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About Me

Often others wonder why people are war-like. First, not all "people" are "war-like" by our definition of war. Certainly every human is prone to conflict no matter what your culture or background but that doesn't necessarily mean war, but it does mean competition (and sometimes fighting).
I always hear people saying things like, "Animals aren't like that, animals aren't war-like. They don't just kill each other in cold blood." This assertion is incorrect. If you watch any nature program you'll find that within species groups there is often a lot of violence. Dolphins mindlessly kill other dolphins, orangutans carry on large offenses against other groups (often with lots of destruction and raping of females). It's not exclusive to mammals either, this is really true of every animal group. In ecology this is called intra-species competition.
The basic concept is that any two animals competing for the exact same resources (the same food types, the same lands, and the same mates) will eventually clash. They won't necessarily attack (or even kill when they attack) every animal that fits in that category, only the few necessary and manageable. This serves to promote one's own gene pool and has the side effect of population control.
So in that sense, people are like any other animal. There will always be conflict.
But conflict isn't always war.
So what's war? War is the product of our culture and similar cultures. It is not a product of humanity in general, but only a small percentage of all of the cultural styles on the planet (no matter how many people may subscribe to them). War is the result of many things, "government", "religion", "nationalism", but these are not the root cause. They are only a symptom of an even bigger underlying idea. The idea is simply this: "There is only one right way to live and we have it." By extension every other way of living must be "wrong" and therefore removed.
So here's the million dollar idea: There is no one right way to live.
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My Interests

Music (playing/writing and listening), philosophy, cooking (love to cook), reading (lots and lots), drawing and graphic design, editing web pages for fun, going out for coffee and a movie on my days off, writing short stories that I never finish, going out late at night for odd things (medicine, food, etc... rarely during the day), and... well, I take ballet classes. It's fun and good exercise. And I get to hang around bendy girls. Erg.... extra personal info there!

I'd like to meet:

Persons

Music:

(John Lennon)
(Pearl Jam)
(The Moody Blues)
(Tool)
(Marcy Playground)
(Led Zeppelin)
(The Cure)
(The Strokes)
(The Flaming Lips)
(Melissa Auf Der Maur)
(G. Love and Special Sauce)
(Fiona Apple)
(Silverchair)
(Nirvana)
(Incubus)
(Blur)
(KMFDM)
(Zwan)
(Stone Temple Pilots)
(New Order)
(Jethro Tull)
(The Spin Doctors)
(David Bowie)
(Nine Inch Nails)
(Alice In Chains)
(The Beatles)
(The Foo Fighters)
(Bush)
(The Smashing Pumpkins)
(Kidneythieves)
(Rage Against The Machine)

Movies:

(Aliens)
(The Princess Bride)
(MirrorMask)
(Labyrinth)
(The Dark Crystal)
(The Lord of the Rings)
(Dawn of the Dead [original])
(Big Fish)
(North By Northwest)
(My Fair Lady)
(Shaun of the Dead)
(Howl's Moving Castle)
(It Could Happen To You)
(Serendipity)
(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
(Garden State)
(Singles)
(French Kiss)
(When Harry Met Sally)
(Josie and the Pussycats)
(Evil Dead)
(Say Anything)

Television:

(Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
(Who's Line is it Anyway?)
(My Family)
(Little Britain)
(Bubblegum Crisis 2040)
(Cowboy Bebop)
(Frasier)
(Full Metal Alchemist)
(Witch Hunter Robin)
(Seinfield)
(Coupling)
(The Mighty Boosh)
(Angel)
(Family Guy)

Books:

(Ishmael)
(The Story of B)
(My Ishmael)
(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
(The Neverending Story)
(The Gunslinger)

Heroes:

my mother :: my grandfather

My Blog

Because people asked about my crazy dreams...

There was this electronics type department store, similar to Best Buy, or maybe Office Max, but more closed off. It was hard to get into the store, in fact to get in myself and the other people I was ...
Posted by jonathan on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:00 PST

Sweetest Sin...

I've crossed over to the dark side of the bedroom...In other news it would seem that whenever I turn on music the past couple days I completely zone out.Also I seem to be losing weight. It's been happ...
Posted by jonathan on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:10:00 PST

Bulletin

http://mb.mirage.org/Bulletin(demo).mp3I was hoping this song would kill youbut I'm not holding out much hope anymoreseems a piece of my inflectionI can't hold...what is it, more?what is it?Lying on t...
Posted by jonathan on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:13:00 PST

The second thing I ever wrote about you...

I wrote this that night. That night you kept calling saying "soon" but soon never arrived. When I stayed up so late just waiting, when I was on the phone with Jasmine freaking out... when I was afterw...
Posted by jonathan on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:41:00 PST

The more I feel...

these marks on my skinreminders of my heartbruised, battered, swollenonce reminders you were mineand I was yoursnow tell me I'm brokenI didn't know I could break like thisI was so numb for so longand ...
Posted by jonathan on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

How can I hold on...

miss youlove youkiss youhug youtaste youtouch youwant youneed yousee youplease youtell youkeep youhold youknow youtake youshow yousince you've been gonethere's a fire in my chestan emptiness burningth...
Posted by jonathan on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:50:00 PST

I need a fix cause I’m going down...

I've never felt so insecure in my life...It might be hard to imagine, I'm insecure usually but not to that extreme or that often. Although you may disagree, you put yourself and everyone who wasn't m...
Posted by jonathan on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Still more writing....

Somehow I'm cranking these things out. It's been awhile since I've been this productive with writing.the sunset is wastedcause your face replaced itsmiling like you dodreams of tomorrowmakes seem all ...
Posted by jonathan on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:55:00 PST

Delivery

Have you ever written something, a song or a poem, a note or a diary, and then long after it was written encountered a situation where you thought to yourself, "This is the real meaning of that. It's ...
Posted by jonathan on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:28:00 PST

Technically this is for you...

I need you nowbut I never needed anyoneso I'll just play pretendand pray this doesn't endand it's always hardcoming down from anythingtrying to get back anythingfrom everything we hideIt's complicated...
Posted by jonathan on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:44:00 PST