MWMoiceanu
I'm not very big on personal autobiographies ... I graduated from the University of California at Irvine with certain accolades and with a BA in psychology (cognitive sciences and ethology being my main focus - for which I did a number of independent scientific research projects addressing non-verbal communication via facial expressions, none of which did I get around to formally publishing, this despite obtaining good results which substantiated my hypotheses with a probability level of 0.000 in terms of possible error). My intention of going on to grad school in evolutionary psychology was cut short by my decision of staying at home to care for the family after my father's passing at the time. I've loved, and lost, and loved again. My early childhood was extremely good and then not so much. Since at least a young teenager I've studied a lot from a wide array of fields, did a lot of introspection and contemplation, and had some epiphanies along the way. Yada yada yada.
However, so as to fill in this page with a type of formal placeholder, here is the "About the Author" excerpt from a short book of fiction I once wrote, Crossroads: Ultra-short Stories of the Absurd:
I was born within a Stalinist regime in Romania during 1974 and immigrated with my parents to Southern California on political asylum at the age of seven—where I currently still live. My professions—to the extent they may be so called—have varied greatly over the years. Through reading and practice, I’m still learning how to improve my creative writing, oil painting, and photography. Much of my current free time—when not occupied with distractions—is spent in reediting an extensive philosophical work concerning metaphysics and epistemology. And—as though the just mentioned weren’t ambitious enough—I’d like to someday remedy never having produced the semi-industrial music album I was working on during my university years. I love the beauties of life and of humanity’s better aspects—these being often easy to take for granted—and find that my awareness of them is often best sustained by my also being attentive to life’s harsher truths.
On this note, as a closing comment, I uphold that love is essential to life whereas hate is an unnecessary consequence of the former. Love, minimally in some form of self-love, is required for life to continue living. Hate will exist as one of many possible means of defending that which is loved—this, at minimum, being the identity of the very person(s) which actively hate. Unlike opposites such as up and down, or yin and yang, love and hate do not form an inseparable duality. Whereas hate’s existence will always be dependent on the presence of some form of love, love can not only exist but can thrive in the absence of all hatred.
So, to me at least, as hard as this ideal might be to accomplish, there’s some worthwhile truth to be found in the phrase, “all you need is love”.
(I've been told that my short-story collection is generally rather dark, so this ending about love - being something I endorse to this day - was intended as a slight pick-me-up at the end of it all.)
A few more things about my doings can be found at michaelwmoiceanu.com, my personal website (which I acknowledge not having updated in some time, this as of today). I'm currently trying to put together the previously mentioned music album, entitled "When fighting monsters". We'll see how it goes.
Lastly for now, for the purposes of this website's philosophy, I can be best contacted via email at michael@anenquiry.info.
