Arguably insane and wholly incredible, noble and idealistic, intrepid and robust; politically incorrect, elitist and proud of it, daring, dissident and affable - playful, paradoxical and profoundly ridiculous; extreme in everything and exuberant to the point of mania - a nature-loving, fantasy-thrilled, free-spirited existentialist, a mischievous, rebellious, pestilential, iconoclastic revisionist, an irreligious, whimsical, anti-authoritarian transhumanist – an exemplar of messianic proportions.

A poet, a dreamer, and a romantic, unsure as to whether he’s always joking or never joking. A passionate sceptic whose hobbies include; ecstatic daydreaming, creating imaginary worlds, pursuing self-actualisation, philosophising with a hammer, transforming my friends into hyperbolic characterisations of themselves, pretending to be arrogant, performing, pushing back the boundaries of 'normality' and celebrating for no apparent reason.

I also enjoy; introspection, altered states of consciousness and integrity. Despite all appearances to the contrary, I don’t take myself seriously - rather I take life very seriously. I’m a joker who likes to entertain, to break monotony and gloom, and to look at the big picture. I’m fond of genuinely nice people who aren’t prone to bitterness, jealousy or spite. I am the war against banausic pragmatism, anthropocentrism, cultural degeneration and tyranny.

Eloquent, intuitive and expressive, I live my life as a performing art. Complex beyond the horizon of explanation, I seamlessly cross between worlds. A restless genius who offends people by telling them the truth, I am acid in the face of cynics. My purpose in life is to make the magic come alive.

I take a deep personal interest in people, and I like it when people take a deep personal interest in me. Superficial banter bores me. Profundity and thorough examination of feelings is much more to my liking. I desire a slow-paced life in the heart of beautiful natural surroundings, far away from the hectic pulse of human hysteria and competitive status-seeking.

What am I? Who is the real me? Do these questions even have an answer? Does it really matter anyway? Is the notion of "self" even a valid concept? These are the sort of labyrinthine questions that race through my mind when I try to fill in a profile. Lassitude will abruptly bring this oration to a halt and force me to amuse myself elsewhere.

If you intrepidly state your opinions, you’ll be perceived as arrogant. If you remain reticent, you have to live with the knowledge that you’re a hypocritical coward. I felt the latter option was more sinister. Caught between a rock and a hard place, I take the liberty of gate-crashing the minds of almost everyone I meet.

Who am I behind the smoke and mirrors? That kid in his play room, lost in his imagination, where all his toys are alive and immersed in a unfurling story where the creator and audience become one and the same. And having seen the divine therein, has no intension of ever returning to the place others call reality.

So it has been said - by the voices in my head. There you have me in a nutshell, the first and last creative supernova you will ever meet.

Do not be optimistic against reality, but in spite of it....

The three word thing that got dumped here;
I am divine, heroic, and magical

Don't take me literally. I require interpretation.

Among other things, being a: dreamer, ecstatic lover, poet, Dionysian, games master, romanticist, fantasist, author, wanderer, dancer, explorer, storyteller, creative consultant, games designer, aesthete, cartoonist, actor, philosopher, iconoclast, adventure guide, surrealist, mentor, satirist, hypnotist, martial arts instructor, visionary, creative genius, wizard, critic, tragedian, comedy writer, rebel, innovator, puppeteer, body guard, adventurer, animator, script writer, super hero, mythologist, performing artist, theme park designer, pirate, circus master, mystic, inventor, mad scientist, evolutionary psychologist, shaman, creator, warrior, wind up merchant, raconteur, magician, life coach, spirit guide, evil genius who tries to take over the world, hero, god and madman, in my spare time.

Creating fantastical characters and worlds, storytelling and related "skills". Suspending disbelief. Creating comedy from situations that aren't supposed to be comedy, and stealth satire generally. Articulating on behalf of any subject I understand thoroughly. Wrestling / submission grappling / martial arts, intuitive physicality. Using my freedom of speech like a caning device. Deliberately confusing people who would never have understood me anyway. Actually, I am really good at everything except singing.

The least wise person I have ever met is probably my old senior tutor Martin Cookson, and he once said; "in life you have to sell yourself - just like on your personal statement!" With that in mind, here are some facts about me:

Interesting True Facts About Me:

- I created the dance 'Chaos Freestyle' - and am undefeated in 'dance offs'.
- I am winner of the 'most spirity' award, August 2005. It was awarded to me by a cheerleader, who better to know what being spirity is all about?
- I headed my own one man religion / cult with a fictional extravaganza of characters from other realms who supposedly possessed me (and also used hotmail for some reason).
- I am a member of the prestigious Thinking Academy - Thinking Quick, Thinking Slick! (I was functionally promoted to one of the directors, but I've yet to receive a call)
- I am the founder and one of Co-Chairman of the 'Bonanza Bros' - we were petty gangsters at the first sixth form college I went to.
- I am the Supreme Leader and Chairman of the NDWA.

The first thing people usually notice about me, is my splendid wit. Observe; Why did the duck cross the road? Because there was an earth-quack!

It depends on how I act at the time, I guess, which in turn depends on my mood and the company. I veer from wildly charismatic and outgoing on some days to very withdrawn on others, from excitable to exasperated, from mischievous to mistrustful. I don't ever become sullen or moody, but I'm often more concerned with own thoughts than entertaining myself in the external world, unsurprising given that most people are such dismal company ('thou shalt not be boring' ought to be a social imperative or religious commandment).

In any event, I don't suppose the first thing people notice about me is anything interesting, unless, as suggested, I'm being flagrantly ridiculous (more often than you might think).

