User:Jim62sch
<font|big>In nomine rationis, mentis, concilioque.
Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.
Beware the "yapping terriers of ignorance".
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente.
Δος μοι που ςτω και κινω την γην
Concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur.
<font|big>Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on, le malheur est qu'il tue ses élèves.
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Interests
- Linguistics
- Political Science
- Theoretical Physics
- Mathematics
- Poetry
- Music
- Philosophy
- Mythology (primarily religious)
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Politics
My "survey" scores:
-5.63 -6.72 Yep, that makes me pretty liberal and damned proud of it.
Philosophy (mostly my own)
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.
- 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.
- The meaning of life is that we give life meaning.
- The repression of evidence was once the domain of repressive governments. Nowadays...
 | This user supports freedom of speech. |
| evol-4 | This user is absolutely certain of the theory of evolution. |
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Books (just read and favorites)
Currently Reading
- The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud
- Selected Essays, T.S. Eliot
Recently Read
- Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos; Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku; :Time Must Have a Stop, Aldous Huxley; Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley; The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
Favorites
- Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here (Ah, but it can)
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses
- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Aldous Huxley: Point-Counterpont, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and A Brave New World.
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and The Winter of Our Discontent
- Robert Penn Warren: All the King's Men
- William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying and The Sound And The Fury
- Robert Graves: I, Claudius and King Jesus
- Isabel Allende: La Casa De Los Espiritus (In Spanish)
- Virgil: The Eclogues (in Latin)
- Dante: La (divina) commedia -- both the original and Ciardi's translation
- Arthur Koestler: Darkness At Noon
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, Pale Fire and Pnin
- D.H. Lawrence: Sons And Lovers
- Malcolm Lowry: Under The Volcano
...more to come
Music (favorites)
Favorite Artists and Composers
- Beatles, Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Van Halen, Mozart, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Byrds, Love, Buffalo Springfield
Favorite Albums and Compositions
- Beatles: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, White Album
- Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street, Beggars' Banquet and Let it Bleed
- Aerosmith: Rocks and Toys in the Attic
Still in progress
 | This user plays the bass guitar. |
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Links to Other Stuff I'm working on
- /flood story
- /flood story narrative form
- /London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- /JG rewrites history
- /sdach
Interests and other crap
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he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
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