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06-09-2011, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Guildford, UK
Posts: 19
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I was once a human being
My name is Peter Jackal
1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
I am a professional writer
2. Where are you from?
Guildford, UK
3. Who is your favorite author?
Anne Rice / Carlos Castaneda
4. What are your favorite films?
Apocalypse now, American Beauty and many others
5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
I will never marry
6. At your funeral?
I cannot die
7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
If I were mortal, I would want to die of old age, with failing nerves too frail to feel the agony of the jaws of Death when She feasts upon the meat of my screaming soul
8. What kind of casket would you want?
I would want my corpse to be torn apart by wild animals
9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
At 45, I look fantastic naked. My flesh is decorated by magical chinese tattoos that inform my human destiny
10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
My visions of the Archangel Michael. They have never returned
11. What's your favorite band?
The Prodigy
12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
Degree: Mathematics, Philosophy, Quantum Physics & Relativity
13. Why did you join?
I want people to read my testament to the unknown: the three books of the Shadow Gospels trilogy, starting with The Shadow of Death
14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Male
Last edited by Peter Jackal; 06-09-2011 at 01:10 PM.
Reason: punctuation
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06-09-2011, 01:55 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 71
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Welcome 
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12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
Degree: Mathematics, Philosophy, Quantum Physics & Relativity
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Were you always planning on becoming a writer and if so, why did you study those fields?
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06-09-2011, 04:46 PM
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#3
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Everywhere
Posts: 650
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Are/Did you share your writing on here? What fuels your writing techniques?
I like Anne Rice, are you familiar with Christopher Rice? For some reason I like his books. I've read, I think it was something to do with Snow.
Oh and what is your favorite sex position? J/W...
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06-10-2011, 09:52 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Guildford, UK
Posts: 19
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Originally Posted by mindless1
Are/Did you share your writing on here? What fuels your writing techniques?
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You can read some extracts from my book, The Shadow of Death, on this forum: https://www.gothic.net/boards/showthread.php?t=24878
I am driven by pain, passion and an ecstasy of darkness that shivers in my bones. I have seen that which cannot be described. It thunders in the far reaches of my brain, trickles down through the wet, grey fat of my nerves, and possesses my hands, my thoughts and my eyes while time is forgotten.
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I like Anne Rice, are you familiar with Christopher Rice? For some reason I like his books. I've read, I think it was something to do with Snow.
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I have never read his work.
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Oh and what is your favorite sex position? J/W...
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Doggy style for 45 minutes to an hour.
Peter
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06-10-2011, 10:20 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Guildford, UK
Posts: 19
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Welcome
Were you always planning on becoming a writer and if so, why did you study those fields? |
Hi Ami,
I never planned to become a writer.
Writing is something that consumes me. It emerged from the ashes when all ambition was lost, when all sense of purpose lay in sightless ruin, and the joy of a life without boundaries ran down my cheeks in hot streams of pointless tears.
It was always there, lurking in the shadows: hunting, learning, growing like a dark thing feeding off my senses and weaving its own deadly vision of the things that human eyes will never see.
Once I was a man. Now writing is the only thing that connects me to the beating heart of the mammal I used to be.
The mammal loved the science of thought. Destiny animated the warmth of its limbs and brought it to the altar that now drains its human blood onto the pages of a book.
A story of love, sex, hate and revenge in pursuit of dreams that are beyond the minds of mortal men and women. It is a gospel of unknown things.
It is The Shadow of Death
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06-10-2011, 11:27 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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Why is it that I don't believe you have a degree on mathematics, philosophy, AND physics?
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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06-10-2011, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Guildford, UK
Posts: 19
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Originally Posted by Alan
Why is it that I don't believe you have a degree on mathematics, philosophy, AND physics?
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Hi Alan,
I have a BA in Mathematics.
I was fortunate enough to study at a university where the mathematics students could study units from any other department, provided that they didn't exceed forty percent of the credit in any given year.
Some of my course mates read options in Spanish and Theatre Studies.
I was a little less adventurous: philosophy of mathematics, philopsohy of science, philosophy of language, quantum physics and relativity.
To compensate for this I also drank and took drugs.
Peter
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06-10-2011, 12:01 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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I like you. Welcome.
: puts on Breathe by Prodigy in loop mode and dances until his tattoos leap off and gallop away into the abyss:
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06-10-2011, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Originally Posted by Alan
Why is it that I don't believe you have a degree on mathematics, philosophy, AND physics?
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Because mathematics doesn't seem to go with philosophy.
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06-10-2011, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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Not true. Badious is a very prominent philosopher of mathematics. My point was that he wasn't going to have a degree in all those things. With the way he speaks I certainly was going to call bullshit on him saying he honestly had a degree in philosophy, and clearly he didn't have a degree in physics thinking that there are separate degrees for quantum physics and relativity.
And I was proven right.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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06-10-2011, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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You seem really tedious.
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06-10-2011, 04:40 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Originally Posted by Alan
Not true. Badious is a very prominent philosopher of mathematics. My point was that he wasn't going to have a degree in all those things. With the way he speaks I certainly was going to call bullshit on him saying he honestly had a degree in philosophy, and clearly he didn't have a degree in physics thinking that there are separate degrees for quantum physics and relativity.
And I was proven right.
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Ah, well I haven't heard of mathematical philosophy. I don't pay a lot of attention to philosophical things, though.
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06-10-2011, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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Oh shit, I wrote Badious. It's Badiou. Hardcore motherfucker.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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06-10-2011, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Alan, you teach yet again.
If I grok Alain Badiou correctly (why do the French philosophers seem to have that name? Alain Badiou, Alain de Button...), then his views are borne out in the social back and forth here in the Gnet microcosm: non-religious members are attracted here and accumulate to the majority, so now Christianity or other religion becomes the boundary of "the void", leading to events (conflicts) where new members with religious beliefs are now in the minority. Gnet is one small beach on the ginormous social coastline, where other beaches stretch for miles with Christianity or Islam, where the waves recede compared to Gnet's rising tide. In both cases, even though the titles and beliefs of the majority are polar opposites, the state of being a majority redefines "the void" and its boundary where events occur.
I love this place.
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06-16-2011, 11:57 AM
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#15
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Gnet has broken the reasoning tube in my brain. I think everyone is Kontan, who has become Mir.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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06-16-2011, 12:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dude, I don't even know where I live anymore.
Posts: 1,276
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Lol, was that the amazingly funny thing that happened to you yesterday AC?
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06-17-2011, 04:19 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Nah, that's just an aside. My suspicion is way funnier. 
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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