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Favorite authorsCharles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Shusaku Endo, Graham Greene, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos, Peter Kreeft, C. S. Lewis, Nguyen Du, Michael O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Alan Paton, Walker Percy, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Christos Yannaras (Shared favorites)

About meAloha!

I'm the creator and author of http://libertas.ws.

I recently studied theology and Ancient Greek at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA and am now back in Hawai'i.

I've been a teacher for the past 15 years teaching Old Testament history, Spanish, English, social studies, & special education in Honolulu, Phuket, & Roi-Et, Thailand.

After I taught Spanish at Lutheran High School of Hawai'i in Honolulu, I moved to Phuket, Thailand and taught Academic English in 2002 and first and second year Spanish in 2004 - 2005 at Prince of Songkla University.

In between those times, I had the privilege of studying Spanish in Guanajuato, Mexico, and later in 2006, I studied more Spanish at St. Louis University in Madrid, Spain. I've also traveled to Laos, Việt-Nam, Malaysia, Singapore, & Portugal, mostly by train (I hate flyiing).

The reason why I started this Facebook profile is that while living in Thailand, Mexico, and Spain, I became spoiled by the relaxed laid back lifestyle.

I had time to enjoy life and friends. I especially loved meeting friends at the outdoor cafés in the plazas of Mexico and Spain. The more I stayed the more I realized that life in the States would be unbearable.

Spain was incredible but too expensive, as is Honolulu. It seemed I had to choose between money or time. If I chose money, I had no time freedom to see family or friends around the world or to travel to new places. If I chose time, then I had no financial freedom to do the same.

As you can see I value freedom: political freedom, economic freedom, financial freedom, and time freedom. Although I chose to live in a "free" country, I still was tied to a job. It was another form of slavery. I love to teach, but the pay is inadequate for the lifestyle I want. The work load is unbearable, having little to do with improving the education of my students but having every thing to do with justifying more bureaucracy and regulations. Last summer, I realized that I had become "psychologically unemployable."

I had to find another way. I had to find real freedom.

Libertas Internet Marketing is the means to living life on my own terms, as a Sovereign Individual: living where I want, traveling when I want, and doing what I want. Now, I set my hours and working conditions. I answer to no one but myself.

In the second half of 2009, I will be traveling to Austin, Texas, Phuket, Thailand, maybe Việt-Nam and Singapore, Las Vegas, Nevada, and either back to Honolulu or Austin for Christmas, and somehow find the time to squeeze in a wedding in Uganda!

What job would pay me or give me time off to travel like that?

I have teamed up with others at http://DavidSinghiser.com. If you're interested, look into it and perhaps join us on an adventure: it's called LIFE.

"Yes! Live! Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
-Auntie Mame

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.” -Ezra Pound

Si pudiera vivir nuevamente en mi vida
en la prójima, trataría cometer más errores.
No intentaría ser tan perfecto,
me relajaría más.
Sería más tonto de lo que he sido; de hecho
tomaría muy pocas cosas en seriedad.

Jorge Luís Borges «Instantes»


Cultivo una rosa blanca,
En julio como en enero,
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca.

Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazón con que vivo,
Cardo ni ortiga cultivo:
Cultivo la rosa blanca.

José Martí

El alma no tendría un arcoiris si los ojos no tuvieran lágrimas.

About my libraryMy library is in Honolulu, Hawai'i or Georgetown, Texas, and Brookline, MA. It's mostly theology, Church history, literature and foreign language. Working on getting it all in one place.

Homepagehttp://libertas.ws

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Member sinceFeb 18, 2007

Currently readingThe New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Edition (Hardcover 8910A) by
An Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond Edward Brown
Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology by Christos Yannaras
The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with Commentary by Olivier Clément
The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (Oxford History of the Christian Church) by J. M. Hussey
The New Testament: An Orthodox Perspective by Theodore G. Stylianopoulos
Curso De Puesta A Punto En Espanol: Escriba, hable, entienda...argumente by Alfredo González Hermosa
Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview by Gene Edward Veith
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? by Tony Blankley
Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel by Robert Ferrigno
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The History by Herodotus
The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787): Their History and Theology by Leo Donald Davis
Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis by Clyde S. Kilby
Learn New Testament Greek by John H. Dobson
Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought by Ronald E. Heine
Learning Theology with the Church Fathers by Christopher A. Hall
God and His Image: An Outline of Biblical Theology by Dominique Barthelemy
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William J. Bernstein
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
An Enemy of the State (The LaNague Federation, Book 1) by F. Paul Wilson
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
The Army of the Republic: A Novel by Stuart Archer Cohen
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