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This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made.

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1 RoyBoy Info
2 Awards
3 Favorite Quotations
4 Articles
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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 and philosophy. I can play a mean game of badminton if the mood strikes me. (lost my racket a few years back) I particularly enjoy controversial subjects where free and unconventional thinking are requirements, so I'm a big fan of string theory, and my favorite book is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

I'm a pro-choice weak atheist who believes in eternal recurrence and frequents Newspeak Dictionary, BR-Insight, alt.fan.blade-runner and TheBible.net... or at least I did until they shut it down possibly because I was being too clever while disagreeing with their views. *shrug*

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 in the non-dominant "creative" hemisphere as a result of the "logical/language" hemisphere becoming dominant because of the learning curve and concentration modern civilization requires... specifically language(s) and complex cultural/social behaviors.

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. Throwbacks to this state of mind can be seen in hypnosis, schizophrenia, speaking in tongues, psychosis and even earworms being a remnant of vocalized commandments which a person is compelled to follow; be it from a superior or from the god brain. 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 - Sicko

Books: The Human Animal - Paris 1919 - HHGG - Asimov's Foundation series - A Million Open Doors

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

Music: Nirvana - No Doubt

Earworms:

"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.

Links:

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us Great presentation on the information revolution.
Imagining the Tenth Dimension A new way of thinking about time, space, and string theory.
The Straight Dope Newspaper column answering curiosities succinctly; a benchmark for Wikipedia to strive toward.
ProjectCensored.org Censored news, media democracy in action, the news that didn't make the news.
Inequality.org By the numbers.
End of Ze World Funny flash
The Business Of Nanotech Nanotechnology will take us beyond the information revolution and our solar system.

[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)
	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)
	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)
	Could you slow down, your reverting vandalism too fast, I can't get any! Prodego ^talk 17:15, 9 November 2005
	Thank you for removing some vandalism in the article Media and ethnicity-- Ratherford Skills 01:13, 14 November 2005
	I hereby award you this Barnstar Barnstar for your tireless efforts of improving Wikipedia by creating and awarding new barnstars Cyde Weys _vote^talk 17:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
	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)
	I hereby award you a pile of barnstars in support of your not-quite-secret agenda. Dragons flight 16:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thank you so much for reverting vandalism on my user page. :-) Best regards. Hús ö nd 02:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thank you for the enormous amount of help you have given to wikifying, formatting and copyediting Cirque du Soleil in the final push to get it to GA status. It has been a rough couple of weeks but it has finally paid off. Trusilver 16:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thank you for your continued work on Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis. Your tireless effort to follow through on suggestions made during the past reviews has successfully guided the article toward GA status. -Severa (!!!) 23:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Favorite Quotations

Kitchums, our cat of 15 years died, he will be missed. (Dec-14-2004)

"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 [1]

"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, Wired.com: 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

"Climb someone else's mountain and you may not like the view, but reach your own summit and you can see for miles."
– Chris Ballard

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

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