Rivenrock Professional member

Interests and Activities

Technology.. the bane and benefit of man from the beginnings of weapons development (atlatl, bow, traps), and agriculture. History... those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it..... Philosophy.... see above Sociology, Anthropology... ties all this stuff together. Agriculture, Weapons... one leads to the other... the other leads to one... inseperable, diametric in ways....but bound together. People.... the greatest and highest of creation....and home to such sadness and depravity... what an interesting species.

Favorite TV Shows

Oz, Sopranos, True Blood, Deadwood

Favorite Books

The Big Sky, Malevil, The Hammer, Pillars of the Earth, The River God, The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan

Favorite Music

Celtic, Germanic, Country and Western, Folk, Rock

Favorite Quotes

"I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class." - Frederick Douglass

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." - Albert Einstein

There are two things over which you have complete domination, authority, and control - your mind and your mouth. - Molefi Asante

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while Daring Greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt