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<span style="color:purple">Love is a gift that comes unexpectedly in your darkest night and allows you to feel as free as a butterfly and as grounded as a mountain.</span> |
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<span style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC; font-size:medium; color:green;">"We do not live in the present, rather we live in the immediate past as neither our perception nor our reactions are instantaneous vis-a-vis the stimuli." -- me</span> |
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<span style="color:blue; font-size:large;"> "δος μοι που στω και κινῳ την γην" -- Achimedes </span> |
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== My Life (in brief) == |
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<span style="color:red">If you went back in time and killed your grandfather would you be able to go back in time and kill your grandfather?</span> |
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=={{center|1=<span style="font-size:medium; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Oh good grief (relates to the concepts only (generally)):</span>}}== |
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{{center|1=] (As in, "in the ], the Sun is thought to revolve around the Earth once per day, and the rest of the solar system orbits the Sun with Keplerian orbits, causing the whole solar system to wobble, with the outer planets flying out into the universe only to return to collide with the collapsed mass that was once the earth, sun and moon.")<br /> |
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] (An oxymoronic concept)<br /> |
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] (] was engaging in a ] -- really, he was.)<br /> |
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] (Believe it or not, the world will manage to exist without us.)<br /> |
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] (Where did all that water come from and return to again?)<br /> |
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] (Cool concept -- in '']'', anyway)<br /> |
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] ("Hey, I remember water", said the old codger in 2255. And then he died. So it goes.)<br /> |
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] (My house clock is cubical, does that count?) |
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] (Do ya wanna touch, do ya wanna touch, do ya wanna touch me, there?) |
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] (So ''that's'' my problem: I eat too much red meat. Who knew?) |
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] -- not to the concept or principle itself -- they are fine -- but I hope that one day we'll all agree on one thing: we can ''never'' know the position or speed of a moving particle simply because it's in motion. No matter how fine a slice of either dimension (V and x/y/z), the object moved just a tad in the interim and no measurements of an object in motion can ever be instantaneous. |
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I was born in a ratty shoebox by the side of the interstate and our father used to thrash us to sleep. Uh, no, that's not it...apologies to Monty Python. |
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I was born and in a major East Coast city in the 60's and grew up in the 70's (same city) and early 80's. My Dad was a conservative Republican and my Mom a moderate with some liberal leanings. So, since the left was unoccupied, I became a progressive liberal (OK, it wasn't quite that simple). |
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] (''French'') -- upcoming<br /> |
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] (''German'') -- ditto<br /> |
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] (several) -- ditto<br /> |
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] (''Italian'') -- ditto <br /> |
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Nordgau (Alsace) (] -- create article<br /> |
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] (''various'')...upcoming<br /> |
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Anyway, I was raised in a home where questioning everything was encouraged, had a traditional Lutheran religious education (although as I started questioning the inconsistencies in the religion from the time I was six, my association with the church ended when I was 13), spent a number of years in the Boy Scouts, and as I'd started reading when I was 3, had more books than some small libraries. |
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I'm married to a wonderful woman, have 6 kids (two are out on their own), and love my family more than anything. |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I'm awarding you this barnstar for your help in rewriting the ] article. It is now implemented and hopefully will improve even further in the near future. Great job! ] <sup>]</sup> 14:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC) |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I award you the Userpage Barnstar for having a very entertaining userpage. Thanks for the laughs! |
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--] <sup>] </sup> 1:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC) |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your tireless translations of articles in other languages. Misplaced Pages is more complete because of you. ]<small><sup>]</sup></small> 01:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Professionally, I'm an IT manager for a large government agency. The job can be rather difficult and stressful, but it is also rather fulfilling as I have one of the best staffs in the world working for me, and my fellow IT managers form a great team. (I also edit a significant number of reports, analyze proposals and translate correspondence from various parts of the world). |
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== Interests == |
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== Politics == |
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My "survey" scores: |
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-5.63 -6.72 Yep, that makes me pretty liberal and damned proud of it. |
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== Philosophy (mostly my own) == |
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Please note that unless otherwise specified, what I write here is my own opinion, based on observation, some experimentation, and a complete analysis of the topic I am addressing. Yes, at least one well-known philosopher will likely have said some of the things I write, but generally speaking, whether a well-known philosopher agrees or disagree with me is not something I care all that much about. But then, that's really the beauty of philosophy: as long as one does not get caught in logical fallacies, all is well. |
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*I do not think that anything, not one thing, is inherently or intrinsically good or evil. I think that those qualities are merely imposed upon a concept or behaviour both societally and personally, in part as a way of ensuring the survival of our species, and in part because they create both a sense of purpose and of security. |
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*The meaning of life is that we give life meaning. |
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{{user freespeech}} {{user evol-4}} {{user lennonist}} {{user freedom}} |
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== Books (just read and favorites) == |
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'''Currently Reading''' |
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:''The Future of an Illusion'', ] |
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:''Selected Essays'', ] |
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:''Innumeracy'', ]; ''Parallel Worlds'', ]; :''Time Must Have a Stop'', Aldous Huxley; ''Ape and Essence'', Aldous Huxley; ''The Elegant Universe'', Brian Greene |
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'''Favorites''' |
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:]: ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' and ''Ulysses'' |
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:]: ''The Picture of Dorian Grey'' |
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:]: ''Point-Counterpont'', ''After Many a Summer Dies the Swan'' and ''A Brave New World''. |
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:]: ''The Grapes of Wrath'' and ''The Winter of Our Discontent'' |
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:]: ''All the King's Men'' |
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:]: ''As I Lay Dying'' and ''The Sound And The Fury'' |
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:]: ''I, Claudius'' and ''King Jesus'' |
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:]: ''La Casa De Los Espiritus'' (In Spanish) |
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:]: ''The Eclogues'' (in Latin) |
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:]: ''La (divina) commedia'' -- both the original and ] translation |
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:]: ''Darkness At Noon'' |
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:]: ''The Sun Also Rises'' |
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:]: ''Invisible Man'' |
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:]: ''Lolita, Pale Fire'' and ''Pnin'' |
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:]: ''Sons And Lovers'' |
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:]: ''Under The Volcano'' |
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== Music (favorites) == |
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'''Favorite Artists and Composers''' |
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'''Favorite Albums and Compositions''' |
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:Beatles: Revolver, ''Sgt. Pepper'', ''Rubber Soul'', ''White Album'' |
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:Rolling Stones: ''Exile on Main Street'', ''Beggars' Banquet'' and ''Let it Bleed'' |
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:Aerosmith: ''Rocks'' and ''Toys in the Attic'' |
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{{User serial comma:No}} {{User singular they:No}} {{user religion flying spaghetti monster not really}} {{user cook}} {{user Writing}} |
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Love is a gift that comes unexpectedly in your darkest night and allows you to feel as free as a butterfly and as grounded as a mountain.
"We do not live in the present, rather we live in the immediate past as neither our perception nor our reactions are instantaneous vis-a-vis the stimuli." -- me
