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This user is a citizen of the world. This user comes from South Africa. This user lives in Johannesburg. This user is a Witsie. This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy and Sociology. PHLThis user's favourite subject is philosophy. This user is an aspiring academic. This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects they never took in school or university. heThis user prefers to be referred to using masculine gender pronouns. NameThis user wants their name to be confidential.XXX This user identifies as queer. V This user is vegan. This user is left-handed. 32YThis Wikipedian was born on 28 June 1992 and is 32 years, 4 months, and 9 days old. This user wears corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses, without which they'd be as blind as a bat! This user has insomnia. ⇆This user proudly confuses right and left. Red is one of this user's favourite colours. Green is one of this user's favourite colours. :)This user is an optimist.

Interests & Tastes

This user is interested in philosophy. This user is interested in sociology. This user is interested in politics. This user is interested in psychology. This user is interested in history. This user is interested in Human Prehistory This user is interested in classical mythology. This user is interested in the Middle Ages This user is interested in the history of the English Civil Wars. This user is interested in the American Revolution. This user is interested in the French Revolution. This user is interested in the Russian Revolution. This user is interested in the Spanish Revolution. This user is interested in World War II This user is interested in the history of the Cold War. This user is interested in the Vietnam War. This user is interested in the South African Border War. This user is interested in the anti-apartheid struggle. This user is interested in religion as a sociological and historical phenomenon. This user is interested in astronomy. This user is glad that Pluto never was a planet. 8 is much more streamlined! This user is interested in Biology. This user is interested in linguistics. This user is interested in architecture. This user is addicted to travel. This user enjoys surfing. This user is an art lover. This user enjoys cooking. This user enjoys photography. This user enjoys filmmaking. This user loves the theatre — classical, fringe, experimental. This user reads the Mail & Guardian. This user is a Bibliophile. This user is currently reading Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin. This user loves to read. This user loves to write. This user is learning to play the guitar. This user enjoys experimental or avant-garde music. This user enjoys folk music. This user enjoys classical music. This user enjoys reggae. This user enjoys indie rock. This user appreciates progressive rock. This user enjoys psychedelic rock. This user loves vinyl records. This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily. This user loves espresso. This user loves a good cup of tea.

Basic Views

This user is a rationalist. This user strives to be unfair against unfounded myth and unbalanced in service of the truth. This user believes in logic. This user is a skeptic. This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter. This user is a moral universalist. This user understands biological evolution. This user, based on evidence and current consensus, thinks that the Universe began with a bang. This user is an atheist. This user is a freethinker. This user is a secular humanist. This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion.

Political Views

This user supports the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front. This user supports the Democratic Left Front. SASCOThis user supports the South African Students' Congress. COSATUThis user supports the Congress of South African Trade Unions. This user supports the Industrial Workers of the World. This user is an anarchist. This user is an anarchist communist. This user is a syndicalist. This user is a platformist. This user is an especifista. Although there probably won't be an anarchist revolution in this user's lifetime, they nonetheless hope that there will be one. This user is anti-capitalist. This user is an Anarchist who believes capitalism is incompatible with the principles of Anarchism. This user seeks to dismantle private property and abolish wage slavery. This user advocates workplace democracy and workers' self-management. This user believes in a non-partisan, direct democracy. This user believes that if voting changed anything, it would be made illegal. This user believes physical emancipation is impossible without mental liberation. This user is an internationalist. This user supports the alter-globalisation movement. This user believes race does not exist except as an oppressive social construct and will oppose racism by any means necessary. This user supports queer liberation. This user is a feminist. PCThis user supports a woman's right to choose, and opposes any restrictions on abortions. This user is an environmentalist. This user supports sustainable living. This user supports renewable energy. This user supports the use of nuclear energy. This user is in favour of desalination. This user supports the abolition of the automobile. This user supports public transit. This user supports recycling. This user opposes the genetic modification of plants and animals. This user supports animal liberation. This user is an abolitionist. This user doesn't believe in the ownership of culture and knowledge but is nonetheless opposed to plagiarism. This user supports alternative media. Entertainment is a commodity. News is a right.† This user finds censorship offensive. This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden. This user believes that we all need to fight for indigenous rights. Apartheid: Wrong for South Africans; wrong for Palestinians. This user supports the right of all people to resist occupation, colonialism and imperialism by any means necessary. This user is an anti-monarchist. User:Life in General/Userboxes/Antifa This user is an anti-militarist. This user opposes conscription. This user, while generally preferring non-violence, is not a pacifist. This user supports "illegal immigrants" and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. EuThis user supports euthanasia and believes people have the right to die if they so choose.Su This user supports universal health care. This user supports stem cell research. This user opposes removing guns from the civilian populace. This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality free education. This user advocates critical pedagogy and popular education. This user supports the full legalisation of cannabis and other soft drugs. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places. This user generally opposes the death penalty, but would support its use on those convicted of crimes against humanity. This user opposes torture under all circumstances. This user knows that space is the future.

Language

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. This user uses Commonwealth spelling. af-4Hierdie gebruiker praat Afrikaans op moedertaalvlak. tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user thinks good grammar is sexy. human- kindRegarding gender, neutrality is vernacular. Patriarchy is archaic. theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage. Oh shit!This user thinks profanity does not exist. They believe that such words are the same as any other words and should be treated as such. byThe passive voice may be used by this user. to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. …in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. -ly This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious. . TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. “…”This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style. "…"?This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?

Software

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Windows 7 Home Premium. MS OfficeThis person uses Microsoft Office. This user uses the freeware AVG virus scanner.

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