User:RoyBoy
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[edit] RoyBoy Info
I'm an information addict... so it was inevitable I'd find myself here. I live in Dundas, Ontario, Canada and my interests include, but are not limited to: documentaries, politics, films, science, history, psychology, calisthenics, debating, writing, philosophy and theology. I can also play a mean game of badminton if the mood strikes me. I particularly enjoy controversial subjects where free and unconventional thinking are requirements.
Hence my favorite book is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The Human Animal by Desmond Morris and Paris 1919. I'm also a big fan of string theory, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Asimov's Foundation series.
I'm a pro-choice weak atheist who believes in eternal recurrence and frequents alt.fan.blade-runner, Newspeak Dictionary, TheBible.net and BR-Insight all under the same handle. In the past I was a strong atheist but became a weak atheist after learning about the bicameral mind; which led me to conclude god is not a deity, but rather a real subconscious part of ourselves the brain has buried by necessity as a result of the learning curve and concentration modern life requires... specifically language(s) and cultural/social behaviours.
This forces our brains to develop in specific ways to cope with all the information civilization throws at it, which results in the god side of the brain being suppressed; while still being there if summoned by deep meditation (prayer), drugs and/or seizures. These result in "aberrant" (at least by modern standards) neural activity; or perhaps more accurately reestablishes natural childlike neural activity. It fits with the concept of approaching god as a "child"; and could be a hidden factor in stressful periods of time being correlated to higher drug consumption; such as university students. Making it a form of self medication to relieve neural stress.
Thanks for your interest and I hope my addiction can be put to some use around here.
"Money obfuscates truth for aggravating periods of time." – RoyBoy
"Clarity outweighs truth ... ... unless you have an attention span." – RoyBoy
Favorites:
My user page has been vandalized many times, but this one by User:68.161.199.102 is my favorite.
Films: Blade Runner - Munich - Koyaanisqatsi - Memento - Fight Club - Donnie Darko - Ghost in the Shell - The Princess Bride - Leon: The Professional - The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy - Brazil - Falling Down
Documentaries: The Corporation - Frontline - Wide Angle - Commanding Heights - RACE: The Power of an Illusion - Hijacking Catastrophe
TV: BBC World News - MythBusters - Uncommon Knowledge - Law & Order - Nova
Food: Pomegranates - Miss Vicky's: Sea Salt Chips - Carrot Muffins - Things that go with Ketchup - Popcorn
- "So fresh, and so clean clean."
- "I’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings."
Dislikes:
Chocolate with fruit - smoking - beets
Unnecessary letters (ie. labour - labor), shorter = better. My idea is that the U.S. will switch to metric and Canadians will spell like Americans. I think it's a fair trade off. Intentional scientific ignorance also annoys me; especially if its coupled with religious self-righteousness. And if you hold strong opinions without strong evidence in context... well then I'll creatively shoot you down.
[edit] Awards
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I just thought I would offer you some wiki-thanks for your contributions. In particular your continuous efforts on the Blade Runner article. Its not always been easy, but it looks like the article has come on a long way in the past few months. -- Solipsist 09:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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I've noticed you're good work on RC patrol today, and I hereby award you this Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Keep up the good work!-- Essjay · Talk 21:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC) |
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Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. Please accept my personal award, the Psi. I bestow it to polite, courteous, and helpful users. It is to be used in good mental health or to fight wiki-stress. Take care. -- Psy guy (talk) 03:43, 6 November 2005 (UTC) |
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Could you slow down, your reverting vandalism too fast, I can't get any! Prodego talk 17:15, 9 November 2005 |
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Thank you for removing some vandalism in the article Media and ethnicity--
Ratherford Skills 01:13, 14 November 2005 |
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I hereby award you this Barnstar Barnstar for your tireless efforts of improving Wikipedia by creating and awarding new barnstars Cyde Weys votetalk 17:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC) |
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I hereby award you this WikiMedal for Janitorial Services for your tireless efforts in fixing typos, punctuation, grammar & spaces etc. Doing all the samll but important things KTC 07:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC) |
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I hereby award you a pile of barnstars in support of your not-quite-secret agenda. Dragons flight 16:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC) |
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| Thank you so much for reverting vandalism on my user page. :-) Best regards. Húsönd 02:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Favorite Quotations
"What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably."
– Jon Stewart to Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on Crossfire
"Our citizens may be deceived for a while & have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light; still more perhaps to the taxgatherers; for it is not worth the while of our antirepublicans to risk themselves on any change of government, but a very expensive one. Reduce every department to economy, & there will be no temptation to them to betray their constituents."
– Thomas Jefferson ~ Letter to Archibald Stuart (14 May 1799)
"As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth — hear both sides and believe neither."
– Josh Billings
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
– Alben William Barkley (1877-1956), American statesman, US Vice President
"[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all."
– Richard P. Feynman
"The real problem is not Wikipedia, but reporters who fail to check their facts."
– Joseph Wilson
"Because bias impedes our vision and is subject to sound inquiry, we are far from reaching a scientific ‘limit.’ Indeed, after this excursion into the issue of abortion, bias, and breast cancer, it seems our future has as much to do with human behavior as with human biology."
