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Phred
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 4
#5188838 - 01/16/06 08:44 PM (18 years, 14 days ago) |
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I was born in Canada in the early Fifties and lived there until early 1988 at which time I moved to the Dominican Republic where I live today. I have a high school diploma (kindergarten plus the thirteen grades in Canada at the time I was going to school).
My first paying job was manually setting pins in a bowling alley on weekends at age twelve. I also spent seven years sorting mail manually on the night shift. For three of those years I was a union shop steward. I've tended bar, been a windsurfing instructor, sold clothes, cars, stereo systems, real estate and computers (not in that order). I've owned two businesses of my own and managed businesses for others. I've also built a couple of beach erosion control projects here in the Dominican Republic.
Like virtually every young man who came of age in Canada during the Hippy Era, what few political views I held were originally Liberal. My evolution from Liberal to Laissez-Faire Capitalist began during my years working in the Canadian Post Office, whose union is about as Leftist as you can get; at the time I was a shop steward the majority of the national executive of the CUPW were -- I shit you not -- pawns of the Canadian Marxist-Leninist Party. Some of them were card-carrying members of the party.
By the time I hit my early twenties I was a confirmed Laissez-Faire Capitalist, and I have seen nothing in the last three decades to dissuade me that Laissez-Faire Capitalism is the only politico-economic system worth supporting.
The main reason I left Canada (and a six figure income, of which more than half was seized by the Canadian government before it ever reached my bank account, then another fifteen per cent was charged in sales tax on almost everything else I bought other than most categories of food and prescription medications) eighteen years ago was to escape the stifling hand of government. Where I live now the government does nothing for me (and I mean that almost literally -- I have no health care, no old age pension, no unemployment insurance, and if I want the services of a policeman I have to bribe him to do his job) but on the other hand they ask nothing of me (I have paid zero income tax in the eighteen years I've lived here). And that's the way I like it. I couldn't ask for more.
I started posting here over five years ago because I'd heard that LSD and psilocybin were effective treatments for Horton's Syndrome (otherwise known as Cluster Headaches or Suicide Headaches) -- a neurological syndrome from which I had suffered since the mid-Eighties -- and I needed to brush up on my shroom growing techniques. Thanks to the superb FAQs at this site, I needed very little time to get up to speed on modern techniques (I had first grown shrooms in the Seventies by following Oess and Oeric's book) and was able to verify for myself that psilocybin did indeed keep my symptoms under control. See my posts in the Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Forum for details on the upcoming clinical study at Harvard regarding the treatment of Cluster Headaches with psychedelics. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/2410501#Post2410501
Once I had learned all I needed to know about growing my own medicine, I looked around the other forums. The Political forum was a new addition at that time. I posted a few times and got hooked.
End of story.
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Prince of Bugs



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About me (and you) 3
#5186902 - 01/16/06 12:31 PM (18 years, 15 days ago) |
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When debating with you guys (and gals), I find it easy to be sarcastic and demeaning b/c I view many of you not as people with feelings, but as some entity created by the create and mighty internet.
I figured I would share some information about myself with you, and perhaps you will want to do the same. This might help the general war-like attitude that has developed between certain members during the past year or so.
I have no legal concerns, so I will share a great deal of information about myself with you guys. I understand if you don't want to share the same amount of information, due to the nature of this website. My goal is to "humanize" the members here so we can view and act towards one another as people, and not just a name who has different view-points as you.
Anyways, about me:
I am a 20 year-old male from MI who is attending a 4-yr college for the purpose of obtaining a Bachelor's of Science in political science w/ a minor in business. I love poli. sci., but absolutely can't stand my business courses. My grade point average is a 3.9, and my academic progress is very important to me.
Once I graduate from college, I hope to move away from the midwest and after a year or two of working, either go to law school or get my master's degree. Either that, or attempt to get an internship to the Ayn Rand Institute. My goal in life is to be a successful writer and eventually a politician.
