: About Me

It's 4:00 AM, and I have been writing for about 6 hours, a research piece on linguistics and derivation of common words. Not a light topic at all, but one I love.

I'm a researcher, and I live to relate what I have learned. For instance, were you aware of the fact that when writing in cursive, the words being written are being "cursed?" Sounds strange, maybe a bit archaic, but this form of writing was used by magicians to curse their enemies and bad luck.

It's the idea of a continuous hieroglyph.

Fascinating stuff, isn't it?

This is a brief glimpse into my brain.

Aaron

My passion is ...

Liberty

I know too much about ...

damned near everything to hear my friends tell it

My parents always told me ...

to live up to my potential

My childhood ambition ...

was to fly

My favorite memory ...

the first time I got lost by myself and how free I felt

Why I write ...

A wise man once told me that if you write, you'll never need to see a shrink.

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

Louis Black - The White Album

My first job ...

Landscaping (the PC term for mowing lawns)

My best moment ...

realizing that I have a lot to say and that people (for the most part) want to hear it

My inspiration ...

is the quest for truth

Education > Educational Philosophy The real goal of education

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It seems that people these days are content to watch "American Idol" and "Entertainment Tonight" on television rather than actually learn anything. Most folks have forgotten (or more to the point, never knew) what learning is. Critical thinking has gone, like so many other invaluable skills, the way of the do-do. In ancient Greece, universities were not the classroom style, rote memorization facilities of indoctrination of today. Indeed, they were far from what passes for modern education. They actually taught people the skill of philosophy. Philosophy, if one had to boil it down, is the s...

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