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Will of the People

Created on 2004-01-15 13:32:25 (#1897389), last updated 2009-11-28

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Name:Pat Gunn
Birthdate:1978-06-28
Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Website:ぼくのウェブペジ
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This is sync'd, courtesy of LJ::Simple, from my actual blog located at http://blog.dachte.org/pound/blog/dachte

You may leave comments on either.

As for me,
I'm from Texas but was mostly raised in the Northern United States. I am a programmer, sysadmin, and general Unix geek. I am also interested in philosophy and psychology. I'm a socialist academe, an avid reader, and a prolific source of bad jokes. I graduated from University sometime around 2001, but I'm not done learning yet. I care about people, but value my solitude. When in a relationship, I love fiercely, but I haven't found people who are suitable, available, and interested for a long time. I'm fairly shy. I have two legs and two cats (probably a coincidence). Until recently, I did MRI research for CMU. I ate any brains that looked particularly tasty, but I'm not a zombie. My zombie friends are jealous of me both for eating brains and not being a zombie. I started playing music with them and we had a band called the ZomBie-tles, but we broke up when bits of them started breaking up. I am part of several cabals, but I can't connect to them anymore because I lost my Cabalmodem.

I am deeply enthused about the sciences, and care a lot about the world, the public good, world history, and current events. I approach the world from a philosophical perspective that is materialist, empiricist, relativist, and informed by broad readings in philosophy. I believe that science and politics without a good background of philosophy are blind when it comes to approaching meaning or "should".

I am moderately libertine, but I strongly oppose Libertarian or liberty-fundamentalist political philosophy. If you start from first principles and use a rights-based style of reasoning to move us towards minarchism, I'll disagree with you strongly. If instead you value personal autonomy and strive to build a system that includes a good amount of it in our general conception of the public good, I'm more likely to agree with you.
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Schools:

Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA (1900)
Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School - Broadview Heights, OH (1992 - 1996)
Ohio State University - Columbus, OH (1996 - 2001)
Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (2001 - 2002)
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