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I'm tempted to call myself an intellectual, but I don't suffer such grandiose pretensions. More accurately, I'm a nerd. I'm interested in cerebral subjects that zit-faced glasses-wearing shut-ins like, except now that we're grown up, we gather for dinner parties and discuss it over a bottle of wine, which is when nerds usually start calling themselves "intellectuals." I admit I'm just a band and science nerd who's developed a taste for expensive wine.

I am highly political and politically incorrect. I am a rational anarchist (see below) - which is a fancy phrase for an opportunist who takes full responsibility for all her own actions and the resulting repercussions; it means I know I'm free and I know nothing comes for free. I have strong opinions and champion many social causes but don't get easily offended by people who disagree or don't care. I might write you off as an idiot or an asshole, but I won't waste my time being *offended*. If someone preaches righteously about a cause I believe in, I am more likely to deliberately barb their annoying ass than tell them I agree. This is not because I enjoy wasting my life fucking with idiots - it is because it is usually the quickest method to get them to go away. I believe it a dismissal-worthy waste of time when people are concerned with how different/interesting they are, and find it funny that many people think I do. I find that there are other, more worthwhile reasons to believe/think/feel/do what I do than the statistical frequency with which that belief occurs. I'm not interested in being cool, nor subscribing to the anti-cool fascism to which Hot Topic markets. I think what I think, and if you waste the breath to comment on what portion of the population agrees or disagrees with me as a point of validation, I will probably deem you too stupid to talk to. I have a somewhat inaccurate manner of using the word "stupid" and similar synonyms, often substituting it where "uneducated," "tedious," or "doesn't use Google first," would be more accurate. The way you know I am not just here to push buttons is that I don't bother to engage people who accuse me of such. Everyone has certain standards and disagreeable traits - contrary to popular dating etiquette, I find it useful to make mine explicitly known right off the bat, so people who won't like or be liked by me can avoid wasting their time.

Despite the brusque negativity of that, I'm only-somewhat-secretly an utter hippie. I actually love everyone and everything; including the people I won't put up with. I identify strongly with "omniquantism," ("If God is omnipotent and all things are possible, then it is possible that all religions are correct at the same time!") pantheistic solipsism ("Pantheism and solipsism. Between the two of them you can explain anything." - Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein. Read it someday soon.) and the "Six Wise Men of Indostan" (See below. It's not that long.) Everything's right, everyone's wrong, and it's all just a figment of my imagination, and I'm just a figment of yours, anyway. Thou art god. Share water, darlings! I believe that "Shiva split himself into a million million parts, so that he might have friends." (google "the little soul and the sun." also not that long.) No one really knows it with the whole of their consciousness most of the time, but we're all part of the same elephant, so theoretically, I love you, and you're probably pissing me off for a good reason. My pragmatic side simply takes the stance that I can't possibly reunite with all the other parts of Shiva in this lifetime, so I'll start with the ones that annoy me less first, and get onto the rest when I'm a few steps more enlightened :>

If you followed any of that, you'll know why we should be friends.

I founded my journal as a literary magazine, and thus I post things I think will be on interest value to those reading. There are mostly "articles" (editorials, introspections, observations, judgements as well as interpersonal, psychological and philosophical theories etc) with a small amount of art and fiction and a good handful of choice comedic bits. It's offensive, disrespectful, straightforward, thoroughly researched and considered, occasionally mastrubatorially pseduo-intellectual, and sometimes really fucking funny.

Above all, it's designed for other people to read. It's my soapbox, my puplit, and I'm not going to waste your time with laundry lists of what I did today, large and brightly colored quiz results, or one sentence inside jokes drunkenly posted via TxtLJ. I keep that crap minimal or filtered, anyway.

I'm no more right than you are, but contrariwise, no more wrong...

“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame . . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world . . . aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.”

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Six wise men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.

The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk
Cried, "Ho! what have we here,
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me `tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up he spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"

The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee:
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he;
"'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope.
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

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