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:'''Greetings!''' 
:*At university in New York, Jim majored in sciences and philosophy. Moving to California for two years of graduate school in philosophy, he enjoyed the good fortune of conversing personally with a number of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. Moving on to British Columbia and getting a teaching certificate there, Jim's career path came to include over 20 years of teaching at the elementary, secondary, & post-secondary levels -- mostly secondary-level science, math, and computers.
:*Before computer programming languages grew enormously with the advent of the Windows GUI, Jim wrote numerous computer programs for use in his school. When not travelling for computer-training events, he is now usually found in the [[Pacific Time Zone]], planning and maintaining computer networks and resolving diverse computer issues.
:*Now a citizen of two English-speaking countries, Jim, like many of his contemporaries committed to education, is involved in the discussions regarding both the topical and the timeless that are now carried out over the many keyboards around the globe.
:*Jim finds it a bit odd to be talking about himself in the third-person.
:*If Jim had to name some philosophy important to his way of thinking about things, he'd need to mention the Socratic Method, Cartesian Method (somewhat), Kantian antinomies, Wittgenstenian Language Games, and Contractual Theory as updated by John Searle. Surprisingly, he finds he needs to also include people he does not really consider to be philosophers - like Newton. (Third person is really strange here - like <s>I have interviewed myself</s> he interviewed himself.)

::<div class="toccolours">''If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.'' --Ludwig Wittgenstein, ''On Certainty'' paragraph 115</div>
::<div class="toccolours">''The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.''<p>''The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.''</p><p> - both attributed to Bertrand Russell, the second is probably a paraphrase.</p></div>

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*[[WP:Citation templates| Citation templates]]
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*[http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=Philosophy+faculty+or+PhD&areas0=0&areas_max=1&grain=fine PhilPapers:Issues Survey]

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*Regarding linking of solitary years
**from [[Overlinking#Overlinking]] 
**: Overlinking in a webpage or another hyperlinked text is the characteristic of having too many hyperlinks.[1][2] It is characterized by:... '''Links that have little information content, such as linking on specific years like [[1995]]''', or unnecessary linking of common words used in the common way, '''for which the reader can be expected to understand the word's full meaning in context, without any hyperlink help.'''
**date links are so that user preferences will work.  From [[WP:Date#Autoformatting and linking]]:
**:'''Full dates''', and '''days and months''', are normally autoformatted by inserting double square-brackets, as for linking. This instructs the MediaWiki software to format the item according to the date preferences chosen by registered users.... Wikipedia has articles on days of the year, years, decades, centuries and millennia. '''Link to one of these pages only if it is likely to deepen readers' understanding of a topic'''. Piped links to pages that are more focused on a topic are possible <nowiki>([[1997 in South African sport|1997]])</nowiki>, but cannot be used in full dates, where they break the date-linking function.
** Surely it is unlikely that linking every year in an article will deepen a user's understanding about THAT article.

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*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=JimWae&dbname=enwiki Total edits]
*[[Special:Prefixindex/User:JimWae|Sandboxes]]
*[[Special:Prefixindex/User_talk:JimWae|Talk Archives]]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time&diff=187438412&oldid=187387807 Time diff]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesus&diff=prev&oldid=8996216 Jesus article 2005-Jan-01]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesus&oldid=12506005 Jesus article 2005-APR-19] 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesus&diff=next&oldid=12534817 Jesus article 2005-APR-19]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesus&diff=prev&oldid=13545149 Jesus article 2005-May-11]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style&diff=327180359&oldid=327180170 EngVar]

*[http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=century+BCE,century+BC&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 century BCE v century BC usage]
*[http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=century+AD,century+CE&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3  century AD v century CE usage]

====Date & era notation data====
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atheism&diff=prev&oldid=123804026 date format in '''Atheism''' article]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_the_Baptist&diff=prev&oldid=20535129 First era notation] in [[John the Baptist]] was CE
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Bang_Theory&diff=365613868&oldid=365590571 Unannounced 2010-JUN-02 removal of yyyy-mm-dd] from [[The Big Bang Theory]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_System_of_Units&diff=316235669&oldid=316232343  Inappropriate 2009-SEP-26 removal of YMD] from [[International System of Units]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Washington&diff=prev&oldid=494323591 unannounced 2012-May-25 change away from YMD] on [[George Washington]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&diff=396594545&oldid=396217219 unannounced change sommewhere in here]] to [[Abraham Lincoln]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Humanism&diff=prev&oldid=99954518 Humanism: YMD introduced 2007-01-11]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secular_humanism&diff=prev&oldid=254452120 Secular Humanism YMD: 2008-11-27]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_F._Kennedy&diff=477812111&oldid=477810743 JFK: 2012-02-20]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louisville,_Kentucky&action=edit&oldid=47376368 Louisville, KY, 2006-02-13]

==False Dilemma==
Suppose you had to choose between believing that "the truth" was contained in 
# a book written from 1900 to 3000 years ago, or
# an institution that gradually changed over time
Which would you prefer?{{User:JimWae/Template:Cherry-pick}}

== [http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=23320 Quizfarm Quiz]==

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I don't self-identify with much, and I would NOT describe myself as an Existentialist, nor as a Cultural Creative. I would have expected higher ranking for Idealist. One thing the test seems to have right most of the time is my low scores for Fundamentalist. I think Materialist means you think that the atomic theory & other theories in physics are pretty good explanations for the way things are &ndash; not that you are materialistic.

