| Friendster |
[06 Jun 2003|09:38am] |
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I've just found Friendster a few weeks ago and really like it. I wonder if there is a way to do testimonials with Livejournal the way you can with Friendster.
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[20 Dec 2002|09:19pm] |
1. Sartre (100%)
2. Nietzsche (96%)
3. Kant (88%)
4. Prescriptivism (86%)
5. Hobbes (84%)
6. Hume (83%)
7. Rand (80%)
8. Epicureans (77%)
9. Stoics (76%)
10. Mill (75%)
11. Spinoza (62%)
12. Cynics (50%)
13. Noddings (49%)
14. Bentham (45%)
15. Ockham (43%)
16. Aristotle (33%)
17. Aquinas (26%)
18. Plato (26%)
19. Augustine (21%)
http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/
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| Brain Scan |
[20 Dec 2002|06:55pm] |
So I'm participating in this Study at NIH as a normal volunteer. Its a study on Schizophrenia, which I don't have. I spent two days last week at the Medical Center taking IQ tests, getting MRIs, an EEG, having a full psychiatric evaluation, and a few other things. Yesterday I got home and got a call from someone at NIH asking me to come back in for another MRI. So, I went in a few hours ago, and in a few weeks I'll get a check for $70 for todays visit. Last weeks visit will net me $350. I've signed up for a few other studies and will be going in soon for them.
THe first study I signed up for was for HIV Vaccine trials. I had to think long and hard about going through that one, but I'm proud to be doing it now. I started back in August, and I was injected with three rounds of either a placebo or a DNA vaccine of HIV. There is no risk of getting HIV, since I don't get injected with the HIV protein or all of the DNA. But the vaccine does have a synthetic version of some of the DNA in HIV, with the hope that my immune system will develop some resiliance to it. They take a lot of blood out of me and expose some of it to HIV to see if my white cells work against HIV.
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[20 Dec 2002|01:12am] |
Today I volunteered at the fire station. I drove the Engine from 7am until 5pm. We had five calls, all medical related. I've been a volunteer firefighter since I was in highschool. I enjoy it, but I wonder where the motivation for it lies in me. I often think that I might find that my volunteering is compensating for some other lack in my life, and that if I was able to figure out what was lacking in my life, I wouldn't feel the drive to be a volunteer firefigher so much. Still, I enjoy being a part of a team, and helping others.
But, still I'm on a search to figure out what really matters in my life.
I've recently decided that I have a lot of extreme behaviors that don't serve me well. I'm doing a lot of questioning of my faith, Unitarian Universalism. As a whole, I still like it, because it is a faith that encourages this very sort of questioning that I'm doing of it. Still, I think I've been getting more out of it than I should expect to get out of it, or I'm getting stuff out of it in the wrong way.
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| First entry |
[01 Nov 2002|12:04pm] |
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This is my first entry. I'm encouraged by the community I see here. I still need to figure out how this all works. I want to join some specific communities, like the Unitarian Universalist community.
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