Infidel753
My blogs
| Gender | MALE |
|---|---|
| Location | Portland , Oregon , United States |
| Introduction | Individualist, transhumanist, socialist, atheist, liberal, optimist, pragmatist, and regular guy -- it has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe. |
| Interests | Life extension , biology , medical research , technology , Middle East , Europe , Britain , Germany , Iran , languages , history , politics , travel , sexuality , Classical civilization (Greco-Roman-Persian) , the great apes , contemporary fiction & movies |
| Favorite Movies | Agora , Alien(s) , Amélie , The Andromeda Strain , Back to the Future , Beetlejuice , Blade Runner , Contact , District 9 , Frozen , Galaxy Quest , Get Out , Lair of the White Worm , Lawrence of Arabia , The Matrix , Pleasantville , The Shape of Water , The Wicker Man |
| Favorite Books | The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil , Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey , The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (and many of his books on evolution) , God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens , Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali , The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow , Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond , Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer , Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson , The Invisible Man by H G Wells , Household Gods by Judith Tarr & Harry Turtledove , The Damnation Game by Clive Barker , and too many history books to list |