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About me

Gender	Male
Location	Columbus, Ohio, United States
Introduction	My parents were Lutheran and my earliest memory of the church is peeping through the sanctuary doors as the grown-ups lined up and silently got a cracker and a drink. My parents got involved with a Friends meeting with a good Pastor (Don Green) and preschool. After a few years at the Quaker P-K I went to a Baptist school for 1st and 2nd grades. Dad was called into the ministry. We moved to Indiana and lived on a Quaker campus, I attended a public school, and mom taught at a Catholic one half the day and was the principal the other half. I was a band (and computer) geek in middle and high school. The first time I saw the ugly face of racism was in a "Quaker meeting" in Eastern North Carolina. That experience chased me away from the Church for a time. I became a veteran of the US Navy and became a modern day pagan. Later, encouraged by their missionaries, my investigations into the LDS church and their scriptures forced me to re-examine the Bible, which lead me back to Christ and the Friendly testimonies which are so lacking in many meetings today. I am currently working as a laborer removing decades of old paint from old doors and door/window frames.
Interests	books, cooking, hiking, music, cheesey scifi
Favorite movies	THX 1138, Blade Runner, Dune, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Hunger, Tod Browning's Freaks, Ben Hur, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Favorite music	Coil, Negativland, Miles Davis, Mingus, Schubert, Bach, Matmos, Angelo Badalamenti, Tracy Chapman
Favorite books	Bible, Bhagavad Gita, Qur'an, Gandhi: An Autobiography, The Journal of George Fox, Barclay's Apology, Ben Hur, Dune, Dracula, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and almost any book with "Encyclopedia" in its name.