I live in multiple centuries simultaneously; my Being has four valences, and I find those with less than three to be quite bromidic. English is my fourth language, and I am marginally functional with it - most of you have no excuse! Home is the Eastern hemisphere for me sans East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Australia. Columbus was a drunk, syphilitic Italian funded by the Spaniards. My habits are Oriental...books, ghalyoon, nuts, fruits, etc. and I do NOT believe in striving. The apocalypse is nothing to be feared, just planned for, because non-Being is not necessarily better than Being. And yes, fear is the underlying structure of life - without it, we'd all flail about and degenerate into...pop culture. I have yet many lives left, probably because I repeat my mistakes and am a slow learner where it counts... When in doubt, I prefer to blame the British...and on the rare occasion it is not them, it is the Germans.