I'm an autodidact . I like motorcycles. I build/restore/rebuild/ride lots of bikes. I like the vintage stuff, preferably unrestored original bikes, all of them from 70's jap enduros to brit bikes to 50's and 60's scooters.
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
-Heinrich Heine (written in 1821, in a book burned by the Nazis in 1933)
"You see things ...... on a motorcycle in a way that is
completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a
compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that
through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a
passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it
all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense
of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches
below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's
right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your
foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole
experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness."
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?"
"Such a beer does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it."
"Oh. Well, then just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles."
-Homer Simpson
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
You scored as Existentialist, Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.
What is Your World View?
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