OptoGypsy
Member
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2013
- Messages
- 703
- MBTI Type
- isfp
- Enneagram
- 594
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
1. Do you believe in a God? I don't believe in the traditional definition of a God, a father figure on a throne somewhere up in the heavens. I believe in God as life itself, the heart of man is in Gods law and I do believe in the resurrection. We live in a world of shadows and God is the nature that penetrates it, light itself. Another liked definition is that of him being a physical force, behind the evolution of minds and of nature in the quantum and evolution which can be explained through the automation of algorithms (I'm reading through Daniel Dennet's, From Bacteria to Bach and Back), I think the atheists misunderstand philosophy, we can explain processes of nature through the scientific method and focusing on the facts, but there needs to be a magician behind the processes behind the patterning of nature, the mimicry of nature that plays with the human mind and gives them delight of discovery.
2. What is your philosophy? My philosophy consists of doing what you were made for, what you are suited for and doing the best you can at it. As the parable goes you cannot teach a fish to climb a tree. Politically I am Conservative, I think spirituality comes from feeling timelessness by becoming one with nature, not a prolonged phase but a life shattering experience, I also believe that time is the ocean and each second is a raindrop. In this all unifying ocean, with its rippling effects we are all independent parts living in a holistic whole that can never be sustained, drained or overfull, although a flood is coming with time and time expands, consciousness expands to consume all, in the vortex of time. I also believe that the entire universe resides in the heart (inner being). I had my first philosophy at the age of thirteen, an earlier experience and thought process can show a revelation as to the way a person changes and has been molded, it has been coined as abstract art but at the time I thought it was philosophy and an explanation of consciousness. The theory is insane, childish and dark. It pretty much went like this: We can see and experience consciousness and personality by madness/insanity: creation through destruction. Such as the weak overcoming the strong and being overcome, the ugly destroying the beautiful and the thrill of the beautiful feeling at the moment of insanity.
3. What are your Interests?
1. Abstract Art
2. The Brain
3. Personality
4. Psychology
I majored in Cyber Security and Forensics, but I wouldn't consider my self as a technical person. I don't seem to be bad at it but I think i can definitely can get better at it.
4. What are your struggles? I view everything as a coin, two sides of the same things. I struggle with perfectionism, wanting to be the best and to succeed at the same time i feel an innate feeling to self sabotage, I can also work on being more independent and not living to please others but the soul does come from self-sacrifice, but there also exists death and yet eternity that exists within the inner self.
5. What are your values?
1. Authenticity: To be authentic, genuine, real; to be true to myself.
2. Courage: To be courageous or brave; to persist in the face of fear, threat, or difficulty
3. Freedom: to live freely; to choose how i live and behave, or help others do likewise.
4. Industry: to be industrious, hard-working, dedicated
5. Persistence: to continue resolutely despite problems or difficulties
6. Self-development: to keep growing, advancing or improving in knowledge, skills, character or life experience.
5, What motivates you? An innate desire to be able to take care of myself, not to be a man child, to be successful and of course romance.
6. People you look up to? Jesus Christ, My family, Nikolai Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Favorite Books of all time?
Honorable Mentions:
Anna Karenina Fix – Viv Goskop
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: How Religion Poisons Everything – Daniel Dennett
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)
The White Bull - Voltaire
35. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
34. How to Ruin Everything - George Watsky
33. Mirogorod - Nikolai Gogol
32. The Stranger – Albert Camus
31. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
30. Mere Christianity – C.S Lewis
29. Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov
28. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
27. Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
26. The Gray House – Mariam Petrosyan
25. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
24. On Miracles – C.S Lewis
23. Voroshilovgrad – Serhiy Zhadan
22. Faust - Goethe
21. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
20. Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
19. A Reporters Account of the Scopes Trials - H.L Mencken
18. Night of Denial - Ivan Bunin
17. Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
16. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
15. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
14. Candide – Voltaire
13. The Reason for God - Timothy Keller
12. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
11. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. St. Petersburg – Andrei Bely
9. Evenings of a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol
8. The Forest Song – Lesya Ukrainka
7. The Queen of Spade – Alexander Pushkin
6. Petersburg Tales – Nikolai Gogol
5. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Gregory Skovoroda: How the World Tried to Catch Me but Could Not
3. Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
1. Holy Bible – God (it's God's word to us and gives us purpose and an explanation for life, I can go on for hundreds of pages on the wisdom that the Bible has and I still won't be able to reach its depth, I have an entire lifetime to learn from it and I'm excited for that. My top five favorite books in the Bible are the Gospel of John, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Hebrews, and Ruth.)
