have it accurately reflect me.I enjoy meeting open-minded people who are willing to utilize their minds for the betterment of humanity, who, not necessarily through their nature but through conscious choice, decide to be shepherds for those around them, who struggle to expend the essence of who and what they are on fighting to force open the closed eye that keeps the collective consciousness of humanity asleep or dreaming...I believe in concepts such as "good" and "what is right," I believe in the unique potential of every single human being, not because any of those actually exist but because they are those things worth believing in, those things that would give cause to a nihilist or pessimist to ask, "Why believe in such things?" Well, in short, the answer is, "Why not?" Do we have anything else to believe in?If you boil it down, take the Darwinian, scientific explanation to our purpose as human beings, then it becomes pretty simple--all individual organisms have three purposes: to 1) obtain energy, 2) obtain nutrients, and 3) propagate the species.The first two activities, for human beings, are obtained through food and water. I believe most of us have figured out what number 3 means by now...If we are left with these three purposes to serve to guide us in life, the human existence becomes quite meaningless. And perhaps that is the case. Perhaps there is no god, no inherent purpose to life... That leaves us with one option: to invent, to create, as is the trademark of our species.And hence, I choose to have a purpose to my life, to attempt to be the shepherd, to believe in and fight for that which is "good" or "right..."So, now that I sound like a total whackjob wannabe crackpot-philosopher destined to be yet another one of those Berkeley Bums twenty years from now screaming about how I had a Ph.D. and walked away from it all because of some radical self-discovery I had during my mid-life crisis, feel free to drop me a line.