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At the base of our existence is the sense of 'worth'. Now 'worth' essentially presupposes that which is 'worthy,' existence for its own Posted at 5:12 AM Oct 20 from Twitter view more

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  • Andy Snyder

  • 35 / Male
  • BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, US
  • Last Login: 12/8/2009

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Interests

  • General

    my songwriting is here: myspace.com/mobilewashunit; philosophy, theology, teaching, preaching, listening, poetry, relativity physics, star-gazing/city watching, time, policy debate, mysticism, art, religion and science, quantum physics, meditation/prayer, neuroscience and intentionality

  • Music

    Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Syd Barrett, Big Star, Shins, Kinks, Beach Boys, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Zombies, Replacements, Soft Boys, Smiths, Tim/Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Guided by Voices, Sea and Cake, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, REM, Stereolab, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Slowdive, Belle and Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, Liz Phair, Jim O'Rourke, Will Oldham, Low, Pedro the Lion, Sufjan Stevens

  • Movies

  • Books

    Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Whitehead, William James, Nietzsche, Kant, Pascal, Cusa, Leibniz, Davidson, Quine, Frege. these NYC philosophers: Saul Kripke, Galen Strawson, David Chalmers, Jesse Prinz, Graham Priest, Michael Devitt, David Rosenthal, Stephen Neale, Noel Carroll, Paul Horwich, Hartry Field, Chris Peacocke, Ned Block, Richard Sorabji

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Montgomery, AL
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: 6' 3" / Slim / Slender
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Religion: Protestant
  • Zodiac Sign: Pisces
  • Children: Someday
  • Smoke: No
  • Education: Grad / professional school
  • Occupation: pastor, professor, musician

Schools

Companies

  • United Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ

    • Chicago and NYC, US
    • Pastor

  • City University of New York

    • New York, NY US
    • Philosophy Professor

Status and Mood

  • Andy Snyder At the base of our existence is the sense of 'worth'. Now 'worth' essentially presupposes that which is 'worthy,' existence for its own
    Posted at 5:12 AM Oct 20 from Twitter
  • Andy Snyder nature conceived as passive instantaneous bits of matter...the essential distinction between matter at instant & agitations of experience
    Posted at 5:10 AM Oct 20 from Twitter
  • Andy Snyder association with our human bodies is assumed. The unity with body is taken for granted. Where does my body end and the external world begin?
    Posted at 4:48 AM Oct 20 from Twitter
  • Andy Snyder clear and distinct factors are comparatively superficial elements in our lives...Our bodily experience is the basis of existence--Whitehead
    Posted at 6:53 AM Oct 19 from Twitter
  • Andy Snyder parts hardly touched by consciousness. primary experience lies below and gives meaning...presupposing a background which supplies a meaning.
    Posted at 6:38 AM Oct 19 from Twitter

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Blurbs

About me:

I teach philosophy at the City University of New York which might be in tension with my role as an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disiples of Christ); I tend to believe in the coincidence of opposites; Feel free to hate me for being too liberal for a Christian or too Christian for a liberal. I try to love my enemies. I'm probably too religious to be a good scientist and too scientific to be truly religious. Still, I try for the truth even if I can't always understand it. So, I recently started "Tent" It's a group of seekers that gather to search, ponder, probe, wrestle, argue, praise, rejoice, and proclaim the overflowing and accepting, unconditional love of God. We stand for no intolerance or judgment, but leave that to God, who leads us to stand by the door. We worship as an interfaith congregation, research as a community of inquirers, and pray with hope in God's love and forgiveness and doubt in our grasp and understanding of it.

Who I'd like to meet:

people who are interested in a new church start in NYC; who want to write hit songs together; who do either analytic or continental philosophy

Comments

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  • Jenna "the yellow dart"

    Dec 9 2009 6:56 PM

    hmm...the coincidence of opposites you say...probably why you added me lol! good to see someone who's still religious yet open minded in a time of devout atheism
  • Anesthet!c™

    Oct 16 2009 6:10 PM

    awesome! :) i'll check it out!
  • Sidus Spei

    Oct 16 2009 6:09 PM

    Never forget, three of the most famous scientists; Newton, Darwin, and Einstein, were deeply religious.
  • Michael Indemaio

    Feb 7 2009 8:32 AM

    Thanks for the update! It's easy to get lost on here, but i'm happy to keep up with all the good work you're doing.
  • SkySky Vega

