Sting, Too Much Joy, Mozart, Forest for the Trees, Blue October, Enya, Kula Shaker, BoDeans, Badly Drawn Boy, Mountain Con, Turin Brakes; Hevia; celtic; japanese flute; bagpipes
Movies
A Room With a View, LA Story, American Beauty, Lost In Translation, Chronicles of Narnia, V for Vendetta, The Incredibles, My Own Private Idaho, Annie Hall, Fearless, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Princess Bride
Television
Cardcaptor Sakura, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), Deep Space 9, Firefly, Monty Python, Robot Chicken, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, House, Numbers, Twelve Kingdoms, Babylon 5, Ghost In The Shell, Queer As Folk (British version), Transformations of Myth Through Time, The Tick (animated and live action), Kizuna
Books
Stranger In a Strange Land, The Lord of the Rings, Luck in the Shadows, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon, Time Enough For Love, The Liar, Dragonriders of Pern, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Freakonomics, A Brief History of Time, Antique Bakery; Young Avengers Authors: Mercedes Lackey, Roger Zelazny, Neil Gaiman, Charles DeLint, L.E.Modesitt, Joseph Campbell, Jim Butcher, Stephen Fry, Allen Heinberg
Heroes
The Dalai Lama, Sting, Robin Williams, Steven Colbert, single moms
HowTaoBrownCow's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Gay
Body type:
5' 11" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Buddhist
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Software Architect
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I'm not sure if an individual is ever sufficiently objective to describe themselves accurately, so this may be a futile exercise, in addition to being a narcissistic one. But futile and narcissistic probably describe me pretty well, so I'll give it a shot...
My primary focus is spirituality and enlightenment, but an irreverent sense of humor and a deeply held conviction that everything is intrinsically funny make me sound like one of those Zen stories, where you're never quite sure whether the monk is really enlightened, or just joking, or a total nutjob. I'm hoping for one of the first two, but the latter is a reasonable possibility.
BTW, one of my favorite Zen stories:
A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'
'How do you know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai.
'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered.
A description that I liked was that I was half Zen monk and half Chandler Bing from Friends, but I think I'd factor in 10% new age nut, another 10% comic-book/computer geek, and maybe a last 10% TV junkie. (After all, before TV, two world wars; after TV, zero!) If you're literal, that adds up to 130% -- so don't be literal. Either that, or decide that we're not all One -- we're all at least 1.3. (Trust me, I'm a math major.)
I guess I could go with some simple statistics:
Appearance: 5'11", 145 lbs, brown hair, brown & green eyes, light skin, a bit stiff of bearing but a ready grin to compensate for it.
Personality: Meyer-Briggs type: INTJ, Rational Scientist (aka Mastermind), moderated by a lot of intuitive work, decent communication skills, and patience.
Astrological Sign: Sun & Moon in Virgo (yea, like you couldn't guess that from an itemized list of personality traits); I'm not actually a huge astrology fan, but I've noticed that the more detailed and precise a reading is, the more accurate it seems to get, and the standard interpretation of my detailed chart seems to be a pretty accurate descriptor of my personality. So far be it from me to exclude accurate data.
Religion: a seeker, from a family of seekers. Started episcopalian, jewish by 5, pagan by 8, atheist by 13, agnostic, buddhist, scientologist by 17, followed by joseph campbell, wicca, druidism, enochian magic, islam, chi-lel qi-gong, and perelandra by 38. Majored in physics, math, and computers, and work in computers, and I find that everything I learn helps me understand everything else better. With so many windows on Truth, I don't get how anyone can lock into only one view and deny all the others. After all, if the Universe/God/All is infinite, and the mind of man is finite, and if each mind is different from every other, then it follows that (a) each person can only understand an infinitesimal fraction of that Universe/God/All, and (b) the fraction that each person can grasp must be different from their fellows'. So, claiming that your truth is all-encompassing and absolute seems more a product of insecurity than of a sincere desire to know god. But, hey, that's just me; I could be wrong. :-)
Blood type: B positive (appropriately enough)
Maybe a few favorite quotes would help?:
Shakespeare: "This above all, to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." (Hamlet I:3)
Marx: "I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member."
Hubbard: "No one ever got anything done by being serious."
Dr. Seuss: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Campbell: "Follow your bliss."
Colbert: "There's no status I would not surrender for a joke."
The Tick: "Spoon!"
Who I'd like to meet: The Dalai Lama, Malidoma Patrice Some, Bill Clinton -- and George W. Bush, to see if I'm really a big enough man to be polite to him, or whether I'd feel obliged to be insulting enough that the Secret Service would have to take me down.
After reading your about me I think we might be bizzaro twins. I guess I'll take the evil bizzaro since your too nice of a guy... perhaps it is all a cover and I'm the good one and just don't know it yet.
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