About Me

I’m Abyssal, the webmaster of this blog, and I think it may be useful for readers to know a little bit about me. I always find myself drawn to “About Me” pages at other peoples’ blogs, and it’s really kind of frustrating when they’re absent or half-assed. I don’t know how many of you feel the same way, but just in case there’s someone out there like myself, I’ll try to be thorough here.

I was born in 1987 in southeast Michigan, which means that as of today I’m 20 years old. My parents were both originally from West Virginia, but had left the state in search of jobs. Both of them ended up working in a Detroit auto factory. They ended up divorcing, too. I was three when that happened.

Afterwards, I moved in with my mom. Not long after, maybe six months or a year, that I became obsessed with dinosaurs. Just like nearly all four year old boys of my generation. I decided I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. What makes me different is that I’m still pursuing that dream.

Obsessing over paleontological minutiae was pretty much all I did the rest of my elementary school career. However, after I switched to a different school at the beginning of 5th grade I spent the rest of the year as an obsessive Sonic the Hedgehog fan.

During sixth grade, my scientific interests also got pushed aside, this time in favor of the Pokemania that swept America for the next two years or so. Pokemon consumed my very soul those two years. By the time eighth grade started, though, I remembered that I had other interests besides Pokemon.

For some reason I decided that I was going to be smart. Not smart as in 4.0 grade point average, or any of that crap, I was going to be a real intellectual. And not just any common thinker, I aspired to be the next Aristotle or Newton or Darwin; especially Darwin. I wondered if Darwin might have been wrong about the mechanism of evolutionary change?

It was perfect! If I found the “true” mechanism of evolution, I might not only be able to become one of the most famous scientists (or even people) in history, but could possibly pave the way to proving the existence of God.

I began obsessively researching anything I could possibly get my hands on that was “anti-darwin.” Yet something surprised me. All of these antidarwinists seemed not only to deny natural selection, but to deny evolution itself! I mean, I knew such people existed, but I didn’t know that they were so numerous. Or that they wrote books and managed websites.

It was bizarre to see all my interests converging like this. This so-called “Young Earth Creationism” combined almost everything I ever loved into one; God, dinosaurs, and cryptozoology blissfully united together. It was enthralling. I began exploring the Young Earth side of the world wide web. It didn’t take long for me to find piles of blatantly ignorant bullshit amongst those young earth sites.

I spent a while endeavoring to write a book about Dromaeosaurids. Little became of it, but at least I tried, right?

This isn’t my first attempt at a blog, but hopefully it will be my most interesting and enduring attempt at making one work. What will this blog be about? Well, me of course. I am the entity around which the universe revolves. And I happen to have a lot of interests that are spread out all over the place. I’ll try to make an uber leet bulleted list of stuff you might read about here.

• My Life.
• Politics (I’m something of a liberal).
• Religion (Christianity is my religion of choice).
• Creation/Evolution Debate (I’m a theistic evolutionist).
• RPG Maker (I’m working on a game called Soulstorm Legacy)
• UFOs (I’m a “believer”)
• Cryptozoology.
• Electronic Music, Books, anime, etc.
• Science

Some links…

My Wikipedia Userpage- Curious about what I’ve added to Wikipedia? Click here.
RMwiki- RMwiki is a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia devoted to RPG Maker related things that I started about a year ago. I’m sad to say it didn’t take off quite like I hoped, but it still receives edits, and hopefully it has a bright future ahead for it.

RMwiki’s Soulstorm Legacy Page- This is RMwiki’s entry on the game I had previously been working on.

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