If I had to name some philosophy important to my way of thinking about things I'd need to mention the Socratic Method, Cartesian Method, Kantian [[antinomy|antinomies]], Wittgenstenian Language Games, and Contractual Theory as updated by [[John Searle]]. Surprisingly I find I need to also include people I do not really consider to be philosophers - like Newton.

{{User:UBX/INTJ}}
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==Am I?==
<table><tr><td><img src="http://www.math.arizona.edu/~savitt/GTM/warner.jpg" width=90 height=140 alt=""></td><td><p>If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's <b><i>Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups</i></b>.</p><p> I give a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. I include differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provide a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develop the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof of the Hodge theorem.  Those interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics requiring the notion of a differentiable manifold will find me extremely useful.  </p> <p>Which Springer GTM would <i>you</i> be?  <a href="http://www.math.arizona.edu/~savitt/GTM.html">The Springer GTM Test</a></p></td></tr></table>

== Stars ==
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|[[Image:WikiDefender Barnstar.png|frame|left|For outstanding efforts in defending Wikipedia from vandalism, in particular the [[John F. Kennedy|JFK]] article, I award you the [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Defender of Wiki Barnstar]] -[[User:Husnock|Husnock]] March 2005]]
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|[[Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png|frame|left|For diligently editing articles to ensure they remain accurate, well written and encyclopedic, in particular the [[Jesus]] article, I award you The Barnstar of Diligence. [[User:Rossnixon|RossNixon]] 10:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)]]
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|[[Image:Editors Barnstar.png|frame|left|alt=The Editor's Barnstar|Thank you for being diligent and civil, and helping to eventually come to a compromise on the [[Atheism]] page. [[User:Somerset219|Somerset219]] 06:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)]]
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|[[Image:SpecialBarnstar.png|frame|left|For extreme diplomacy and reasoned debate during the 'philosophy' wars of the first sentence on the [[Atheism]] page. [[User:blitterbug|Blitterbug]] 17:09, 16 April 2008 (BST)]]
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For keeping articles up to date, rv vandalism and making sure they look like a wikipedia article [[User:Jeffklib|Jeffklib]] 00:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC) 
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I've also been cursed, but no need to belabour that ...

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | If anybody deserves this, you do [[User:Glic16|Glic16]] ([[User talk:Glic16|talk]]) 14:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
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==Major Topics==
These articles are among my major areas of interest:
 
*[[Abraham Lincoln]] 
*[[American Civil War]]
*[[Battle of Fort Sumter]]
*[[Confederate States of America]]
*[[Emancipation Proclamation]]
*[[Slave state]]
*[[Morrill tariff]]

*[[Canada]] 

*[[Causality]]
*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
*[[Ontology]]
*[[Space]]
*[[Thomson's lamp]]
*[[Time]]
*[[Truth]] 
*[[Truth table]] 
*[[Zeno's paradoxes]]

*[[Atheism]]
*[[Barabbas]]
*[[Common Era]]
*[[Deism]]
*[[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]]
*[[Jesus]]
*[[List of United States Presidential religious affiliations]]

*[[George Washington]]

*[[John F. Kennedy assassination]]
*:Oswald's 34.5 months in Marines was immediately followed by 28 months in the USSR, then 21 months back in USA
*[[Warren Commission]]

*[[Eratosthenes]]
*[[Litre]]
*[[Planck length]]
*[[Planck time]]
*[[Quantity]]
*[[Volume]]

==Other==
The current time where I usually am is: '''{{Utc|- 8}}'''. Make that '''{{Utc|- {{#expr:(8- {{Current daylight saving offset in Western US and Canada}} )}} }}''' if daylight savings time is in effect.

*'''The current Pacific time, is {{#TIME:H:i:s|{{#expr: -8 + {{#expr: {{Current daylight saving offset in Western US and Canada}} }} }} hour }}'''
*'''The current Pacific time offset from UTC-8 is {{Current daylight saving offset in Western US and Canada}} hour(s)'''

Dates gets refreshed at midnight UTC
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* {{CURRENTDATE}}
* {{CURRENTYEAR}}
* {{CURRENTMONTH}} or  {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
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* {{#formatdate:{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} }}

Times do not get auto-refreshed every second, nor minute, nor hour - apparently only on first visit to page, or if page is changed. Eventually they get refreshed when reopened on a new day (it seems). Refreshing the cache does not do the trick.
* {{time}}
* {{CURRENTHOUR}}
* {{CURRENTMINUTE}}
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