CURRENT MISSION

continuing the fight against tyranny in all its forms

ABOUT ME

eI study Classical Civilization, Latin, and Greek at the graduate level.

Canadian, been in the country here a long while, currently living in London ON and -- although I love my studies and the Uni is fantastic -- I'm not terribly happy about it. If you're blowing through SW Ontario and need a place to crash -- after all, London IS the stopping point "halfway between Detroit and Toronto" -- give me a shout and we can make both our stays in this city more pleasant.

If you're reading this with me as a prospective couch crasher, rest assured, I am massively 'cool', kind, interesting, and funny, and would wicked augment your household.

I love travels, languages, culture, music, laughing, drinking, all that stuff.

Let us regale one another with tales from afar.

PHILOSOPHY

Love well. And be courageous.

It seems that people who are inherently "good" are hard to come by, at least where I'm from.

Education, morals, moderation tempered by bouts of unrestrained spontaneity, sheer unabridged honesty, truth, do what you love, don't be an asshole about it.*

* Like a "good" tree, with its roots runnin deep into the ground and its branches reaching high up to the sun, it would seem that the Good is to allow ones' self to flourish --
yet, on the other hand, would it be good for the tree to flourish to its maximum extent at the expense of all those which surrounds it?
So, some sort of natural-reciprocal balance seems also to be innate to the question.
SO, such would seem to be the Good. Moreover, I would go as far to interject that this, the Good, would be that which is beautiful and true. For is the tree which flourishes to its greatest extant in a delicately organized ecosystem not beautiful? Is this not nature's truth?
I would argue that -- like many infinitely more insightful individuals before me -- the human being's Good -- the Good -- is to allow ones' self to flourish to their maximum extant, to become the greatest and most fulfilled that they can be in whatever way this works for them, to thine own self be true; Know Thyself. That is, with a big "BUT" attached.
The "but" being, that the "human is a social animal"; we require and thrive by human relations; our own species-specific version of a natural ecosystem. It would be rather unseemly to crush and destroy the desires, aspirations, and beings of those beings around us in our own attempts to flourish. To others be true.
In any event, I feel that truth, those actions done with honesty both to yourself and to those others around you, is Good. and good.

The truth will set you free. Such is freedom, to me.

So. Do your own thing, and don't be an asshole about it.

Centres d'intérêt

Politics, history, political theory, civilization, Canadian politics, culture, language, philosophy, fantasy, sci-fi, tennis, hockey, heartfelt rock-oriented music, dogs, running, walking, knowledge, having a good drink or 8.

I would love to travel, possibly indefinitely, but unfortunately the life I have led to this point denies me any such untold long-term luxury

• animals
• dogs
• culture
• education
• running
• walking
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hockey
• tennis
• teaching
• history
• languages

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Books -- currently I'm in the process of being subjected to the Classical Library, favourites being Thucydides, Herodotus, Cicero, Plato. No particular order.

In the yonder years of yore I read a considerable amount of fantasy; Steven Erikson, Narnia, Tolkien, anything dense and 'fantastic'.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Too many to count.

Pays que j'ai visités

Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada

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