All declarations are subject to change. I always keep my mind open; being set in your ways without ears doesnt do anyone any good. Not that I don't feel passionately about what I believe in-- it's simply that I am big on understanding your beliefs and why you believe them enough to let them grow with the additional perspectives one encounters constantly, unceasingly throughout one's entire life. Human beings live in a state of constant flux and change, and there are new dimensions to things everywhere. Within those two states of being, I find infinite beauty.

I believe in enjoying the pleasures of life: I can be something of a lush sometimes. But I'm big on the sensual fleshed out beyond flesh, into a meaning beyond our bodies. Again, don't get me wrong, I believe in the purely physical, but I believe that those experiences can have their own sacredness and enlightening/enriching quality to them. I am open with my sexuality, and am into certain kinks. If either of those things severely upsets you, we might not make the best of friends.

Hmm...lets see what else-- (in case you couldn't tell, I'm not having the most success in the world defining myself in a box, but here it goes).

I write a lot. I love words and linguistics and literature, poem, prose or otherwise. I'm in great awe, reverence and love of the enormous power of words to connect human beings. Sometimes i'll put my writing here: http://rosetintmyworld.deviantart.com

Things often happen in revelation for me. I dig ideas, and am constantly falling in and out of love with them. I dig philosophy, from the entire spectrum of it's recorded history. I also am very passionate about the study of mythology: the lexicon of world myths is, after all, the story of humanity.

I'm always looking for truths and truth-colored fictions

I can be crude and crass and blunt as hell. I could probably drink you under the table. I love whiskey, gin, beer and wine.

I tend to go off on tangents. A lot. And then go off on other tangents forever and ever. The points that I finish in linear order are a vast minority.

Most of the time when I am walking, I do not know where I am going. I get lost a lot; directions are not my strongest played hand. I'm alright with it though: it makes for some grand adventures.

I really love my friends.

My face is a traitor and I cant hide emotion to save my life. It is sometimes hard for me to argue reservedly and/or coolly about things that I feel passionately about, because within said arguments, what filter I do have gets overcome. I'm working on it; it's gotten much better, and has much bettering still to come.

I'm big on extending and receiving respect. common courtesy, etc.

I'm very synthaesthetic. Sometimes I forget that most people will not understand what I mean when I ask them what the color blue tastes like. When I think of numbers in my head, I think of colors and emotional temperaments. It makes me somewhat logistically math-retarded, but i dig it.

I am madly in love with the human race, though this love can be very "on-again-off-again". I'm not sure about whether my love is of the form of the ideal or the actual, but im guessing its some combination thereof.

I believe that life is an amazing thing, that we've all got our capacities, immeasurably outward in either direction.

The best thing in life, to me, is to connect to another human being. Yehuda Amichai called it "the weather of myself meeting the weather of another", which is a description I like sometimes.

Sleep and I have a very bizarre relationship. Always have, probably always will.

I'm big on community and sociopolitical activism. I'm big on learning about revolutions and coup d'états and resistance groups of the past and present, local/national and international. On the issues, so to speak, one would probably describe me as a left-leaning liberal, big on individual liberties and societal responsibility; my theoretical best-system would be some variant of marxist-socialist, but due to the actualities of the world we live in, this remains only a theoretical.

I love music and dancing and talking to strangers. I love meeting new people maybe more than anything.

I'm up for an adventure, a discussion, a dance, a debate, a life-changing event, a wild time, and in general, most things.

I'm big on living and being alive, but not to the point of delusion; I'm big on spectrums rather than absolutes.

Namaste!

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• Pegasus_Epsilon
• STILTO

Living, first and foremost.

I spend my occupational time right now being a student and pulling off odd-jobs so as to be less broke.

Beyond that, trying to create and love, and enrich myself as I take from the world around me.

Practically, there's no real way to equate that. I plan on having funds enough for food to eat and a roof over my head. Beyond that, I suppose my aspiration is to become a collector and teller of stories, preferably a traveling one, who brings the perspectives of people to other people who would have never known that perspective (and vice versa). Or maybe social work. Or both. Or something else entirely? Either way, I plan to try on leaving good\construction in my wake as opposed to destruction.

occasionally i think of other things to do with my life.

Talking to strangers, rambling, keeping secrets, weaving words.

...and apparently not identifying things I'm good at.

