Biography

Okay, so I lied a bit. I won't spare you a biography. But I did hide it.

I've led a fairly unremarkable life.

I was born in St. Louis, and grew up there. I can't say I liked it much, but after traveling throughout most of the USA (and North America), there are many, many worse places. Many much better places, but also many worse.

After high school, I went to a small college in Florida, where I studied space science. I spent almost 6 years there, but left about a semester short of getting my degree. I loved Florida a lot. Maybe too much, and didn't spend much time studying. Which in retrospect was incredibly stupid of me, but at the time I wasn't too mature. As they say, youth is wasted on the young.

Anyway, I ended up moving back to St. Louis. Why? Well, it seemed the thing to do at the time. I had planned to not stay there long, but for a various reasons I ended up staying. It's not exactly easy to find a nice job when you're skills are mostly geared towards other planets. So I ended up in computers.

Looking back on my early life, I was sort of a jerk as a kid. And somewhat insufferable as a teen. But I think I've become a much nicer, or at least a less annoying person. When I a teen, I had a gigantic ego. That's gone, maybe a bit too much, but I don't think humility is a fault.

Part of that has to do with my newfound spirituality. For most of my life I was an atheist. Really, from public school, and science as depicted in layman's books & on TV, it's not uncommon thing for people to become. Of course the trouble is that atheism tends to make you a smug little bastard, because you essentially have something of a superiority complex. You think all people who are religious are idiots, because the whole concept is stupid and something of a scam. Which is actually true to a degree. A lot of what passes for religion today IS actually just a scam to either a) control people or b) make money.

But in college, when I was introduced to philosphy and quantum physics, as well as some other things, my mind became a lot more open. And so I became less judgemental of people, and stopped thinking I was better than everyone else, because I was an atheist.

My roommate my first year was a Mormon. While I thought his theology was a bit on the nutty side, and maybe not even very nice (especially towards women), I did see that his faith was something of a good thing.

Eventually I later stumbled on gnosticism, which seemed to fit what I was looking for, and it seemed to fit in pretty well with existentialism. And the upshot of it is, I'm happy with it.

And it's mellowed me out towards religion in general. Despite the problems, I think as long as you realize it for what it really is, and aren't judgemental of others, it's a good thing. It's still something of a crutch, but sometimes you need a crutch. And as long as you are involved in a fairly decent religion, not one full of hate, controlling-ness, it can be a good one. I still don't like the really evil, vile, hate filled ones - Jack Chick, for instance. Or the ones that seem to just want money - Jack Van Impe, Joyce Meyers, or your average televangelist. And I don't really like the Catholic Church. But I think there are a number of smaller.

Anyway, I 'm not a very good computer consultant, so I don't make much money. Less and less each year it seems. But I'm not really good at much else, either.

I'd like to be a DJ, but I'm really not a very good one.