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I usually edit pages dealing with asian history, culture, and religion. I also edit pages dealing with the western world as well. I guess you could say I have a general interest in just about anything you can think of.
- I am of Irish, Scottish, Cherokee heritage. My birthday is on Canada Day. I was born the same year Lady Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales.
- I am atheist because I don't believe in heaven, hell, God or Satan. Nor do I believe in any God-man (Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Zoroaster, etc.) as a divine being. IF these people truly existed, I think they were mortals who studied to attain yogi-like gifts. However, I am also a Religious Pluralist because I feel there is NO one "true religion". If I was religious, I would say that every god, from every religion is just a smaller facet of a much larger whole--ONE GOD, MANY FACES. Who am I to say that one religion got it right while the others fell short. Everyone can learn a little something from the doctrines of each religion.
I think Lafcadio Hearn said it best in his "Ants" chapter of Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things:
"The being incapable of moral weakness is beyond the need of 'spiritual guidance.' "
- I enjoy reading, writing, drawing (mostly on the computer nowadays) and Origami. I occasionally practice Kung fu. I love the Chin Na joint manipulation applications of Eagle Claw boxing. I would love to learn Shuai Jiao wrestling and Muslim Xinyi Liuhe boxing from Henan province.
- I was a paratrooper in the US Army 82nd Airborne Division from September 11, 2000 - December 20, 2003. The attacks of September 11th was my one year anniversary in the Army. I participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- I am a World History and World Mythology buff. The Song is my favorite Chinese Dynasty. I also like this time period because the first three Crusades took place. The noted archer Zhou Tong and his pupil General Yue Fei are my two favorite historical figures to come out of the Song Dynasty. Actually, the fictional Zhou Tong is my favorite. There is very very little material available on the historical Zhou Tong.
I love how Persian mythology influenced that of India, which inturn influenced the mythology of Tibet, China, and Japan.
- I want to be a historian of Chinese history (focusing on the mid Song Dynasty), but there are no schools in my current location or probably even in the U.S. that offer doctorate programs in this area. I have therefore decided to pursue a major in Chinese because I can not read or speak the language very well. What’s the point of being a Chinese historian if you can’t read the original source material, right? Anyway, I might go to school in China for my history degree. I would like to map the cultural-exchanges and assimilations made between the various ethnic groups who entered or "returned" to China during the Tang and Song Dynasties, most notably the Kaifeng Jews.
- For the last 8 years, I have been writing two books; one a three-volume Jataka about the avatars of the Maitreya Buddha and the second, which ties in with said Jataka, a take on the Kalki Purana. I have recently decided to drop both Jataka and Kalki Purana books to focus all of my attentions to one Jataka tale in particular. It covers the life of a young German-Jew who survives the 1099 siege of Jerusalem and grows to manhood in Song China. (See here for details on the German-Jews of Jerusalem) After the Humiliation of Jingkang, he, along with a portion of the Kaifeng Jewish community retreats to Hangzhou, where he joins General Yue Fei's army to defend his new homeland. (See here for details on how the Jews fled Kaifeng)
I plan on translating the Wuxia novel Tiě Bèi Jīn Dāo Zhōu Tóng Zhuàn (铁臂金刀周侗传 - "Iron Arm, Golden Broadsword: The Biography of Zhou Tong") into english when my Chinese greatly improves. I also plan on researching the historial Zhou Tong and writing a book about the true and legendary accounts of his life.
- I am a HUGE fan of the Monkey King, Sun Wu Kong, and the Journey to the West novel!!!
- I want to learn every world language.
- My myspace url is ghostexorcist
