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Gary Meier

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About Me

------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Different. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Activities: ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Outdoors, &, Nature, Camping, Hiking, Soccer, Basketball, Water Cliff Jumping, Canoeing, Kayaking, Rope Swings, Caving, Gardening, Building Computers, Fixing Computers, Car Maintenance, Fixing Anything, Do-It Myselfers, Learning About Anything, Improving Myself, Others, and Things, Adventure, Exploring, Volleyball, Social Dance, Exercising, Sports, Skiing, Snow Sledding, ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Laughing, Hanging Out With Friends, Discussing, Intelligent Conversation, Learning, Smiling, Feeling, Listening, Thinking, Meditation, Watching People, Deciphering, Dreaming, Reading, Writing, Yoga, Digital Photography, Computers, Self Improvement, Truth Seeking, Researching, ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Working, Learning, Computers, Databases, Querying, Researching, Problem Solving, Structured Query Language Programming (SQL), C# Programming, Web Applications, Investments, Finance, ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------

My Interests

The World, Life, Love, Lakes, Ponds, Woods, Forests, Creeks, Rivers, Weeping Willows, Frogs, Earth, The Universe, Islands, Oceans, Beaches, Mountains, Self-Sufficiency, Dreams, Underground Houses, Tree Houses, Computers, Information, Honesty, Integrity, Helping People, Sushi, International Foods, Cooking, Thrift Stores, Ambient Psychedelic Downtempo Electronic Chillout Music, Learning Piano, Art, Crafts, Traveling, Poetry, Lyrics, Maps, Coin Collecting, Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Truth, Consciousness, Reasoning, Logic, Tolerance, Decision Making, Awareness, Understanding, Wisdom, Our Living Elders and Ancestors, Inventing, Problem Solving, Discovery, Conscious Strength, Perseverance, Geniuses, Savants, All Things Natural and in Nature, Animals, Dogs, Peace, Humility, Unity, Equality ----------------------------------------------------------- Life’s Meaning, Purpose, Origins, Why We Do the Things We Do, Ancient History, Ancient Astronomy, Symbology, Etymology, Esotericism, Pagan and Religious Origins and History, Religion, Mythology, Astrotheology, Astrology, Mysticism, Alchemy, Mystery, Magic, Illusions, Censorship, Theology, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, Objectivism, Manipulation, Politics, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Imperialism, Government, Corporatism, Elite Theory, Pluralism, Dependence Theory, Political Economics, Economics, Consumerism, Trends, Patterns, Crowd Psychology, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Individual & Collective Human Behavior, Any Different Viewpoints/Opinions ----------------------------------------------------------- Cognitive Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Archeology, Anthropology, Child Development, Geography, Geology, Geometry, Sociology, ----------------------------------------------------------- Finding Genuine Honest Good Caring People -----------------------------------------------------------

I'd like to meet:

------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- The Great Pyramid's architect/s ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Favorite Quotes: ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Here is one long Thoughtful, Us, Reality quote., a Love quote, and a Self quote: ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- From the first episode of “The Day the Universe Changed" (10 part series) – James Burke ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Let me tell you a joke, somebody apparently once went up to the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said, “What a lot of morons people back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked every morning at what’s going on behind me now…. the dawn, (for effect, the narrator, James Burke, looks behind him at the rising sun) and to have thought that what they were seeing was the sun going around the earth! Well every school kid knows that the earth goes around the sun, and it doesn’t take too many brains to realize that!"To which Wittgenstein replied, “Yeah, but I wonder what it would look like if the sun HAD been going around the earth?” Point being of course, it would have looked exactly the same.----- You see what your knowledge tells you, you’re seeing. -----You sense, interpret, understand, and believe only what your knowledge tells you. How what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes, and that is as true for the whole of society as it is for the individual. We all are what we all know today. What we knew yesterday was different, and so were we. Look at the past, at the way we were, because of what we knew that was different, from today. And at how, through history, every time our view of the universe changed, and us with it, something was created that would help to make us the way we are in the modern world. With the distinctive way of thinking that makes us, us, and not some other bunch, with a different view.Not some other bunch, thinking and acting differently. Us. The end product of centuries of change that thinks it’s the best there is. Just like all the others do, every group, nation, tribe, cult, ideology, religion; each one certain of its version of the truth. Prepared, if necessary, to defend that version to the death, to keep it alive. And we are no different, we defend ours.------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. - Karol K. Truman ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- The most important law of the universe is LOVE. Love of self and love of others. We cannot wait to be loved before we love. We just need to love! ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Minding the Body, Mending the Mind - Dr. Joan Borysenko ------------------------------------------------------------ -------- “See people for who they are instead of who you want them to be. Then accept them as they are rather than judging them for who they are not. The more accepting you become of yourself, the more you can see others in the same light. The core of every human being is the same- unconditioned consciousness- the Self. See the Self in others.”

