General is the best possible description of my interests. I have some degree or level of interest in things from an abacus to a zygote and most stuff between. Some people knew at a young age in what area their primary interests lay. I never really had much in the way of "primary" interests.
I like reading, writing, all sciences, history, current events, social activism, learning, teaching, humor, poetry, language, many 'ologies' and 'isms', not to mention moonlit walks on the beach. I'm a huge fan of shrimp and many other foods. I love movies and TV, though most of my TV viewing tends toward the educational and drama. I find much of what passes for humor to be sophomoric.
If I could be said to have a "primary" interest, perhaps it would be to know as many truths as possible. One of my mottoes is, "I would rather hear the single worst truth in the universe than ten thousand beautiful lies."
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George C Wallace Community College-Dothan
Dothan, AL
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Psychology/Sociology
Minor: American Literature
Clubs: I had no Greek or clubs, etc., I went to class.
1982 to 1982
Floyd College
Rome, GA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Psychology/Sociology
Minor: American History
Clubs: N/A
I was a field nigger - a white trash one - when I was a child in the Georgia cotton fields. I made my first dollar on my own when I was four by picking 100 pounds of cotton in a day. I stopped going to school and began my education when I was sixteen....
"I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
- Robert Browning Hamilton
What do I put here? How much is too much? Too little? I am an enigma, even to me. After fifty-one years on this planet, I find that "know thyself" and "to thine own self be true" are among life's most difficult challenges... and that "Que sera, sera" is one of life's truest statements.
Truth, Knowledge and Wisdom are my trinity... love and compassion, my advisors.
I am an atheist who loves gospel music, a terminal entity who wants to live forever. I'm a southern redneck who quotes Socrates and Shakespeare, and would rather watch paint dry than any sports. I'm a liberal who has no interest in hunting and fishing, a conservative who demands my Second Amendment rights, an anarchist who understands why it is impossible, a loving dad who never had children. I am a truck driver with no truck and a bad heart, a young old guy with no hair to part. I am a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, to borrow Kristopherson's line.
I began my religious life as a child as a Jehovah's Witness, went through many flavors of Baptist and Pentacostal, and visited many other churches and religions before emerging into the fresh clean air of atheism. I used to be a zealous debater of Christians until I came to understand that most religious beliefs are either not true beliefs or are not amenable to rational discussion and very rarely is anyone ever convinced by another. I am still an atheist evangelist in the purest sense, though I now present the gospel (good news) of atheism only "for he who has ears to hear".
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it ; for every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it; and for every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME is the latest poem on my blog (getting the pimping in early !!)
Pictures are from Shropshire England where my 3 sisters and my brother live with their families.
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