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Zerinity

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"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short." -Blaise Pascal
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." -A. J. Liebling
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -Plato
"Force always attracts men of low morality." -Albert Einstein
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today & be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. Science is a history of superceded theories." -William James
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." -Charles Kettering
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." -Epictetus
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." -Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." -Einstein
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -Einstein
"Small is the number of people who see with their own eyes and think with their own minds." -Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Einstein
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." -Einstein
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H. G. Wells
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paulo Freire
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." -Albert Einstein
"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it." -Henry David Thoreau
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
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My Interests

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Albert Einstein, alone, altruism, animals, anime, anthropology, argument, art, astronomy, behind the mind, biking, biology, blood, books, brains, camping, cats, coffee, college, creativity, criminals, critical reasoning, culture, cures, cyborgs, darkness, debating, depression, disability, disease, dna, dogs, dreaming, education, einstein, energy, enlightenment, environmental science, eyes, fear, feminism, feral children, flight, freaks, freedom, future, geeks, gender, genetics, glass, god, greek, healing, health, hiking, homelessness, homophobia, humanity, hunger, intelligence, Jesus, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Lao Tzu, latin, life, light, literature, logic, madness, magik, Mahatma Gandhi, memes, mountains, music, mutilation, nature, nerds, Nicoli Tesla, night, nonfiction, oppression, outdoors, pain, philosophy, physics, planets, poetry, politics, poverty, power, psychology, punk, quietude, racism, religion, reptiles, rock, sanskrit, science, science fiction, serendipity, sex offenders, sexism, sickness, Siddhartha Gotama, silence, skiing, sleeping, slippers, snakes, sociology, solar flares, solitude, space, space travel, spirituality, stereotypes, Steven Hawking, swimming, teaching, theories, time, Tori Amos, traveling, truth, universe, utopia, video games, water, wildlife, wolves, WoW, writing, you

I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Mary Wollstonecraft, Nicoli Tesla, Martin Luther King and many other long past people.

Music:

System of a Down, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Tori Amos, Floater, Sublime, Byork, Faith No More, Evanescence, Clutch, Yoko Kanno, Jimi Hendrix, Johny Cash, Pantera, Deftones, Sepultura, The Doors, Fiona Apple, Tracy Bonham, Gorillaz, Portishead, The Cure and tons more...

Movies:

Pi, Cube (all three), Blade Runner, Sphere, Dr. Strangelove, Lord of the Rings... I don't spend much time watching movies. I don't like anything cheesy and I rarely enjoy comedies. I tend to like movies which are profound, have fantasy, "good" science fiction, utopian constructs, or which generally stimulate thought. Anyway Hollywood is pretty corrupt don't you think?

Television:

Lost, South Park, Coyboy Bebob, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, Inuyasha, ATHF... The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, CNN...

Books:

Text books mostly ;) English Literature, Religious Texts, Plays, Poetry, Science Fiction, Fantasy...
Favorites:
Fiction;
Sabazius by Douglas Lockhart, The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny, The Ones Who Walked Away From Omalas by Ursula K Le Guin
Non Fiction;
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
Religious Texts;
Bible (Christianity), Torah (Judaism), Koran (Islam), Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), Tao Te Ching (Taoism)

Heroes:

Those who must endure the atrocities of oppression. Also, those who make a stand to combat oppression.

My Blog

A Day in the Life of My Education

A Day in the Life of My EducationA snipit of the things I have been exposed to while studying the social sciences. Social Psychology The Milgram experiment, the Stanford prison experiment and M...
Posted by Zerinity on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:39:00 PST

My Mom’s Disease is registered at goodsearch.com

I just found out that the NBIA disorders association which I regularly participate in is registered with goodsearch.com. Every time goodsearch.com is used, we get one penny donated. It doesnt sound li...
Posted by Zerinity on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:47:00 PST

New World Independence

I submitted this poem to poetry.com years ago and I guess it has become a finalist in some contest. They keep emailing me about it telling me to send this link to people. You can vote for my poem by ...
Posted by Zerinity on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST

My canidate is...

Hillary ClintonScore: 66AgreeIraqTaxesStem-Cell ResearchHealth CareAbortionSocial SecurityEnergyMarriageEnvironmentEducationDisagreeImmigratio nLine-Item VetoDeath PenaltyGun Control-- Take the Quiz! -...
Posted by Zerinity on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:27:00 PST

Live Journal

I have a live journal for this =) http://adsero-belua.livejournal.com/
Posted by Zerinity on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:39:00 PST