Timur Hassan

To revive an old thread... My youtube channel containing two videos of my drumming to wierd Japanese noise(!) punk. http://youtube.com/user/senselessbattery In response to some Tony Royster jnr comments earlier, here's some serious drumming by Thomas Pridgen from The Mars Volta... And here's something I think most of you guys will actually like(!!!)... http://youtube.com/watch?v=ggL_2hk9DyI (Hiromi Uehara - Sakura Sakura) WOW, I kept it to three links!!! argh ok, one more http://youtube.com/watch?v=SjoSRzAlJO4 Hiromi again, the piece is Spiral DAAAAAAAAARGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHICK COREA!!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=XO3OhDJo7Ls CHICK AND HIROMI TOGETHER!!! BEETHOVEN!!! Oh, now look what I've gone and done.

I believe I am intelligent and an individualist (conceit!). Long before I heard of Rand I had a sense of the arbitrary nature of people around me, their unwillingness to question, their haste to jump the the conclusion that knowledge on certain matters is not possible and their attitude that self abasement is "good". My first exposure to Rand was the Donahue interview on youtube. I couldn't get over the fact that a person can have such conviction and lucidity about a broad range of important topics and express herself so courageously. Of course, being a woman, this made her even more impressive as in most if not all cultures, feminity seems to be characterized by meekness. At first it didn't matter what was being said, just that something was being said. I then went on to listen to The Virtue of Selfishness audiobook and was hooked with the ideas themselves! I've read much more since then, including Atlas, Fountainhead, Capitalism, New Intellectual, Anthem, Objectivist Epistemology. Thanks for the warm welcomes so far.

Hi all, I am a reader of Ayn Rand's books and an all-round inquisitive person. I've joined this forum to exercise my mind and learn more about Philosophy. I'm a statistician for a Government organisation, I hope this doesn't make me the enemy, I'm bringing it down from the inside I assure you. I'm a passionate drummer and beginner pianist. I'm 23 and fairly new to the study of Philosophy, although I've always been a thinker. So it's just hi for now and I look foreward to conversing with you. Timur