The Destruction of the Ego

I'm a socialist-atheist-feminist whose world-view is a mixture of modern science and secular humanism with a dash of Baruch Spinoza.

I'm a Bachelor of Theology. I'm currently doing my MT in Biblical Studies of the Old Testament (with a completed minor in Social & Moral Philosophy) at the University of Helsinki.

I used to drink. A lot. I don't anymore. (At all.)

I am too old and tired to feel association to subcultures.

My issues are many.

I obsess with Internet fandom(s), but seldom participate in any significant manner.

I don't really listen to music.

I do, however, like a few bands. Occasionally. Tool, Korn, Incubus, CMX. I don't obsess over music. I don't listen to it often enough.

I have dabbled with the arts. Nearly all of them, at some point. I was found not very good at them.


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I've studied a lot of languages, including Biblical and Qumran Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek, Classic Latin, Sumerian, Coptic, and Ugaritic. I don't really speak any of them.

I like Oriental cinema. And religious paraphernalia. And swords.

I don't like non-mammals. Or talking on the phone. Or being touched.

I rarely have anything interesting or original to say.

I think that I don't have a very easy personality, which is why I'm mostly alone.

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Why lovelies?

Once upon the 90's there was an alternative webring, now defunct, by the name of Love, Lies, Bleeding. The username was lovelies, and I took to using that not as an online monicker, but as a username to a lot of web-services. Livejournal was one of them.

Lovelies are the lies told in the name of love.


What lovelies does not refer to:

The Elton John song Love Lies Bleeding
The Australian band Love Lies Bleeding
Any of the dozen movies titled Love Lies Bleeding
The flower Amaranthus caudatus, Love-lies-bleeding
Any attempt to pluralize and nouni-fy the word 'lovely'

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My pain is constant and sharp
And I do not hope for a better world for anyone
In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others
I want no one to escape
But even after admitting this,
There is no catharsis
My punishment continues to elude me
And I gain no deeper knowledge of myself
No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling
This confession has meant nothing
-- Brett Easton Ellis

What others have said about lovelies:

IT's A MAN! -- thies

Because she is strange. -- alliante

Interesting, slightly mysterious, and although I have no freaking idea what she is talking about half the time, still a delight to read. -- arabwel

We should make out. -- fornikate

You are currently the only person I know who can go from pre-ordering the last harry potter book to ruminating on something like [transposing the conflict myth into ritualistic events in human history]. -- grog00

I can't make any generalisations about how interesting and worthy of respect your posts are without specifically disclaiming anything involving the activities of two men. Particularly if they're carrying wands. -- domgrief