User:Jim62sch

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In nomine rationis, mentis, concilioque.

In principio creavit homo deos et ex eo tempore poenas dederat

Généralement, les gens qui savent peu parlent beaucoup, et les gens qui savent beaucoup parlent peu.
Beware the "yapping terriers of ignorance".
Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on, le malheur est qu'il tue ses élèves.

3,265 KIA 24,314WIA Casualties of an Insane Emperor

In Memoriam: 3,000^th Death, Sgt. John M. Sullivan, 22, of Hixon, Tenn.,[1]

NOTE: UK KIA: 140; Other KIA: 124; Iraqi dead in the tens of thousands

Wikipedia:Babel

en This user is a native speaker of English.

es-4 El nivel de este usuario corresponde al de un hablante casi nativo del español.

fr-4 Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

pt-3 Este usuário pode contribuir com um nível avançado de português.

ca-3 Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell avançat de català.

gl-2 Este usuario pode contribuir cun nivel intermedio de galego.

grc-2 Ὁ ἐγκυκλο­παιδει­ουργὸς οὗτος τὴν ἀρχαίαν Ἐλληνικὴν γλώτταν γράφειν μέσως οἷος τ' ἐστίν.

it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello intermedio.

la-4 Hic usor simile nativi latine loquitur atque contribuere potest.

de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

ro-1 Acest utilizator poate contribui cu un nivel de bază de română.

oc-2 Aqueste utilizaire pòt contribuir amb un nivèl mejan d'occitan.

Cyrl-2 я This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet.

fro-1 Icest faitre poet assister a un nivel bas de la langue francor.

sco-1 This uiser can contreibute wi a laich level o Scots.

ia-1 Iste usator pote contribuer con un nivello basic de interlingua.

sa-1 एषः उपयोजकः सरल-संस्कृते लिखितुं शक्नोति.

Contents 1 Interests 2 Quotes 3 World view 4 Books (just read and favorites) 5 Articles Completed/Started/major participation 6 Interests

[edit] Interests

Linguistics; Evolution and the debate surrounding it; Political Science; Theoretical Physics; History; Mathematics; Poetry; Music; Philosophy; Mythology (primarily religious)

[edit] Quotes

"If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word "gods" has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods...When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon...does he, in fact, do anything more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?" [emphasis mine] -- Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron von Holbach, Systéme de la Nature, London, 1770

Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα, Τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω. -- Wasteland, TS Eliot

"For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." -- II Corinthians 11:19

"I don't swear for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. We've got to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands" -- Inherit the Wind

[edit] World view

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements. Materialist 100% Modernist 81% Existentialist 75% Postmodernist 56% Cultural Creative 44% Romanticist 31% Idealist 13% Fundamentalist 13% >What is Your World View?

[edit] Books (just read and favorites)

• To Read
• Currently Reading
• Recently Read
  • Cosmos, Carl Sagan; The New Age Lexicon, Peter Lemersurier; Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos; Time Must Have a Stop, and Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley; The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene; Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku; Selected Essays, T.S. Eliot; The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud; Who Wrote the Bible?, Richard Elliott Friedman; Eats, Shoots and Leaves, The Fabric of the Cosmos , Brian Greene, Sanskrit Grammar, William Dwight Whitney, The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene; 'Surpassing Wonder, Donald Harmon Akenson; The End of Faith, Sam Harris; Howards End, E M Forster

• Favorites
  • Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here; James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses; Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Grey; Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and 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: 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

[edit] Articles Completed/Started/major participation

• Acacian schism, Annius Rufus, Armstrong, British Columbia (from stub), Alfred Austin (from stub). The Beau Brummels, Robert Bridges (cleanup, add information, wikify), George Chkiantz, Clear Light (from stub), Computer-aided production engineering (from stub), Corficolombiana (from stub), Council of Epaon, Council of Tarragona, Cuspius Fadus, Simon Dach (from stub), David Daggett (from stub), Cecil Day-Lewis (cleanup, add information, add image, wikify), Laurence Eusden (from stub), Friends Hospital (from stub), Gainas, Great railroad strike of 1877 (from stub and second incomplete article), Benjamin (Ben) Howard, Howard DGA-6 (Mister Mulligan), Intelligent design Featured Article, Lucius Aelius Lamia, John Masefield (cleanup, add information, add image, wikify), Noah's Ark Featured Article (User:PiCo was primary), Nostradamus Featured Article (User:PL was primary), Nostradamus in popular culture, Barnaba Oriani (from stub), Henry James Pye (from stub), Pope Agatho (from stub), Pope Donus (from stub), Pope Saint Leo II (from stub), Pope Saint Vitalian (from stub), Nicholas Rowe (dramatist) (cleanup, add information, add image, wikify), St. Augustine's High School (clean-up), Synod of the Oak, Nahum Tate (from stub), Threads (from stub), Tribigild, Uldin, Valerius Gratus, Thomas Warton (from stub), William Whitehead (from stub), Nancy Yasecko, Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (cleanup, add information, add image, wikify), Kazimierz Żorawski (from stub)
  • Year articles from 1 to 412 CE -- ongoing: add items (many swiped from the French wiki), copy edit, wikify, format, etc.
  • Full reformatting of articles from 1 to 560 CE

[edit] Interests

.