User:The Thadman

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משתמש זה יכול לתרום ברמה בסיסית של עברית.‏

This user wishes everyone here a very happy holiday, be it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Dong Zhi, Yaldā, Yule, or something else, and a happy and prosperous New Year for 2025.

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This user is a Yahwist.

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Hello everyone!

My name is Steve Caruso and I am a Religion and Informatics student at Rutgers University, where I am also the IT Manager of the Cook Campus Center, Webmaster of Livingston College's Recreation Center and Residence Life, and the author and webmaster of AramaicNT.org.

I'll be updating the information here as soon as I can.

Some of my interests

• Information Technology & Informatics
  • A focus on data-driven web-applications.
• Computer Programming & Program Design
  • I'm fluent in PHP (4.x), SQL, Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, and several other lesser-known languages.
  • $question = ($2b | !$2b);
• Boffer Fighting
  • I teach a [Boffer-Fighting class] at the Livingston Recreation Center at Rutgers University.
• Mandarin Chinese
  • 我現在在學中文因為中文很有用。還不行，很多話還不會說。:-)
• The Aramaic Language
  • ארמית דישוע נצריא :-)
• Sushi in all it's many flavors!
• Tea: My collection (and consumption) is large.
• Anime and to a slightly lesser extent, Manga.

About my theology

Where I've been

The study of Religion is something that is very near and dear to me. I've gone through quite a path in life, from:

1. Episcopalianism
2. Non-Denominationalism
3. G-12 Ministry (Due to my experiences with G-12 I personally believe it to be a dangerous cult.)
4. Messianic Christianity
5. Karaite Judaism
6. Mosaic Yahwism

I currently self-identify as a:

• Pre-Mosaic or "Primitive" Yahwist (as I like to call it)

Two Theo-philosophical Principles

In my personal beliefs as well as any personal philosophy I adhere to I employ a simple set of but two guidelines:

1. Honesty - One must be honest with oneself about any personally held belief.
2. Consistency - One's beliefs must be consistent, and one must be consistent with one's beliefs.

As such my personal beliefs are always a work in progress, and as I learn more they change. Even as they change, I always hold to my convictions.

"Steve-isms"

Ever have a list of things you come up with on the fly that you just have to write down? This section is dedicated to them. I'll be adding onto it as I stumble upon more in life.

On dealing with other people

"In order to be accommodated, you must be accommodating; however, always hold to your convictions."

"Never try to be 'tolerant.' Strive to respectfully disagree. 'Tolerance' originally referred to the quantity of poison one can bear in their body before they die."

"99% of life's problems are due to people not communicating with one another."

"I am a firm believer of 'keep wackyness in the workplace.'"

Whacky, random, and misc.

"That's about as fun as licking the asphalt at 60 miles an hour."

"How can someone say, 'God didn't intend for man to masturbate'? God didn't intend for the Tyrannosaurus Rex to masturbate."