User:Teledildonix314

Around most online forums my username is a variation of Teledildonix. (314 is where to find me.) My real name is Kevin Hutchins, and i'm a Bellinghamster. I was born in 1970. I have lived in the state of Washington since 2002. I spent the previous three decades living in the state of Vermont.

My computer is an Apple iMac G5 20" running OS X 10.4.11. I have public webpages detailing my personal life. My diary on LiveJournal = Teledildonix; MySpace profile = Teledildonix; Yahoo! 360 profile = Teledildonix; Google profile = Teledildonix.

I'm a gay male, a dildosexual homosexual, a proud member of the LGBT community. I've survived infection with the AIDS virus since 1989. My personality type is "INTJ"; here's a guide on how to deal with an INTJ personality. My native language is English, and i also have a basic understanding of French. According to the Political Compass i am: Economic Left −8.38 (liberal humanist, voluntary collectivism) and Social Libertarian −9.44 (personal freedom, anti-authoritarian). I'm a secular humanist and an atheist. I reject all religions and superstitions. I strive to support peace, and oppose censorship. I oppose prohibition, i prefer harm-reduction, and i believe it should be my right to consume any substance of my choosing, in addition to the myriad prescription medications i take daily. Usually i'm editing under the influence of Dronabinol and a half-dozen drugs for treatment of HIV.

I attended public school in Chittenden County, and i was the youngest valedictorian of Milton High School at the age of 16 in the year 1987. I attended UVM from 1987 until 1990. I was a video rental store clerk from 1990 to 1995. I was a volunteer DJ at WRUV from 1992 until 1995. I was a 411 (directory assistance) telephone operator from 1995 until 2001. I've been enjoying my peaceful retirement (on long-term disability, Social Security and Medicare) living with my best friend Tony here in Bellingham overlooking the shore of the Salish Sea. I've now survived with HIV for more than half my life (i was infected in 1989.)

I haven't been socializing outside of my home much during recent years. My social life has been primarily online lately, and that mostly consists of lurking quietly around Wikipedia. As i find myself incapable of interacting in a healthy way, i'm trying to limit my interpersonal situations. My latest approach is to basically do copyedit work and to avoid intense collaboration, because i want to stay away from arguments. This way i enjoy the feeling of contributing usefully, while staying away from conflict. Nobody has ever complained about the way i improve grammar, spelling, punctuation, layout, and syntax; so that's where i'm putting my focus as i like to spend my free time tweaking the encyclopedia.

I listen to electronic and ambient music, and subscribe to SomaFM.com. I'm an expert at Yahoo! MahJong, especially super~fast 5~Faan MahJong. I enjoy reading science fiction, humor, webcomics, and gay pornography. I watch a small amount of television; i receive nine analog broadcast stations (over-the-air with rabbit ears) in this region very near the border with British Columbia, from the cities of Vancouver, Victoria, and Abbotsford. I listen to a few radio broadcasts in this region of Whatcom County, 150km north of Seattle, Washington. I'm a good cook, but as a result of my decades with AIDS my mass is only 71kg although my height is 190cm.

Religion is the opposite of education. Faith is the opposite of intelligence. Superstition is the opposite of demonstration. Fantasy is the opposite of reality, and all fantasy-based dogma (religions) are worthless evasions of realism. Evangelism is predation. Faith-based indoctrination is mental abuse; and when it is enforced on younger members of a family and on youthful members of society, it is serious child abuse. The infliction of religion on vulnerable members of the community is disgusting; only by challenging such nonsense with the simple tools of liberally learning, rationally thinking, scientifically reasoning, and freely communicating, will we ever overcome the horrors of the supernaturalism so prevalent in our world. It is important to remember these basic principles during our attempts to promote the accumulation and free exchange of information and ideas. (Here's a helpful essay and elaboration: POV comes into play.) My personal approach to learning is based on eudaemonistic humanism. The principles which shape my behavior and my viewpoint are: realism, empiricism, existentialism, solipsism, and eudaemonism. Some excellent prose for helping to expand sensibilities of intellectual liberty is The Human Evasion by Celia Green; it's a very quick read, i highly recommend it!

Tips for editing the encyclopedia

Open-mindedness - A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.

APA guideline - Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language.

User:Mccready - Editing Principles for pseudoscience; helpful for dealing with fringe theories in Wikipedia.

User:Antandrus - Observations on Wikipedia behavior - interspersed with recommendations on how to deal with it.

Wikipedia:Advocacy - Wikipedia is not a venue for raising the visibility of an issue or agenda. Cooperate with other editors to neutrally summarize notable topics using reliable sources without advocating any particular position or giving undue weight to minority views.