Fredsdeadfriend
New member
I say sort of introducing myself because even though this forum is basically an anonymous forum, in that you do not know me personally, I am an amateur poker player who has plans to turn professional soon, if not by this summer, by January of 2017 for sure. So its in my nature to keep my cards close to the chest and do what I can to keep from revealing my hand until the last moment, lol.
So all I will say for now is that I am just shy of 50, I'm a white male, I've never been married, but I have a couple kids, or more accurately, adult children. I went to 4 years of college where my major was something in or close to the the wide realm of philosophy, but I do not work in my field of study. I served in the Army for 4 years and the Army Reserve for a few more after I got out of the Regular Army. I've been both a liberal Democrat and a Conservative Republican for parts of my life, but I wouldn't call myself either of those things at this time. I would not claim to be an absolute independent either, as I do still lean just slightly towards the Republican or Conservative side, but for at least a decade, leading up to this year's political season, I completely ignored everything and anything to do with politics. I have one close family member who is a diehard liberal Democrat, and another close family member who is a diehard conservative Republican, so the best way to keep the peace with my family is/was to keep far away from politics.
But this recent election season has just been far too interesting to avoid, and without trying, I've gotten sucked in again.
I can not say that I support any one candidate but I'm a person who used to have very, VERY strong opinions about things having to do with everything from religion to politics to sports to relationships, I absolutely HATE the entire PC movement and so I have to admit to liking what Trump has added to this year's election season, but I still haven't made up my mind about him yet, so I'm open minded about him, I could be convinced to hate him just as easily as I could be convinced to love him or more likely, I will continue to simply not know what to think about him. But as people get older, in general, they figure out that the world isn't as black and white as they thought it was when they were in their teens and/or early 20s, so my views now are more open minded, in general, then they were in the past.
But I've recently set my children free, off into the big world, on their own, and after a short time to pay off some of the remaining debts that came about in raising them, I'm now moving into a new phase of my life, one where I will be more free to do whatever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want. And one of the things I want to do now is reengage myself in the world of politics and/or religion/philosophy in some way. How am I going to do that, I haven't figured out yet, but I recently found this forum and knew right away that it would be a place I'd enjoy expressing myself on occasion and reading what others post.
I may add more to this Intro in the future, or I may delete some of it, but for now I'll leave it/you here.
If anyone is interested in knowing more about me, just ask, I might tell.
So all I will say for now is that I am just shy of 50, I'm a white male, I've never been married, but I have a couple kids, or more accurately, adult children. I went to 4 years of college where my major was something in or close to the the wide realm of philosophy, but I do not work in my field of study. I served in the Army for 4 years and the Army Reserve for a few more after I got out of the Regular Army. I've been both a liberal Democrat and a Conservative Republican for parts of my life, but I wouldn't call myself either of those things at this time. I would not claim to be an absolute independent either, as I do still lean just slightly towards the Republican or Conservative side, but for at least a decade, leading up to this year's political season, I completely ignored everything and anything to do with politics. I have one close family member who is a diehard liberal Democrat, and another close family member who is a diehard conservative Republican, so the best way to keep the peace with my family is/was to keep far away from politics.
But this recent election season has just been far too interesting to avoid, and without trying, I've gotten sucked in again.
I can not say that I support any one candidate but I'm a person who used to have very, VERY strong opinions about things having to do with everything from religion to politics to sports to relationships, I absolutely HATE the entire PC movement and so I have to admit to liking what Trump has added to this year's election season, but I still haven't made up my mind about him yet, so I'm open minded about him, I could be convinced to hate him just as easily as I could be convinced to love him or more likely, I will continue to simply not know what to think about him. But as people get older, in general, they figure out that the world isn't as black and white as they thought it was when they were in their teens and/or early 20s, so my views now are more open minded, in general, then they were in the past.
But I've recently set my children free, off into the big world, on their own, and after a short time to pay off some of the remaining debts that came about in raising them, I'm now moving into a new phase of my life, one where I will be more free to do whatever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want. And one of the things I want to do now is reengage myself in the world of politics and/or religion/philosophy in some way. How am I going to do that, I haven't figured out yet, but I recently found this forum and knew right away that it would be a place I'd enjoy expressing myself on occasion and reading what others post.
I may add more to this Intro in the future, or I may delete some of it, but for now I'll leave it/you here.
If anyone is interested in knowing more about me, just ask, I might tell.