(also being completely in love with my best friend soul-sister flesh-of-my-flesh foxflood

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• Terralthra17

Depends on the context in which you encounter me. Often I sit on the ground where most people wouldn't. Open\audible discussion of things a lot of people would reserve for hushed whisper, if uttered at all. I'm not afraid of who I am or who other people are, by and large, and this results in what I've been told is a noticeable trait of conversation. Also I can't control the volume of my voice very well. So.

Also, my hair is a wild, wild beast.

Good golly miss molly, you couldn't expect me to go all the way
there. The lists are quite long, but here goes:

Movies I love: The Dreamers, 21 Grams, A Clockwork Orange, The Last Life in the Universe, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Basquiat, Mind the Gap,Anchorman, Dogma, Tarnation, Kubrick’s Lolita, Midnight Cowboy, Little Miss Sunshine, Blue Velvet, Withnail and I, But I’m A Cheerleader!, Party Monster, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Amelie, Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Strangelove, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Trainspotting, The Life Aquatic,Koyaanisqatsi, The Cockettes, Royal Tenenbaums, The Graduate, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Squid and the Whale, I Heart Huckabees, American Beauty, Jacob’s Ladder, Dot the I, Bad Education, Hair, The Manchurian Candidate, The Neverending Story, Alice in Wonderland, Un Chien Andalou, Goodfellas, Magnolia, The Motorcycle Diaries, Adaptation, MiddleSexes, Fight Club, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Sin City, Cecil B. Demented, Big Fish, True Romance, Pink Flamingos, Empire Records, Love and Sex, Le Petit Jerusalem, Children of Men, Waking the Dead, 3 Needles, The Libertine, Barton Fink Soylent Green. Also more but listmaking is tiresome. I've got a thing for movies about the apocalypse.

Writers of words I love: Rilke, Elisabeth Bishop, Simic, Ginsberg, Anna Akhmatova, Vern Rutsala, Tzara, Breton, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, Czeslow Milosz, Ilya Kaminsky, Adrian Blevins, Mary Jo Bang, Dylan Thomas, Mark Strand, H.D., Frank O'Hara, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Vladimir Nabakov, Julian Barnes, Donald Hall, Amos Oz, Yehuda Amichai, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Sylvia Plath, Agha Shahid Ali, Lyn Hejinian, Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, W.H. Auden, Jorge de Lima, Roethke, Margret Atwood, Pablo Neruda, E.E. Cummings, Wislawa Symborska, Robert Hayden, Anna Rabinowitz, Gwen Harwood, Robert Hass, Aime Cesaire, Paul Celan, Mario De Andrade, Octavio Paz, Max Jacob, Bei Dao, D.A. Levy, Donald Justice, Dan Pagis, Jorie Grahm, Vasko Popa, Wallace Stevens, Mary Oliver, Henri Michaux, Brian Barker, Nicanor Parra, A.K. Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shu Ting, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Anton Wilson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Flannery O'Connor

Music I love: The Fugees, Portastatic, X, Dead Kennedys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cloud Cult, Common, Raveonettes, Lady Sovereign, The Unicorns,Gogol Bordello, A Tribe Called Quest, Jon Brion, The Rapture, Rolling Stones, Zombies, Yann Tierson, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Nico, Velvet Underground, Eels, White Stripes, The Dresden Dolls, Gravy Train!!!!, Decemberists, Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, Moldy Peaches, Felix da Housecat, Bloc Party, New York Dolls, G.G. Allin, Wax Tailor, Annette Hanshaw, Air, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Album Leaf, Mission of Burma, Credence Clearwater Revival, Pixies, Gorillaz, Andrew Bird, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Dandy Warhols, Cold War Kids, Zutons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Mississipi John Hurt, Of Montreal, Grateful Dead, NWA, Beat Happening, Stars, A Most Serene Republic, M.I.A, Beatles, Belle Orchestre, Beck, Berlin, Bjork, Moby, Belle & Sebastian, The Talking Heads, Theatre Fire, Queers, Cockney Rejects, Tracy Chapman, Weakerthans, X-Ray Specs, Carla Bruni, Elvis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Silver Jews, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Psychedelic Furs, Iron and Wine, Missy Elliot, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Pogues, Scott Joplin, Django Reinhardt, Jelly Roll Morton, Bireil Lagrene, Mimi Blais, talkdemonic, Alasdair Roberts, Page France, Sigur Ros, The Harlem Shakes, The Hold Steady, bhangra, reggeaton, unknown hinson. Anything that sounds just so. Or more? Or less? That strikes a chord with me. (baha. pun INTENDED.)

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• Terralthra17

Try me

you'd like to go on an adventure