John D. Socrates a.k.a. The Skeptical African
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | "I doubt I will be anything but an honest agnostic, because I prefer, as I once told you, to go to my grave with my eyes open" Hubert H. Harrison |
| Interests | poetry, critical thinking, skepticism, Skeptic, agnosticism, philosophy, genealogy, humanism, freethinker, African American history, civil rights, African studies, idealist, African, contemplative, mindfulness, meditation, Alpha Phi Alpha, Yoruba, Dogon, Mandinka, Mandingo, Mande,progressive, existentialism, absurdism, Zen, Secular, bibliophile, Religion |
| Favorite movies | Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars, Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, I Heart Huckabees, Office Space, Sin City, The Best Man, Love and Basketball, How to be a Player, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Trilogy, Harlem Nights, Coming to America, Kill Bill,Training Day |
| Favorite music | Mos Def, Common, Nas, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, Lenny Kravitz, Outkast, Sade, Cameo, Soul II Soul, Smooth Jazz, Hip Hop, R&B, Prince, Morris Day and the Time, musiq soulchild, Dead Prez, Greydon Square, Proclaim, George Hrab, The Fugees, Immortal Technique, Ras Kass, Esperanza, Dene Issebere |
| Favorite books | Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Way of Zen, The Souls of Black Folk, The Quest for the Silver Fleece, Rationalist Manual, Age of Reason, Riches within Your Reach, Isis Papers, Sula, The Da Vinci Code, The Law of Success, Tao Teh Ching, Leaving the Fold, God Delusion,God is not great, Breaking the Spell, Letter to Christian Nation, The End of Faith, The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus and other Essay, The First Man, The Rebel: Essays of man in Revolt, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer, What is Man, Mark Twain, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths,Malcolm X A life of Reinvention, Manning Marable, The Moral Landscape, Michael Shermer, W. E. B. Du Bois, |