I'm quite new here and I'm a little shy. I think that deep down,
I'm a latterday romantic and perhaps rather too idealistic
at times for the real world. People say my emotional honesty is my
greatest strength and my greatest weakness, especially when I
write.I tend to follow my heart even when my heart contradicts
itself and goes in different directions. I often end up trapped
between being a hopeless romantic or being a nihilist and
usually end being both

I'm just getting into writing my second novel although it's not
getting that far at the moment. Politically I'm very far to the
left. I also have a passion for the east, particularly
eastern painting and architecture, I have just returned from
China. I'm fascinated by Taoism/Daoism, and
Shintoism although I have to confess as westerner my knoledge
of it is slightly limited, but I really want to gain a deeper
understanding of it. I definitely think I favour Taoism over
Kongzi I've tried learning some Mandarin, but haven't been
able to get very.
While as you might have guessed from my name, I'm very much into
Heidegger, and I also like Schopenhauer, Marx,D.T.
Suzuki, Nishida, Nishitani (as well as the rest of the
Kyoto school),Laozi(Lao Tzu), Camus, Siji
Tzu,Bachelard, Liezi (Lieh Tzu), Erick
Fromm,Nagarjuna, Marcuse, Derrida, Adorno,
Mootori,Heraclitus, Dogen, Zhuangzi,Jung,
Caputo, Parmenides,Kuki
Shuzo,Empedocles,Wagner, Hui Neng, Rosa
Luxembourg, Holderlin, Meister Eckhert,Kukai,Simon
Critchley, Kenko, Nietzsche, Freud, Cioran,
Richard Kearney Lefebvre, Guy Debord,Miguel de
Unamuno, William Blake, Sartre, Foucault, Ernst
Bloch and Kierkegaard. I also quite interested in European
romantic art, particularly the paintings of Caspar David
Friedrich

Ultimately my aim in philosophy is to restore the wonder to
existence that has been lost within the nihilism of a world
that seeks to process everything it touches. Further more I believe
that philosophy should be more than just he dry persuite of few
academics cut of from human life.
That said, I don't know whether I or anyone else can ever really
may make a difference, perhaps only a god can save us, but who
knows

I am existential, emotional, and imaginative

I'm a graduate philosophy student, I left Cambridge a few
months ago and I'm just starting at Warwick in a few weeks. I'm not
really sure what I want to after that, although my main ambition is
to become a professional writer, but I wouldn't mind becoming
an academic.

listening, thinking, feeling, philosophising and imagining.

My blond hair, my individuality and my height.

a)Nausea, 1984, the Concluding Unscientific PostScript,
the Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching, The Outsider, Faust,
The Platform Sutra, Kami No Michi (the way of Gods in
Japan), The Tragic Sense of Life, Animal Farm, the self
over coming of Nihilism, Journey to the West, Dialogue on
Language between a Japanese and Inquirer, Antigone, Dew
Drops on a Lotus Leaf by Ryokan, Irrational Man, by
William Barrett, The Essence of Shinto, Fear and
Trembling, Don Juan, Lord Byron, the right to
idleness, by Paul Lafargue, The Odyssey,Shinto
Meditations for Revering the Earth, Peer Gynt,Don
Quixote,A Philosophy of Boredom.The Wake of Imagination,
Tale of Genji, The revolution of everyday life, the world
as will and Representation, Brave New world, Thus Spake
Zarathustra, the letter on humanism, Chuang Tzu, the
1844 manuscripts,Kojiki, Nihongi, Love and
Barley-haiku of Basho, Strangers, Gods and Monsters,
The Dream of Red Mansion, Songs innocence and Experiance,
Brothers of Karamanzov, notes from the Underground (there
are also a lot of things that I still want to read but haven't had
time)
b)Ikiru, fight club, Late Spring, the Secretary,
Pleasantville, Porco Rosso, the scent of Green Papaya,
I ♥ Huckabees, Springtime in a Small Town, Hero,
Kiki's delivery Service Orphee, Chihwaseon, If,
It Happened Here, Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind, Reds,
Equinox Flower, Good morning,Happy Times, Rashomon,
The Bridges of Madison County Barton Fink,The Sea Is
Watching, Days of BEing Wild, Being John Malkovich,
Battle Royale 2 Requiem,Escape From Hong Kong Island, oh
Brother where art thou,Welcome to Dongmakgol Floating
Weeds, dead poets society, American Beauty, Spirited
Away, In the mood for love, the Seventh seal, 2046
the Big Lebowski,V For Vendetta, Tokyo Ga, Chinese
Odyssey, Spring, Summer, Autumn, winter...and Spring, by
Kim Ki-duk, anything by Yasujiro Ozu or Miyazaki Zhou
Yu's train, Whisper of the heart, My Neighbour Totoro,
As Tears go by, Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice and
moonlight Wispers.
c)Wagner's (l love all of Wagner's music, apart from the Miester
singers of Nuerenbourgh, but I paticuarly like), the Ring
Cycle, Tanhausser, Tristan and Isolde, The Flying
Dutchman and Parsifal I think Wagner is probably the most
misunderstood composer in history, besides Wagner, I also like the
Yellow River Piano Concerto, Chopan, Liszt, Eric
Satie,jpop, the Internationale, Chinese Opera,
Debussy, Russian Folk Music,Soul Flower Mononoke
Summit,the ode to joy, Marseillaise, Traditonal Korean
music,Bella ciao,the Tang Dynasty rock band
(T�ngch�o), Northwest Wind, Nanniwan, Bruckner,
Hashimoto paticularly Heavenly maiden and
fisherman,Schumann, Katyusha, Moscow
Nights,Dvor�k,Puccini, Cpop,Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad symphony,Mahler,Fischia il
vento,Grieg, Classical Chinese music paticularly on the
erhu and enca
d)Sichuan stlyle noodles (I love spicy food), as well as,
feta cheese, strawberries' Japanese food, Italian
food,goats cheese, blue berries,vegetarian
sushi, Wensleydale cheese, Korean food, Shanxi
vinegar, lychees, Yunnan style food, Qingdao beer
and Shaoxing yellow wine hwang jiu.

philosophy, beauty, love, hope, imagination and Wagner

Human existence, the question of Being, the meaning of life, angst, existentialism, the sacred, revolution, Zen, Ultra leftism, the twilight of the gods, Satori, faith,active nihilism, North Korea, Situationism,Wabi-sabi, the waring states period, Kim Il Sung, the Pure Land school, Deconstruction, the edo period,Continental Philosophy, East Asian philosophy, Mahayana Buddhism,Shinto,Noh drama, mystery, mysticism, earth sky gods and mortals, hope,Psychology, iki, absurdity,the Tang dynasty, becoming a free spirit, religion revaluation of all values, meiji restoration Post Modern Theology, overcoming alienation, tragic idealism, Council Communism,the dialogue between east and west, Gnosticism, nothingness, the return of the gods, the Song dynasty,Anti-consumerism,Dissalusionment, modernity, Japanese culture,Primordial sense of Being, post modernity,socialism, visiting temples and shrines, dreams, enchantment, the new Beginning, 19th century Europe,Chinese Culture, Enlightenment, disenchantment, reenchantment, tragic idealism, Pre-Socratic Greece, negative theology, utopianism, nihilistic romanticism redemption, irrationalism

I discuss life with a few friends

I'm interested in spanking, both giving and receiving