Growing up, my parents were very objective while talking to me about politics, so I was allowed to form my own views on different issues. To this day, I still have no idea which way they vote, and honestly, I like that. I, myself, tend to sway between a libertarian view of things and a "bleeding-heart-liberal" view. I tend to be cynical about the motives and actions of the government, but do not usually buy into conspiracy theories (though I find many of them extremely interesting). Regardless of my political leanings, I attempt to keep an open mind to the agruments of all political affiliations.
I have only been interested in politics since the end of the 2004 election, and to tell the truth, I didn't even vote. My embarassment over being so apathetic about such an important aspect of citizenship is what eventually got me interested. This forum has fed my knowledge of both domestic and international politics greatly, due to the wide spectrum of political representation here. At first, I just lurked, due to my lack of knowledge, and fear of being made a fool of, but eventually I decided to post and I have been doing so ever since.
I count many of you as my friends and teachers, and my home is open to any of you in travel or a need to rest your head. Just ask Randall. 
I hope you feel like you can share yourself with me, so I can attempt to see where you are coming from and what affected you political development. If you have any questions of me, please ask.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 3
#5212539 - 01/22/06 11:35 PM (18 years, 8 days ago) |
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Birthyear: 1966 Sex: male Race: caucasian State: California Political Views: very liberal Political Party: Green Religion: athiest Degrees: BS Mechanical Engineering, '91 BS Mathematical Science, '91 BS Engineering Sciences, '91 Masters in Business Administration, '03 Past work experience: US Air Force - 8 years Program manager, material handling equipment - 2 years Current Occupation: Product Manager, semiconductor processing equipment - since 2004
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I believe it is important to understand the benefits and drivers behind both Laissez-faire economics and pure Communism, as well as the shortcomings of each.
I strongly agree with Innvertigo on one very important point: GO BLUE!!!
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Count of Sabugosa
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One of my instant favorite threads...
I'm 36, born in Israel, brought up in Brazil and a US Citizen since 2010. I came to the US with my mother in September 96.
My family's philosophy was to do onto others, etc. Political affiliations were nill, but since my father lived through a right-wing Authoritarian, Military Regime in Brazil from 68 to 1980, and since I have refugees and victims in my family tree from both Stalin and Hitler, neither extremes were cultivated. Most of the men in my immediate family were soldiers in Israel, and that also helped shape my political views. Ultimately, I lived through the core of the far right-wing philosophy in my pre-adulthood, but was always inclined to a social-capitalist and progressivist mindset, which eventually settled in me.
I'm an atheist for having no deity, a skeptic for not believing and an agnostic for not knowing, but also a graduate rabbi (obviously non-practicing for a long time). I respect all religions, but dislike any kind of dogma. I do not find it necessary - I actually find it annoying - to be a militant for the cause of "lack of belief." I also have a BA in International Relations, and am now a teacher.
I am a writer, but seldom an author. My dream is to be able to write a book. My only complete work, still requiring much review, is named "Being Jewish," written in Portuguese, originally, as a response to Rabbi Oliver Sacks, from the UK. I speak Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew and English, and know some Yidische and German.
Great to meet you, guys!
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Chico the Skunk
Void Traveller

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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 3
#27262660 - 03/21/21 12:17 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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I am a skunk. I live deep in the forest. My age is indeterminate—we skunks don’t keep track of that sort of thing. I can say that I’m old enough to have forgotten most of my early skunk childhood, but not so old yet that it has all started coming back to me. I grew up in a comfortable burrow beneath a knoll located in a wildflower be-speckled clearing. At the time, it was considered one of the nicer parts of the forest.
My mother and father were staunch supporters of the Raccoon party. Raccoons pretty much ran the show for most of my life. The Deer are now in charge. Neither the Raccoons nor the Deer do what actually needs to be done, and on this point most woodland creatures can agree. Our bipartisan system is beginning to show cracks. I’ve met rabbits who are pro-hawk, a bear who expressed sport hunter sympathies, and squirrels and chipmunks who have banded together into a formidable Green/Marxist bloc.
I’m registered as a supporter of the Deer, although, my ideological affiliation most closely coincides with the chipmunks and squirrels. It is apparent to most animals that both the Deer and the Raccoons are in the pocket of Big Human. Our forest is beset on all sides by the steady creep of urban development (my aforementioned childhood knoll is now a retail center parking lot). The Raccoons claim the human problem is simultaneously nonexistent and that it will solve itself; the Deer believe we still have plenty of time to engineer a solution to force the humans to relent.
