CURRENT MISSION

To physically construct a society from subjectivities of those below capital's social orders

ABOUT ME

Well briefly, I was a bad child growing up, who found his ability to play football that became my stepping stone out of comfort and into the wildly spontaneous, unpredictable, and fulfilling life I've since created for myself.

PHILOSOPHY

"Life does not buy life"
Bob Marley

"No one can serve two masters. Either he hates the one and loves the other, or he is loyal to one and despises the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

Jesus

“…black folks is like a bunch crabs, what'd they say, in a pot a hot water; once one gets to the top what happen? That’s not the blacks folks, that’s the hot water make ‘em act like that. Don't blame that on me nigga! Cool the water down right. Go out there where crabs hangout; they ain't pulling on one another, but they got you to believe that’s our blackness and ya’ll sucking up the thought, huh. It’s a game, it’s a game. Obama goes to New York tonight; he ain't gonna get no cab, huh…..”
...
Dick Gregory

"Te mando, pa’l carajo carbón gusano hijo de puta,
serramos libre pronto.
Viva La Revolución!"

Immortal Technique (The Revolutionary)

"You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."

"Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all."

"Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
Gospel of Thomas

"when eternity nears, time disappears"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will be contributing by giving access to attic space and extra beds that I've inherited with my new apartment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed countless times, but have relied on social connections outside of the net. Hopefully, this site will widen my scope (perspective).

Interests

I consider myself to be a renaissance man, never can I focus on a project for any lengthy period, yet I'm inspired to take on new projects almost daily. Jack of all trades, just a master of some.

And a link too my facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/ATRamos

• animals
• culture
• folklore
• christian
• soccer
• divinity
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

I absolutely love music, I'm currently restoring my digital music library of over 65,000 songs, though I would say I prefer music that exudes the soul of its creator. The same can be said about my movie and book preferences, but "Two Days in Paris" and "Cien Anos De Solidad" are by favorite movie and book, respectively.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made it out of a situation where death followed me, closely.

Teach, Learn, Share

Here is an abstract from a paper that I'm still working on finishing (and I will give that the thesis is still a tad convoluted)...

Religious syncretism, as it occurred in Haiti prior to and during the Haitian Revolution, was a unilateral means of resistance of African slaves in juxtaposition, but within, European cultural hegemony. Haitian African slaves used ontological and cosmological understandings to recreate in the ‘New World’ a theology that gave them an epistemological break/separateness from their slave masters. Necessary for the slaves to maintain their humanity in the face of European ‘enlightened’, and later ‘scientific’, schemas distinguishing them as animal/nature-sensory objects separate from ‘idealized’ Eurocentric notions of humanity (white males). The specific syncretic formation of Haitian Vodoun allowed for the fullest possible expressive amalgamation of African tradition and beliefs. Locked physically and subjectively as massa damnata of global capital, Haitian slaves took to recreating/maintaining their Africanity. Hiding within and symbolically expressing, through Catholic ideographic symbols, traditional African ontology, epistemology, theogony, and cosmology. Necessarily creating a religion to fill the void created by European intelligentsia’s/culture’s attempts to eradicate, then supplicate African schema narratives with Western European Christianity; also disguising, syncretizing, African traditions within Christian ideographic symbolism and epistemology resisting actual assimilation/acculturation into a society/culture, which deemed Africans biotically and socially inferior objects.

Countries I’ve Visited

Puerto Rico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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