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 Libertine
Tarzan...King of Mars
 
Registered: 07/14/07
Posts: 161
Loc: New England
Last seen: 14 days, 6 hours
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Well I promise to try not to offend but I can't guarantee anything dependent on any given person's political POV. 
Thanks. It looks like a great place to discuss politics. I have a liberal blog I frequent but that becomes like an echo chamber after a while...which becomes boring as hell at times. Sometimes we take to arguing with each other just to keep 'sharp', lol. But I like jousting with people I don't necessarily agree with...and I think I have found some already. 
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A mind is a terrible thing to taste...hehehe.
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Libertine
Tarzan...King of Mars
Registered: 07/14/07
Posts: 161
Loc: New England
Last seen: 14 days, 6 hours
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BTW...I LOVE the pic in your sig line. I consider Hunter S. Thompson to have been a positive role model in my life...
Quote:
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
RIP Gonzo...
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A mind is a terrible thing to taste...hehehe.
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gradeasmarts
Stranger
Registered: 09/06/08
Posts: 38
Last seen: 3 months, 25 days
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 Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm]
#8898231 - 09/08/08 07:39 PM (3 months, 29 days ago) |
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White male, 19 years old
I have always knew that something was wrong with this world since I was eight. I spent my childhood reading and thinking while everyone else was busy playing tag and making mud pie. I went to school with a non-caring attitude toward it because I knew that they were just teaching me mostly the same shit that everyone else was taught, throw in some pissed off things about society in there, and you got a high school drop out.
I love knowledge. I read anything philosophy, sociology, and history. I study people (not in the creepy way) but I like to try and profile them, then i use the knowledge from that to understand more what people (friends) could be thinking when they say things or what makes them tick, etc. etc. I'm a hippy at heart and I intend on learning as much as I can out there in the world.
sorry, i sound like a robot..
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. -Ralph Abernathy
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Jax
Registered: 09/25/08
Posts: 84
Loc: New Jersey
Last seen: 1 month, 6 days
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm]
#9204134 - 11/07/08 07:31 PM (2 months, 7 hours ago) |
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I'm an 18 year in my first year of college. I'm pursuing four year degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and hope to get a doctorate someday. I love knowledge, studying people, the way they think and trying to apply my knowledge in practical situations.
I tend to lean to the left on most political issues but have learned to keep an open mind over the years. I've been apart of one internet based community or another for the the 8 years now and it's pretty funny cause I've learned more online than I did in my first 12 years of school.
I was a complete stoner and rebel in high school until a few of my friends dropped out, and one joined the army. I came to an epiphany at one point and decided to 'get my shit together', and did. I've been getting straight As in school since.
I've had a job since I was 14 and try to be as independent as I can, though I recognize that no man is an island and everyone needs some help.
I hope to learn a lot here, engage in some intelligent debate, and just have fun.
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DieCommie
Ally
Registered: 12/11/03
Posts: 8,116
Loc: The Union
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Jax]
#9204145 - 11/07/08 07:33 PM (2 months, 7 hours ago) |
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I am the opiate of the masses.
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Jax
Registered: 09/25/08
Posts: 84
Loc: New Jersey
Last seen: 1 month, 6 days
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: DieCommie]
#9204284 - 11/07/08 08:06 PM (2 months, 6 hours ago) |
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God? 
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 slacker008
Resident Psychiatrist
Registered: 05/21/08
Posts: 811
Loc: A wave of reality.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Jax]
#9257372 - 11/16/08 09:55 PM (1 month, 22 days ago) |
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God is not the opiate of the masses. Religion, supposedly, is. Although I can see no correlation between a few pixels on my screen and an intelligent designer responsible for fashioning all that is or every will be, I can see the merit in such a claim. The cult of personality, as it were?
Im from Earth. I go to a University in which I am an undergraduate following in the footsteps of Freud and Jung. I am a Psychology edit:major with minors in behavior analysis and biochemistry. When I finish my residency, my aim is to be a practicing medical practitioner (psychiatrist) so that I will be able to open a low-income psychiatry clinic and publish my experimentations with the human psyche and consciousness. (no shit.)
