User:Berlin Stark

Interests in "Real Life" and on Wikipedia -- Articles I've Expanded, Made, and/or Enjoy Reading While I Am Piddling Away Valuable Time HERE on the Internet

Wikipedia is, as of today and in the near-future, the best "site" on the entire Internet. I've been poking around here on Wikipedia for a long time now. I compiled this 'thought-web' mostly on November 9-10, 2005, though I want it to be forever growing as I make more and more connections between topics and disciplines -- I'm very much in to the liberal arts and I much prefer the interdisciplinary approach rather than the boringness of extreme specialization. Maybe one day I'll settle down intellectually, but I seriously doubt it.

This is a linkage web (or thought-web) of my hobbies and interests. It is here to help remind me that I like something and have an interest in it; also, it is a visual guide that will, as I said, allow me to make more and more connections betwixt interdisciplinary fields of study, especially regarding the liberal arts and humanities.

I've made edits in most if not all of these articles but I usually do so anonomously and will probably continue to do so.

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My Personal Web of Thoughts -- the topics here on Wikipedia that I enjoy learning, reading, writing, talking, and thinking about. (NOTE: THIS LIST IS ALWAYS INCOMPLETE, ALWAYS GROWING)

• A
• "Art"
• Astrology might be "real," who knows.
  • Astrological aspects are "real," I know.
  • Astrology and astronomy were very interrelated until 1650 or so -- no wonder modern astronomers are still so freaking strange...and the astrologers too.
  • Cazimi: "Set the controls for the heart of the Sun." -- Pink Floyd
  • Cosmobiology
    • Reinhold Ebertin
  • History of astrology
  • List of astrologers
  • Natal chart
• Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Eclipse
  • History of astronomy
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Jupiter is BY FAR my favorite planet!
  • Speed of light
  • Telescope
    • Stargazing and planetwatching
  • Tycho Brahe
• B
• C
• Charisma; does it exist? Positive and negative uses of?
  • Charismatic authority
  • Leader
  • Leadership
  • Movie star
  • Public speaking
  • Sex symbol -- why the fuck do I care?
• Circles are the most perfect form or thing I've ever been able to think of. They are the closest thing to 'perfection' I am aware of.
• Creativity, the essence of our human brains; it is what allows us to learn by make connections between subjects and fields of interest.
• Cycle studies: one day I'll write a book entitled simply, "Routine: The Glue of Civilization." It'll sell, I tell ya', so don't steal my idea(l).
  • List of cycles is fairly creepy and mind-numbing. I now feel dizzy thanks to this article, like I've just off of a merry-go-round.
  • Saros cycle
• D
• Dialectic
• Drugs: please use extreme caution.
  • Alcohol, by far the worst of them all.
  • Caffeine is not something you want to use every day.
  • Ecstasy: make sure to be in the right environment.
  • List of street names of drugs -- yup, I'm the one that mostly compiled the massive marijuana list here.
  • LSD: not for amateurs.
  • Marijuana: for amateurs.
  • Pharmaceuticals usually aren't natural in any way, shape, or form, so only use them if you are really sick and have no other choice.
  • Psylocibin to get your shroom on.
  • Tobacco -- avoid it like the plague if you can!
• E
• Education: public vs. private
  • Unlearning (delearning)
• Electricity -- WE (humans) have managed to harness it; lets stop letting it harness (TV, internet) us. We must return to each other before it's too late.
• Eugenics
  • Evolution -- including mental evolution AND Darwin's theory of biological evolution
  • Race and IQ
  • Race and intelligence
• Existence: it's hard enough trying to define excatly what this word means.
• F
• Film is an ultra-modern form of art. We have barely scratched the surface --
  • Cinema of France
  • Cinema of Germany is a little intense at times.
    • German Expressionism
  • Cinema of Sweden
  • Cinema of the United States
    • Hollywood is on-the-whole fake, but interesting.
  • Directors, Favorites:
    • Ingmar Bergman is a pretentious scallywag that makes films I enjoy.
    • Stanley Kubrick
      • 2001: A Space Odyssey
      • Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
  • Film studies & Film theory
  • History of film
• G
• Germany is a strange foreign place in my haughty and "enlightened" American mindset.
  • Bavaria is even stranger.
  • Berlin, Germany: here's to "wit and sand."
    • 1920s Berlin
  • Culture of Germany, the genesis of the 20th Century and our modern World.
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Hamburg School of Astrology
  • Karl Marx
  • Munich, Germany is a "Weltstadt mit Herz." (world-city with heart)
  • Nazi Germany was not a good place to be.
  • Weimar Republic was a craZy period in German history.
• "God is boring." -- my quote; God is far too controversial a word (the most controversial in the history of the World; thus we must change the word/concept of God to "Spirit" or "Force" to help everyone agree more that WE ALL WORSHIP THE SAME DAMN THING!)
  • "God is dead" -- Nietzsche's quote; it seems that It committed suicide out of boredom and ennui and always being quibbled over.
• H
• Hardscape isn't natural, but so essential now to modern-civ we can't give it up...
• History is broad and stuff; though who knows how much of the history we read can actually be trusted...
  • American history, who we wacky Americans are
  • History of Germany
  • History of the world
• Humor -- people aren't funny enough; laughing/smiling releases good chemicals in the brain and makes everyone feel more at ease.
• I
• Intellectual center is now defunct, but I want to try and resurrect it one of these days.
• Intelligence
  • Vocabulary -- expand it and you'll be brighter for it.
• J
• Joke: I've always wondered...why do some fail and others hit the mark?
• K
• L
• Language is the basis of ALL knowledge and the only 'thing' that separates us from animals. In short, language is humanity.
• Laughter
• Left-wing politics are the future.
  • Liberalism is nice and sunny, except when wackos are slicing the tires on your SUV.
  • Progressivism "pays."
  • Socialism, The Wave of the Future!
• Liberal arts
  • American studies
    • American culture is nonexistent, but we TRY at least.
  • Culture, Anthropology, Sociology
  • Humanities
  • Interdisciplinary studies
• Linguistics: there's already too much to talk about! (so try talking about language?)
  • Dutch language, learnable if you know German.
  • English language is linguistically limiting -- I feel trapped inside of English.
    • American English is even more so not fun to talk like others seem to be. We need to intonate more.
  • French language, my knowing this method of speaking will help me to somewhat understand the other Romance Languages like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
  • German language, not easy to learn, but for some reason it is essential for me to know it.
  • Latin language will open a pseudothyrum in the mind.
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein liked to "play" with language; it was his way of trying to figure it all out.
  • Noam Chomsky talks and writes WAY too much, but I like him.
  • Philosophy of language: don't ask me why or how, but we are born for speech.
  • Swedish language, it reminds me of hot blonde chicks and stuff.
• Literature
  • American literature
  • Creative writing
  • English literature
  • German literature
  • Novellas are neat.
  • Short stories are quite possibly my most favorite things to read; they're the equivalent of a commercial on TV for those of you who don't read very much --
    • Flash fiction is almost not there.
  • Southern literature has some unexpected goodness.
• Location, learning about my environment, that which contains me; the characteristics and history.
  • Multiverse, etc.
    • Universe
      • Milky Way Galaxy
        • Sun, my sweet Sol.
          • Solar System
            • Inner planets (or terrestrial planets if you prefer)
            • Earth, my friend -- The World.
              • Northern Hemisphere; we're top-heavy.
                • Western Hemisphere -- we have entirely too much when others don't have nearly enough.
                  • United States of America, in the Southern United States
                    • North Carolina, my state in the USA, is nice looking but boring.
                      • Piedmont Region
                        • Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
                          • Charlotte, North Carolina is dull, but it is gleaming and shiny and very, very capitalist. My HOMETOWN and place of BIRTH!!!
                            • Central Piedmont Community College, the finest junior college that ever was.
                            • Matthews, North Carolina is homey and quiet but still, it remains dull. I'm here alot.
                            • The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is MY school. All mine.
                        • Union County, North Carolina = Farmland (it's rapidly changing)
                          • Indian Trail, North Carolina is fake and no Native American trail is to be found here.
                          • Monroe, North Carolina is a terrible place that is beyond horrible. But it's not so bad actually...
                          • Stallings, North Carolina is a 20 second blip in a carride. The New York City of the South!
                          • Weddington, North Carolina is a bunch of rich white-people that generally hate their lives because they spend WAY too much time making money, being fake, and watching TV.
                      • Western North Carolina
                        • Appalachia
                        • Blue Ridge Parkway
                        • Grandfather Mountain
                        • Great Smoky Mountains
                        • Mount Mitchell
                        • The University of North Carolina at Asheville -- ahhh, the ideal universe of a liberal arts college.

