User:Quintessence5

About Quintessence5
Real name, Brad W Marshall. Currently living in St. John's, Newfoundland, the capital city of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Eastern Canada. Currently working part-time in a call center and attending Memorial University of Newfoundland where he is majoring in history, minoring in linguistics and has plans to teach English as a 2nd language in Japan and to learn Japanese. Spends most of his free time reading manga and history books as well as making NHL and anime/manga desktop wallpapers, watching anime and updating his anime desktop icon website. He is a huge fan of Japanese and Chinese music. Some of his favorite artists include Chihiro Onitsuka, Mikuni Shimokawa, Faye Wong, Glay (band), Garnet Crow, Kotoko, Angela (band), Jacky Cheung and Luna Sea. A strong believer in the human spirit and spirituality, he has become interested in the teachings of Buddhism and the ideals of Nirvana and complete inner peace. He is a strong supporter of multiculturalism, world peace, gay/bi rights and freedom of speech and has developed an ideal in which he terms true equality with the moto (and definition) "Everyone is equal." which he stands by. Loves to debate politics, science, history, sports and religion and is very opinionative but has an open mind to other opinions. Huge fan of romance, tragedy and comedy in anime and manga. His personal Top 5 list: 1) Maison Ikkoku, 2) Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, 3) Air (series), 4) Kimagure Orange Road, 5) (a tie) SaiKano & Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars.

~More to come later.~

The Contributions of Quintessence5
On Wikipedia:

Here is Greenwood : Added complete list of characters and seiyuu.

Various seiyuu : Constantly updating seiyuu lists, some updated include Rei Sakuma, Chika Sakamoto, Hiromi Tsuru, Kenichi Ogata, Toshihiko Seki, Aya Hisakawa, Mika Doi, Yuka Imai, Yuri Amano, Chieko Honda, Koji Ishii, Masumi Asano and Kazuhiko Inoue. Some were updated annonymously before I created my own account.

Quintessence : Edited and expanded the ancient philosophical definition. Taken from a Lawrence Krauss book titled Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe.

Anime and manga terminology : Added; Anime Music Video, Baka, Kimono, Manga, Manga-ka, Neko, Sake, Seiyū, Tatami Mats and Yukata.

On the Internet:

Anime icons :

Anime desktop wallpapers :

NHL desktop wallpapers : No link yet!

Favorite Quotes
J. Robert Oppenheimer : "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." (Quoting Vishnu)

Winston Churchill : "Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

Buddha : "In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

Buddha : "Nothing exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."

Buddha : "Every human being is the author of his own disease."

Margaret Mead : "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Margaret Mead : "Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."

Quintessence5 : "Do not judge the individual by the actions of the group, nor the group by the actions of the individual, judge each individual by his or her own actions, and even then accept the fact that your judgement may be flawed."

Quintessence5, Behind the Name
Quintessence5 is just one in a long line of Internet aliases used by Brad W Marshall. Each of which have their own special significance to the author. The word quintessence originates from Ancient Greece and is the name of a cosmology book which he has read, written by astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss, about missing mass in the universe, and indeed the possibility of quintessence actually existing in the physical world. The number 5 was added as quintessence was believed to be the fifth essence or element. The author also uses the word as a watermark which he places in the bottom right corner of all of the NHL desktop wallpapers he creates.