One thing I will say is that I have an abundance of experience on message boards. I'm 30 and have been posting at various places (sometimes extensively) for roughly eight years now. Some of you may even know me (by other names, that is) from some of the more popular boards around the net.
I mention this because I'm entering a new phase; that's why I'm here, actually - it serves as a fresh start. (Not that I needed one, or that I'm disliked elsewhere; just a fresh start in a more general sense.) In the past I have cultivated a certain persona, one that was generally friendly and non-confrontational. Sparing details the idea is that now I will attempt with more intensity to be myself - to say what I think when I think it, with more or less a disregard for social (for want of a better term) opinions of me. This is also to say I feel I have been too concerned with how others view me and not concerned enough with genuineness.
This forum, I hope, will in turn serve as a host for my real self.
Such a strategy might blow up in my face, resulting in the very confrontation I have traditionally attempted to avoid; but it may just as soon result in some memorable and fulfilling exchanges. Time will tell.
Otherwise, my background is largely in atheism (though I do not call myself an atheist) including Nietzsche, Marx, Schopenhauer and Feuerbach, as well as George H. Smith, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, etc. I also have considerable interest in Hegel, Hume, Kant, Berkeley and Sartre. Lastly, I've also extensively documented (i.e., I've filled a few journals) an original philosophy that I hope one day can be published, studied and admired.
See ya around.
