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Xenonts

Joined 24 October 2018

Hello! I'm Xenonts. I have been using Wikipedia for as long as I can remember,[citation needed] but I created my account in 2018. I wanted my user page to include various interests of mine, and I think it has essentially become a compendium of subjects I find intriguing. The main body of this page is under the "Wikipedia articles I find interesting" heading.

The "Earthrise" photograph, taken on December 24, 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.
Earthrise, taken by astronaut Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission—possibly my favorite photograph.
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, 1942—one of my favorite paintings.

I am originally from Morris County, New Jersey (which falls in the region of North Jersey), in the United States, but am currently attending college in Ohio.

A bit more about me

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If you're reading this far then you'd seemingly like to know a bit more about me as a person, but I don't wish to go too in depth on my personal life for presumably unsurprising reasons. However, below are some more general things (in no particular order) which I don't mind sharing. Also, please note that I’m not one to subscribe to labels of identity as a primary point to get to know someone and that I generally describe myself more by my interests.

  • I am a cisgender man, so if you wish to refer to me for whatever reason, please do so using the pronouns he, him, etc.
  • I'm currently studying environmental science in college
  • I am almost always a visual editor of Wikipedia, as I'm not someone who is great with coding or similar conventions
  • I am bisexual
  • Sto studiando un po' l'italiano, ma non sono ancora fluente nella lingua!
  • I consider myself an agnostic atheist
  • I am a humanist and very much an optimist (or, more specifically, a secular agathist)
    • My personal philosophy is, in a very basic sense, that society always trends towards good.

If you want to know about some more specific interests of mine, feel free to read some of the sections below.

Some of my central interests

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Specific interests of mine

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Some of my favorite books

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Some of my favorite movies

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Some of my favorite music albums

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Some of my favorite video games

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Quotes I find memorable

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  • "The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture." —Joseph Addison (1711)
  • “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” —Jonas Salk (1960s?)
  • "And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." —Paul McCartney (1969)
  • "It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.” —Gene Roddenberry (1975?)

Wikipedia articles I find interesting

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Lastly, since this is Wikipedia, I think it's fitting for me to include a (very) long list of articles on various topics I've found intriguing over the years, not including ones I've already mentioned; essentially, the following is a list of articles I find cool and would recommend reading at some point either because they're very well written or explain particularly interesting concepts:

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Firstly, here's the link to my user page on Wikimedia Commons, but please note that it currently only links back to this page.

Here are some other websites outside of Wikipedia that I find interesting. Please note that I have no affiliation with any of them.

In closing

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Thank you for reading this far! I'd like to leave you with a quote from Carl Sagan, which also happened to be my senior yearbook quote in high school:

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." (1980)

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