Books - The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil. The Complete Essays - Michel De Montaigne. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain De Botton. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe - Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell. The Portable Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche, Edited and Translated by Walter Kaufmann. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien. Conversations with Goethe - Johann Peter Eckermann. Animal Liberation - Peter Singer. The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Evolution and Psychology - Nicholas Humphrey. The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime - Aubrey de Grey. The Iliad - Homer. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism - Friedrich A. Hayek. The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? - Victor J. Stenger. Zanshin: Meditation and the Mind in modern martial arts - Vince Morris. Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Films - Gulliver's Travels (1939), Jurassic Park, American Beauty, Fight Club, Alice in Wonderland (1951), Dumbo, Life of Brian, Withnail and I, Alien, Rounders, Limitless, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Terminator, The Land Before Time, Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, Spider-Man 2, Labyrinth, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Choke - Rickson Gracie, Cube, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Shows - I don't watch much tv because quality is hard to come by and most of the episodic trash aimed at the unwashed masses is dissonant mind pollution – an assault on both the mind and senses of all those with good taste and depth; a tragic waste of time. My fondest memories for shows are mostly a range of classic, highly imaginative shows from my childhood; Knightmare, The Dreamstone, Fraggle Rock, Thundercats, Ducktales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dogtanian, Monty Python, The Muppet Show etc. In more modern times, also like UFC, Fareed Zakaria, Horizon, some anime; Berserk, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and intelligent documentaries.

1. My imagination
2. Imagination in general
3. My integrity
4. Nature
5. Hope
6. Beauty (I'm an aesthete)
7. Adventure, or at least the possibility of it
8. Absurdity
9. My excellent long term memory
10. Love, in the broader sense of the word.
11. Very intelligent conversation, albeit intermittent
12. Solitude, in which to think and recover from humanity.
13. Gyokuro

Despite popular misconception, I am not the super hero Captain Concept, the striking resemblance is just a coincidence. He is a close personal friend, we drink tea, he lets me ride his concept-mobile. The relationship ends there, I have never worn his costume, I have never used my brilliant mind to save citizens, I am just a mild mannered writer *cough*.

Wisdom, Philosophy, Astronomy, Psychology, Mythology, Cosmology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Intelligence, The Human Condition, Consciousness, Reality, History, Art, Ethics, Qualia, Zoology, Ethology, Physics, Politics, Political Philosophy, Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Meta-Physics, Virtual Reality, Radical Life Extension, Ego-Death, Freeform Fantasy Roleplay, Quantum Mechanics, The Multiverse, Life, Nature, Animals, Biology, Romance, Romanticism, Comedy, Illusion, Culture, Identity, Meaning, History of Ideas, Philosophy of History, Immortality, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Consciousness, Pattern Recognition, Technological Singularity, Poetry, Self-Realisation, Deontology, Metaphysical Naturalism, Who am I, What am I, Why am I, My Life, culture, Philosophical Psychology, My Day Dreams, My Creations, what can it mean to be, my personae, the internal world, the human condition, the human race, Beauty, Fantasy, Comedy, Meditation, other universes, different ways of seeing the world, claims to truth, Intellectual Dishonesty, defence mechanisms, the nature of consciousness, the nature of intelligence, the hard problem of consciousness, Folly, Vice, deontology, Sublimation, Politics, subjectivity, identity, misconceptions in public wisdom, the nature of being, meta-psychology, Moral Progress, Space Exploration, Diffuse Consciousness, Innate Knowledge, Mythopoeic Imagination, Creativity, Chaos, the nature of free will and self-determinism, individuation, Morality, Mortality, the nature of reality, Infinite Regress, Nature/Nurture, psychosomatic expression, speciesism, chaos theory, individualism and collectivism, personal growth and self-actualisation, dissonance, habit and authentic existence, the mysterious nature of existence and why anything exists at all, Electronic Usurpation, Astrobiology, Power, value, self-deception, Transpersonal Experience, Bicameralism, Atheism, Adventure, Germanic Paganism, Anglo-Saxon Polytheism, European Folklore, Taoism, Technology, Robotics, Video Games, Mixed Martial Arts, UFC, Health, Power, Value, Zen, Nanotechnology.

Engaging in manic self-celebration!

...I don't have a typical Friday night.

eh... this is an excuse for people to say something they wanted to say anyway, but would normally be a little too shy to say without a context. I don't live like that, if I want to admit something, I just get it out there - fuck context. Be expressive, live boldly.

I'd like to make new friends from this site, I've made a couple before, so go ahead and message me. :)

Romantically speaking, I'm looking for someone who has a lot of empathy, integrity, and ideally enough intelligence to appreciate imagination and depth. I have a strong preference for expressive and creative people.

Or any one of the following reasons:

1. You want to.
2. You don't want to but are going to anyway.
3. If you too found God hiding in a shoe box, and were mildly amused to see that he/she/it was in fact - an oyster.
4. You're interested.
5. You have an opinion about me or something I've said.
6. You're really angry for no apparent reason.
7. You want to speak to one of the most interesting people of all time.
8. You think there's something very important I should know.
9. You too, support the Chad national football team (or the Isle of Man United).
11. You believe that I may well be the long lost saviour of your peoples (much to my chagrin, I almost certainly am).
13. You find this sentence unnerving.
14. You passed the test that is my self-summary.
19. You want to form an alliance (I need more allies, since most people are trying to kill me).
72. You want to know why I keep writing these sentences.
81. Any other reason you can think of, can't think of, would have thought of, will think of in the future, deny the existence of, use in spite of, think highly of, or otherwise of or pertaining to something, then send me a message. What a peculiar section.