User:GreenLoeb

SEMI-RETIRED

This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.

I am increasingly convinced that this site has lost what original utility it had; wikilawyering has reached levels previously unimaginable, the broad range of the editorship has drifted to a liberal bias that I do not think the site can be rescued from, reliable source categorization has become completely coopted by partisan reality-deniers, and the platform has generally turned against its committment to any substantive form of free speech. My time on here feels completely wasted, and I find it impossible to engage rationally with anyone any longer. A recent piece from TracingWoodgrains finally convinced me to throw in the towel. For these reasons, I am stepping away from the project. I can't resist correcting typos and grammatical errors, so I am only "semi-retiring" and will be keeping the account around for those kinds of edits. I may at some point return to editing less contentious areas, but I'm done being active in WikiProject Conservatism, which has caused me the most grief.

About me

GreenLoeb

Biographical miscellany

This user is a native Appalachian.

This user is an Anglican

This user is a
Christian humanist

This user is a classical theist.

This user is a perennialist.

This user's spiritual beliefs
are complex and personal.

This user is a religious naturalist.

This user believes in and is fascinated by the paranormal.

This user is a paleoconservative.

SJC

This user is a Johnnie!

UAH

This user attends or attended The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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This user is a professional editor.

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Thisere user larnt Appalachian English fum ther own kin.

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This brooker wishes to cleanse English of needless fremd words.

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This wiȝt knoweþ Englysshe ful wel.

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Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

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Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι ὀλίγῃ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user's library contains over 1,400 books.

This user employs dialectics as an analytical framework.

This user worships their cat.

This user has visited 6 of the 63 National Parks in the United States.

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Interests

This user is interested in German intellectual history

This user is interested in religion as a sociological and historical phenomenon.

This user is interested in the human soul or spirit.

This user is interested in philosophical hermeneutics.

This user is interested in psychoanalysis.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Conservatism.

This user is interested in the Supreme Court of the United States.

This user is interested in the history of law.

This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.

This user is interested in ancient Greece.

This user is interested in the history and origin of Latinity.

This user is interested in the Roman Republic.

This user is interested in Late Antiquity.

This user is interested in the Early Middle Ages.

This user is interested in the
Middle Ages

This user is interested in the Protestant Reformation.

This user is interested in the French Revolution.

This user is interested in the
early American republic.

This user is interested in the industrial revolution.

This user is interested in the British Empire.

This user is interested in the Cold War.

This user is interested in the counterculture of the 1960s.

This user is interested in the digital revolution.

This user is interested in Islamic civilizations.

這個用戶對中國歷史感興趣。
这个用户对中国历史感兴趣。
This user is interested in Chinese history.

This user is interested in the
history of Christianity.

This user is interested in Benedictine spirituality.

This user is interested in
Esoteric Christianity.

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This user is interested in Judaism.

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This user is interested in Islam.

This user is greatly interested in Buddhism and has a fair knowledge of it.

This user is interested in Advaita Vedanta

This user is interested in Taoism.

This user is interested in Mazdaism

This user is interested in Gnosticism

This user is interested in
Germanic languages.

This user is interested in
Indo-European languages.

This user loves math.

This user likes geometry.

This user has a keen interest in the philosophy of physics.

This user loves astronomical cosmology.

This user is interested in alchemy.

Views

This user is influenced by
Augustine of Hippo.

This user is influenced by
John Henry Newman.

This user is a fan of the political principles of Alexis de Tocqueville.

This user is a fan of the political principles of Edmund Burke.

This user is influenced by
Thomas Carlyle.

This user is influenced by Hannah Arendt.

This user is influenced by
Leo Strauss.

This user identifies as a communitarian.

This user is a distributist.

This user supports neo-republicanism and the politics of the common good

This user supports Neo-Luddism and resists modern technologies.

This user believes in a foreign policy of non‐interventionism, but is not a pacifist.

This user believes pornography imperils society and is too easily accessible over the Internet.

This user likes John Adams.

This user likes Benjamin Rush.

This user is interested in the life and times of John Quincy Adams.

This user greatly admires
Abraham Lincoln.

This user is a fan of
William McKinley.

This user greatly admires
Teddy Roosevelt and his Big Stick.

This user is a fan of
Richard Nixon.

This user believes that every nation has an inherent right of national sovereignty.

This user is interested in moral realism.

This user is a (neo-)Platonist.

This user is interested in Stoicism.

This user knows that G. W. F. Hegel was a genius.

This user's favorite pre-Socratic is Heraclitus.

