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Contents

1 RoyBoy Info

2 Favorite Quotations

RoyBoy Info

I'm an information addict... so it was inevitable I'd find myself here. I live in Dundas, Ontario, Canada and have a wide variety of intellectual interests and can 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, almost finished 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. I was a strong atheist in the past but became a weak atheist after reading about the Bicameral Mind; which led me to conclude that while god is not a deity it is a very real part of ourselves.

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

Favorites:

Films: Blade Runner - Koyaanisqatsi - Memento - Fight Club - Donnie Darko - Ghost in the Shell - The Princess Bride

Documentaries: The Corporation - Frontline - Wide Angle - Commanding Heights - RACE: The Power of an Illusion - Hijacking Catastrophe

TV: BBC World News - Uncommon Knowledge - Law & Order - Nova

Food: Pomegranates - Miss Vicky's: Sea Salt Chips - Carrot Muffins - Things that go with Ketchup - Popcorn

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. |:"p

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.

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

"[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

"As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth — hear both sides and believe neither." - Josh Billings
"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)

"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)

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

Articles

Edit #1307 (including this one) is when I found out about the edit counter, from Dbenbenn RfA comment.
- RoyBoy [∞] 06:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Started: Abortion-Breast_Cancer_(ABC)_hypothesis - Hijacking_Catastrophe - Quantum darwinism - History of abortion - Uncommon Knowledge - Dark-energy_star - Oriental poppy

Helped:

#-B: 2003 North America blackout AdBusters Adelbert Range Trek Albert Leonard Oldham Avantouinti Benelli Bill Cameron Bradbury Building Brown note Bushmeat

C-D: CASA Carboplatin Carl E. Stewart Cherry Sisters Chinatown Collapse of the World Trade Center Conflict diamonds Counter-Strike Counter-Strike equipment Creation-evolution controversy Cyberathlete Professional League Daily Planet Dave Grohl David_Carnegie Dull Knife Fight Dundas, Ontario

E-G: Frontline_(PBS_TV_series)

H-P: Hamilton, Ontario Hatak Helgalund Ho_Chi_Minh I like to watch Jackass: The Movie John_A._Burns_School_of_Medicine Kashan Kokopelli Liberty_ship Metcalfe's law Metrodorus Mobile phone#Health controversy Nirvana (band) Oceania Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster PAR2 Powder

Q-Z: Qazvin (city) Recall bias Redemption (Star Trek) Replicant Self Decay September 11, 2001 attacks Shakespearean authorship#Christopher Marlowe Social problems in Chinatown Tex zippers The Score Toronto, Ontario Tuluá User:Tony Sidaway Utica Club Vanna White Versata X-ray vision

Merge: Rug making & Carpets (Proposed) - Pre 9/11 intelligence - Tulua

Wikipedia:Category: Category:Iranian architecture

To Do: Peter Coyote - - Electricity market deregulation - Christopher_Marlowe - Janeane Garofalo - Nature (television series) - T-shirt inspector - Parallels

I saw the NFB documentary Who's Counting: Sex, Lies and Global Economics with feminist Marilyn Waring, which gave a straight forward account of how economics doesn't count women's contribution to society.

Wikiquote: Abortion - Thomas Jefferson

Redirects: BBC World News - Buskers - Arts & crafts - X-ray glasses - Mortal combat - Induced abortion - Buzz Osborne - McJobs - Self decay - Stanley "Tookie" Williams - Bumfight - Frontline World - Reexistance - Reexistence - Alfred Percy Freeman - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Troy James Hurtubise - Ps2 linux - Gamma benzene hexachloride - Voigt-Kampff machine

Disambiguation: Honeycomb (disambiguation) - Redemption - Mount Ida (disambiguation)

Wikipedia:VfD: Erotica (madonna) - Athalia Bromton - Theory sustentation matter

Wikipedia:Images: Image:Royboy.gif - Image:Hijacking catastrophe (poster).jpg - Image:Kitchums keyboard.jpg - Image:Jackass poster.jpg - Image:Janeane Garofalo.jpg - Image:Vanilla Sky poster.jpg - Image:AdBustersFlag.jpg - Image:AdBustersFlag Boycott.jpg - Image:Bradbury_Building_Name.JPG - Image:Bradbury_Building_Lobby.JPG - Image:Bradbury_Building_Skylight.JPG - Image:Cs office compare.jpg - Image:BradburyBuilding_Outside.JPG - Image:Firefox CSS Margin Bug.jpg - Image:Project Grizzly (film).jpg - Image:BladeRunner Unicorn.jpg - Image:BladeRunner Bradbury.jpg - Image:BladeRunner Eye.jpg - Image:Marvin (HHGG).jpg - Image:TheOuterLimits (2005).jpg - Image:BladeRunner Voigt-Kampff machine.jpg - Image:TheScore logo.jpg - Image:Oriental poppy.jpg - Image:M6Toll.jpg - UFO's are funny. - Image:Sponsorship Players.jpg

Users

Here are some of the users I've met so far that have shared some WikiLove:

Hadal - First user I contacted to try and get a "feel" for Wikipedia rules.
Marcie - A fellow Canuck interested in abortion issues.
Howrealisreal - Offered help in my future Wiki endeavors after my quick integration of his ABC news in the ABC debate article. Also asked in April 2005 to help get Gowanus Canal featured.
Tony Sidaway - Did some quality NPOV editing on the Abortion-Breast_Cancer_(ABC)_hypothesis article I started. I helped him out by making his navbar 800x600 friendly and look cooler in the process.
Saforrest - Also hails from Dundas, Ontario.
MamaGeek - Bold women's issues contributor. I tangled with Mama on ABC introductory paragraph in Abortion which has improved thanks to her input.
Catherine - Creator of the new Wikipedia.org portal, also interested in Blade Runner.
Vaceituno - A fellow regular Blade Runner article contributor who I've debated with on Deckard's identity. Tends to assume I don't know what I'm talking about. :'D
CannedLizard - Originated Counter-Strike source comparison images. We collobarated on the Image:cs_office_comparison.jpg.
Spinboy - Requested assistence on IRC re:CASA dispute during the February power outage.
Philip J. Rayment - A creationist I had an extensive discussion with on Talk:Creation-evolution controversy regarding no scientific evidence against evolution.
CYD - Helped clarify Quantum darwinism.
Dinopup - Asked for support on featured status of Kibbutz.
Alterego - Became my arch-nemesis when he eloquently argued to keep Jesus on the List_of_self-proclaimed_deities to keep everyone happy... even if Jesus may not have considered himself a deity.
Mel Etitis - Thanked me for my support of his admin nomination.
Antandrus is a Jaynian and I assisted in his RfA.
Ungtss - A well intentioned creationist with strange notions he can exclusively define creationism as an environmentally friendly movement; despite historical evidence to the contrary and the reality of other creation myths. He also thinks evolution has fatal and obvious flaws, but the scientific community is biased by their materialistic (equals atheistic) constraints... which he feels they violate by having theories and hypotheses of things in the distant past.
Monado - "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
Cburnett - Consistent calm contributor especially for Star Trek. Will nominate him for WP:RfA on April 23rd 2005.
Xiong - Put Blade Runner up for WP:FAC and is interested in collaborating in making suggestions on how the Wikipedia community can be tweaked.

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