I am the type of person who uses definitions as the focus of my "about me" section.
Freeganism: The practice of abstaining from the consumption of foods that contain animal products, except in those cases where the food is obtained for free. Popular mostly among North American anti-capitalists, freeganism is a practice that seeks to lessen rampant overconsumption, environmental destruction, waste, and exploitation in the developed world. Freegans and strict vegans both consider the practice of confining and killing animals for human consumption both environmentally unsound and unnecessarily cruel.
Veganism: Veganism is abstention from the consumption or use of animal products and products that have been tested on animals. An animal product in this context refers not only to meat but to any substance derived from an animal. Individuals become vegans for a variety of reasons: to support animal rights, for health benefits, for moral, ethical, religious and/or spiritual reasons, for political reasons, and/or environmental concerns.
Straight edge: advocates abstinence in relation to tobacco, alcohol and recreational drug use (especially psychoactive and stimulant drug use), and in relation to promiscuous sexual behavior.
Feminism: a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests, and issues in society.
Socialism: the core belief that society should exist in which popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production. In Marxist theory, it also refers to the society that would succeed or supplant capitalism, and would later develop further into communism, as the necessity for the socialist structure would wither away. Marxism and communism are both branches of socialism.
Anti-foundationalism: a term applied to any philosophy which rejects a foundationalist approach; i.e., an anti-foundationalist is one who does not believe that there is some fundamental belief or principle which is the basic ground or foundation of inquiry and knowledge. Anti-foundationalists use logical or historical/geneological attacks on foundational concepts, often coupled with alternative methods for justifying and forwarding intellectual inquiry, such as the pragmatic subordination of knowledge to practical action or Otto Neurath's boat metaphor, according to which human knowledge is like a ship at sea which can never be dismantled and rebuilt, but rather must be repaired by workmen who, in order to replace any one plank, have to stand on planks which themselves may later have to be replaced.
Philosophical skepticism: a philosophical position according to which much of what we normally take as knowledge is not knowledge, or is not justified. The most extreme skepticism holds that no belief can ever be justified. An example of a more moderate form of skepticism is the view that we lack knowledge of the external world because our beliefs about the external world are not absolutely certain.
Religious and Scientific skepticism: a scientific, or practical, position in which one questions the veracity of extraordinary claims, and seeks to prove or disprove them using the scientific method.
Relativism: the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. Relativists claim that humans understand and evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical and cultural context.
Anarchy: is a term that has several usages. Specific meanings include:
1. Absence of any form of state.
2. Societal harmony through voluntary cooperation.
3. Political disorder and confusion.
4. Absence of a ruler, ruling class, ruling political party or parties, or power elite.
In Summary:
I am Vegan.
I am Straightedge.
I am in a band called "Another Emotion."
I am in school for my B.A. and to study the Japanese Language.
I dance, quite poorly, at Cathedral.
I try to be a good person.
I love philosophy, religion, and politics:
(Postmodernism, Anti-foundationalism, Relativism)
(Pantheism, Buddhism, Taoism, Wicca)
(Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Peter Singer)
Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo
"God",
"immortality of the soul",
"redemption",
"beyond" –
Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child.
Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?
I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct.
I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer.
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers -- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan"
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.
An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.
There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
Les Allemands e'taient chez moi,
[The Germans were at my home]
ils me dirent, "Signe toi,"
[They said, "Sign yourself,"]
mais je n'ai pas peur;
[But I am not afraid]
j'ai repris mon arme.
[I have retaken my weapon.]
J'ai change' cent fois de nom,
[I have changed names a hundred times]
j'ai perdu femme et enfants
[I have lost wife and children]
mais j'ai tant d'amis;
[But I have so many friends]
j'ai la France entie..re.
[I have all of France]
Un vieil homme dans un grenier
[An old man, in an attic]
pour la nuit nous a cache',
[Hid us for the night]
les Allemands l'ont pris;
[The Germans captured him]
il est mort sans surprise.
He died without surprise.]
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
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Who would I Like to Meet??
A) Anarchists and Socialists.
B) Communists and Feminists.
C) Raw foodists and Dumpster-divers.
D) Vegans and Vegetarians.
E) Whose who are Straight edge and Drug Free.
F) I'd like to meet girls who don't let guys into their pants easily.
G) Those who are worth meeting, but don't quite fit into categories.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:
"When on a Sunday morning we hear the bells ringing, we ask ourselves: it is possible! This is going on because of a Jew crucified 2,000 years ago who said he was the son of God. The proof of such an assertion is lacking. In the context of our age the Christian religion is certainly a piece of antiquity intruding out of distant ages past, and that the above-mentioned assertion is believed is perhaps the most ancient piece of the inheritance. A god who begets children on a mortal woman; a sage who calls upon us no longer to work, no longer to sit in judgment, but to heed the signs of the imminent end of the world; a justice which accepts an innocent man as a substitute sacrifice; someone who bids his disciples drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god atoned for by a god; fear of a Beyond to which death is the gateway; the figure of the Cross as a symbol in an age which no longer knows the meaning and shame of the Cross-how gruesomely all this is wafted to us, as if out of the grave of a primeval past! Can one believe that things of this sort are still believed in?"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human.
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
Finally: I have a sense of humor. See this proves it:
