User:Diarmada

Diarmada

This user lives in the U.S. State of Alabama.

TEA!This user drinks southern sweet tea.

This user lives in or hails from Birmingham.

This user is a humanist.

Ted This user has visited Craggy Island.

This user believes that William March is the unrecognized genius of our time

SGThis user activates the Stargate to explore other planets.

CFCThis user supports Celtic FC

This user is interested in World War I.

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

SpacedThis user knows it's just a sitcom.

This user loves using Google Earth.

This user BOINCs.

LynchThis user is a fan of David Lynch's films.

This user is probably going to Hell.

This user is a skeptic.

This user enjoys films.

This user is from the planet Earth.

This user uses DC++.

Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.

This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion.

This user knows that bears are Godless killing machines.

vn-0This user page has been vandalized 0 times.

Big Brother is watching this user.

SoE-nThis person is a native speaker of Southern American English (Southern bah the grace o' God)

This user plays the piano.

This user is interested in the history of the Cold War.

Alba This user is of Scottish ancestry.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Alabama.

athThis user is interested in atheism.

This user supports the independence of Cascadia.

This user has a wife.

This user was born to kill.

This user is against the colorization of black and white movies.

This user has arranged for organ donation; have you?

This user does not believe in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, but agrees it is as likely as creationism.

Diarmada (born June 23rd, 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American Archivist best known for being Diarmada.

Thanks to the visionary contribution of Wikipedia to the world wide web by fellow Alabamian Jimmy Wales, Diarmada has been able to present aspects of Alabama's culture, diversity and history.

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  Sweet Home Alabama
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  Home as of last week, Washington, D.C.
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  Buchanan Street, A few blocks from my old apartment in Glasgow, Scotland
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  Birmingham, Alabama: The Magic City
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  "To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible." - William March
• "No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive." - Hank Williams
  "No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive." - Hank Williams
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  "Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in." - Benjamin Franklin
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  "The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised." - E. O. Wilson

Interesting Stuff

Picture of the day

Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The close association of peasants and the cycles of nature particularly interested Van Gogh, such as the sowing of seeds, harvest and sheaves of wheat in the fields. Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to man's efforts to overwhelm the cycles of nature. This oil-on-canvas Wheat Fields painting, also sometimes known as Wheat Field with Alpilles Foothills in the Background, was created in June 1888 and is now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh

Did you know...

Central Synagogue

• ... that New York City's Central Synagogue (pictured) has hosted churches and a mosque?
• ... that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer Nxdia took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the UK Singles Sales Chart?
• ... that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925?
• ... that John Gould Stephenson fought at the Battle of Gettysburg while serving as the librarian of Congress?
• ... that the Swiss Party of Labour expelled its branch in Basel in 1988 after tensions over an occupation movement in the city?
• ... that between 2006 and 2007, Stacy Hollowell worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
• ... that on June 30, 1973, scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse, at 74 minutes of totality?
• ... that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott?
• ... that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in their own building?

More 'wooden nickels'

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  "Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts. On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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  "...I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs
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  "His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: he is never mistaken in choosing themeans to any end: but the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: thereforeit is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" - David Hume
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  "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H.P. Lovecraft

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