We all go about our business as if no great change is afoot: we dig for insects, we munch the grass and herbaceous plants, we drink from the burbling stream. The gentle stirring of the wilderness lulls us into a placid forgetfulness, a bucolic reverie that is only dispelled by fluke currents that snatch up and deliver into the forest’s midst some singular, noisome moment of human tumult. All animals awaken then to the reality of a situation in process, each of us equally cognizant of the revolutionary pulse underscoring the static quietude of the wild.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Enlil] 3
#27460030 - 09/08/21 05:08 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why? Because his beliefs don't align with yours?
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RandalFlagg
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 2
#5188644 - 01/16/06 08:02 PM (18 years, 15 days ago) |
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I am a 26 year old male living in Pennsylvania. I was not interested in politics until I was about 16 years old.
As I entered the world of politics and philosophy my personal attitudes were extremely Leftist. After several years I experienced a gradual shift away from the Left. Eventually I was consumed with an absolute hatred of the Left which was quite reactionary. It is a habit of mine to wholeheartedly embrace an intriguing new thing when I encounter it. This can sometimes lead to hyperbolic and biased thought. This negative feeling toward Leftism still exists in me, but it is less shrill and hostile. I can say with certainty that I attack the Right just as much as I attack the Left nowadays. I despise extremists of any stripe.
Next, I developed a strange amalgamation of beliefs which control my thinking and reasoning to this day. I became an ardent theist, nationalist, and traditionalist. But, at the same time I became an existentialist with nihilist tendencies, a supreme cynic, and a rejector of ideology, movements, and institutions. Common sense would dictate that these attitudes could not possibly exist within the same mind, but they do in mine; and not always harmoniously.
I can admire the gumption of people who act on their beliefs. I myself am more of a political theorist/political complainer. I have found action to be fruitless because humans are too flawed.
When it comes to governments or people who attempt to impose their particular ideology upon the world, my opinion is simple: Don't blather on and on about how your vision is the ultimately correct one, don't tell me what to do, and stay the hell out of my life.
Edited by RandalFlagg (01/17/06 01:24 PM)
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The Walkin' Dude

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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 2
#15538740 - 12/19/11 08:21 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I am a sarcastic arsehole that you are all going to despise, with a brilliant sense of humour that will be completely lost due to it being in text form.
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Tipote
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 2
#22560983 - 11/22/15 07:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Born in 1989 Male, Caucasian, French/British/American In the US for a few months every year but reside at other times in UK and France born in the Caribbean, upbringing in various US states, the UK and France Father was first in the French military and then founded an organisation similar to MSF working in all over running refugee camps and supplying emergency aid. This was probably my main introduction to politics/global affairs. Mother is a language teacher of Spanish descent. I can say about 10 words in Spanish, half of which are useful. I was brought up without religion but I believe in a concept of God Political views probably classed as liberal in the American sense but are closer towards socialist/anarchist. Degree from a UK University in International Politics and Conflict Resolution with a particular focus on Middle Eastern Politics. I also did minors in Philosophy, Ethics and Religion I'm drawn to permaculture farming, aquaponics, mushroom cultivation/mycology and international aid organisation work and just trying to find a way to work for myself The more I have learned about politics, the more broken I see the entire system to be though I try to be optimistic.
other: i come from a low income background. I love all animals, especially kitties. I smoke weed on the reg. And love psychedelics. I enjoy debate, kindness, and laughing. i hang to the left.
