My apologies to everyone who was kind enough to view my profile and found this empty. I should have filled this in weeks ago. My only excuse is that I'm been busy refitting my boat in which I, and anyone brave or daft enough to come with me will go exploring
Since I'm neither good at nor enjoy writing about myself I'll be concise; I've spent most of my life in construction and engineering, I'm a pragmatist, goal orientated, read constantly, like my humor dark, big on trust, hate liars, don't do head games, love festivals and free parties and psy trance
I love science and hate religion and I'm constantly baffled and amazed that with all the complexity of nature, the weirdness of quantum theory and the sheer unimaginable beauty and size of the universe that anyone could have the audacity to hold up a book of medieval bullshit and claim enlightenment and then have the arrogance, based on the aforementioned bullshit, to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.
As to the world I'm cynical but not yet despairing which I think, given the state of everything going on around us, is either naive or a modest personal triumph. There's a poem 'Politics' written by William Butler Yeats towards the end of his life - Pretty well sums up where I'm at.
Politics
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms.