Beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy.To see beauty is simply to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life.""
Male
21 years old
FTM Androgyny, New York
United States
Family & Friends
Making & Devouring Music
Faith, Hope & Love
Starbucks
Goldfish Crackers
Nachos
The Cubbyhole
Amusement Parks
The Waterfront
Quality Time
Scrabble
Texas Hold 'Em
Bartending
Psychology & related
Philosophy & related
Web Design & Graphic Art
Teh Internetz
Xanga
Meeting People
Grammar & Linguistics
Foreign Languages & Cultures
Travel
Poetry & Prose
Literature
Research
Theatre
Exercise
Art
A cappella groups
Sexuality
Numbers
Hot showers
Holding Hands
Incense
Intuition
Humanism
Libertarianism
Theology Tolerance Acceptance
Dance
Singing
Reading & Quoting
Thinking & Dreaming
Smiling
Loving
Living
Following Christ
Analyzing everything BEING MYSELF
This is a very abridged list. I don't have a "favorite" band or genre of music. I love it all. I favor different genres depending on my mood.
My own personal theory is that pretty much every artist out there has something redeeming in their music--whether it be a unique sound or lyric--something sets them apart from every other artist and for that reason I don't really have any particular favorite. However, the artists listed above generally remain my favorite through thick and thin for various reasons. And then there's me.
Movies
50 First Dates About A Boy Adaptation American Beauty American History X A Beautiful Mind A Clockwork Orange A Home at the End of the World A Walk to Remember The Back to the Future trilogy The Boondock Saints Boys Don't Cry The Butterfly Effect Crash The Crucible Cruel Intentions Dead Ringers Dead Poets Society Dogma Donnie Darko Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind The Fast and the Furious 1 & 2 Fight Club Forest Gump Garden State Gattaca Gia Ghost Girl, Interrupted The Goonies The Graduate Happy Gilmore Heights Hitch The Holiday I Am Sam If These Walls Could Talk 1&2 The Italian Job Liar Liar Little Miss Sunshine Magnolia Mary Poppins Mean Girls Miss Congeniality Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mr. Holland's Opus Mr. Deeds Mrs. Doubtfire Napoleon Dynamite Nell The Nightmare Before Christmas The Passion of the Christ The Pursuit of Happyness Pi The Princess Bride Pulp Fiction Rent Requiem for a Dream The Ring Saved The Secret Garden Shrek 1 & 2 Sister Act 1 & 2 Superstar Thirteen Waking Life White Oleander The Virgin Suicides and a handful of others.
Television
ALIAS America's Next Top Model Beauty and the Geek Boy Meets World Degrassi Ellen DeGeneres Gilmore Girls The L Word The Nanny Queer as Folk Roseanne What Not To Wear Whose Line is it Anyway? Anything on HGTV TLC at times MTV at others
You would think I watch a lot of tv looking at this. But that is simply not the case.
Books
Velvet Elvis Conversations With God The Alchemist The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Realm of Possibility Lockpick Pornography Running With Scissors Angels and Demons The History of Love The Great Gatsby To Kill a Mockingbird
1984 The Catcher in the Rye A Separate Peace The Bell Jar Hard Love Someone Like You The Face the Message Bible
The above list is in no paricular order and does not contain all the books I've been found to enjoy. =)
Heroes
Mom, Dad, my Great-Grandma Gene, Hannah Girl, Elizabeth, Elliot & Brittany, the pastors and elders at the River Church, Mr. Steinmeyer, Mark & Gleich, Mr. Oehme, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus Christ, anyone working to make the world a better place, people who challenge society's rules for "normalcy", those who display the love of Christ.
Quotes :
"The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Nothing in the world is good or bad until we perceive it. Change your perception and change your world." - Joe Birkman
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"This is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Love: 1 Corinthians 13
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - Unknown
"When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need -- words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you." - Ephesians 4:29
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Theresa
"Love means living the way God commanded us to live. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is this: Live a life of love." - 2 John 1:6
"Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world." - Goethe
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.[...]Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne
"As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend." - Proverbs 27:17
"A jewel is just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look." - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Any thought seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself." - Chinese Proverb
"The hardest thing in life, is letting go of what you thought was real." - Unknown
"Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are." - Unknown
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." - Emerson
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." - Plath, The Bell Jar
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Hemmingway
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm well known but not always known well. I guess that's a common story." - Alex David
"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi
Ellis' Details
Sex, Gender, Orientation:
[In transition]
I refuse to believe male/female is all there is to it. I am attracted to people, for who they are, and particularly those nearer the middle of the spectrum. People are souls, energy, personality and body, and it's the combination that's so attractive. That said, it takes a really unique person to charm me and win me over…usually someone with a big smile, large heart and bubbly personality. But there’s always room for redefinition. :)
Sexual Identity:
Pansexual, Queer
Physical:
5’6” and body building
Taken/Not:
Single
Occupation/Job:
Full-time student, Part-time banquet server
Smoke/Drink:
Rarely/Occasionally
Political Views:
Independently in persuit of a freer, more joyous world.
Religious Views:
[In transition]
Though I have a love/hate relationship with many of the organized religions out there, my experiences in life lead me to a point at which I believe that spirituality and congregation generally add to the journey that is life, and a resignation to Higher/Greater Power or however you want to categorize it in most cases humbles an individual, which is never a bad thing. I enjoy approaching "alternative" lifestyles to any typical one, believing it to add benefit in understanding. I recommend literally “trying out” religions for the experience, as long as you remain respectful, humble and heartfelt.
Life Purpose:
To discover 'God', 'God’s Presence', and Who I Am; to bless and show love to all I meet; to teach, inspire and educate. :)
Adidem's Details
Status:
Swinger
Body type:
5' 6"
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Education:
In college
Adidem's Schools
Dutchess Community College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Graduated: N/A
Major: English, Psychology
Minor: Sociology, Spanish (...those are really just my interests; I'm undeclared.)
Clubs: Stonewall, Christian Fellowship
2007 to Present
Roy C. Ketcham Shs
Wappingers Falls, NEW YORK
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Chamber Choir, Women's Choir, Masque and Mime, the GSA, my quintet, orchestra, chorus, and, even after graduation: Traveling Choir
2003 to 2007
Adidem's Companies
Uno Chicago Grill Wappingers Falls, NY US Hostess
9/13/06 - 2/27/07
Freedom Financial Wappingers Falls, NY US Secretary
Life
The Grandview Poughkeepsie, NY US Banquet Server
5/20/07 - Present
Pier 1 Imports Poughkeepsie, NY US Sales Associate
I'm Eli, and I really don't use MySpace. (Facebook, anyone?)
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“It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.”
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I believe in fairness and equality, tolerance and acceptance.
I believe in the personal potential of every person.
I am committed to self-expression, individual choice, and erasing the barriers people put up between each other.
I reject limits and restrictions placed on any individual by society (including oppression based on gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, age, size, religion, ability and socioeconomic status).
I refuse to judge things by any conventional means.
I test, probe, and analyze everything.
I find a hero in anyone who displays the love of Christ.
I am a deep thinker.
I am me.
Send a message my way if you would like to talk. Please introduce yourself. =)
Who I'd like to meet: Lovers, thinkers, idealists, environmentalists, queers, gender deviants, FTMs, others involved in polyamory, feminists, psychology nerds, nerds in general, musicians, artists, anyone really good at what they do, extreme sport athletes, theologians, philosophers, poets, outdoor people, cuddlers, concerned citizens, anyone who is passionate about the issues I am or wants to learn more about things I know about, anyone who refuses to be "normal", someone different, You. :)
About FTM Book Vol. 1 FTM Book Vol 1: A Basic Introduction to Transman Life is an easy-to-understand, yet comprehensive primer on FTM issues such as:
What is an FTM? How do FTMs see themselves? Appearance Stages in Transition Surgeries Available Common Personal Histories Violence Discrimination Health Issues Counseling Relationships Common Legal Issues
We've worked hard to help create definitions that will help you talk about trans issues with others, including terms for body parts unique to the FTM and by naming the stages of transitioning. This book is great for anyone who who is having trouble understanding the lifestyle or choices of a transperson. When we first began dating, we were shocked that there was no one place that Aaron could turn to show me "See, this explains what being an FTM means." We hope that this book will be a good start.
Best of all, when you order FTM Book Vol. 1: A Basic Introduction to Transman Life you can feel good knowing that sales of the book are being used to fund more research to help FTMs and their partners get through the challenges of their lives. This is a great book for youself and for anyone you know who could use a little more understanding. Also, you can help teach others about trans issues by donating copies to your local high schools, colleges, LGBT centers and libraries.
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