User:Vonwolfenstein

Von Wolfenstein is a pseudonym. My background is military / engineering. I am very interested in Ancient Greece & Rome and their extensive influence on our modern culture: art, architecture, thought, philosophy & politics.

Australian born, raised in Southeast Asia, I am an immigrant to the United States. My family heritage is Anglo-Irish - I am three-quarters Irish - and I have made pilgrimage to the Old Sod. My journeys have also taken me to Jerusalem, Athens and Rome, and a million other places in between.

I speak English, French and Thai, and have a working knowledge of Spanish and Arabic. I have developed a personal philosophy of Life by studying the ancients (Aristotle, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius) along with the moderns (Nietzche, Orwell, Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley Jr.) and of course those in the middle (Voltaire, John Locke, John Stuart Mill); distilling this knowledge and wisdom through the crucible of punishing warrior training and military service on five continents.

I am an American soldier; retired from active duty but still serving in other capacities.

In my off-time I work my land to carve civilization out of the wasteland, do carpentry, pump iron, and perform regular military pistol combat marksmanship training. I use Wikipedia as a lead to sources for study and research.

Thank you, and may your God go with you.

VW