| Online: | 2 Months Ago | Name: | Private Shabani | |
| Updated: | 2 Months Ago | Gender: | Female | |
| Joined: | 5 Years Ago | Birthday: | - Private - | |
| President: | No One (No President) | Email: | - Private - | |
| Ideology: | Other | Education: | Bachelors Degree | |
| Party: | Other | Ethnicity: | White | |
| Relationship: | In a Relationship | Income: | $25,000 to $35,000 | |
| Interested: | - Private - | Occupation: | Civil Service | |
| Looking: | Friendship, Networking | Religion: | Other |
| About Me: | What we think, we become. |
| Activities: | Film maker, painter, philosopher, writer. Meditation. Yoga. |
| Beliefs: | Existentialist, Jungian |
| Books: | Dreams Memories and Reflections, The Stranger, Be Still and Get Going, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ishmael, Kabbalah, The Doors of Perception, The Second Sex, Brave New World, Being and Nothingness, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Profit Over People, The Ethics of Ambiguity, A People's History of the United States, The Gospel of Thomas, Mahanirvana Tantra |
| Movies: | Anything by Stanley Kubrick, Waking Life, Amelie, I <3 Huckabees, Melancholia, Party Monster, Secretary, Donnie Darko, A Night at the Roxbury, Hard Candy, SLC Punk, Anything by Hitchcock, Old Boy, Man On Wire, The Artist Is Present, |
| Music: | Crystal Castles, Massive Attack, Portishead, Trent Reznor, Led Zeppelin, Midnight Juggernauts, The Presets, Pink Floyd, STS9, Nadastrom, Fiona Apple, The Presets |
| Quotes: | A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire "The Visionary Artists are reclaiming the most ancient and powerful motive for making art and reinstating the sacred function of art for humanity -- the depiction and transmission of theophanies, God's holy contact with the human imagination. It has nothing to do with "the marketplace" that obsesses most contemporary artists and the commercial gallery industry and museological plunderings that pile up the artifacts of crumbled empires and fragmented ancient civilizations. The museums are booty shacks of pirate nations who have desecrated holy sites the world over. Now it is time to build again the Temples of Art, re-sacralizing human destiny" - Alex Grey |
| Sports Teams: | Since sports are meaningless, I am going to use this section for artists I respect and admire: Marina Abramovic, Monet, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Miro, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, Edvard Munch, Warhol Actually, I really like roller durby. |
| TV Shows: | Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Fringe, 30 Rock, Freaks and Geeks |
Public Schools in the United States Should not Teach Intelligent Design alongside Evolution
Resolved: Public schools in the United States should not teach intelligent design as an alternative alongside evolution.Definitions: Evolution“Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins. Life on Earth originated and then evolved from a universal commo...
Persons do not possess temporal parts.
This is our first round debate for Freeman's DDO tournament. Thanks to Vi_Veri for agreeing to debate me! I shall be arguing in favor of the position that persons do not possess temporal parts - or, in slightly less technical terms, persons endure over time and do not perdure over time. ========= Definitions and Clarifcations ========= Person - very minimally defined, a subject of experience. The term "person" no undoubtedly means more than that but it also can't mean less than that....
Mind over Matter?
========= Introduction ========= This debate will be on the age-old clash in philosophy of mind over the issue of whether or not there is an immaterial element to, but not limited to, persons. This immaterial element is attributed to the mind or the soul. Of course, the question is whether or not this immaterial element even exists and that is what we are here to debate. To put it another way - is there more to persons than their material bodies? I will be answering "yes" to that question s...
Poetry Battle
I read that Vi wanted to see more Poetry battles on here so I thought I'd give it a go. I've made this 5 rounds long. The first round will merely be introduction since I feel its necessary and then the following rounds will contain the poems with mini specific intro's if necessary. I'm 19 and have been writing poems since I was about 6. My main influence is Spike Milligan and, as a consequence I tend to write short (ish), "light", playful poems which are intended to be mildly amusing. For thi...
Kleptin Tournament: Abortion
Thank you, PoeJoe, for participation in this tournament and for gladly accepting my debate challenge! This is a special debate for Kleptin's special debate tourney: http://www.debate.org/forums/debate.org/topic/5050/ The debate this is based off of is: http://www.debate.org/debates/abortion/10/ Voting rules: "The categories give you 7 points to play with. The contender will always be the one trying to defeat his or her old arguments. "Use the 7 points to show how well t...
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