Currently, semester is murder and I am struggling with a number of aspects of my life, including what feels to be a recent passing of my father and subsequent degeneration of my mother.
I enjoy skateboarding, writing, people watching and spending time with my dog, The Great Pharaoh Ramsey, the VIII. My favorite thing, right now, is seeing an A on an important exam.
Most of my close friends call me a space cadet, among other things. Most respect my opinions and thoughts because they know my analytic approach to life is callous and, in so being, is able to utter things most people couldnt, or wouldnt. I am a fan of anticulture, and strive to be as mentally anticulture as I can be. By culture, I mean the in-cohesive waves of ideals, morals, values and paradigms offered by incredible masses of people. I like a good paradigm shift, every now and then.
Right now I am writing an essay of the psychology of a psychadelic guru in something I call "A Gift of the Shaman".
I smoke cigarettes and I drink rarely.
Well, thats me in a nutshell. Be gentle with your assumptions of me, please?
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..beneath the chaos of the world, all is secretly well..
Rebuilding my DNA.
Edited by slacker008 (11/16/08 09:56 PM)
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ScavengerType
Just Another Douchebag
Registered: 01/24/08
Posts: 1,967
Loc: your mom's place
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: slacker008]
#9258408 - 11/17/08 03:01 AM (1 month, 21 days ago) |
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I am a 24 year old male from BC Canada. I've spent most of my life in shithole towns. However it has given me a bit of a passion for hiking, since I seldom got along with other kids (due to a religious upbringing among other things). The end result is my upbringing was not dissimilar from a Calvin and Hobbes strip minus the stuffed animal I never would take them out side oh and my snowmen were considerably less elaborate. I often never really bothered for marks in school all the way up to high school and was more or less disengaged by lessons unless they interested me. Coincidentally this happened to be in the subjects of history and culture. I eventually dropped out of high school where my grades ground to a halt as I seldom cared for any of my classes they were so slow and so boring it felt rather like removing ones fingernails at millimeter a minute. Coincidentally if I had discovered pot and punk rock sooner I probibly would've stayed in school but unfortunately I did not and I was bad at making friends anyway.
I had become an anarchist in 1999 after the Seattle riots. Not in reaction to anything in particular just that I had seen the protesters on TV for a while at big events and I was interested when I started to look into anarchism. After being a dropout for a while in the workforce I became a more vocal anarchist. For some reason occupying the lowest rung in society can drive you to hate everything about authority and capitalism.
Long story short I traveled around a bit and worked but got real sick of minimum wage. I also read a lot, not much compared to nowadays but considdering I usually read nothing it was quite a bit. I ended back in the same town I've been in on and off for the past 9 years and eventually I decided to get my GED at college.
It was at this time I was having a fallout with my religious background. I had slowly since I had moved to the town from my old one not gone to church then decided a lot of the bible was in fact made up, and even became an atheist. However I was totally unaware that through this all I still behaved the same as I would if there was some sort of afterlife that would vindicate me for my actions or torture me for my transgressions. Often near the total disintegration of my spiritual beliefs I would behave in a manor that would defy explanation if only to be ironic to some sort of godly figure.
This may not make total sense yet unless I put it into perspective.
So here I am going back to get my GED at college, and I score high on my placement exam and all I have to do is 1 math course and the rest I can do in college courses (1 day a week as opposed to 4). Now I begun by doing some history and sociology, and I got A's in the classes. Not by being smarter I took note of the teacher's opinions on world events and what underlied them and then I fed their own crap with justifications from the texts and other sources back to them. It's an easy way to get A's but a bad way to learn. I think this was one of the things that really got under my skin about school. Throughout this phase I had a real poor diet, nobody had ever taught me much about nutrition but I had a real low food budget. I think one of the things that actually kept me fed through it all was slanging mushrooms. Around my second semester I broke up with my ex who was living with her father and incidentally giving me the little nutrition I needed to keep sane. Without her I fell back on a diet that was little if anything more than generic Kraft dinner and occasionally a sandwich or something with meat in it like a burger or pasta. I looking back am 99% positive that what I experienced was a psychosis that developed out of not getting nearly any b vitamins at all and smoking weed every day. On top of that when I was sure I was actually hearing voices and this girl that I was trying to hook up with hated me, the next logical step was to just start doing LSD and smoking crack (eventually progressed to blow) cause it didn't seem it could get any worse. Needless to say my marks suffered and I didn't even write some of my final exams that occurred on 4/21 of that year. Frankly though I thought I was done with school and I suppose I was. God died somewhere in that mess, frankly I didn't know where exactly.
