Among them are holidays, prayers, pledges, birthdays, anniversaries, special ‘Saint Days’ like Valentines, Patrick’s Day, etc. I wear no jewelry as it is personally meaningless. Suffering being given a piece of Jewelry means a new responsibility to safe-keep something someone else values and its loss would be embarrassing. .

Wealth is highly over-rated. I don't seek it, don't possess it, am not impressed by it and don't hold it in any special regard. It is just another potentially addictive concept that often results in becoming self-definitive.

I reject not theological herd identity but ALL IDENTITY over which control and choice can be exercised. Simply being human ought to be good enough but in our world its more often bad enough.

Personal work background:

All FOH restaurant operations, unskilled labor, sales, modeling for print, fashion and commercials, voice-over, graphic and electrical sign design, singing, volunteer and civic volunteer work.

I’m an autodidact with eclectic interests that don't include spectator sports, mechanical devices, typical guy crap or personal objectification of women. I love women, not as hobbies, sports, pets or flavors as in ice cream; but with awe and appreciation. They are better specimens, in general, of our 'kind' and in more ways superior to males; save a few specialized male abilities often misused.

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Most important friendship elements are personal integrity, mutual respect, admiration and appreciation of differences as well as commonalities. Last but not least, kindness and respect for living things.

Favorite historical figures are social and scientific pioneers who were unappreciated and misunderstood in their times.

One was Wilhelm Reich, M.D. favorite Reich quotations:

"Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it."

“In the act of thought, life comprehends its own essence.”

Rejecting androcratic theologies and gods is a first step toward independence of thought.

Our overseers in this brine we call civilization have more than fear based management tool.. What's called politics differs from religion; being dominated by this world, faith-based, secular ‘parties’. Theology promises 'pie in the sky' and political fanaticism 'pie on earth'. worships invisible gods above and the other, tin-gods and functionally identical ideologies below.

offers theological identity; the other is ideological. Membership prices for both are identical. Simply abdicate all or part of your reasoning faculties and intellectual autonomy in exchange for adopting pre-packaged, off-the-shelf recipes for living (read faith) shared as though they are your own, original product.

How much progress is there in rejecting theology if we cling to its social artifacts, rituals or equally false secular faith systems? They never actually deliver the pie... Blind followers are like Alice in Wonderland:

“There is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll

Atheists surrendering to unexamined theologically rooted social mores, or to partisan doctrines of the political Left or Right are COMEDIC; especially when ridicule of believers is claimed to be the result of THEIR independent thinking.

It is falsely believed that prostitution is ‘the world’s oldest profession’. dominance and the fall in status of females and children to the level of livestock about 6,000 years ago made prostitution sort of a cottage industry. The real oldest profession is the practiced by theologians, politicians, insurance companies, labor unions, pimps and dictators. It is called protection. ‘Join us’ and we’ll protect you from the very fears we instill in you and your imagination. Human imagination has too fertile and vital a role in Nature to be bargained away for fears and formulas for safe captivity. It's time for a big reset.