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Joel E. Izquierdo

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Where do you find new music?

I look up pieces I read about in books and articles on theory; I find styles and themes by composer; band is a great resource for music literature.
Classical music is a grand sea, and I set out for discovery.

A short afterthought.

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Perhaps, the admittance of personal weirdness is an unrealized contradiction of the statement made. It might be inherently strange, within the adolescent realm of thought, to claim that one is indeed not weird.
But are weirdness and uniqueness of character very different at all, yes?

On a scale from 1 to 10 how weird are you?

I really can't determine that on my own, as weirdness of character is, I think, a social aspect of personality. But, telling by most answers to this particular question, it is a favored trait, perhaps due to a unique individuality and creativity behind the popular image of the idea of grayish horseback jurisdictions within the untruthful unreported.

How does society brainwash the youth?

Young brains are the most plastic. There're books that elaborate on the plagues of modern child raising, i.e. sedentary lifestyles, poor diet, unnecessary exposure to extreme violence, television, the American education system, social fallibility, abuse, negligence, pressure arising from forcing children to do things, indulging them, et cetera. John Locke, in his "Some Thoughts On Education", went so far as to say that children, in order to be aware that they should consider their inherent desires before pursuing them, should not be allowed to call for things by name, but by essence of what the child wants. This, of course, was to prepare the child for what Locke would call a just education: one that did not mold the child into a scholar, but rather shaped itself according to the child to make learning as pleasant as possible and, thus, making the child into a wise, virtuous person who is humbly aware of life. In other words, the more crap you give to a child, the less affected they'll be by the wonder of existence.
The except below gives a different answer to a somewhat similar question.

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Why do people kill each other?

Conflict, perhaps, if not the 'absurd'.
A more interesting question would be: why did the protagonist of The Stranger kill a stranger on the beach?
The sun?
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What good idea you have had lately?

For a brief moment, I thought that correcting the grammar of the question would be a good idea, but then I realized that it really wouldn't. Other than the fact that my answer would probably change nothing, badgering on the way people speak (or write) defeats the human experience of information exchange on a nearly fundamental level. You could've possibly typed half of the daily question and turned to something else before returning to it; Eric Snowden once discussed a particular power he was shocked to have while working for the NSA, which was the ability to observe messages as they were being typed, the little pauses between words and backspaced sentences. But evidence of human thought is not limited to the NSA.
In other words, you proved that you were there.
An important idea, I think, to keep in mind is that, even if you are accustomed to the little space of your head and you only find comfort in solitude, it's literally impossible to be alone.

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Do you find yourself thinking more about your past, present or future?

Although the past, present, and future seem essentially the same, I do find myself reminiscent of the distant past and the very distant, projected future quite often. I think of the Golden Record of the Voyager I and feel warmth in my toes, as if they were sentient and independent. And it feels like the more acquainted I become with the early memories of my childhood, the more the cosmic intrigue of mankind swell within my breast, as if it were separate and feeling.
So now, within the idea of present day lies the abstract emotions of ambivalence, as I simultaneously look with reminiscent eyes at the fleeting moments of initial anagnorisis, and gaze with pensive neutrality at the coming mysterious ages of human advancement and the human response to entropy at its whispered apotheosis.
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Who is the boss in your house?

mostly democracy I guess but for several parental controls and such

What motivates you?

There's probably not a single inherent thing that spurs function in my body other than the basic necessities of survival but my conscious motivations, which in their subconscious ways, are also driven by the great chain of being. So now I'm trying to implement smaller scale motivations, things to look forward to, so that I might not get so caught up in the future that it passes like a train. I don't know how to do this, but [details].
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How often do you use your brains?

There's literally nothing I can consciously do without my brains because my brains house my consciousness.

What's something every teen should know?

Total control isn't a good thing.
Growing up involves either assuming authority over decisions you don't want to make or presenting others with decisions nobody wants to make.

Are you a traveler or a homebody?

Our Earth is a traveler. We're all passengers aboard the homebound vessel.
Haven't I maintained this before?

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