My name is L. Robuis, I have been curious about this site for some time and have just now found the time to join. What a remarkable cast of characters here, some absolute geniuses...blended with some, uh...

I'm going to study the forums carefully before I leap in and make an a-- of myself pontificating. I didn't come here to 'become someone'; rather, I am hoping to once again take philosophy out of the stodgy classrooms and send it back into the streets, where it belongs; as such, I'm hoping to attract a group of like-minded people who together can bring this essential tool for living to where it is most needed: the young, and the drifting.

I am presently studying under Tad Baker, of the Institute of Absurdity, perhaps the leading experimental theater director/pataphysician alive today. His Institute, if you'll recall, performed the San Francisco Farting Contests, Pindaro's Belly Pageants, Even the Score/Uncle Tad Baker's Loon Show (the audience-participation events which Jerry Springer later copied and made famous), along with The Execution of Abe Goldstein, a Depraved Homosexual, a show which got the I of A banned from SF. He's a recluse now and I am lucky to be able to study under him.

At any rate, I'm overjoyed to begin dialogues and rants with some of the world's few remaining philosophers.

You have always been some one, but some times it pays to be more specific...Welcome, and don't touch me. Absurdity is contagious...Or ssomething...