User:Gbrading
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If you happened to have stumbled upon this page, I would like to humbly welcome you to my small, mostly insignificant corner of the vast Wikipedia Encyclopedia Library. I am User Gbrading, and this page is my office. Or at least, I like to think of it as my office. The only place where you can be almost entirely sure of not being re-edited. Only the other day, I spotted some vandalism which I was about to clear up, when I realised someone had already done it. Such is life. Anyway, I think I'll get talking about what I find most interesting.
By the way, don't expect this page to be referenced; I haven't got around to discovering the uses for half of these buttons! Help yourself to the biscuits, cake and tea; I haven't installed the coffee machine yet.
[edit] My Interests
My main areas of interest are History, Geography, Philosophy, certain areas of Science, Film and Books. I have a particular obsession with History and Books I'd admit. I'd like to ramble on about the books I adore (amongst others; The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I Am Legend, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Catcher In The Rye et cetera) along with the films (The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyessy et cetera) , but I'm not going to. It would take far too long, and there wouldn't be much point. I mean, it's not like it's very important in the grand scheme of things. Thats my Philosophical side taking over.
Ah, yes Philosophy! That is a worthwhile topic. There are no philosophers whom I disapprove of. Some had a few crasy ideas (I'm thinking of Sigmund Freud at this point) and some were overly obsessed with God (St. Thomas Aquinas). And a few were probably barking mad (mainly German philosophers; Wittenstein, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer). But 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 quoted as saying. Such witty and memorable remarks are common amongst philosophers. 'The word freedom has no meaning' Diderot (an encyclopedist!) expressed in his book 'Philosophical Thoughts'. I find it extraordinary that there is such a huge variety of thought 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 solutions than Aristotle and Plato were.
