User:Snake-Eyes~enwiki

The Wiki user Snake Eyes is a Philosopher, Martial Artist, Bartender, and Manufacturing Manager. He has been a Wuxia, comic book, Role-Playing Game, sci-fi, and Cartoon geek for as long as he can remember. He hopes to someday write, and teach as a professional philosopher.

He was born in 1972, at RAF Alconbury, England to an American serviceman and his wife. When he was seven, his father enrolled him in a local Kyokushin school so that he could defend himself against bullies at school. He soon moved to Small Circle Jujutsu in the hopes that he wouldn't have to endure so much physical impact. In middle school, he discovered Boxing, Wing Chun and later Jeet Kune Do of which he has adopted the ideas of Bruce Lee and intends to advance that line of thought in the philosophical world.

He has studied Muay Thai, Kempo, Aikido, Taijutsu, Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū Kenjutsu and Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū Iaijutsu, Qigong, Wudangquan, Tai Chi, Ba Gua, Xingyi, Zui Quan Drunken Fist) Wu Shu, Krav Maga, and has just recently began studying the Keysi Fighting Method.

At 19, Snake Eyes joined the US Air Force where he served honorably for 4 years before getting out to return to his education. He has just completed his BA in Philosophy and he now intends to continue on toward a PhD.

His favorite comic book characters are: Batman, Nightwing, Usagi Yojimbo, The Sandman (DC Comics), Green Lantern, Nova (comics), The Immortal Iron Fist, Shang Chi, Wolverine (comics), Snake-Eyes (This character is believed, by this wiki-user, not to be a US Army Special Forces "Commando" but a member of the Air Force Special Tactics as an Air Force Combat Controller even though all the evidence says otherwise), Storm Shadow (G.I. Joe), and Spider-man.

In 1980, he was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons, which he played until high school. There, he discovered Marvel Super-Heroes RPG and Palladium Games Ninjas & Superspies and Robotech RPGs. During his time in the military, he almost stopped playing but he managed to find a game every now and again. Although this only lasted four years and when he got out he managed to find a like-minded group in the Denver area and he got into the games again.

His favorite Philosophers are: Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Derrida, Aristotle, Lao Tsu, and Bruce Lee. Heidegger for his Dasein and Gestell. Merleau-Ponty for his Phenomenology of Perception. Foucault for his Order of Things, The Archeology of Knowledge, and Discipline and Punish. Derrida for his Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and Speech and Phenomena. Aristotle for his Ethics and Politics. Lao Tsu for the Tao Te Ching. and Bruce Lee for Jeet Kune Do and his | Writings in general. As well, in the course of writing all of this, he has discover so many other names and ideas that they cannot all be listed here (see | Here).