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, 21:12, February 5, 2015→What I don't want to happen
:::Sometimes volunteers "bite off more than they can chew". This happens a lot, because the higher priorities of life obligations get in the way of a volunteer's best intentions. That is why projects like Conservapedia are team efforts -- so that others can pick up the slack when any volunteer has to step back. TAR volunteered to take existing content from certain sources and to convert it into the proper form for Conservapedia articles. 1) Some of his conversions needed more work on the Manual of Style front. 2) Some of his anticipated article subjects are red links, but TAR has not have a chance to bring over the content to actually write the article. 3) TAR made red links for a number of essays, which have not yet been written or adapted from the other website. 4) TAR started a large number of new categories before he appreciated the tree structure of categories and those categories need to be repositioned corrected. I estimate that it would take about a year of full time work to complete TAR's ambitious plan.
:::Sometimes volunteers "bite off more than they can chew". This happens a lot, because the higher priorities of life obligations get in the way of a volunteer's best intentions. That is why projects like Conservapedia are team efforts -- so that others can pick up the slack when any volunteer has to step back. TAR volunteered to take existing content from certain sources and to convert it into the proper form for Conservapedia articles. 1) Some of his conversions needed more work on the Manual of Style front. 2) Some of his anticipated article subjects are red links, but TAR has not have a chance to bring over the content to actually write the article. 3) TAR made red links for a number of essays, which have not yet been written or adapted from the other website. 4) TAR started a large number of new categories before he appreciated the tree structure of categories and those categories need to be repositioned corrected. I estimate that it would take about a year of full time work to complete TAR's ambitious plan.
:::Since TAR is unavailable for a while, the entire team needs to work out a plan for addressing all four areas. While I am stepping back to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding, I would encourage the team to create a check list of items that need to be addressed. Once the plan is mapped out and approved, I would volunteer to do my share, if that was the consensus. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:28, 4 February 2015 (EST)
:::Since TAR is unavailable for a while, the entire team needs to work out a plan for addressing all four areas. While I am stepping back to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding, I would encourage the team to create a check list of items that need to be addressed. Once the plan is mapped out and approved, I would volunteer to do my share, if that was the consensus. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:28, 4 February 2015 (EST)
=== What I don't want to happen ===
I believe that 3 of the primary reasons why TAR rubbed Wschact the wrong way and caused him to act inappropriately in some ways (both myself and VargasMilan believe this happened):
1. Alternative medicine issue - This issue has been resolved for the time being. Personally, I think that both Western World medicine and alternative medicine both have a lot of quackery within them and that an evidence based approach is best (there has been a lot of medical science fraud in recent years [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/10/science-has-lost-its-way.html][http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-intrinsic-unreliability-of-science.html]). To a certain extent, Billy Bones in the classic work ''Treasure Island'' was right: Doctors is all swabs, Jim! The Japanese, who live longer/healthier than the people who live in many countries of the Western World, use both systems of health care.
2. Survivalism - One of the reasons why I think this rubs Wsacht (who is a liberal) the wrong way is that much of the recent popularity of survivalism within some quarters of conservatism/libertarianism has the assumption that the economic system fashioned by liberals is economically unsound/unsustainable.
The claim of the unsoundness of liberal economics usually focuses on these factors: High amounts of sovereign debt in the world (The USA has 17 trillion dollars of federal government debt, etc. etc.), the failure of Keynesian economics, money that is not backed by a hard asset(s) (Gold or a basket of commodities), high amounts of money printing, the Soviet empire and various Latin American countries having their economies collapsing due to communism/socialism, etc., etc. I really think this irritates Wsacht.
Personally, I would first point out that liberal economists by in large did not predict the 2007/2008 crisis. Second, given the 2007/2008 crisis and the fact that some of the factors that caused it have never been resolved, I think the best approach is to follow the advice given by financial planners and have AT LEAST 6 months of wages saved up in some fashion where the wealth is readily available.
Also, some people believe that another 1930s like depression or worse is around the corner so they would advise having much more saved up and to take other measures such as growing your own food and storing food, etc. etc. I guess time will tell, but this is not impossible. The Western World and the world at large has gone through some periods of economic/political instability from time to time.
For the record, TAR takes the view of hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
3. His staunch Pro Second Ammendment views.
I have asked Karajou to make sure that Wsacht does not mess with TAR's material and create a lot of unnecessary, extra work for TAR due to Wsacht disagreeing with TARs political/economic views. I don't think CP liberals should dictate the ideology at CP so it conforms with liberalism. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:31, 5 February 2015 (EST)
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