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Dace5
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Iearnit] 2
#25286742 - 06/23/18 08:05 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was born a poor Black Child... Nah, just kidding, I'm White but grew up poor. Born in 1960. My Father worked as a dairy farmer, my Mother didn't work. I'm the youngest of 4 boys. In 1970 my Father had a heart attack and was disabled and could no longer work. My Mother picked up a job picking mushrooms (no shit) part time because she still had to care for my Father, Brothers and me. We got Gov. Assistance, food stamps, no cash benefits. That was back when you had to go to the welfare office to pick up your food stamps, then go to the distribution center for your Gub'ment cheese. (2 lb block) and powdered milk, canned shredded chicken and pork. I realized years later that my mother was an awesome cook because the meals she was able to pull out of that shit were amazing. Because we were on welfare we got lunch tokens for school lunch. Being 10 years old and wearing hand me downs was bad enough but then they called you out into the hall to receive your token, and every kid in class knew who the welfare kid was. I got into a lot of fights. This lasted until I quit school at 16 and my Parents signed off for me to enlist. I left 3 months later when I turned 17. And although those years were pretty bad, I look back and am thankful that we had what we had. Politically, I'm a Conservative. Small Government and personal responsibility is high on my list. That being said, I realize, through my own experiences that Government assistance is important and that people who need it should have access to it. What I don't approve of is generations on assistance. Kids, teaching their kids, teaching their kids how to scam the system. The system itself, makes it difficult to get off of assistance. We need reform. I voted for Trump. He wasn't my first choice, I was leaning toward Johnson and being a Vet, couldn't vote for that lying whore of a dog Clinton and Sanders was to far left. Johnson was a flake. Unprepared in the debates. Clueless. Stein? Nah. That Left Trump. Hey, I voted for Reagan so... I'm am pleasantly surprised at trump. He is pretty much upholding his campaign promises despite the push back for the RINOs and the deceitful media. I expect to vote for him again in the upcoming Presidential Election. Democrats have no one.
Oh yeah, I'm married and have three girls. 32, 20 and 18. I also own several handguns and am licensed for concealed carry. My oldest carries also and so will my two youngest when they turn 21. They will not become victims. I also like cats, I have one. His name is Stoopid. I Kayak fish, mostly salt water, Striper, Flounder, Black Sea Bass and Tautog. Long walks on the beach and holding hands, quiet moonlight dinners and snuggling.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: ZombiWurm] 2
#26436228 - 01/16/20 06:48 AM (4 years, 12 days ago) |
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First political experience - aged 6 - conned into letterbox delivery of Australian Labour Party How to Vote flyers by grand father.
Home state of Qld, known as The Police State. Was in high school in the 70's during the reign of the corrupt Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Took Citizenship Education as a subject due to influence from Left Wing Socialist teacher(who also gave us the use of a shed for our band to practice in).
Saw dad on strike many times. He a Life Member - Electrical Trade Union.
Found my own electrical trade apprenticeship after finishing Year 10.
Saw massive change in electrical industry, worked West Aus, Northern Territory, Queensland in construction field.
Held shop steward position on construction sites, mainly for safety reasons, sort your own fucking pay problems out.
Walked out the gate on strike many times and marched to various government offices and been as obnoxious as required by organisers.
Became disillusioned when drug testing took the fun out things.
Retrained again into Renewable Energy field.
First court appearance 15. Have taken police on in court, and won, twice. Have represented myself in court. Have been mistaken as solicitor by solicitor.
Am now masquerading as a business owner.
Still playing guitar badly.
Wish I had tripped on shrooms earlier in life.
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Vahn421
Awakening Moonlighter



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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 2
#26810905 - 07/08/20 12:06 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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35, Male, Utah.
Republican Mormon until 2008.
Ex-Mormon liberal until about 2015.
Centrist/Libertarian since then. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
The reason I left the left was because I realized they're as religious as religious people are, just without the religion. In our modern climate, the political left is the party of censorship, cancel culture, heretics, heresy, dogma, heathens and apostates, etc...
I never thought I'd see the day where the party of censorship wasn't religious republicans but liberal leftists, but here we are.
My biggest platform is anti censorship and the exposure of what is truthful and real. Psychedelics help bring me here.
Yoroshiku.
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Holybullshit
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: ZombiWurm] 2
#27456951 - 09/05/21 10:31 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
ZombiWurm said: Socialism and Communism is evil and the scum of the earth. Anarchists are completely against all things socialist or communist.
Noam Chomsky would like a word.