Music:

Ambient Psychedelic Downtempo Electronic Chillout, Melodic, Downtempo, Vocal/Melodic Trance, 70's Rock, Folk, Classical, ----------------------------------------------------------- I could fill up this whole space with tons of artists you probably wouldn't know, so I'll just list a few you might: ----------------------------------------------------------- Conjure One, Enigma, Sleepthief, Delerium, Sarah Brightman, Enya ----------------------------------------------------------- There are so many underground artists that I like in which I couldn't possibly list all on here. Especially ones played on Digitally Imported Ambient Psychedelic Downtempo Electronic Chillout Internet Radio Station www.di.fm :-) -----------------------------------------------------------

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind, Alice in Wonderland, A Walk to Remember, American History X, Amistad, Analyze This, As Good As It Gets, Bandits, Baraka, Barton Fink, Bourne Identity, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Death of a Salesman, Devil's Advocate, Donnie Darko, Dumb and Dumber, Edward Sissorhands, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Nemo, Forrest Gump, The Fountainhead, Gattaca, Gladiator, The Glass Menagerie, The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Graduate, The Green Mile, The Italian Job, Jack Ass 2, Life as a House, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Magnolia, The Manchurian Candidate, The Mask, The Matrix, Meet the Parents, Monsters Inc., Moulin Rouge, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Newton Boys, Old School, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Patch Adams, Pink Floyd The Wall, Pirates of the Caribbean, Requiem For A Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, (Both Trilogies), The Shining, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Truman Show, The Untouchables, The Usual Suspects, Thomas Crown Affair, Titanic, Tombstone, Toy Story, (1&2), Twelve Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -----------------------------------------------------------

Television:

I hardly watch TV. I grew up without a TV for most of my life. When I do I'll watch: ----------------------------------------------------------- Almost all History and Science Channels and/or Videos ----------------------------------------------------------- The Ali G Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Iron Chef Challenge, Food Network, Family Guy, Cirque du Soleil, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, Sometimes Some Sports & ESPN, Sometimes Travel, Sometimes Woodworking, ----------------------------------------------------------- Favorite Channels: The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel ----------------------------------------------------------- Favorite TV Show Aired: The Day the Universe Changed - James Burke -----------------------------------------------------------

Books:

Books? I have tons, to name some: ----------------------------------------------------------- Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Anthem, Brave New World, Power of One, Mother Goose Rhymes, Fairy tales, Fables, Bible Stores, Old Disney Stories, ----------------------------------------------------------- Anything: ----------------------------------------------------------- Ayn Rand, Self Help, How-to's, Informative, Literature ----------------------------------------------------------- I have a tall bookshelf collection from the thrift store. -----------------------------------------------------------

Heroes:

The hero is within yourself. The independent thinkers. The nice ones that get trampled on but keep going. The mean and ugly that change back to nice and good. The movers, the people of the engine. ----------------------------------------------------------- Randian heroes like: John Galt, Francisco d'Anconia, Ragnar Danneskjold, Hank Rearden, Dagny Taggart, Howard Roark, Dominique Francon, Equality 7-2521 ----------------------------------------------------------- John the Savage, P.K., Karl von Vollensteen, Thales of Miletus, Early Italian Renaissance Initiators, Thucydides, James Burke, Geniuses, Polymaths, Genuinely Good Conscience Minded People, My Mom and Dad, My Sisters and Brother, and all things, including you! :-)

My Blog

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Posted by Gary Meier on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:16:00 PST