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Mar 2003

Chantilly, VA

Onesoft Corp., National Hotline Services, Inc.

http://profiles.friendster.com/38448

Chantilly High, Attended 1991 - 1995, Class of 1995

Mary Washington College, Attended 1995 - 1999, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, English

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philosophy, theology, Latin, history, bagpipes, soccer, cycling

Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux, Weapons of the Spirit by Fr. John Hugo, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Passion of the Christ, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Winslow Boy, Gods and Generals, I Confess, The Spitfire Grill, Napoleon Dynamite

Opera, Classical, Baroque, Gregorian Chant, Sacred Polyphony, Piping, Bluegrass, Country, Celtic, Drum and Bass, Jamaican Ska

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Virgo

"Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt. Yet Joan, when I came to think of her, had in her all that was true either in Tolstoy or Nietzsche, all that was even tolerable in either of them. I thought of all that is noble in Tolstoy, the pleasure in plain things, especially in plain pity, the actualities of the earth, the reverence for the poor, the dignity of the bowed back. Joan of Arc had all that and with this great addition, that she endured poverty as well as admiring it; whereas Tolstoy is only a typical aristocrat trying to find out its secret. And then I thought of all that was brave and proud and pathetic in poor Nietzsche, and his mutiny against the emptiness and timidity of our time. I thought of his cry for the ecstatic equilibrium of danger, his hunger for the rush of great horses, his cry to arms. Well, Joan of Arc had all that, and again with this difference, that she did not praise fighting, but fought. We know that she was not afraid of an army, while Nietzsche, for all we know, was afraid of a cow. Tolstoy only praised the peasant; she was the peasant. Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior. She beat them both at their own antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other. Yet she was a perfectly practical person who did something, while they are wild speculators who do nothing. It was impossible that the thought should not cross my mind that she and her faith had perhaps some secret of moral unity and utility that has been lost."
- from GK Chesterton's "Orthodoxy"

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