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El Solo Lobo

"Know thyself" and "To thine own self be true." It's that first one that's the pisser.

About Me



"I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
- Robert Browning Hamilton

I am ABNORMAL. And damn glad of it. Not proud, because I had nothing to do with ending up that way. Just glad. Why? Well...
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer... They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjystment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental illness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish the illusion of individuality, but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But unifomity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too... Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed." BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED by Aldous Huxley, 1958, pp.25-26.
How am I abnormal?
For starters, I'm one o' them Lunatic Atheists ! (who also loves gospel music) I'm also an anarchist , communist , socialist and redneck . But for a real communist, the terms "communist party" or "communist state" are oxymorons. And even though I'm a highschool dropout, I ain't uneducated or unsophisticated, but I am a 'poor white person'. See? Total Rebel .
My genetics (nature) and the life I've had thus far (nurture) have conspired to produce a rather anomolous creature. I was born in Polk General Hospital in Cedartown, GA .I began my "religious life" at around age 7 or 8, as a Jehovah's Witness , reading the Watchtower , and Awake! magazines, and the various other associated literature.
When I was 11 years old, my dad and I met another Witness on the sidewalk in front of the Georgia Power Office in Cedartown. The Witness explained to my dad why Armageddon would occur in 1975, while I did the mental calculations and literally peed my pants in fear that I would never live to see my 18th birthday.
Up to that point I had simply assumed that my elders knew more about God than I did and that what they told me was true. They had said that only 144,000 "Chosen Ones" would go to heaven to rule with God. I was extremely curious as to how one came to BE one of the "Chosen Ones." Thus began my search for truth which has lead, and continues to lead, me to strange places and conclusions indeed.
I actually understand what E=mc² means, I studied many religions, especially Christianity, from the inside and outside for many years, and am thus an atheist , a Freethinker , a humanist , an infidel , and a skeptic .
I've observed governments around the world in action and have studied political philosophy (among others) and am thus an Anarchist , and a Communist (most have no clue as to the correct definitions of even these two words, much less what it's all about); and I've observed the world's economies and thus know that a totally moneyless civilization is the only possibility for a truly fair and just economic system.
I also know none of the above will ever come about because humans in general are still far too much in the grip of their primitive genetic and social programming to be much concerned about "fair" and "just".
I'm weird in other ways too; I'm a man but I'd rather watch paint dry than watch sports on TV, I'm 50 years old, an only child, both parents deceased, I'm 5'7", weigh 200 pounds, and am a little funny-looking. I love to love females, love to have deep philosophical discussion, was an OTR truck driver (loved the Truck Stops), have been frisked by cops in 3 countries, visited most states in this one. I'm a rolling stone, never want to stay anywhere very long. My philosophy is: "Okay, been there, done that. NEXT!"
I'm a transhumanist , I like Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey and I want to live forever but I'm making my own cemetary .
According to my cardiologist I have only 20% function of my heart (up from 10% last year), so I truly don't have time for crap. IF you are VERY SURE you really want to know me... proceed at your own risk!
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My Interests

Please read about this site first...
then we'll get to my interests. Almost everything of any substance interests me, from aardvarks to zygotes . In an effort to provide as much information as possible, yet maintain a reasonably neat appearance, I have installed these scroll boxes. The content of each box is indicated by a title at the top. While buttons, chiclets, widgets, and cool link icons are neat, having a lot of them can mean a very cluttered and unorganized page. Therefore I am sticking (mostly) to old school text links to stuff that interests me.
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CATEGORIES: ATHEIST/FREETHOUGHT/HUMANISTAbout Atheism , American Atheists , American Humanist Association , Atheist Alliance , Atheist Resource UK ,Freedom From Religion Foundation , Positive Atheism , Rational Response Squad , The Secular Web ,

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Lookup a word or passage in the Bible




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I'd like to meet:

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Basically anyone who can carry on an intelligent conversation; those who are of kind, caring nature; rebels; those who do not automatically conform to any of society's "norms" but rather think for themselves. People who don't just tell you their beliefs, but who can offer some logical, rational reason or basis for such beliefs.

Music:

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Classic rock, classic country, easy listening, most stuff from the '50's through the '70's, like a little of most everything except rap or hip hop.

