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My self-summary Propose an edit

First off, I'm not really on here for dating because I'm in the happiest relationship of my life. I would just really like to meet some people to hang out with in my area. Penpals are always nice too. I was enlisted in the Marine Corps infantry for two years. I've been out for while and most of the people I know in town have moved away or are too busy to hang out.

In retrospect, the rest of what I had written before really didn't explain much about me. It's silly to have a profile on this site, but if I'm going to have one, I might as well say a little about myself.

My favorite author is Dostoevsky. The first book I read by him was Crime and Punishment and I couldn't believe what I was reading. I related with Raskolnikov immensely. I have personally experienced the kind of mental instability that physical sickness and a touch of nihilism can bring to a person's life, and apparently so did Dostoevsky. Later, when I read The Brothers Karamazov, I felt like Dost had scooped out all my fears, ambitions, and internal conflicts and wrote a novel about them. Reading his novels gave me the first real hope in my life that another human being could possibly understand me.

I believe in love. I believe that love is separate and above our current ridiculous social custom of "dating". I believe that what lies at the core of love is the ability to be selfless and that you can only love to the degree that you can be selfless.

I am Christian in the sense that I strive to be a follower of Christ. I think that all modern churches are astray with their politicing and greediness. I am also interested in the Messianic Judaism movement as a potential home for my ideologies and beliefs.

I think that a person should only define themselves by what they are willing to die for, because when you define yourself, it limits you (which is technically what a "definition" is. I try to keep the ways I define myself counted on one hand - to varied success.

I believe in certain concepts of the tao - not as a philosophy, but as a reality of nature. When you are swimming against the current of your own path, every tiny thing in your life will seem exhausting and tiresome to you.

I practice a variant of wu style Tai Chi and the martial style of Kung Fu San Soo. I highly recommend both to everyone I meet.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm a college student after ten years away from any scholarly pursuits (besides my own personal ones).

I've also, since my separation with the Marines, been learning how to eat healthy. It has become a mild obsession.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Lots of things.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Usually, it's the confident way I carry myself coupled with the grace and ease with which I handle social situations. Either that or my huge shnauz.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

Books: David Copperfield, A Tale Of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Of Human Bondage, To Kill A Mockingbird, A History of Jazz (Ted Gioia), Hagakure, A Book of Five Rings, The Bible, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, Beowulf, The Old Man and the Sea, Close Encounters: Mike Wallaces Own Story, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, 1984, A Scanner Darkly, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Neuromancer, Permutation City, East of Eden, Deus Irae, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Madness and Civilization, Grapes of Wrath, The Game Players of Titan, The Penultimate Truth, Slaughterhouse Five

Music: Joe Pass, Carmen McRae, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Modern Jazz Quartet, Django Reinhardt, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Paul Desmond, BB King, Robert Johnson, Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Aimee Mann, Weezer, Radiohead, Grant Lee Phillips, Grandaddy, Medicine, My Bloody Valentine, They Might Be Giants, The Beta Band, Sufjan Stevens

Movies: Brazil, Lost In Translation, Pi, Punch Drunk Love, Solaris (remake), Requiem For A Dream, Good Will Hunting, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Evil Dead series, Bubba Ho-Tep, Ghost Dog, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Swingers, The Man Who Wasn't There, Hudsucker Proxy, Ladykillers, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Dreams, The Bourne Identity, Apocalypse Now, Unleashed, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Duck Soup

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

1. God 2. Air 3. Water 4. Food 5. The sun (without it, there'd be no food) 6. Love

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

My place in the harmony of the universe

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Practicing my favorite hobby, which is martial arts.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

Sometimes, when no one is looking, I pick my nose.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You like toast. Or any other reason for that matter.

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