User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters

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Lulu's visage

Information on the famous author (de-nom-de-guerre'd): http://gnosis.cx/ (sometimes called "David Mertz, Ph.D." and variants on that).

To talk to me, either go to the user talk page, or feel free to [email me]

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Lulu's Word(s)-of-the-Day(s)

While I'm certainly no Anu Garg, I will share an occasional word with people who choose to read this page. Probably not daily, but you get what you pay for:

apocryphal, adjective
Of questionable authorship or authenticity.

peripatetic, noun and adjective
1. Walking about; itinerant.  But especially the metonymic intellectual style.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his 
instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.

Old words

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Things I wish I wrote (and some I did)

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On human relations

  • Do not treat bad-faith engagement as if it were in good-faith solely to preserve a superficial cordiality. It is not OK to lie outright, nor to fixatedly cling to your own ignorance; Or in the language of South Park: You have the right to call shennanigans (bullshit).
  • If I seem shortsighted to you, it is only because I have stood on the backs of midgets. (also a .signature of mine, but "stolen" from some dimly remembered source)
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Talking 'bout a revolution

Two related slogans seem apropos the recent style usage kerfuffle that I was (unfortunately, but unavoidably) drawn into by myrmecine minds:

  • Humanity will not be happy until the day when the last aristocrat has been hung with the guts of the last priest. (18th century radical priest, Jean Meslier)
  • Humanity will not be happy until the day when the last bureaucrat has been hung with the guts of the last capitalist. (Situationist slogan written on wall in the Sorbonne rectorate in May 1968)
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The curse of Wikipedia

  • If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. (Thomas De Quincey)
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The structure of Law

  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. (Edward Abbey)
  • Democracy must be imposed with an iron fist. (Your humble editor)
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"Intellectual property"

  • Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th. (yours truly, as an email .signature; quoted around the 'net)
  • The specter of free information is haunting the `Net! All the powers of IP- and crypto-tyranny have entered into an unholy alliance...ideas have nothing to lose but their chains. Unite against "intellectual property" and anti-privacy regimes! (ditto, though I may have borrowed just a little in writing it ☺)
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Pages started/to start


WikiProject Philosophy tasks:

Please edit this list or discuss these tasks.

Pages that are meant as temporary/draft versions, talk pages, or pages that are purely administrative, excluded from the list below.

I am tempted to list those articles where I have made "substantial" improvements. But it is such a fine line between substantial and merely worthwhile improvements that I think you will just need to look at my contribution history if you really care.

My current edit count

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Deletionist? Inclusionist? Nope...

There are a number of categories and/or lists of "<Type of person> in <profession>" that have stuck in my craw lately. For example, Category:LGBT philosophers, List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics and List of born-again Christian laypeople. The problem with these groupings is that they almost inevitably violate WP:V and WP:NOR; but underlying that is that putting people in those groupings is almost always a kind of "feel good" self-affirmation by editors who share the category membership. I do not believe that categories/lists like this will ever reach encyclopedic quality, since the judgments involved are always too fuzzy, subjective, contextual, and politicized.

Therefore, I would characterize my attitude towards page deletion as Occamist. I really don't often believe in the substantial existence of categories. In other words, I am a nominalist. Concretely, it tends to mean: put the facts in the subject articles themselves, not in weak aggregations of like things.

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Successfully nominated for deletion

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Failed nominations for deletion

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Administravia

Those categories that are true of me...

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