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"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Me
I am a tetrapod who loves philosophy, music, and lots of other things. I live on the planet Earth. I play the trumpet, and I wish I could play the theremin. I adore Mozart, Mahler, Bach, and Beethoven, but I have also danced within the six-sided ring of fire with Ozzy Osbourne. I enjoy racquetball, running, Zen koans, irony, dry humor, science, dreaming, semantic satiation, history, shape-shifting, metabolizing, milk, the Internet, politics, film, and essence. I made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Philosophy stuff

 * American philosophy
 * British philosophy
 * Philosophy of film
 * Philosophy of color
 * Modal fictionalism
 * Plato's tripartite theory of soul
 * Dianoia
 * Panlogism
 * Persecution of philosophers
 * Sortal
 * Henology
 * Practical syllogism
 * Intelligible form
 * Philosophy encyclopedia
 * Prima facie right
 * 2018 in philosophy

Books

 * The Methods of Ethics
 * The World's Religions
 * Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
 * An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Philosophy lists

 * List of American philosophers
 * List of British philosophers
 * List of Italian philosophers
 * List of ancient Greek philosophers
 * List of books about philosophy (later merged with Index of philosophical literature)

Case law

 * Hess v. Indiana
 * Palmer v. Thompson

Law schools

 * University of Toledo College of Law
 * University of Tennessee College of Law
 * University of Akron School of Law

Political stuff

 * Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * Electoral reform in Ohio
 * Electoral reform in Pennsylvania
 * Electoral reform in Massachusetts
 * Electoral reform in New Jersey
 * Electoral reform in Indiana
 * Electoral reform in Puerto Rico

Tall stuff

 * List of tallest buildings in Akron, Ohio
 * Goodyear Polymer Center
 * Bulger Hall
 * PNC Center (Akron)
 * Shanghai Wheelock Square

Ohio stuff

 * Timeline of Cleveland history
 * List of University of Toledo people
 * List of Cleveland State University people
 * List of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law alumni
 * Archives of the History of American Psychology
 * Maria Siemionow
 * John R. Buchtel
 * Simon Perkins
 * John S. Knight Center
 * E.J. Thomas Hall
 * University of Akron College of Business Administration
 * InfoCision Management Corporation
 * Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
 * Rob Ianello
 * FirstEnergy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field
 * John F. Seiberling Federal Building and United States Courthouse

Movie stuff

 * The Road We've Traveled
 * Collette Wolfe
 * Craig Zobel
 * Jerry Warren
 * Finding Hope Now
 * Great World of Sound
 * Jonathan English (director)
 * Carol Cheng
 * Re-Uniting the Rubins
 * Separation City
 * Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011 film)
 * Troy Nixey
 * The Big Show (1936 film)
 * Why Did I Get Married Too?
 * Eat Pray Love
 * Your Highness
 * Larceny (film)
 * Charlie St. Cloud (film)
 * Going the Distance (2010 film)
 * The Company Men
 * Biutiful
 * The Town (2010 film)
 * Ironclad (film)
 * The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
 * Passion Play (film)
 * Machines (film)

Misc.

 * Operation FOOT
 * Health insurance cooperative
 * Jonah Lehrer
 * Chuck Hogan
 * Ferendatis
 * Jack Weaver
 * Ed Coan
 * Lawrence G. McDonald
 * David Goldhill
 * Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper
 * Southern Environmental Law Center
 * 2012 in science
 * 2019 in science

Songs

 * "Simple Man"
 * "Martian Hop"

Books

 * Proust Was a Neuroscientist
 * A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
 * Nudge

Lists

 * List of films in the public domain in the United States
 * List of largest banks in the United States
 * List of strongmen
 * List of racquetball players
 * List of Pawn Stars episodes
 * List of countries by social welfare spending

Quotes
"All men by nature desire to know." - Aristotle

"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail." --William Faulkner (December 10, 1950)

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

"And now I shall go away, sentenced by you to death; they will go away, sentenced by truth to wickedness and injustice." -Socrates

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" - Plato

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. " - Carl Sagan

"Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators" -Richard Dawkins

"If you stare into the Abyss long enough, the Abyss stares back at you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” -Gustav Mahler

The story goes that Zeno was flogging a slave for stealing. "I was fated to steal," cried the slave. "And to be flogged," was Zeno's reply.

“When you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.” --Tom Waits

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” --Pablo Picasso

"I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sound, for I am a musician." - W.A. Mozart

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Goethe

"We're here to bring you back to the one true faith: the Western Branch of American Reform Presby-Lutheranism." -Reverend Timothy Lovejoy

“The field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night.” --Chip, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Eastern wisdom
"No seed ever sees the flower." -Zen saying

"The obstacle is the path."-Zen proverb

“The temple bell stops, but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”- Matsuo Bashō

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”

“After enlightenment, the laundry.”

"With the evening breeze the water laps against the heron's legs." - Buson

"Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass." - Dogen

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound."

Poems
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Holy Sonnet X by John Donne

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow And soonest our best men with thee do go Rest of their bones and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppies or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. Why swellst thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!

There's a certain slant of light by Emily Dickinson

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us; We can find no scar, But internal difference Where the meanings are.

None may teach it anything, 'Tis the seal, despair,- An imperial affliction Sent us of the air.

When it comes, the landscape listens, Shadows hold their breath; When it goes, 't is like the distance On the look of death.