User:Mystichumwipe

Hi. Welcome to my user page.

I work as a Graphic Designer with specific qualifications in Typography, and experience in magazine design and production. I am British but have lived in India, Singapore and have both lived and worked in Germany and Scandinavia. I am bilingual.

I regard e-prime as a great idea and excellent way to communicate more accurately (and for distinguishing between opinions and facts) but I do find applying it tiresome.

The older I get, the more concerned I become about the need in this age of mass-communication for the preservation of an accurate, unbiased source of neutral, factual information. In this endeavour I'm a great enthusiast of fair, open and honest communication/dialogue.

As George Orwell warned: "Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future."

Other favourite quotes:

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player." - Albert Einstein

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is awareness of our own ignorance" --Benjamin Franklin

"Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in." -- Leonard Cohen

Here's some more quotes conveying a similar idea, which for me point to the main problem with communicating and preserving information accurately:

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Daniel J Boorstin

"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant" -- Amos Bronson Alcott

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.” -- Rev. William H. Poole

"...I have a cunning plan, m'Lord." -- Baldrick

This user assumes good faith.

This user believes that we should do no harm on any biographical article.

This user advocates WikiPeace.

This user knows that replacing one bias with another is not cleanup.

This user is interested in history.

This user supports sustainable living.

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

This user believes in civility and assuming good faith.

This user is vegan.

This user is interested in recycling.

This user plays the bass guitar.

This user plays the tin whistle.

This user plays the guitar.

This user believes that a tomato is biologically a fruit, but socially a vegetable.