User: DanielCD

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Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. - Albert Schweitzer

Hello!

I found Wikipedia a while back and did some anonymous edits, but finally decided to sign on. I enjoy fixing up sloppy grammar and such, though I do compose many articles.

Among my many areas of interest are religion/spirituality, psychology, mythology, history, world literature and philosophy. I'm also a rockhound, and I love paleontology so I poke around science/geology articles quite a bit. However, I often just like to cruise articles, link to link, and read, sometimes fixing grammar and errors I see along the way. I love Collecting fossils.

If I make any mistakes of any kind, please don't freak out or go ape; just contact me. If any of my changes need comment, please don't hesitate to contact me so we can discuss it.

Contents

1 The Library

2 Quotes, Thoughts, Ideas

3 Links to Favorite Articles and Projects I'm working on

4 Other Articles I have either Created, Written or Expanded

4.1 Science & Related
4.2 Other

5 To Do

6 Interesting Wikipedians

7 Markup Edits

8 Playing with pictures

9 Pics of Interesting People and Things

The Library

Wikipedia:Conflict resolution Wikipedia:Pages needing attention Wikipedia:Peer review Wikipedia:civility Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense Wikipedia:Village pump Wikipedia:Current disputes over articles Wikipedia:New user log Wikipedia:Requests for adminship Wikipedia:Requests for mediation Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Wikipedia:Poll Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits Wikipedia:Policy thinktank Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress

To archive, edit the page; cut a large section of the page from top down. The create an archive page by typing "talk: xxx/archive# in double brackets. Save the edited talk page, open the new page you just created, and paste the archived material.

Quotes, Thoughts, Ideas

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Procuremos más ser padres de nuestro porvenir que hijos de nuestro pasado. - Miguel de Unamuno; Trans: "We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. - Albert Schweitzer

"I have...a terrible need...shall I say the word?...of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Where Money is Prized, Virtue is despised." - Socrates

A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. - Nietzsche, Ibid; Trans: "He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster, and when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one's self and others. - Dogen Zenji

To shun all evil. To do good. To purify one's heart. This is the teaching of the Buddhas. --Dhammapada, XIV, 5

Four Noble Truths:

1. Dukkha: All worldly life is unsatisfactory, disjointed, suffering.
2. Samudaya: There is a cause of suffering, which is attachment or desire (tanha).
3. Nirodha: There is a way out of suffering, which is to eliminate attachment and desire.
4. Marga: The path that leads out of suffering is called the Noble Eightfold Path.

Those who, by inhaling, drive out the soul, are free. - Chaldean Oracles, Fr. 124 (This one's for Bill Clinton!)

Links to Favorite Articles and Projects I'm working on

To Do

First Preslyterian Church of Elvis the Divine (anyone know if any Elvis churches are serious?)
Phaedo
Harmony of the World
Thanka
List of Greek mythological characters - Look up some of the missing ones
Pic of Moses
Thomas Mann

Interesting Wikipedians

Markup Edits

#REDIRECT [[United States]]
<tt>typewriter font</tt> typewriter font
<code>code font</code> code font
small text small text
<strike>strikeout</strike> ~~strikeout~~
<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math><math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}<math>
Subscript: x2 x₂
Superscript: x2 or x &s u p 2; x² or x²
<nowiki> and </nowiki>

Playing with pictures

To embed an image into a page, type [[Image:Name.jpg|label]] where you want the picture. You can add various options separated with a "|" after the image name. For example, [[Image:Name.jpg|thumb|A caption]] will automatically generate a right-aligned thumbnail of the image with a width of 180 pixels and the caption "A caption", and [[Image:Name.jpg|left|label]] will produce a left-aligned full size version.

Pics of Interesting People and Things

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882

Albert Schweitzer

Greco-Buddhist head of Buddha, stucco, Hadda Afghanistan, 1st-2nd century AD

Walt Whitman, 1884.

Club-wielding Herculean depiction of Vajrapani as the protector of the Buddha, Kushan Period, ca. 3rd century Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

Buddha's First Sermon at Sarnath, Kushan Period, ca. 3rd century Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

Johannes Kepler

Depending on the angular momentum (increasing across) and energy (increasing down), the electron orbitals of a hydrogen atom can be found in different locations. The angular momentum and energy increase only in these quantum steps.

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User: DanielCD

The Library

Quotes, Thoughts, Ideas

Links to Favorite Articles and Projects I'm working on

Other Articles I have either Created, Written or Expanded

Science & Related

Other

To Do

Interesting Wikipedians

Markup Edits

Playing with pictures

Pics of Interesting People and Things

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