I like (in no particular order):
Music (see respective heading)
Singing
Khoomei
Languages
Foreign Cultures (Russia, India, Scandanavia, China, Turkey, Iran)
Foreign Foods
Books
The news
Philosophy
Skepticism
Science
Religious mythos
Atheism
Sufi (Tasawuf)
libertarianism (lower-case L)
Economics
Politics
Fine Teas (Camellia sinensis)
Narghile
Computers
Sex
Humour
Video Games
Art
Massages
I dislike (in no particular order):
Bullshit
Pretense
Winter
Driving long distances
Close-mindedness
Refusal to accept one's own shortcomings
Religious dogmatism
The Republican Party
The Democrat Party
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Theocracy
Xenophobia
Tolerance of rabid intolerance
音樂
Top Weekly Artists
GENRES: Arabic, Turkish, Tuvan, Persian, Scandanavian, Russian, Indian, A Capella, Classical, Choral, Vocal, Industrial, Gothic, Foreign, Opera Metal, Symphonic Metal, Oldies, Darkwave, etc.
BANDS: Alanis Morissette, Alash, Anoushka Shankar, Natacha Atlas, Ayreon, Azam Ali, Chirgilchin, Cirque du Soleil, Collilde, Dead can Dance, Del'fin, Dimmu Borgir, Enigma, E Nomine, Fågel Roc, Gåte, Garmarna, Huun Huur Tu, Irfan, KMFDM, Kongar-ol Ondar, Laibach, Lacuna Coil, Lustmord, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Nightwish, Niyaz, Mercan Dede, Off the Beat, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Run Lola Run OST, Russkiy Razmer, Sa Dingding, Schubert, Sirenia, Snake River Conspiracy, Stratovarius, t.A.T.u., Tarkan, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Therion, Tristania, Vas, Giuseppe Verdi, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio Vivaldi, Weird Al Yankovic, et al
This, by no means, is an exhaustive, nor even closely complete list of stuff I listen to. More on Last.fm
電影
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Ashes and Snow, Batman Begins, Day Watch, Devdas, Dogma, Equilibrium, Hero, Jodhaa Akbar, Lagaan, Night Watch, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Resident Evil, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Run Lola Run, A Scanner Darkly, V for Vendetta, Waking Life, Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist: Addendum
Douglas Adams, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Thomas Kuhn, John Locke, Moses Maimonides, Karl Marx, Jean Meslier, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Ayn Rand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russel, Marquis de Sade, J.D. Salinger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut
偶像
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Harry Browne
Celsus
Richard Dawkins
Democritus
Daniel Dennett
Epicurus
Benjamin Franklin
Milton Friedman
Albert Einstein
Sam Harris
Christopher Hitchens
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
Penn Jilette
Omar Khayyam
John Locke
Lucretius
Jean Meslier
Thomas Paine
James Randi
Mevlana Celaluddin Muhammed Rumi
Socrates
Baruch von Spinoza
Voltaire
Following images are courtesy of LibertyStickers.com
Thomas Jefferson:
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
"Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being."
"It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams."
Voltaire:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
"Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men"
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."
"For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm"
To those who might be politically inclined, I am proudly Libertarian.
我想認識: Mostly people I already know. I'm too terribly avid of a MySpace user, so I don't really often go out looking for other users to add. Sometimes it does happen, so that's cool as well.
If you want to send me an add request, please send me a message along with it. This way, I can know that you have a brain inside that skull of yours, and aren't just clicking the request button after skimming my profile and liking what you see.
the weatherman is predicting 80 degree weather on Saturday! are you coming out to Privilege for our Tokyo 3001 party w/ DJ Mick (San Francisco)? Phillip and I would love to see you there :D
California Connecticut D.C. Delaware Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin
That is a list of the states (and Washington City) whose electoral college votes are *ALL* going to Barak Obama.
Got it? If you are registered in any one of these states, a vote for John Sidney McCain is *WORTHLESS*.
You might as well sit at home and masturbate in comfortable privacy as step into a voting booth and do your jerking-off there.
McCain is not going to carry a single one of those states. He's just to far behind.
Don't waste your vote on John McCain in those states. Instead make good use of your vote to tell Washington DC to get their damn act together. Vote what you know in your heart is true of Obama and McCain -THEY BOTH SUCK. Vote Libertarian for a change. A real change. Vote for Bob Barr.
FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS BE UNINFORMED VOTERS! PLEASE RE-POST AND SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. THE COUNTRY YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
whats with the sexy slideshow? i must say that my favorite is the first black and white shot as well as the shot where you are pointing/screaming at the camera in horror. anyway, how are you? we should catch up sometime. you didn't happen to go back for homecoming did you?