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Trivial Bio Info

I call this a trivial bio page because none of the information listed here is of any significance. Simply, I thought it would be fun to create this page and put down some of my activities and favorite items. To that extent; it was. So for whatever its worth here is some useless info about myself.

Birth Date:

December 1976

Vegan Birth Date:

June 17, 2002

Residence:

Beardstown, Illinois (United States)

Favorite forms of recreation:

Cycling (recreational and racing)
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Simply being outdoors
Debating (yeah, I'm kinda wierd that way)

Education:

Lincoln Land Community College 1997, Certificate of Acheivement, Automotive Technology
Western Illinois University (in progress), BS, Philosophy

Group Memberships:

United Chapters of Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society (Iota of Illinois)

Favorite Bands:

A Fire Inside (AFI)
Misfits
Bad Religion
Goldfinger
Dead Kennedys
NOFX
Rise Against
Anti-Flag
Strike Anywhere
Social Distortion

Favorite Songs:

Free Me - Goldfinger
Civilized Man - Shelter
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Shut Up, Stand Up - Beatsteaks
Dead and Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots
Meat is Still Murder - Propagandhi
Basket Case - Green Day
Less Teeth, More Tits - Lunachicks
All I Want - Offspring
Kick Him When He's Down - Offspring
Total Immortal - AFI
Biomachines - Earth Crisis
Zyclone B Bathouse - NOFX

Metaphysical Orientation:

None
Raised Christian/Mormon (RLDS/Community of Christ; not Utah Mormon)

Favorite Quotes:

"If I owned Texas and hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell."
- General P. H. Sheridan

"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom ... For the first time, I was free ... I stood erect and joyously faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain ... And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.”
- Robert Ingersoll

"George W. Bush is deregulating American global capitalism with one hand while regulating the feelings it produces with the other. Or, to put it another way, he is doing nothing to change the causes of fear and everything to channel the feeling and expression of it."
- Arlie Hochschild - Let Them Eat War (from a MotherJones.com commentary)

Favorite Animal Rights Quotes:

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand tyranny. [Humanity has] already discovered that the blackness of skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be realized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum (fur or tail) are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but Can they suffer?"
- Jeremy Bentham

"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
- Buddha

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Posted/Updated: 5/01/07