: About Me

Im not relativistic enough to be a universalist, but as a corrolary, Im also not ignorant enough to assume that one belief system contains all truth. What makes sense to me is to live like a rastafarian-entheogenic, veggetarian, and as close to nature as possible-and to adopt as a life philosophy the words of Jesus, and the prinicples of zen. To many, that makes me a hippy, but I hesitate to characterize myself as such because I don't feel I am that aimless; I don't reject the norm for any intrinsic purpose, but rather for the extrinsic aesthetic quality that it yields for my life and the quality thereof.
I've also been known to make music from time to time

My passion is ...

people, the arts, academics

I know too much about ...

one can never know too much

My childhood ambition ...

to change the world for the better

My favorite memory ...

journeys with friends

Why I write ...

to exercise the beautiful notion of intellectual interaction

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

noam chomsky/waking life/bob marley

My first job ...

factory assembly lines

My best moment ...

any moment of harmony

My inspiration ...

anyone who has preached love

Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism On believing in karma

17 of 28

Karma, as it occurs to me, can be seen in one of two different lights. The first is the mystic, religious side, where we attribute a spiritual element to the reciprocation of a type of interraction that a person has with the world. The second is a more epistomolgical approach, in which one can examine things as they appear to be, and try to attribute some logical insight to it. In that sense, karma becomes either a confidence in the human character, or a denunciation of it. History is cyclical. There have been countless historical iterations of this basic model: man conceives a novel idea,...

More..