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| For all your hard work in keeping LaRouche movement propaganda out of Wikipedia, I hereby award you the ancient Defender of the Wiki barnstar, which is given to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to stop Wikipedia being used for fraudulent purposes. -Willmcw, 17 Feb 2005
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"They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling,
wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where
graceful youth should have filled their features out, and
touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled
hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and
pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat
enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No
change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any
grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has
monsters half so horrible and dread.
"Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him
in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but
the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie
of such enormous magnitude.
"'Spirit, are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more.
"'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon
them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both,
and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy ...'"
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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My interests are the Middle East, terrorism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, human rights, animal liberation, and resistance training. I've made 8,000 edits.
My user name comes from the Javanese legend of Loro Jonggrang, the SlimVirgin. SlimVirgin was a princess who promised herself to a suitor if he would build her a magnificent temple containing 1,000 statues between sunset and dawn. The suitor called on genies to help him, but the princess cheated by having her servants make the sounds of dawn too soon, which made the cocks crow early. In a rage, the suitor turned the SlimVirgin to stone; the statue inside the main Hindu temple in the Prambanan complex of temples is now said to be the princess herself. Having learned her lesson, the SlimVirgin now prizes truth and good faith above all.
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