User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters
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Mini Biography
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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 (mailto:wikpedia@gnosis.cx)]
Lulu's Word(s)-of-the-Day
While I'm certainly no Anu Garg (http://wordsmith.org/anu/), I will share an occasional word with people who choose to read this page. Probably not daily, but you get what you pay for:
sophistry (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sophistry), noun A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone. A plausible but misleading or fallacious argument.
and,
syncretic (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Syncretic), adjective Combining elements that are archaic with those that are modern. Especially as in forms of religious observance, philosophical systems, or artistic creations. Sometimes uses less specifically to describe a general juxtaposition of divergent elements.
No Copyrot
Things I wish I wrote (and some I did)
- 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).
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)
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)
Other little quips
- 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 ☺)
- 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)