2. What is your philosophy? My philosophy consists of doing what you were made for, what you are suited for and doing the best you can at it. As the parable goes you cannot teach a fish to climb a tree. Politically I am Conservative, I think spirituality comes from feeling timelessness by becoming one with nature, not a prolonged phase but a life shattering experience, I also believe that time is the ocean and each second is a raindrop. In this all unifying ocean, with its rippling effects we are all independent parts living in a holistic whole that can never be sustained, drained or overfull, although a flood is coming with time and time expands, consciousness expands to consume all, in the vortex of time. I also believe that the entire universe resides in the heart (inner being). I had my first philosophy at the age of thirteen, an earlier experience and thought process can show a revelation as to the way a person changes and has been molded, it has been coined as abstract art but at the time I thought it was philosophy and an explanation of consciousness. The theory is insane, childish and dark. It pretty much went like this: We can see and experience consciousness and personality by madness/insanity: creation through destruction. Such as the weak overcoming the strong and being overcome, the ugly destroying the beautiful and the thrill of the beautiful feeling at the moment of insanity.
3. What are your Interests?
1. Abstract Art
2. The Brain
3. Personality
4. Psychology
I majored in Cyber Security and Forensics, but I wouldn't consider my self as a technical person. I don't seem to be bad at it but I think i can definitely can get better at it.
4. What are your struggles? I view everything as a coin, two sides of the same things. I struggle with perfectionism, wanting to be the best and to succeed at the same time i feel an innate feeling to self sabotage, I can also work on being more independent and not living to please others but the soul does come from self-sacrifice, but there also exists death and yet eternity that exists within the inner self.
5. What are your values?
1. Authenticity: To be authentic, genuine, real; to be true to myself.
2. Courage: To be courageous or brave; to persist in the face of fear, threat, or difficulty
3. Freedom: to live freely; to choose how i live and behave, or help others do likewise.
4. Industry: to be industrious, hard-working, dedicated
5. Persistence: to continue resolutely despite problems or difficulties
6. Self-development: to keep growing, advancing or improving in knowledge, skills, character or life experience.
5, What motivates you? An innate desire to be able to take care of myself, not to be a man child, to be successful and of course romance.
6. People you look up to? Jesus Christ, My family, Nikolai Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Favorite Books of all time?
Honorable Mentions:
Anna Karenina Fix – Viv Goskop
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: How Religion Poisons Everything – Daniel Dennett
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)
The White Bull - Voltaire
35. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
34. How to Ruin Everything - George Watsky
33. Mirogorod - Nikolai Gogol
32. The Stranger – Albert Camus
31. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
30. Mere Christianity – C.S Lewis
29. Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov
28. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
27. Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
26. The Gray House – Mariam Petrosyan
25. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
24. On Miracles – C.S Lewis
23. Voroshilovgrad – Serhiy Zhadan
22. Faust - Goethe
21. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
20. Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
19. A Reporters Account of the Scopes Trials - H.L Mencken
18. Night of Denial - Ivan Bunin
17. Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
16. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
15. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
14. Candide – Voltaire
13. The Reason for God - Timothy Keller
12. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
11. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. St. Petersburg – Andrei Bely
9. Evenings of a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol
8. The Forest Song – Lesya Ukrainka
7. The Queen of Spade – Alexander Pushkin
6. Petersburg Tales – Nikolai Gogol
5. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Gregory Skovoroda: How the World Tried to Catch Me but Could Not
3. Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
1. Holy Bible – God (it's God's word to us and gives us purpose and an explanation for life, I can go on for hundreds of pages on the wisdom that the Bible has and I still won't be able to reach its depth, I have an entire lifetime to learn from it and I'm excited for that. My top five favorite books in the Bible are the Gospel of John, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Hebrews, and Ruth.)