Sun, 08/18/02 03:18:16 PM
This is my first real attempt to publish myself, and my work to the web (or anywhere for that matter...). A short description of myself and my "work" is in order. I am a 43 y/o male living near Philadelphia Pa. with my wife of 2 years, three children (14,12, and 10). I am currently employed as a project manager in charge of an ecommerce development project for an import Wholesale/Distributor. I finished my formal education with the completion of the 9th grade. I failed the 9th grade due to the violent conditions of the school I was in and my own delicate nature, transferred to a marvelous new school with bright new possibilities and passed the 9th grade there with reasonable grades. That summer I became very ill and missed 120 out of 180 days, was transferred out of the new school (placement in the program was in high demand and they could no longer support my presence there) and back to the old school from which I had emerged, one (1) year behind. I lasted one semester and quit. I have, until recently, never held a job more than 1 year, with the exception of the US Navy, my fathers construction business and my current position. I have traveled a good deal, vagabond style and with the service and I am wholly self-educated. The details beyond this may come out in the blog, they may not. Caveat Emptor.
My intention for this site is to act as a surrogate journal. In the pages of this publication will appear the thoughts, ideas and considerations that form the interior of my work. Here will also be the personal experiences, frustrations, conflicts (within myself...) dreams that I go through as I move forward through time. Life is a time travel experience. So, what is my "work". Well...I hope that before long we will have discovered that together as I have never been truly able to define it or explain it. I only know that since my earliest memories it has pre-occupied my thoughts and efforts to the detriment of all else. I recently encountered the word "Teleology". 1 a : the study of evidences of design in nature b : a doctrine (as in vitalism) that ends are immanent in nature c: a doctrine explaining phenomena by final causes 2: the fact or character attributed to nature or natural processes of being directed toward an end or shaped by a purpose 3: the use of design or purpose as an explanation of natural phenomena - tel.e.ol.o.gist /-jist/ noun, (Merriam-webster dictionary) This word defines better than any other the core of what I do, and why. I seek patterns in nature. Where I depart from this is that while traditional mainstream teleologists concentrate on the fundamental patterns in physics and cosmology I depart from that narrow path and extend into the metaphysical, the religious, the "supernatural (which I firmly disbelieve), psychology, history and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. While I am not necessaraly tring to "prove" the existance of god (I personally believe that the very question of whether "God" exists proves the answer.) The idea of some over-all unity and purpose to existance itself is unavoidable. Either that, or I'm just another putz on the web spouting mind garbage. I hope that someone will read this and in doing so, draw from it something of value.
Thank you.
Thomas Torpey
This is my first real attempt to publish myself, and my work to the web (or anywhere for that matter...). A short description of myself and my "work" is in order. I am a 43 y/o male living near Philadelphia Pa. with my wife of 2 years, three children (14,12, and 10). I am currently employed as a project manager in charge of an ecommerce development project for an import Wholesale/Distributor. I finished my formal education with the completion of the 9th grade. I failed the 9th grade due to the violent conditions of the school I was in and my own delicate nature, transferred to a marvelous new school with bright new possibilities and passed the 9th grade there with reasonable grades. That summer I became very ill and missed 120 out of 180 days, was transferred out of the new school (placement in the program was in high demand and they could no longer support my presence there) and back to the old school from which I had emerged, one (1) year behind. I lasted one semester and quit. I have, until recently, never held a job more than 1 year, with the exception of the US Navy, my fathers construction business and my current position. I have traveled a good deal, vagabond style and with the service and I am wholly self-educated. The details beyond this may come out in the blog, they may not. Caveat Emptor.
My intention for this site is to act as a surrogate journal. In the pages of this publication will appear the thoughts, ideas and considerations that form the interior of my work. Here will also be the personal experiences, frustrations, conflicts (within myself...) dreams that I go through as I move forward through time. Life is a time travel experience. So, what is my "work". Well...I hope that before long we will have discovered that together as I have never been truly able to define it or explain it. I only know that since my earliest memories it has pre-occupied my thoughts and efforts to the detriment of all else. I recently encountered the word "Teleology". 1 a : the study of evidences of design in nature b : a doctrine (as in vitalism) that ends are immanent in nature c: a doctrine explaining phenomena by final causes 2: the fact or character attributed to nature or natural processes of being directed toward an end or shaped by a purpose 3: the use of design or purpose as an explanation of natural phenomena - tel.e.ol.o.gist /-jist/ noun, (Merriam-webster dictionary) This word defines better than any other the core of what I do, and why. I seek patterns in nature. Where I depart from this is that while traditional mainstream teleologists concentrate on the fundamental patterns in physics and cosmology I depart from that narrow path and extend into the metaphysical, the religious, the "supernatural (which I firmly disbelieve), psychology, history and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. While I am not necessaraly tring to "prove" the existance of god (I personally believe that the very question of whether "God" exists proves the answer.) The idea of some over-all unity and purpose to existance itself is unavoidable. Either that, or I'm just another putz on the web spouting mind garbage. I hope that someone will read this and in doing so, draw from it something of value.
Thank you.
Thomas Torpey
posted by tptorpey at Sunday, August 18, 2002
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