I took a break for exactly one year and cleaned up my mess of a life, got big on nutrition and started to read like crazy. First I broadened my pallet to some of the more psychological things and read a few psychology books, then economics and environmental and labor related texts. Figured out about eating right and got a good weekend job that I could go back to school the following year with.
I went back and picked up where I left off but I also toyed with the idea of actually doing a science degree in biology and took a course in statistics. Got A's and B's in both classes and realized something, the rest of the students and many of the teachers there had shit for brains. This was probibly part of the reason I probibly didn't care much more than getting my GED the year before because I just went to class every day and every shit for brains retard thought they were right even when they were dead wrong, it just kinda wound me down. This time instead of getting mad I got even, specifically I entered University year 3 and 4 classes that I didn't have prerequisites for but were more my intellectual level. I did a year 3 initial development geography course and a year 4 environmental resource management course. I got an A and B in them respectively. However there was little to do at the college in my field. I traveled a bit thinking I could move in with my parents, it turns out they just wanted me to move there so they could con me into settling down there. It was a shithole religious town that was a tourist attraction in the summer and as I found had little resources for me to go to school in it's vicinity. I instead spent the summer hitchhiking and got my first aid ticket.
I've basically spent my days since then reading and studding resource management, environment/global warming, trade and development issues and have since then turned an eye to farming particularly soil erosion and permaculture systems. I've probibly done better research since being out of school but I seldom write a paper, unfortunately. I once wrote a paper on the epic of Beowulf for a friend just to wright a paper again.
So if I lash out at you on the forum it's probibly because your ideas are so removed from reality that it is stupid and I am angry because between reading and getting my education through bit-torrent I should probibly have a BA by now if I were to receive due credit for what I know. Instead I work 10 hour days putting trees into boxes for little over $10 an hour (almost minimum wage here). Fuck Capitalism this is hell. I'm not sure if I'm an anarchist anymore but I am definitely not in the capitalist camp. Perhaps democratic socialism as is seen in Europe but I really can't stand for the life of me people who would stand so pompous as to tell me that this is what it should be like to go through post-secondary education. That I should have to shell out a ridiculous sum I cannot afford on rent and tuition just to learn from someone that doesn't thoroughly have their head crammed right up their own ass.
Wow that was long.
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"We have the satisfaction to find, that in nature there is wisdom, system, and consistency. For having, in the natural history of this earth, seen a succession of worlds, we may from this conclude that there is a system in nature ... by which they are intended to continue these revolutions. But if the succession of worlds is established in the system of nature, it is in vain to look for anything higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end."
- James Hutton
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atalkingdog
Stranger
Registered: 11/30/08
Posts: 7
Last seen: 11 days, 15 hours
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I'm a 30 year old white male. Grew up between Cleveland and Lorain Ohio. would have been better off rowing a boat around. would have built up my arms. I was a nearly complete straight arrow who didn't even drink until I was 21. I still rarely drink. I've been working on a 12 pack of pabst blue ribbon since october 23rd.
Family background is mostly guys spend a few years in the military then get skilled labor and/or union jobs.
I was very conservative in the political candidates I supported or identified with from the time I started paying attention until my early twenties. Like many people I read "Atlas Shrugged" and was quite impressed with it. Eventually I realized it was as real as Professional Wrestling or Mike Hammer. fun fantasy.
In retrospect I would have done well to major in history or economics. but I was fixated on trying to major in real science. I had probably cracked up well before then anyhow.
I have an above average knowledge of classic rock and 1960s television westerns. Friends agree I may have lost my mind, but so far I've never done psychedelic drugs.
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