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Movies:

For the bible tells me so 1:38 ..ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo These are full length movies and short videos I think are important, or at least rather interesting. The next scroll box will be about "regular" or theatrical movies.
This is "Zeitgeist" - the full movie 1:56:23 Enjoy
Condell "The Religion of Fear"
The Religion of Fear
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As you can see, I REALLY like movies. This only goes to #20 in the A's list. To see my ENTIRE (and continually evolving) list of movies I have seen and enjoyed click here .
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About Schmidt (2002) , Above the Law (1988) , Absence of Malice (1981) , Abyss, The (1989) , Accused, The (1988) , Ace Ventura: Pet ..ive (1994) , A Few Good Men (1992) , A Fistful of Dollars (1964) , Air America (1990), Air Force One (1997), Alien (1979) , Aliens (1986) , Along Came a Spider (2001), American Beauty (1999) , American Graffiti (1973) , Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001), As Good as It Gets (1997) , A Simple Plan (1998), Astronaut's Wife, The (1999), A Time to Kill (1996) .How does this look? will it work? Be sizable independent of that one in the about me? We'll see! Myspace Scroll Box Creator

Television:

Planet Earth ,The Riches , ER , Family Guy , The Simpsons , History Channel , Animal Planet , National Geographic , Science Channel , Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits , The Rifleman , Gunsmoke , Nightline , Dateline , 20/20 , King of the Hill ,

Books:

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WARNING: Bibliophiles may want to set the alarm so they don't wander in here forever.I regularly read: Magazines & papers:
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Guideposts , Reader's Digest , THE WEEK , TV Guide , American Atheist , Freethought Today , Troup County News , Troup County Banner .

Online:LaGrange Daily News , Alternet , Online Papers , Pravda ,
Some authors and books I have read: FICTION: Everything by Mark Twain , Stephen King , Dean Koontz (Listen to his conversation with his dead dog Trixie), and most of James Patterson ; My picks for best Book Sites: Project Gutenberg , Library of Congress , Internet Public Library , Online Books Page , Wiki Books , (has profile and other interactivities) ,Free MySpace HTML Codes

Heroes:

Dan Barker , Richard Dawkins , Leonardo DaVinci , Galileo Galilei , Robert Green Ingersoll , Thomas Jefferson , Bertrand Russell , Carl Sagan , Mark Twain , Thomas Edison ,many other Famous Atheists/Agnostics, etc.66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666

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My Blog

Polarized!

Polarized!The term "culture war" has been around for some time, and seems to be reaching a near-hysterical level now. Though that is certainly partly driven by a presidential election year, as well as...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:33:00 PST

Random Stuff

Random StuffA few days ago I had a dream snippet in which I was looking at cars and and began to realize I wasn't seeing any Chevy emblems at all. Then I remembered that "Chevy" and its emblem was a p...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:01:00 PST

Secession

CIVIL WAROn Sunday, April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate States of America, and other officers under his command, signed official surrender documents to Leiutenent General Ulysses ...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:30:00 PST

Your Brain And You

Who's In Charge Here!?"You or Your Brain?We are told that we have been homo sapien for 195,000 years, began using agriculture as long as 12,000 years ago and most would agree we've only had "industry...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:13:00 PST

Respect

A Tale of Two Men"What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law." Sheriff Buford T. Justice Troy Anthony Davis: Accused of killing Savannah, GA police officer in 1989. Convic...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:23:00 PST

Zeitgeist Addendum

Zeitgeist AddendumSeveral years ago, in my own little backwoods, redneck way, I was considering what I saw as the biggest problems facing humanity. I thunked and I thunked and came up with three thing...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:30:00 PST

Belief as choice

Reploughed GroundI've blogged on this topic before but since there are several new potential readers here now, and since another blog "triggered" the compulsion, I will go again. The topic has at lea...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:37:00 PST

par for the course

Just the Facts, M'amName-calling, hurling insults, "slinging mud", attempts at character assassination, fights, and even physical assassination, have sadly been par for the course in human affairs sin...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:13:00 PST

The Strange Case of Larry Darby

The Strange Case of Larry DarbyI don't know a lot about Larry Darby. I only know that I used to go to Montgomery to atheist/freethought meetings with him. Usually his two little girls were with him. I...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:27:00 PST

The Rebel Blogs

The Rebel BlogsThe responses to my original blog has certainly been a learning experience for me. Probably the thing I learned that saddens me the most, is just how many people, if they do not agree w...
Posted by El Solo Lobo on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:21:00 PST