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The demolition of existence has begun.

Name:

Shaun

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Bio:

We are not endeavouring to chain the future but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation and thought. This of itself is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with all our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith. While superstition builds walls and creates obstructions, science opens all the highways of thought. We do not pretend to have circumnavigated everything and to have solved all difficulties but we do believe that it is grander and nobler to think and investigate for ourselves than to repeat a creed. We are satisfied that there can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. We do not expect to accomplish everything in our day but we want to do what good we can and to render all the service possible in the cause of human progress. We know that doing away with gods and supernatural beings and powers is not an end. It is a means to an end - the real end being the happiness of man...

- Robert G. Ingersoll

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fewer than 10 public

Interests:

131: ale, alien, angel, animals, apes, aqua teen hunger force, astronomy, astrophysics, batman, battlestar galactica, bjork, black adder, black humour, black sabbath, blake's 7, blur, boards of canada, bonobos, books, bram stoker, bubble of love, buffy the vampire slayer, carmilla, cheetahs, chimpanzees, clinic, coen brothers, computers, coventry city fc, danger mouse, delusions, depeche mode, diablo ii, dinosaurs, dj shadow, dr john william polidori, dracula, dreams, dvds, evolution, fargo, father ted, fawlty towers, firefly, frankenstein, freethought, fungi, geiger, george orwell, gibbons, goldfrapp, gorillas, guitars, gulliver's travels, h g wells, history, honey badgers, horror, jack the ripper, john carpenter, john wyndham, joker, jonathan swift, joy division, king kong, kraftwerk, led zeppelin, lord of the rings, malt whisky, mary shelley, mathematics, mazzy star, morrissey, movies, mythology, neutron stars, nineteen eighty-four, nirvana, northern soul, octopus, orangutans, over-stimulation, ozzy osbourne, philip k dick, physics, piercings, pirates, pixies, pj harvey, pkd, placebo, plan 9, prehistory, queen, radiohead, ratels, rationalism, real ale, sci-fi, science, scotch, sergio leone, serial killers, sheridan le fanu, sigur ros, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, south park, stanley kubrick, star fleet, stars, talking heads, tattoos, tea, the clash, the cure, the flaming lips, the kinks, the league of gentlemen, the long good friday, the rolling stones, the simpsons, the smiths, the sopranos, the vampyre: a tale, theoretical physics, tolkien, white dwarf stars, william gibson, zoology, zzz

Schools:

Ash Green School - Ash Green, England - Warwickshire, United Kingdom (1986 - 1990)
King Edward Vi College - Nuneaton, England - Warwickshire, United Kingdom (1990 - 1992)
University of Birmingham - Birmingham, England - West Midlands, United Kingdom (2006 - present)

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