Robert D. Ivey
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | librarian |
| Location | Gainesville, Florida, United States |
| Introduction | I am a writer and have published four previous books: Fact and Belief in the 21st Century (1998); The Evolutionary God (2002); Sex and Science - Understanding Our World and Our Behavior (2004) Fundamentalist Ideology May Cause Nuclear War (2006) forthcoming: What God Really Isn't; The Transformation of Christianity (2008) |
| Interests | science, sex, gay rights, civics, CIA, history, Quakerism, writing, cats, natural moral concepts, men, trees, plants, the number phi, transformation of religion into natural mental concepts, freedom, nonviolence, resistance against war, sculptures, interior design, fulfillment of my lifetime, the world Internet library, putting the technology of electronic communication to civic conscientious use |
| Favorite movies | Georgy Girl (1966), Starman, Music Man, E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial, College Swim Team, The Sound of Music, A Place in the Sun, My Fair Lady, Singin' in the Rain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Graduate, Blazing Saddles, Trash, East of Eden, Cold Wind in August, Bonheur, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing |
| Favorite music | Jeffrey Osbourne's "On the Wings of Love," Mario Lanza's magnificent voice recordings, Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," "Wierd Al" Yankovic's "Dare to Be Stupid," Bach Brandenberg Concerto #6, Beethoven's "Fantasia in E Major," Frank Sinatra's sensual, beautiful voice recordings, "76 Trombones Led the Big Parade," John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" |
| Favorite books | "Crimes Against Nature" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski, "Webster's New World Dictonary of the American Language" David B. Guralnik, Editor in Chief, The World Book Encyclopedia, "Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World" by Thomas Cowan, "Archy and Mehitabel" by Don Marquis, "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth" by Alice Walker, "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle, "John Adams and the American Revolution" by Catherine Drinker Bowen, "One Thousand Beautiful Things" Compiled by Marj Barrows, "The Alchemy of the Heavens" by K. Croswell, Martin Luther King Jr' "I Have a Dream; Writings and Speeches That Changed the World," Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Speak the Truth," Robert Gendler's "A Year in the Life of the Universe; A Seasonal Guide to Viewing the Cosmos." |
Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?
I don't know.