Re: Introductions

Thanks, Melvin. Glad to be at the bleeding edge of the new economy with you all.


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:24, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew, welcome, I'm enjoying reading your posts already! :)


> On 26 February 2012 06:51, Andrew Durham <yodrew@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Everybody,
>>
>> Manu invited me to join this list after I wrote him with ideas about
>> alternative currency and crowdfunding for PaySwarm. (see new threads
>> soon.) Thanks, Manu!
>>
>> My dad transmitted to me an interest--later fueled by my
>> anarcho-capitalism--in monetary theory, specifically, alternative
>> currencies and methods of payment and funding. A strict monetarist, I
>> see little future in:
>> - monopolized currency
>> - the global corporatism that depends on it
>> - state-enforced intellectual property
>>
>> I am not a programmer, but an independent investigator in:
>> - philosophy (realism, from Objectivism to Tantric Hinduism to animism)
>> - health (Natural Hygiene)
>> - design (organic and dymaxion, material and conceptual)
>>
>> My main work for three years has been experimenting with the use of
>> darkness retreats to heal from civilized (functional) psychosis,
>> caused by catastrophic psychic injury. Suffering from this myself in
>> the form of exhaustion-depression, I am looking for ways to be useful
>> while finding a way out of my predicament. Glad to be here.
>>
>> Realizing that the discussion here is often technical, I'll reserve my
>> comments to issues of design and philosophy where it seems it could
>> help.
>>
>> I'm glad to be here.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Andrew
>>
>> --
>> independent researcher in philosophy, health, & design
>> the darkness conjecture — http://andrewdurham.com
>> 541.210.8470 vm
>>
>>
>

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