• M
• Music is for the "soul." (duh)
• N
• Nonverbal communication
  • Eye contact
  • Five senses
  • Intuition
• O
• Occult
  • Bibliomancy = "divination by book"
  • Divination is mostly absurd, but it's still interesting; check out the main list and be prepared to laugh a lil'.
  • Mysticism
  • Numerology may hold some validity, but I doubt it.
  • Omen
  • Prophecy
  • Western mystery tradition
• P
• Philosophy
  • Existentialism
    • Existential dread
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Nothingness: ouch, that smarts!
  • Philosophy of mind
• Population growth
• Psychology
  • Archetype
  • Carl Jung
  • Collective unconscious
  • Hypomania
  • Mania
  • Sigmund Freud
• Q
• R
• Religion fascinates, angers, perplexes.
  • Agnosticism is me right now.
  • Atheism was me and I still identify with it to a certain extent.
  • Buddhism is deep.
  • Freethought
  • Judaism is fun to learn about.
    • Israel is controversial.
    • Jewish people are intelligent and make me laugh.
  • Taoism is deceptively simple but always profound.
    • Wu wei gives me an excuse to be lazy.
• S
• Smiling
• Sweden is sexy. (but kind-of cold sometimes)
• T
• Time, a word or concept that we really know nothing about.
• U
• V
• W
• War will only end when it is won.
  • American Civil War
    • Battle of Gettysburg
    • Battle of the Crater
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Franco-Prussian War: the French and the Germans just do not get along --
  • World War I: they really don't like each other...!
  • World War II: I'm dead-serious here. A war of this magnitude should never happen again in the whole of human history.
    • Operation Barbarossa
  • World War III one day? Let's hope not.
    • Nuclear war -- ALL nuclear weapons should be destroyed by ALL nations except for a very limited few that we can use to try and "fend off aliens" in case 'they' ever attack us in the distant future. I don't truly "believe in aliens" but hey, you never know what could happen...in this bizarre multiverse.
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles deserves a space on this page! Awesome and hilarious stuff...extremely quirky.
• Writers (favorites)
  • List fav. writers/authors here eventually (gonna take awhile)
• X
• Y
• Z

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