This user is influenced by Confucius.

This user agrees with Larry Sanger's views on NPOV, but encourages you to form your own opinion after carefully reading his article.

This user thinks that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic.

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This user supports mandatory registration.

This user strongly believes that Wikipedia has gotten too far left.

Liberal

This user recognizes that many articles on Wikipedia have liberal bias and understands that other editors may attempt to protect that bias, even if it is against the pillar neutrality .

This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.

Books

Samuel Beckett, twingle-twangler comfort my days of roses days of beauty

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Algernon Blackwood.

This user appreciates the works of William Blake.

This user enjoys reading Borges.

This user enjoys the works of
the Brontë sisters.

This user loves the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy.

This user loves reading
anything by
Josef Conrad

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This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.

This user reads Emily Dickinson.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Lord Dunsany.

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This user enjoys the works of William Faulkner.

This user enjoys the works of
Thomas Hardy

This user enjoys the weird fiction of William Hope Hodgson.

This user enjoys the ghost stories of M. R. James.

This user enjoys the works of Franz Kafka.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
This user is a fan of John Keats.

This user enjoys the work of Stanisław Lem.

CSL

This user enjoys the works of
C.S. Lewis.

This user reads the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Arthur Machen.

This user thinks that Herman Melville is the greatest American novelist.

This user enjoys the works of George Orwell.

This user enjoys the works of Mervyn Peake.

This user reads the dense and complex works of fiction written by Thomas Pynchon.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Clark Ashton Smith.

This user enjoys the cosmic idealism of Olaf Stapledon.

This user enjoys the poetry of
R. S. Thomas.

This user enjoys the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien.

KV	This user enjoys the works of Kurt Vonnegut.

5	This user enjoys the poems of William Carlos Williams

This user is a Bible reader.

This user has read 11 of William Shakespeare's plays.

This user is interested in Gothic literature.

This user has read Capital Volume I.

This user likes to read reference books, like encyclopedias and atlases.

Things I like

This user admires the Venerable Bede and all his contributions!

This user thinks the pig is a noble creature.

This user likes owls.

This user loves the forest.

This user enjoys hiking.

This user loves fungi.

This user really likes old computers.

This user loves baseball.

PIT

This user is a fan of the
Pittsburgh Pirates

This user likes to do crossword puzzles.

This user enjoys playing Sudoku.

This user has never encountered a style of beer they don't like.

This user prefers black coffee.

This user drinks Lapsang souchong tea.

This user loves to drink
Root Beer.

This user loves barbecue.

This user prefers
Chicago-style pizza.

This user eats poutine.

This user's favourite fruit is Watermelon.

This user loves to smoke pipes.

This user likes garage rock.

This user enjoys country music.

This user enjoys folk music.

This user enjoys bluegrass music.

This user enjoys ambient music.

IDM

This user listens to intelligent dance music.

This user enjoys Vaporwave

This user enjoys the sound of endless C O N S U M E R I S M

This user enjoys jazz music.

This user listens to progressive and avant-garde jazz.

This user enjoys dub.

This user enjoys reggae.

This user enjoys music by Frédéric Chopin.

RVW

This user holds
Ralph Vaughan Williams
in high esteem

This user loves Martin Scorsese movies.

This user loves the Westerns of John Ford

This user loves films by
David Lynch.

Good evening! This user loves films by Alfred Hitchcock.

This user loves the output of Krzysztof Kieślowski.

This user loves films by
Stanley Kubrick.

This user enjoys the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

This user likes film noir and neo-noir.

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This user plays the Metal Gear series.

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This user drinks out of an estus flask.

My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till supper, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.

I am a graduate student in political theory currently writing my thesis on Plato's Laws, and most of my edits here revolve around things relevant to my scholarly interests: classical philosophy, ancient and medieval history, Islamic intellectual history, Abrahamic religions, the early American republic, and right-wing critics of liberal modernity. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Origen, Plotinus, St. Augustine, al-Farabi, the English metaphysical poets, German idealism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss, Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

When it comes to the arts, I am a great fan of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Northern Renaissance, Primitivism, the Arts and Crafts movement, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Gothic revival, Brick Gothic, Brick Expressionism, Art Deco, the WPA style, American vernacular architecture, and American Regionalism. In music, I have basically comprehensive knowledge when it comes to country music, and am also a great fan of American folk, Delta/acoustic blues, ragtime, and bop/post-bop jazz. My favorite poet is R. S. Thomas, and my favorite novels are Absalom, Absalom! and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.