Like others of my species, I am capable of great hypocrisy, great consistency, strong hatred and passionate love. I am aware of all these potentials, and do not pretend otherwise. However, I am also aware that I can choose to be less of a hypocrite, and not open my heart to hatred. This is my view of reality, and thus I am a realist. (not to be confused with economic realism)

Yes, I am a realist. Some may call me an optimist, but they're wrong. For example, I call shit "compost." I say that's just realistic.

I love music, and find it stimulates my imagination. I care about the world, and hate apathy. I sometimes accidentally squeak when I laugh. And my humility surpasses that of all those around me.

I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries, since I believe he is the ideal presidential candidate. However, I ended up voting for Obama in the presidential elections—you know, the reptilian alien who instigated 9/11, killed JFK, joined the New World Order of Socialist Jews, and pushes the gay chemtrail agenda of the Illuminati, creating crop circles out of concentration camps for conservatives.

In addition, I am an atheist and a pantheist. I created my own spirituality when I was fourteen. I am a very rational person, and I have little tolerance for dogmatic religion and practices like homeopathy, both of which are incredibly dangerous and not based in reality.

Also, I hate Ayn Rand with an obsessive passion.

I have been asked about my reading background, and how I came into the political philosophy I now hold so dear. I was brought up by parents who have very similar beliefs to me, and they both do hard work trying to change their world and community: My mother specialises in early childhood trauma, and my father is a revolutionary high school teacher who created a small school called the School for Social Justice and Ecology. I have read the Communist Manifesto, a bit of Proudhon and Goldman, as well as some Adam Smith, Amartya Sen, Noam Chomsky, James Lovelock, and Daniel Quinn, and I tried to read Rand (lol).

If you would like to know more about me, please go to my website. I have five blogs as well.

I will begin my degree in Veterinary Science in February. The first semester is pre-vet, so wish me luck!

I am currently reading Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid as a Factor of Evolution." Kropotkin is one of the classic anarchists. I am also reading the book version of the Anarchist FAQ, which can be read online here.

My work on my spiritual self has stopped for the time being, and thus my spirituality has atrophied. I still consider myself a spiritual person, though I'm more willing to describe myself as an atheist or more accurately, a pantheist (which I always was).

Sitakali is writing great tests at OKCUPID, and holds her courage closely, with love and humor. I would like to get high with Sitakali! --Sylvia Wells

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• Sylvia_Wells

Piano playing; sketching; brooding; whining; being creative; being spiritual; fantasizing; tripping over and bumping into and spilling things; procrastinating; stringing adjectives together to create unending, pedantic, pretentious, sarcastic, verbose, and intellectually stimulating diatribes.

I'm an "odd duck." I start out as shy, but don't let that fool ya. I speak my mind. I tend to gravitate towards the RPG/sci-fi geeks, even though I'm not exactly one myself. I'm what one may call a "geek-hag."

I'm insightful and care about what's happening in the world. Very analytical. I also have a very dark, sometimes dead-pan, and completely random sense of humour. If this gives you any hints: I love Dead Like Me and Monty Python, and my ultimate hero is Stephen Colbert.

Books: The Night World Series by LJ Smith, The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike, Ender's Game, The Dispossessed, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (oh that's right, suddenly everyone knows about that book)

Movies: 28 Days Later; 21 Grams; Aeon Flux; American Beauty; American History X; Dogma; Donnie Darko; Equilibrium; Good-bye, Lenin!; Good Night and Good Luck; The Interpreter; LA Story; Living Out Loud; Motorcycle Diaries; Network; Shaun of the Dead; Series 7

Music: Anggun (Indonesian pop singer who mostly sings in English and French), Imogen Heap, Des'ree, Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennett, Brooke Fraser

Food: pizza, Italian, Indian, (all-time favorite is an Indian dessert called gulab jamun).

Passion, beauty, compassion, love, humanity, and other hippie-dippie shit.

See below.

Pontificating the probability that paternalistic plutocracies will proliferate on the planet, propagating their power, pissing off the proletariat, and promoting apocalyptic pestilence and peak oil, purely for the purpose of profit.

I'm willing to admit that I take my beliefs very seriously. I can be quite self-righteous at times. I don't believe people should be proud to call themselves "moderate" or centrist; those are false terms that mean nothing, considering how they change every decade. You'd might as well say you have "the only logical political belief system" or that you believe in "common sense," which are both opinions, not facts.

You find me interesting, especially if you want to help save the world with me. We must have something important in common! If you think I'm cute, and didn't pay attention to the fact that I'm a radical, tree-hugging, feminazi, bleeding-heart, dominant-paradigm-hating, anarcho-socialist, then don't bother.

And please do not message me if you wish to have sex with me. I simply don't care :)