Paul G. 0  

"To live in the Day, but Love the Night. To practice metta toward all"

Panorama City, CA, USA
male, age 56
committed relationship, 2 children
Speaks: Puppy, Gibberish, Reformed Gibberish, Pidgin Signed English (PSE), English, Some Spanish - un poquito
Joined Aug 3, 2007

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About me:
OK, so who the heck am I?

The Basics

I'm single, and pretty good lookin', if I do say so myself!

I'm a 51-year old proud Grand-dad, father, lover of Sri Sri Krsna, all paths of Sanatana Dharma, in particular most forms of Vaisnavism, chanter of Namu-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, observer of Chaos, Erisian, musician and composer

My spirituality has been rather "dark" by some peoples' standards, and I have little patience with pushy religionists of any stripe. If you are a believer of any faith and wish to pray for me, please do. If you believe yourself to be an evangelist for your particular faith path and wish to preach at me, or try to convince me of how "wrong" I am, I hope you will forgive me if I ignore your bombast and change the subject. I believe the the true Supreme Absolute, by whichever Name one uses (and there are many) requires us to think for ourselves. Mindless spiritual slavery is for the herd. Any deity that would require me to surrender my brain at the door, ignore inconvenient truths, and blindly accept what I cannot, and will consign me to some state of eternal punishment for not accepting some whole package of doctrine, even for refusing to mouth some trite "acceptance" phrase, is not worthy of my worship. You may disagree, but there it is. I will not be consigned to your concept of "hell" by whichever standards you apply, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or any other faith path that has, as a component, some concept of eternal punishment, and your fear of such will not make it so.

As an aside, I have to wonder how crowded certain places will be, with major faith paths busy consigning all others to "hell" for not towing some particular party line. ("Yes, but," you will say, "all the others are wrong, and only we are right.")

I am also a die-hard techie, and geek -- I support Macs, PC's, and PDA's both for a living and for fun, and have all three up and on at home at all times.
(Obviously, I prefer my Mac, but there are some developers that either are not equipped to provide Mac versions of their software, or will not do so for whatever reasons), and, for those things I use my PC.... of course, at work, I am obligated to use a PC for everything, but, hey.... it's their gig, their rules, and their equipment, so whattayagonnado?)

Music

I am one of the only Blues soprano sax players I know.

My sax is a Unison S100

My guitars are:

Ovation Celebrity strung with D'Addario Phosphor Bronze Extra-Lights
Martin Sigma Classical Acoustic

For composing, orchestrating and recording, I use the following hardware and software:

Hardware

Apple Macbook Pro Intel Core2 Duo, 15" 2.33GHz, 4GB RAM, 120GB internal drive, running OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Apple Powerbook G4, 17", 1.67GHz, 2GB RAM, 80GB internal drive running OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Maxtor OneTouch 1TB Firewire drive
Maxtor OneTouch 200GB Firewire drive
Samsung SyncMaster 930B 19" flatpanel
Digidesign MBox2 Mini M-Audio USB 2x2 MIDI hub
Yamaha Motif 6
Yamaha PSR-520
Alesis Firewire 8 Digital Mixer Alesis Nanocompressor and Nanoverb outboard effects
TASCAM DP-01FX HD Recorder/Mixer
Yamaha MA10 Headphone/Personal Studio Mixer
Radio Shack 33-984D Highball microphone (Shure SM 58 clone)

Software

Apple Logic Express 8
Digidesign ProTools LE 7.31
Mackie Traktion 3
Propellerheads Reason 3
IK Multimedia Sampletank 2
IK Multimedia Amplitube
Apple GarageBand 3
Other assorted plugins, geegaws and doohickeys as needed

Who I'd like to meet:
In this life:
(Just a few of the many I'd like to meet)

Jodie Foster
Charlize Theron
Paul McCartney
David Sanborn
Bob Iger
John Kerry
Bill & Hillary Clinton
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
B.B. King
Peter Carroll
Phil Hine
Dr. Michael A. Aquino
Uncle Setnakt (Don Webb)

In the next life:
(again, just a few of the many)

Shakyamuni Buddha
Nichiren Shonin
Franz Bardon
Dr. Israel Regardie
Aleister Crowley
Jesus
St. Philip Neri
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Roy Orbison
John Lennon
George Harrison
St. Therese of Lisieux