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| President: | Barack Obama (D) | Email: | - Private - | |
| Ideology: | Progressive | Education: | Not Saying | |
| Party: | Other | Ethnicity: | White | |
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| Looking: | No Answer | Religion: | Agnostic |
| Activities: | reading, writing, playing guitar, painting, thinking, volunteering, all-around renaissance man |
| Beliefs: | I'm an agnostic that errs to the side of atheism and skepticism. Most people would probably label me as "liberal," but I don't like to be pigeonholed. I'm actually quite conservative in many ways, one might say. I have developed, to varying degrees, my own systems of ethics, political philosophy, an (admittedly poor, due to my own limitations) synthesis of cosmology, evolution, and pre-historical human history, an historical analysis of human nature, and at one time a large system of metaphysics. Long story. I'm a greatly gregarious grammarian. I like Neoclassical and Neue Sachlichkeit art, as well as Greco-Roman culture in general... other human being stuff. I'm an anti-corporate capitalist. I'm an individualist, but I have a strong sense of civic duty to the common good. |
| Books: | fiction: the floating opera by john barth, goethe's faust, the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, the stranger by albert camus, catch-22 by joseph heller, a few others non-fiction: why i am not a christian by bertrand russell, the problems of philosphy by russell and a history of western philosophy by russell as well, darwin's dangerous idea by daniel dennett, the blind watchmaker by richard dawkins, the blank slate by steven pinker, conscilience by edward o. wilson, the open society and its enemies by karl popper, the third chimpanzee by jared diamond, the demon-haunted world by carl sagan, shadows of forgotten ancestors and varieties of scientific experience by sagan, the consolations of philosophy by boethius, the prince by machiavelli, spinoza's ethics, critique of religion and philosophy by walter kaufmann, beyond good and evil by friedrich nietzsche, a moveable feast by hemingway, and too many more to try and name |
| Movies: | The Empire Strikes Back, the godfather 1 and 2, edward scissorhands, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, the shining, a clockwork orange, casino, goodfellas, the departed, taxi driver, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, red dragon, silence of the lambs, high plains drifter, reefer madness, heat, natural born killers, platoon, wall street, the big lebowski, king of new york, blow, the insider, seven, aliens, gladiator, south park movie, a fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, the good the bad and the ugly, munich, scarface, serpico, there's something about mary, Barton Fink, the omen, carrie, blood diamond, fight club, american beauty, closer, this is spinal tap, tombstone, the magnificent seven, the getaway, terminator, supersize me, the fifth element, bladerunner, swingers, mobsters, city hall, the deer hunter, immortal beloved, amadeus, indiana jones absolute worst movies: the black dahlia, babel, the new star wars trilogy and the old special edition ( |
| Music: | pink floyd, the beatles, led zep, sublime, RHCP, beethoven, tom petty, cowboy junkies, dire straits, joe walsh, wagner, bruce springsteen, miles davis, flock of seagulls, devo, david essex, foreigner, the clash, the romantics, pain, bob seger, mozart, tchaikovsky, beastie boys, oldies... the list goes on and on |
| Quotes: | "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." -- Stephen Hawking "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible." -- Bertrand Russell "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." -- John Stuart Mill "Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few." -- George Berkeley |
| Sports Teams: | Auburn Tigers |
| TV Shows: | TV is the worst drug ever. However... |
Tracy Mc Grady is the biggest waste of money in the NBA
Tracy Mcgrady in my opinion is the biggest waste of money in the NBA. Tracy Mcgrady has been worth $63million for the past 3 years (including this year) and he is the biggest waste of money that a franchise as sad as the Rockets has had to spend on a player. Why? Reason 1: Tracy Mcgrady has not been able to finish a complete season in his entire tenure with the Houston Rockets. This season Tracy will be making the most money in the NBA ($23,239,561) and he is expected to miss at least half t...
Death Penalty
Death Penalty - Capital Punishment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty Resolved: The death penalty should be used at times as punishment for a crime. I negate the resolution. I reserve the right to make new contentions in future rounds. Contention 1: Costs Too Much [1] The government spends millions of dollars paid for by the taxpayers, just to try to get a person killed. This is, to put it simply, a waste of money. It costs much less money to keep people convicted of high...
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972...
Belief in an afterlife negatively impacts the world of practical affairs
Salve all. I had this debate some time ago against a friend, but the arguments given by my opponent led the debate somewhat astray. I've been out of practice for a minute so I decided to post again and possibly meet a few newbies in the mean time. This debate is about how the belief in an afterlife, be it Christian or otherwise, negatively impacts the temporal world in a large way. The issue is not whether "god" exists or not - this is basically irrelevant in this context as religion and its...
McCain is not fit to be president.
I will post my argument after my challenge is accepted....
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| Debates: | 36 |
| Lost: | 8 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 27 |
| Win Ratio: | 77.14% |
| Percentile: | 98.88% |
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| • | Abortion | Pro |
| • | Affirmative Action | Con |
| • | Border Fence | Con |
| • | Campaign Finance Reform | Pro |
| • | Civil Unions | Pro |
| • | Death Penalty | Pro |
| • | Drug Legalization | Pro |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | Con |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Flag Burning | N/O |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Labor Unions | Pro |
| • | Late Term Abortion | Con |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | Missile Defense System | Con |
| • | NAFTA | Con |
| • | National Health Care | Pro |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Pro |
| • | Patriotism | N/O |
| • | PETA | Con |
| • | Police Profiling | Con |
| • | President George W. Bush | Con |
| • | Progressive Tax | Pro |
| • | School Vouchers | Con |
| • | Social Programs | Pro |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Term Limits | N/S |
| • | Tobacco Rights | Pro |
| • | United Nations | Con |
| • | United States | Und |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Pro |
| • | War in Iran | Con |
| • | War in Iraq | Con |
| • | War on Terrorism | Con |
| • | Water Boarding | Con |
| • | Welfare | Pro |
| • | World Trade Organization | Con |