– Drs. Weed & Kramer (1996) J National Cancer Inst. 88(23):1698-700 [2]
"Some foolish men declare that a Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was He before creation?... How could God have made the world without any raw material? If you say He made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression... Know that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning and end. And it is based on the principles..."
– The Mahapurana (The Great Lege) Jinasena (India, Ninth Century)
"The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done." - A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
"I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship." - Carl Sagan
"The better criterion on which to measure Wikipedia is whether this very young, pretty good, ever improving, totally free site serves a need - just as the way to measure Britannica is whether the additional surety that comes from its production model is worth the cost." - Daniel H. Pink, The Book Stops Here
"The ideal encyclopedia should be radical. It should stop being safe." - Charles Van Doren from Wired.com: The Book Stops Here
From alt.fan.blade.runner:
A merry christmas to all - no matter what you do or do not believe in. - Lukas Mariman
I believe in santy claws - POD {Ò¿Ó}
... What about a Sanity Clause? - Lukas Mariman
There's no such thing as a sanity clause. - Patrick MM
[edit] Articles
Started:
ABC hypothesis - Hijacking Catastrophe - Quantum darwinism - History of abortion - Uncommon Knowledge - Dark-energy star - Oriental poppy - David Peoples - Hampton Fancher - Michael Deeley - Spinner (Blade Runner) - The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov - Blade Runner (soundtracks) - Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner - Kevin Trudeau - Blade Runner (themes) - Geeks (2004 film) - Chemical Galaxy - Peter of Spain - Lindh - Spirytus rektyfikowany - Caroline Moreau - ThermaSAVE - Jessica Rakoczy - Cannabutter - Template:VOY navigation - Category:Iranian architecture - Category:1619 books - Template:Nn-test - Buckypaper - Sex Slaves - Steve Levicoff - List of Frontline (PBS) episodes - Hamilton Conservation Authority - Placemat - Obstacle course - SWAT World Challenge - Imperium Galactica III: Genesis - Newton's cannonball - Immortal DNA - Jordan Cronenweth - Fuel Freedom International - Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy - Linton, Victoria - EToys.com - Kid America Club - Earth Made of Glass - The Merchants of Souls - Van Doren (disambiguation)
Helped:
Abortion AdBusters Age of the Earth
Blade Runner Bradbury Building Bushmeat
Cancer Canibus Carsonella rudii Cherry Sisters Chinatown Christopher Marlowe Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola Cosmological constant Counter-Strike Courier Creation-evolution controversy
Dawson College shooting Dichloroacetic acid Diggers (theater) Dundas, Ontario
Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas Error Evolution
Hamilton Boys' High School Hamilton, Ontario Heaven's Gate (film)
Jackass: The Movie Janeane Garofalo Jimmy Wales John Ziegler (talk show host) Jon Stewart
Kashan Kennedy assassination theories Krist Novoselic Krumping
STNG List Loose Change (video) Louisiana Baptist University
Marilyn Waring Members of Parliament on marriage -
Objections to evolution Oort cloud
Palm Islands People's Mujahedin of Iran PetSmart
Redemption (Star Trek) Rectified spirit
September 11, 2001 attacks Shakespearean authorship#Christopher Marlowe Social problems in Chinatown Spanish Armada Steve Irwin Steven Fletcher Sultana (steamboat) Supermax
Terri Schiavo The Score Themes in Blade Runner Theodor Duesterberg
User:Jimbo Wales User:Tony Sidaway Unintelligent Design
Wikipedia:FAQ Wikipedia:WikiLawyering Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test Wildest Dreams Wine Clip
Templates: Template:Nn-test - Template:Crash image
To Do: Who's Counting - Electricity market deregulation
Wikiquote: Abortion - Thomas Jefferson
Disambiguation: Honeycomb - Redemption - Mount Ida
Wikipedia:VfD: Erotica (madonna) - Athalia Bromton - Theory sustentation matter
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- Blade Runner: Bradbury name - Bradbury lobby - Bradbury skylight - Bradbury outside - Unicorn - BR Bradbury - Eye - VK machine - Rachael - Billboard - Spinner - Esper CD1 - Esper CD2 - Deck & Rach - Roy chess - Origami Uni - PC Back Cover - PC Front Cover - Gaff - Bradbury Int.
- Star Trek: Lower Decks - Conundrum - Conundrum (Phaser) - I, Borg - I, Borg (Virus) - I, Borg (Brig) - Real Life - Distant Origin
[edit] WikiCasualties
These are users of great esteem I have seen give up on this project. Making our job harder as we have to pick up the slack as the foo and overly sympathetic foo is unrelenting and at times difficult to discern.
- Hephaestos – Shares my disdain for weak blocking policy.
- Xiong – After Wikipedia:Toby didn't fly he felt there was little point in continuing with the project. I ribbed him about being too serious on Talk:Jimmy Wales.
- Essjay left November 29, 2005. Because of burnout and also felt he was unwanted here. He was one of our best wikipedians... as such he has returned in style, then retired because of the Essjay controversy.
- Doc glasgow explains it all on his user page; but he's still kicking around a bit.
- Spinboy – Explains on his userpage.
- Katefan0 – Retired after an incident with Daniel Brandt.
- SOPHIA – Took a Wikibreak after an incident involving Alienus; but is back and involved in controversial topics despite trying to stay away.
[edit] License
| Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else |  |
| I license my contributions only under the GFDL. | |