    Jan 16 2009 3:40 PM

    Cool..keep shining!!! :)
  • ░⌂rarenSité⌂░Sani Dalaï

    Jan 9 2009 3:46 AM

    !

    hi And!

    thank's for this add

    i'm reading now some text for
    liberation...marcuse and Frankfurt sChool
    i'm very excited for this

    well

    just pass to bring this lights
    howl Pictures, Images and Photos

    to iluminate this room

    sounds blesS yoU**

    ♫
  • BrandonBrandon Bevan

    Oct 24 2008 5:13 PM

    I dig philosophy and Christianity too
  • Lindsay

    Aug 1 2008 8:42 AM

    hi. : )

    Photobucket
  • Butterfly.........

    Jul 11 2008 3:07 AM

    Thanks for the friend request!! I hang in Brooklyn at least one weekend a month. Can you give me details about your meetings in the back of the bar (time, etc)?? Sounds interesting...My sister lives off Ocean Pkway and Avenue U.
  • Tahuist

    Jul 5 2008 2:28 PM

    Hello. *waves shyly*
    I was wondering... where is your church located? I've been wanting to attend a new church on Sundays but had difficulty deciding where to go.
  • ♥ Natali ♥ Natali Sanchez

    Jun 19 2008 4:25 AM

    god loves you
  • Kat

    May 1 2008 6:14 PM

    Hey sneaky matchmaker!

    Look what I found :)

    A Sir Hannet creation!

    .


    Ron/Andy

    (click on them to see 'em bigger).

    See you soon
    xo,
    Kat
  • brandy

    Apr 17 2008 2:26 PM

    yeah.. page could use some development.. mostly did it for djing, but thanks to kat for the popular picture all SORTS of folks have contacted me...
  • Lindsay

    Feb 9 2008 7:52 PM

    St. Francis And The Sow


    The bud
    stands for all things,
    even those things that don't flower,
    for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
    though sometimes it is necessary
    to reteach a thing its loveliness,
    to put a hand on its brow
    of the flower
    and retell it in words and in touch
    it is lovely
    until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
    as St. Francis
    put his hand on the creased forehead
    of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
    blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
    began remembering all down her thick length,
    from the earthen snout all the way
    through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of
    the tail,
    from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
    down through the great broken heart
    to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
    from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking
    and blowing beneath them:
    the long, perfect loveliness of sow.


    --Galway Kinnell
  • Lindsay

    Feb 5 2008 5:07 AM

    andy... are you encouraging all of your students to vote on tuesday? i hope so. i'll bet they listen to you. :)
  • John

    Nov 22 2007 6:47 PM

    Happy Thanksgiving. :) I am still hoping to join you one sunday either in NY or Brooklyn. I have been very busy socially and workwise. Hope to see you soon.
    John
  • YESSI

    Nov 6 2007 5:09 AM

    im the only one raising my hand,,, no more of that...LA REVOLUTION!!!!! lol :)
  • The Philosophers Stone

    Oct 24 2007 1:54 AM

    Have you read the book Siddartha by Herman Hesse? Its a really great book you should pick up if you haven't read it since you love philosophy.
  • The Philosophers Stone

    Oct 14 2007 12:50 AM

    hey wats up Prof.A just came to take a sneak peek on ur music.. not bad but if u want to change the world with it you have a long way to go..

    P.S Great music are pure and harmonious music which purify the body, mind, and soul and also society.-Buddha (aka-Siddhartha Gautama)
  • kim

    Oct 7 2007 4:51 PM

    Thanks for the add. As a girl primarily raised in the South, there ahs always been a disconnect for the people here regarding religion and political liberalism. I have always straddled that fence as a person raised as a Christian in a leftist socially concerned household. The two do not have to be divided. But it has been a difficult (for me that is) framework to defend where I've lived.
  • Gibby

    Oct 3 2007 2:01 AM

    LISTENIN TO YOUR CD NOW. YEAH BABY!
  • Lindsay

    Sep 28 2007 12:00 AM

    I think that's awesome that you are open to the principals of science and religion. There should be more people that are accepting of both :)
  • Amy

    Sep 4 2007 2:15 AM

    Ah, how could I forget the choir!?!
  • Belovedpanda

    Sep 3 2007 10:12 PM

    you sound entriguing
  • ♪þöê†å Ðê Ðïö§♫Bianca Nicole Cuevas

    Aug 14 2007 12:53 AM

    hey andy love wat ur doing keep doing ur thing and putting God first!!