User:Gun Powder Ma

[edit] Range of topics

Outlook on the nature of discussions:

The truth is an offense, but not a sin. (Bob Marley)
Contra principia negantem non est disputandum. (Latin proverb)
Convictions are even worse enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
If everyone is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking at all. (George Patton)
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is exact the opposite. (Bertrand Russell)
In some ways the observance of rules and the using of criteria resemble the employment of spectacles. We look through them but not at them. (Gilbert Ryle)

Outlook on military history:

Outlook on history:

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Personal outlook:

No quarter to fanatics.
Be polite, but avoid political correctness.
Don't be an appeaser, don't be a warlord.
Have fun at Wiki, because otherwise it is not worth it.
For conjecture there is the whole Internet, but Wiki is for facts.
The opinion that everything is subjective is also a subjective opinion.
The opinion that everything is subjective allows for one exception. Itself.
Be reasonable, stay open minded, but don't shy away from coming to conclusions.
Life is short and Wikipedia's huge, and whatever we are contributing here, in a hundred year's time, or perhaps already tomorrow, nobody will give a damn about, so let's try to be nice to one another and have a good time.

Personal observations at Wiki:

Put two people in a room, and you will get out three opinions.
Political correctness does not solve problems, it ignores them.
Truth at Wiki is sometimes a function of the willingness to make reverts.
Everyone is biased, but people who are aware of their biases are usually less so.
"Eurocentrism" is usually the convenient blame by which another ethnocentrism tries to sneak in.
Presenting a multitude of different angles on subjects often leads paradoxically to less objectivity, since it buries the more viable standpoints among the lesser ones and tends to treat all views indiscriminately.