: About Me

First, and foremost, I'm LDS. I have a B.S. in Environmental/Conservation Biology and an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts/Horticultural Science. I'm an environmental advocate.

My passion is ...

My passion is in the pursuit of happiness, spiritual things, writing, nature, investigation and experimentation..

I know too much about ...

I know too much about nothing.

My childhood ambition ...

My childhood ambition was to be a nature boy.

Why I write ...

I believe that, given reasonable alternatives, we can order our lives in harmony with the natural world. We may not be able to stop the destruction of this world, but we are responsible, and accountable, for doing what we can to try.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I look at the internet news and watch the spiraling decline and disintegration of this world with a detached interest, i.e., I don't view it with fear and trepidation.

My first job ...

I was a greenhouse technician. I made propagation cuttings and made things grow. I wish I could go back to those days.

My best moment ...

The realization that time is immaterial and that I am an eternal being.

My inspiration ...

The Book of Mormon, Another Testiment of Jesus Christ.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Abolishing poverty: methods and theories

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Certain socioeconomic conditions must exist before people can eliminate the consequences of corruption, avarice, crime, poverty and inequality associated with money. With few exceptions, money was the principal cause of failure in nearly all experiments in communal living. The second most common cause of failure was the placing of higher status on skilled professions over the more common labor functions required to sustain a communal society. These caste divisions caused envy, malice and, eventually, the dissolution of nearly every communal experiment to date. Nevertheless, truly equitable...

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