PJarrett
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Office Assistant |
| Location | Dunbar, WV, United States |
| Introduction | I am from West Virginia. Born in New Martinsville to a minister's family. Traveled around West Virginia and Southern Ohio growing up. The only stability I got was from my mother's side of the family in Boone County. My Great Grandfather on my father's side was preaching in Madison during the Mine Wars. He ran for the state legislature on a pro-union ticket and won only to have the coal companies tie the results up in court so he ended serving only one day out of this term. My Grandfather on my mother's side stood with the miner's at Blair Mountain and died of Black Lung when I was still in my teens. I was raised a Conservative Christian...not a Fundamentalist. Strict separation of church and state based on the understanding that what makes for a good politician is pretty much the opposite of what makes a good Christian. I'm politically radical in that I believe in one man/one vote and the only way to have political equality is to have economic equality. I'm an atheist because once I accepted the fact of my own mortality I found no need for belief in God. |
| Interests | Poetry, literature, theology, politics, religion, atheism |
| Favorite Movies | The Postman, The Hustler, The Seven Samurai |
| Favorite Music | Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell, Patrica Kaas, Kris Kristofferson, Zee Avi, Tift Merritt |
| Favorite Books | The Spy Who Came In From the Cold le Carre, Stranger In A Strange Land Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress RH, Time Enough For Love RH, The History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West by Alan Segal, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream EH, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, The Ignored by Bentley Little |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
Freezing a rose is irreversible. The water crystallizes and shreds the cells of the rose beyond repair. You can make a cold petal warm by holding it in your hand just as you can hold the hand of the deceased at a funeral and transmit from living tissue the illusion of the warmth of life, but nothing comes back from death.