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| User: | weemadharold (2845814) I don't suffer from insanity - I *enjoy* it
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| Name: | Wee Mad Harold | |||||||
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| Location: | Greenwich, London, United Kingdom | |||||||
| Birthdate: | 1979-07-02 | |||||||
| E-mail: | beelzebubbles@gmail.com | |||||||
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| Bio: | I figured it was about time I wrote an actual 'bio' up here, so here it goes (one day I'll get around to actually finishing it...and maybe making it sound a little less pretentious). I don't use MySpace. MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch is an evil fascist bastard, therefore I don't use MySpace. You can tell I've studied logic, can't you? On that note, I find Robert Anton Wilson's statement that "I try to think logically and because of that most people think I'm crazy" to be so very, very true. I believe that most politics misses the point. I agree with Tom Robbins when he says that: It is futile to work for political solutions to humanity's problems because humanity's problems are not political. Political problems do exist, all right, but they are entirely secondary. The primary problems are philosophical, and until the philosophical problems are solved, the political problems will have to be solved over and over and over again. The phrase 'vicious circle' was coined to describe the ephemeral effectiveness of almost all political activity.I also believe that the single greatest problem in the world is that most people are complete idiots: "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity." -- VoltaireAnybody doubting the innate stupidity of their fellow person should spend a few days browsing Internet forums. Addressing this stupidity should be the primary goal of anybody desiring a better world for, as Robert Anton Wilson has said, "There is nothing rationally desirable that cannot be achieved sooner if rationality itself increases...Work to achieve Intelligence Intensification is work to achieve all our other sane and worthwhile goals." I tend to be a pessimistic optimist, or maybe an optimistic pessimist. I think that the world as we know it is pretty fucked and humanity's days may well be numbered. George Monbiot's statement that "Given a choice between a new set of matching tableware and the survival of humanity, I suspect that most people would choose the tableware" seems too true for civilisation to have any great chance of surviving past this century. That's the pessimism. The optimism is that life is beautiful and I'm determined to ring every bit of joy I can get from it, while doing what I can to encourage a change in direction. After all, maybe the horse will learn to sing. I consider myself to be amoral. Morality I see as adherence to a set of rules laid down by god, priesthood, parents, society, whomever. One can learn from others of course, but accepting anybody's word as law seems a major error and so I live my life according to my own ethical principles, which are subject to change in the light of experience and reasoning. Up until the age of 15 I had little to no knowledge of or interest in music. Then I heard Space Oddity on the radio, and fell in love with the song and with music in general. There has remained a special place in my heart reserved for David Bowie ever since. I have the curiosity of a four-year old. While I'm sure that it's going to kill me one day, I figure that's as good a way to go as any and I regard my curiosity as a strength rather than a weakness. People tell me that curiosity killed the cat, but nobody ever knows what it does to the Englishman and I'm pretty curious to find out. I'm not satisfied with simply dismissing ignorance of a subject with "it's not important." God is in the details... Unfortunately this does make me very intolerant of plot holes in fiction. The whole way through City of God I was bemused by Lil Dice being able to kill a whole hotel full of people when he only had six bullets. What did he do, ask them to put their heads together in a line? "That Man is the product of causes which had not prevision of the end they were achieving; are but the outcome of accidental collocation of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins -- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." ~Bertrand Russell | |||||||
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| Interests: | 140: abba, adbusters, agnosticism, air, alan davies, alan moore, alan parsons project, alan partridge, aldous huxley, altered states of consciousness, babylon 5, barefoot doctor, bauhaus, beck, bill bailey, bill hicks, binaural beats, blackadder, block rocking zen, bluetones, blur, brass eye, chaos, chaos theory, chopin, chris morris, comedy, cornwall, cory doctorow, creativity, damien rice, david bowie, david devant, dawn of the replicants, death in june, discordianism, divine comedy, douglas adams, drugs, eddie izzard, emperor norton, eris, faithless, father ted, fight club, franz ferdinand, freedom, fun, george orwell, hot fuzz, humour, ideas, jeff buckley, johnny depp, julian cope, laughter, leonard cohen, linux, literature, london, lou reed, love, magic roundabout, manic street preachers, mansun, manu chao, marilyn manson, massive attack, michael moore, moby grape, monkey dust, monty python, music, mythology, neil gaiman, never mind the buzzcocks, nick cave, nine inch nails, noam chomsky, peak oil, peep show, photography, pink floyd, pixies, placebo, poker, psychedelics, psychology, psychonautics, pulp, quantum physics, radiohead, red dwarf, religion, robert anton wilson, salvia divinorum, satire, science, science fiction, second-hand books, sex, shaun of the dead, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, sleeping, spaced, stephen fry, subversion, suede, super furry animals, systema, taoism, tea, terence mckenna, terry pratchett, the beatles, the big lebowski, the cult, the cure, the fall, the flaming lips, the pixies, the sandman, the smiths, the teardrop explodes, the velvet underground, thunderstorms, tim burton, timothy leary, tom robbins, tom waits, transcranial magnetic stimulation, vampire weekend, van der graaf generator, walking, wanking, weird, wilhelm reich, writing, y tu mama tambien | |||||||
| Schools: | Humphry Davy School - Penzance, England - Cornwall, United Kingdom (1990 - 1995) Cornwall College - Camborne - Camborne, England - Cornwall, United Kingdom (1996 - 1998) University of Greenwich - London, England - Greater London, United Kingdom (2006 - present) | |||||||
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