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Holybullshit
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Vahn421] 2
#27460033 - 09/08/21 05:10 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Vahn421 said: The reason I left the left was because I realized they're as religious as religious people are, just without the religion. In our modern climate, the political left is the party of censorship, cancel culture, heretics, heresy, dogma, heathens and apostates, etc...
I never thought I'd see the day where the party of censorship wasn't religious republicans but liberal leftists, but here we are.
Yeah, white men are having to face consequences for their offensive remarks and abhorrent actions for basically the first time in history...and we can't have that. Totally unacceptable.
It's not cancel culture, it's consequences culture. You are entitled to your opinions, but you have to accept the consequences that come with them.
The days of white men being able to say and do whatever they want free from fallout are coming to an end...thank fucking god.
And all the "censorship" the right is complaining about isn't coming from the government or democratic politicians, it's being done by private citizens and private corporations. They are exercising THEIR constitutional rights.
Meanwhile LEO and their militia buddies and harassing, beating, and jailing reporters and covering it up...actually violating the 1st amendment, but let's not focus on that.
I mean...the left has its own set of values and ideals, just without the imaginary man in the sky? Is that what you are saying? How unbelievable....
Edited by Holybullshit (09/11/21 07:57 AM)
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Enlil] 2
#27654013 - 02/10/22 04:08 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Chomsky’s lane has been politics for as long as long as linguistics ever was.
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daimyo
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 1
#5187018 - 01/16/06 01:08 PM (18 years, 15 days ago) |
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White male, early 20s. Grew up in various neighborhoods all around the same general area. Lived in an all Italian neighborhood, normal middle class area, and the hood.
Never was one to hold a "normal" job, so I gravitated towards alternative employment. By the time I was 20 I was well to do, but living in a shitty neighborhood for various reasons. A few months ago I called it quits on what I was doing and have been "retired" since.
Within the next 2-3 months I will join the Army and go one of three paths. Either stay for life and rise through the ranks until I am a General, do ~6 years, then apply to the CIA, FBI, a couple other alphabet groups, or do ~4 years and join a company such as Blackwater.
Growing up I never talked much about politics. Most of the people I know didn't care at all, so I kept it to myself. I've always loved shows like Meet the Press, and I watch an unhealthy amount of C-SPAN. Aside from that I try to read as much as possible.
I always did very well in school(straight As), but never wanted to attend college for a degree. I teach myself what I feel I need to know, and that is good enough for me. I love reading biographies, and the works of, people like Washington, Caesar, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Livy, Plutarch, Machiavelli, Alexander, etc. I also enjoy studying the work of people such as Michio Kaku, Edward Witten, and other theoretical physicists.
I suppose I can be described as imperialist with a touch of anti-federalist. In an ideal world I would be an isolationist, but this is no longer feasible. I came from nothing and by taking control of situations I made my own, comfortable, path. I would like this to be reflected in my country's approach to the world. If it's out there, we should have it.
On a local level I am a firm believer in greasing the political wheels to get things done. It shouldn't be this way, but until it changes, gotta play the game. So I don't care who wins as long as they do what they're told.
State level is a joke to me. Most states have lost the balls to stand up to the federal government, and until that change I have no respect.
Federal government I truly despise. It should be way smaller and less complicated than it is. The congress is corrupt and I yearn for the day we can start fresh there.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Redstorm] 1
#5188845 - 01/16/06 08:44 PM (18 years, 14 days ago) |
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i'm a 22 year old male from pennsylvania. i'm a university student studying horticulture. when i graduate soon, i'd like to work for a museam, arboretum, or botanical garden in a fun city. that or work for a commerical nursery and/or landscape design/build firm.
i've worked a ton of different jobs, from a painter (with a ladder, not an easel), to planting tomatoes, to being a research assistant for a blind grad student. i've been in prison. i'm into computer stuff (i'm a bit of a *nix zealot), politics, music, films, the outdoors, and of course plants. i like art and science. i used to be a bit of a firearms enthusiast.
the first time i really got interested in politics was when i came into a discussion on this site making a few comments coming from simple, obvious, leftist common sense, and a user named pinksharkmark hit me with some questions i could not answer. i got thinking. i think the first big debate i got into on this site was about gun rights. i've always liked guns.
