Will you marry me and be my sugar daddy? 
Now for my serious question, what was it that started your love affair with art?
Now for my serious question, what was it that started your love affair with art?
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Sunstone Naked! An Interview of Underwhelming Proportions
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Thanks! Yessum, I'm male.
Will you marry me and be my sugar daddy?
If only I had the money. As it is, I'd be borrowing from you to keep you in bling!
Thanks, Starry!
I've sometimes thought it was inherited. My father was one of several professional artists in my family. He died when I was two, but at the time of his death, he had several unfinished commissions for oil portraits. By the standards of the time (late 1950s), the commissions were lucrative. Ten thousand dollars each. I've always been drawn to portraiture, although I don't really think there's a gene for that. I was sketching recognizable portraits of my classmates in fifth grade, and even before that, recognizable stick figure drawings of my penis.
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Excellent question! As anyone who has studied art knows, it is virtually impossible to see the numbers in works by greats like Leonardo or Rembrandt. I myself take just such an "Old Masters" approach by drawing the numbers in myself using a very light 9H pencil.
What were the 5 most defining moments of your live. Particularly if you can space them out age wise. Some when you were young something when you were neither old not young and something recentish. What they were, why they were important and how did they effect you. affected? who knows.
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Good questions, Iti!
Well, I would consider most defining moments too personal for an internet forum. One that I don't mind talking about is when I realized I'd been in an abusive relationship with my second wife.
I was in a used bookstore, and I noticed a little pamphlet, "Into the Light". The cover said something about abused women on it, and I was hearing a lot of my female friends at the time describing their abusive boyfriends to me. So, I initially picked it out of the stacks thinking it might help me understand them and maybe even advise them.
I only had to read one or two chapters before it dawned on me the pamphlet could have been a case study of my second marriage. The resemblances were astonishing, right down to the various ways in which I had denied to myself through-out that marriage that I was being emotionally abused.
I think that could have been the start of my doing something about the fallout I was still suffering from a few years later from having been abused. Today I'm one of the happiest people I personally know, but that would not be the case, I think, if I hadn't started to do something about the fallout.
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Thats very wise, its hard to heal from a wound you do not know you have. Thank you for sharing. If you want to PM me any other stories I only plan on selling them to The National Enquirer.
LOL! Thanks! I'll need some time, but I'll try to come up with four others for you, as you requested.
I strongly prefer cruel, heartless, and manipulative women with conventional views and values.
Joking aside, I highly value kindness, compassion, and consideration for others. After that, wisdom, intelligence, wit, creativity, and open-mindedness. Followed by physical beauty, education, sexual experience along with a willingness to sexually experiment, and an unique style. Any other positive traits are a plus.
What kind of girl is your type?
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What has been your most dramatic and transformative reversal of opinion/attitude?
Good question. Thanks!
Well, until I met you, I thought I might know something.
Slightly more seriously, when I was growing up, I managed to form a very limited, cynical, dismal, and ultimately untenable attitude towards love. A number of events, beginning when I was 19 or so, changed all that. In most ways, it wasn't all at once, but the difference between my attitude at, say, 18, and my attitude today, are about on the order of the differences between English and Chinese.
Only a little less dramatic have been the changes in my thoughts about epistemology. You've actually contributed to those changes, Jay, albeit not to the extent you might have, if I were a better student. I think it would require a lot of writing to describe those changes, more than to say I took the hardest path I could have taken to travel from a naive species of epistemology to methodological naturalism.
Most likely those two areas have seen the greatest changes. My politics have gone from mostly moderate to mostly progressive, but that's almost nothing compared to the changes in my epistemic views, or in my love for people and living.
How would you yourself answer the same question?
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Coffee. Brewed or not. (Dark chocolate covered espresso beans in the case of not brewed.)
The question is philosophical candy for university sophomores.
In brief, I love The Boxer as sung by Alision Krauss.
The question is philosophical candy for high school sophomores.
A recent mega-analysis of 247 scientific studies of that problem found the researchers were in overwhelming agreement that the question should be recast as, "What is the meaning of Life?", and submitted to university sophomores for a definitive solution.
I just did. How would you answer them?