Robert Baytan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Introduction | I am a physician by profession but a perpetual learner by vocation. I am into a number of things including, but not limited to, history (especially comic book and ancient history) and cognitive science (especially the science of memory). I maintain this blog but have not been writing much lately. I still have lots of drafts that need editing, and these drafts may never find their way into the blog. These days, my posts in Blogger are spur-of-the-moment write-ups. However, you will know intuitively the write-up is premeditated when you see numerous carefully arranged notes and references. I was baptized Roman Catholic but was educated in a born-again high school, so I became a fundamentalist Christian in my teenage years. Becoming aware of my homosexuality contributed to my becoming a liberal Christian later on. I became enlightened (an atheist) in my mid 40s and remain an atheist now that I delight in my golden, past half-century days. |
| Interests | I earned my AB Interdisciplinary Studies, minor in French (not pre-med), at a school along Taft Avenue then known as College ng mga Sosyal na Bobo (College of Elite Morons). In the Philippines, 12 units of Spanish were required during my time, so Filipinos my age learned "ven aqui," "que barbaridad" and the lovely cuss word "Pinocchio." Not a cuss word? Wrong language? My college thesis focused on the sexual orientation of French author Colette's characters. |