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Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
@TomasSamora
Member since 2012
CURRENT MISSION Know the world, learn from it, love it and cherish it as much as possible. ABOUT ME Hello there people of the world :) I'm an Azorean openminded guy.. I love to travel, meet new people and discover new oportunities.. I'm kind of unique (just like everybody else) :P I don't have a couch for you because I don't have a personal home.. I'm always travelling and working so.. sorry PHILOSOPHY Be grateful for everything you have but demand a higher standard of living. (Resource Based Economy) I defend truth and right, I live by the people and with the people. ''Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller
Interested in Dining out
Interested in Economics
Fluent in English
Learning French
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I'm new here, but hope this is about to change :)
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: (Haven't read or listened to them all (not even close) but, I'm going to, definitely) SCIENCE RELATED: Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene (listening) Richard Dawkins – Unweaving the Rainbow Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors Tale Richard Dawkins – The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show on Earth Carl Sagan – The Pale Blue Dot (listening) Carl Sagan - Cosmic Connection Carl Sagan - Contact Carl Sagan - Cosmos Carl Sagan - Billions and billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the brink of the Millenium Carl Sagan – The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan - Shadows of Forgotten Answers Lawrence M. Krauss – A Universe From Nothing Lawrence M. Krauss - Fear Of Physics: A Guide For The Perplexed Lawrence M. Krauss - Beyond Star Trek Lawrence M.Krauss - Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond Richard Feynman - Surely you're joking Mr.Feynman Richard Feynman - What do you care what others think? Richard Feynman - Perfectly Reasonable Deviations Richard Feynman - Feynman's Lost Lecture (David and Judith Goodstein) Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future Michio Kaku - The Future of the Mind Michio Kaku - Einstein's Cosmos Michio Kaku - Visions Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole Neil deGrasse Tyson - Origins Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Sky is not the Limit Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles Neil deGrasse Tyson - Merlin's Tour of the Universe Neil deGrasse Tyson - One Universe Neil deGrasse Tyson - Universe Down to Earth Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmic Horizons Neil deGrasse Tyson - Just Visiting this Planet Sam Harris – Waking Up Sam Harris – Lying Sam Harris – The End of Faith Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape Sam Harris – Letter to a Christian Nation Stephen Hawking - The Theory of Everything (read) Stephen Hawking - The Grand Design Stephen Hawking - Black Holes and Baby Universes Stephen Hawking - On the Shoulders of Giants Stephen Hawking - The Nature of Space and Time Stephen Hawking - The Large Salee Structure of Space-Time Stephen Hawking - The Universe in a Nutshell Jacque Fresco - Looking Forward (read) Jacque Fresco - The Best That Money Can't Buy (read) Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture (read) Jacque Fresco - Designing the Future (read) Richard Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Richard Buckminster Fuller - Critical Path Richard Buckminster Fuller - Grunch of Giants Richard Buckminster Fuller - Utopia or Oblivion Richard Buckminster Fuller - And it Came to Pass - Not Stay Richard Buckminster Fuller - Humans in Universe Jeremy Rifkin - Zero Marginal Cost Society Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilization Jeremy Rifkin - The Third Industrial Revolution Jeremy Rifkin - The Age of Access Jeremy Rifkin - The End of Work Jeremy Rifkin - Beyond Beef Jeremy Rifkin - Entropy Jeremy Rifkin - Biosphere Politics Christopher Hitchens – The Portable Atheist Christopher Hitchens – god is Not Great Frederico Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra Frederico Nietzsche - Ecce Homo The Zeitgeist Movement Defined – Realizing a new Train of Thought (read) The Zeitgeist Movement - Orientation Guide (read) Michael Faraday - The Chemical History of a Candlem Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species (reading) G. C. Williams - Adaptation and Natural Selection Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason (reading) Federico Pistono - Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Trisha Greenhalgh - How to Read a Paper Bill Nye - Undeniable William F. Bynum - A Little History of