Bio

It's all bullshit

I practice Radical Honesty. The first thing you should know is that I'm a liar and a coward and want people to like me. I've written about this more on my blog here and OK Cupid here.

This is my full life purpose statement:

The purpose of my life is to create harmony by bringing opposites into concordance; by turning weaknesses into strengths; by mediating to reconcile believers through shared higher purposes; and by showing how the tension of opposition is a force that can be used for creation. Love is the suffering I choose among all the other kinds of suffering.

I'm a reader, writer and troublemaker. I'm an anarchist who votes and atheist who prays. I'm a skeptic with little patience for pseudoscience (homeopathy, crystal healing, dowsing, remote viewing etc), woo (The Secret), or moonbat conspiracy theories (chemtrails, nibiru, Icke's reptoids, etc). I realize "moonbat" is pejorative and still need some way to distinguish them from proven conspiracies like Watergate, Iran/Contra, Insaw/PROMIS etc.

There's more about me on the About page of my photoblog.


Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Skills and talents

I have extensive computer and networking skills from over a decade of running an Internet Service Provider. I like to write long obtuse things with too many points.

Interests

enantiodromia, evolving, hiking, lusting, occupying, photographing, reading, sweating, writing

What I'm Reading

The Wild Life of Our Bodies by Rob Dunn, The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer, Sex on Six Legs by Marlene Zuk, Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

What I'm Listening To

Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Explosions in the Sky, Erykah Badu, Beastie Boys, Xavier Rudd, Woven Hand, Bill Callahan, Lykke Li, Puscifer, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ministry, Pink Floyd

Movies I've Seen Recently

The Man from Earth, Now & Later, Rabbit Hole, Shortbus, My Dinner with Andre, Proteus, The Loving Story, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Children of Men

Websites I'm Into

You Are Not So Smart, Adbusters, Clusterfuck Nation, TED talks, YES! Magazine, Of Two Minds, Fear.Less, The Loom, Eco Whore, The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov, The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus and the Watershed of Life, How to Actually Change your Mind

Education

High school

St. Francis de Sales, Toledo, Ohio

College

Ohio University