for a while i called myself a libertarian and i'd still describe myself as one if that told the whole story. i don't like the government and i think there should be less of it. i think it should stay out of the market as much as possible and for the most part just leave people alone in their private lives. i also don't like consumerism. i find many faults with the system we've built, and it's not just with the government. i'm a lot less serious in real life than i am on this board.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: Innvertigo] 1
#5192341 - 01/17/06 07:12 PM (18 years, 14 days ago) |
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I will be 50 this year. I spent the first 10 years of my life in Brooklyn and then moved way upstate to a town of 800 in the Thousand Islands. Because of my promise I was sent to a boarding school near Syracuse. I was a scholarship kid on merit. It was a pretty positive experience. We had a dress code and the dorms reeked of pot. My first concert was Black Sabbath and Mountain. My second was breaking into Jethro Tull for the Thick As A Brick show. I have always been seriously underestimated athleticly. I am very (strike that, was very) quick and faster than most. I was the stealth student. I hung out with the lowlifes because they were more fun and had better dope. My SATs were a major surprise to the other people in my class (SATs were posted). I went to college in Buffalo (great party town, SHIT weather). During the summers I worked (begged for and was lucky to get) construction. I started out premed/psych. Old man wouldn't pay if I majored in English. Can't say I blame him. Dumped premed plans when I realized it was gonna be work. Took the courses anyway, just didn't care about the grade. Realized psych was total religion. Also realized it was a cake degree. Had a great fucking time and learned what I wanted to. Dissected a monkey and lectured on left hemisphere language ability. Played intramural football on an elite team (200 team league, no school team, all-county teammates). Moved away, anywhere South, which ended up being Lexington KY. Strange town. Shit pay in construction but a cool party place. Punk club opened, Club Au GoGo owned by a transvestite heir with endless cash. Heard Johnny Depp mention ole Bradley in an interview once. Quite the character. Moved back to NY. Westchester Cty. Got more experience and became a contractor at 28. It doesn't suck to be a quality contractor in one of the richest parts of the world. Any reasonably competent tradesperson can work for themselves and make very good money. A little more savvy and go for it attitude and there is no limit. Second wife done right. 16 yr old daughter may just be smarter than me. A dancer and pretty too. I am well armed. Was always of a mind to be left alone. You don't owe me, I don't owe you. Ran into Ayn Rand at a point when she pretty much just encapsulated what I thought independantly. Stopped believing in god when I realized there weren't really flying reindeer. That shit just didn't work for me. When 47 people are telling you that their way is the only way the odds are that they're all full of shit. Same for psychotherapy. Same for a lot of things.
Finally, I love it here. This place leans no more left than any other group that tends to this age group. Most people are able to articulate their ideas, no matter their merit, more than fairly well. There is also a punching bag faction that just keeps coming back. Most of all, I like the opportunity to write and be read. I've had a few great lines here (and read a few)and they never would have existed at all if not for the Shroomery
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Prince of Bugs



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I strongly agree with Innvertigo on one very important point: GO BLUE!!!

I bleed Blue and Maize.
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Re: About me (and you) [Re: MAIA] 1
#5932507 - 08/04/06 07:35 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, it about time I guess......
I am white male that has lived in Michigan, California, Indiana, Virginia, and Illinois in the past 10 years. I have seen much of the Middle East and the Orient due to my military service. I am a decorated disabled veteran, however, my real belief, is that the real heroes are the ones that never make it back home. Unfortunately, this has encompassed the vast majority of my friends; my wife is my true happiness.
So why am I here? Well, after battling alcoholism (something that I still fight with)and the brainwashing of the military, I started to change my views about the world I live in. At heart, I am a Conservative (not a Republican clone) but I am open minded and try not to be too judgmental. I believe that the "war on drugs" is a farce, and contributes negatively to the society we live in. I believe in limited government, but a strong defense for its populace. I think that the current representation in our government, does not truly represent the composition of America. I stay in this forum, because my views have been challenged here, more then any other place.
With all of its flaws, I still think America is still the greatest country on Earth.
-------------------- “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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