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If you happened to have stumbled upon this page, I would like to bid welcome to my small, mostly insignificant corner of the vast Wikipedia Encyclopaedia. I am User Gbrading, Editor (aren't we all), and this page is my office. Or at least, I like to think of it as my office. It’s covered in mahogany wood panelling, has a large, imposing desk made of a similar material, and has walls lined with vast bookcases holding books on topics from Astronomy and Art to Zoology and Zionists.
If you feel like you wish to contact me, to ask either questions about edits or for general advice on anything (I don't bite, really), please feel free to just leave a wonderfully nice comment on my talk page. I'll (maybe) even give out delicious free cookies to every good Wikipedian! Anyway, I think in the next section I will get started talking about what I find most interesting.
Help yourself to the biscuits, cake and tea, and I have just installed the beautiful coffee machine.
Current Status: Missing, presumed Edited.
[edit] My Interests
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About Me
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This user's favourite subject is History. |
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This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly.
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My main areas of interest (and therefore editing) are History, Philosophy and Politics, along certain areas of Science, Music, Film and Literature. I have a particular obsession with mainly History and Books I'd admit. Just some of the books I adore are, amongst others; The Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22 and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, though there are so many more great novels out there. I also have a great love for certain films, including but not limited to (Dr. Strangelove, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Brazil. So I hope you have garnered the general gist of my tastes from that interesting but frankly irrelevant premamble to the rest of this section.
Ah, yes Philosophy! That is a worthwhile topic. Philosophy is the only topic you do not study, you just 'do' it. There are no philosophers whom I disapprove of, aside from perhaps Martin Heidegger. Some had a few crazy ideas (I'm thinking of Sigmund Freud at this point) and some were overly obsessed with God (Thomas Aquinas, Anselm of Canterbury), and attempted to prove his existence. Some were pillars of intellect (Immanuel Kant (though he led a particularly dull life), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rene Descartes). A few were probably often barking mad (mainly German philosophers; Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer).
However, I would say that all possessed sheer brilliance. "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", Voltaire was once quoted as saying. Such witty and memorable remarks are almost common amongst philosophers. "The word freedom has no meaning" Denis Diderot (an encyclopaedist!) expressed in his book Philosophical Thoughts. I find it extraordinary that there is huge variety of thought and opinion in the study of Philosophy. Across the centuries, there has only been minimal agreement between them, and we are only a couple of inches closer to the (unattainable) solutions than Aristotle, Plato and Socrates were.
Currently, I am a Philosophy student at the University of Southampton and I'm having plenty of time to get in all the reading of practically every major philsophical work under the Sun. This is currently Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein, Ethics by Spinoza and Treatise of Human Nature by Hume.
So, Philosophy is a favourite of mine. Also Politics. I see myself as a Liberal/Democrat, or both. I also very much like useless Red tape. I have absolutely no idea why.
[edit] The Desk
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