Science Edward O. Wilson - Letters to a Young Scientist NOT SCIENCE RELATED: J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien - Unfinished tales J. R. R. Tolkien - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil J. R. R. Tolkien - Lost Tales of The Middle Earth George Orwell - 1984 (read) George Orwell - The Animal Farm (read) Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis - treasure island Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz - Process Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic Carroll, Lewis - Trhough the Looking Glass Homer - The Odyssey Homer - Iliad David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas Franz Kafka Charles Patterson - Eternal Treblinka Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (read) Aldous Huxley - The Brave New World (read) Allan Moore - V for Vendetta ComicBook (read) 100 Graus Celsius - Miguel Aires-Lisboa (sadly with no english translation) (reading) David Marçal - Pseudociência (sadly with no english translation) (reading) Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth Melville, Herman – Moby Dick Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband Joyce, James - Ulysses Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hemingway, Ernest – The Snows of Kilimanjaro Dumas, Alexandre - The Comte de Monte Cristo Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot Dick, Philip K. – Mr. Spaceship Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Mystery of Cloomber Clarke, Arthur C. - A Walk in the Dark Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote Bradbury, Ray – The Golden Apples of the Sun Borges, Jorge Luis – On Exactitude in Science Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot Asimov, Isaac - The Foundation Trilogy Movies: Sci-fi: - Cloud Atlas - Interstellar - Inception - Mr.Nobody - Contact - Star Trek (film franchise) - The Matrix saga - Surrogates - Transcendence - Her - Looper - District 9 - K-PAX - Gravity - The Planet of the Apes saga - A Shadow Darkly - A.I. Artificial Intelligence - The day the Earth stood still - The Island - I Robot - Dark city - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - 2001 A Space Odissey - Total Recall (1990 and 2012) - The Congress - Predestination - Edge of Tomorrow - Chappie Fantasy: - The Hobbit saga - The Lord of the Rings saga - Avatar- X-Men saga - Alien saga - Prometheus - Watchmen - World War Z - The Imaginarium of Dr.Parnassus Animation: - Wall-E - LEGO the movie - Toy Story - The Iron Giant - Finding Nemo - Animatrix - Ghost in the Shell Cultural: - Now You See Me - The Truman Show - Fight Club - Memento - American History X - 12 years a slave - Across the Universe - The Art of Steal - The Great Dictator - Modern Times - Agora - Requiem for a Dream - The Inglorious Basterds - Ice - Into the Wild - The Shawshank Redemption - Prestige - The Beach - Pulp Fiction - Limitless - V for Vendetta - Django Unleashed - Unknown Musical: - Phantom of the Opera - Les Misérables Comedy: - Liar Liar Music: Pink Floyd Janis Joplin Dire Straits Eagles The Police ACDC Louis Armstrong John Lennon Otis Redding Frank Sinatra Tchaikovsky Bach Bob Marley S.O.J.A One Giant Leap Mishka Terrakota Groundation Dub FX Blasted Mechanism Phutureprimitive Mr. Woodnote John Butler Trio Daft Punk Pretty Lights Kruder Dorfmeister FatBoy Slim Gabriel o Pensador Xavier Rudd
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I have designed a 100% self sustainable household (water, electricity and food) on Auto_Cad. and to me it's the most awesome project I ever achieved with my life :)
Teach, Learn, Share
I want to know you, in order for me to know myself even better.. We need to spread love.. Show me your way and i'll show you mine :)
My Interests
- Implementation of a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. - Live according to and acknowledge Natural Law, Laws of Physics and Scientific Theories. - Environmental plant-based diet and a vegan lifestyle. - Aligning ourselves with a Universal Morality or Moral Universalism. - Have an Secular Moral Atheist Perspective on life. - Master Scientific Literacy. - Possess a Skeptical / Critical Train of Thought. - Practice Open Sourcing. - Live by the Principles of Sustainability. - Maximize Technological Efficiency. - Automation of Labor and the Means of Production. - Have an Ecological and Environmental Frame of Reference. - Free Access and Exchange of resources. - Designed in Recycling to avoid waste. - Use and share Renewable Sources of Energy. - Update of Agricultural Practices (Vertical Farming, Hydroponics). - Have a Free and Meaningful Education. - Align ourselves with true Family / Interpersonal Moral Values. - Global Citizenship. - Free Global Internet Access. - Use of a Common Language.