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Line 626: − == Confession == − − Maybe things belongs on the [[Conservapedia:Community Portal|community portal]], but I know no one reads that, so I'm saying it here: − :I'm a liberal. I've vandalized the encyclopedia. I've lied to everyone here. − Okay, so -liberalism? Well, I thought I was almost as far right as one could be, agnostic in regards to macroevolution and global warming. Now, there's denial of complex numbers and relativity? I can't doubt that imaginaries and complexes have some uses in math - I'll doubt the p-adic numbers, maybe, but not relativity. Sure, I've thought that Trump could bring about good things, and that people deserve the right to own guns, and that the Oscars are inane, and that feminists show a double standard, and that vouchers for private schools are a good thing, and that if scientists think religion should survive without government support like private enterprise, then they should stop appealing for government funding themselves and see how useless they are to taxpayers, and that a Christian baker should not be forced to bake a gay-themed wedding cake so long as he still bakes regular cakes for gay people ... but denying relativity, Michelle Obama's womanhood, and re-writing the Bible? I'm just not [[User:Conservative|''that'' conservative]]. − :But vandalism? − Yes - twice. Once just to check response time, under the name Clickyourheels (now my IP is blocked and I need this account to edit at all). The other time, I added a little joke to one of the pages, and it wasn't the [[Conservative jokes]] page. Of course, the joke was a fallacious statement. Where is it? Among hundreds of other author biographies no one will ever read. Even worse, the joke isn't funny if you haven't seen WKRP. − :And lying? − My name never was Nathan. When I made a "Nathan" e-mail account (nathancp314@gmail.com) to reply to Conservative, I realized the indignity of a fake name. Now I've wasted another slot for someone named Nathan with middle and last initials CP.--[[User:Abcqwe|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 16:34, 4 June 2017 (EDT) − ::That's big of you to allow bakers to not bake cakes for "marriages" of homosexuals so long as they bake regular cakes for them as customers. So much for "We have the right to refuse service to anyone." You spelled it out yourself: the consequences are that if the bakers ''do'' refuse on that basis, they should be "forced" to do even more. That's the kind of argument and rules of jurisprudence we've come to expect from those who live on or orbit "planet gay". − − ::But who are we talking to this time? A user with three? four? accounts whose real agenda is to use them to eventually feign a consensus? Or at least one who spreads the opposition to conservatism among accounts that would have faced a categorical and swift rebuke if presented by one account? I for one have no desire to help you make Conservapedia participate in the cruel shell game that the subtext of your audacious announcement openly bears as an interpretation—nor in the things we can reasonably expect to follow under the designs to which these aforementioned suspicious behaviors already point. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 03:08, 6 June 2017 (EDT) −
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:::::In the print encyclopedias I recall, there was a Micropedia and a Macropedia, short and long articles. An article about George Ade, Hoosier playwright and fable writer, would only need to be a brief paragraph. An article called "Rocks and Minerals," meanwhile, would detail every type, the various classifications, chemical compositions, and means of formation, though both would be really an outline to the sum of human knowledge on the subject. In the area of biographies, length was variant - short biographies for Jeppe Aekjaer and Abbas I, a longer biography for Alvar Aalto, and a massive Macropedia biography for Isaac Newton or William Shakespeare. As we specialize in politics, it would make sense to have such articles for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.--[[User:Abcqwe|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 14:22, 30 May 2017 (EDT)
:::::In the print encyclopedias I recall, there was a Micropedia and a Macropedia, short and long articles. An article about George Ade, Hoosier playwright and fable writer, would only need to be a brief paragraph. An article called "Rocks and Minerals," meanwhile, would detail every type, the various classifications, chemical compositions, and means of formation, though both would be really an outline to the sum of human knowledge on the subject. In the area of biographies, length was variant - short biographies for Jeppe Aekjaer and Abbas I, a longer biography for Alvar Aalto, and a massive Macropedia biography for Isaac Newton or William Shakespeare. As we specialize in politics, it would make sense to have such articles for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.--[[User:Abcqwe|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 14:22, 30 May 2017 (EDT)
::::::That was the later Encyclopedia Britanica. The earlier EBs when I was a child were like the World Book encyclopedia with all of the articles (long and short) in an alphabetical list. My parents bought both. As a child, I would pick up a volume and start reading articles in alphabetical order sometimes. Unfortunately, Wikipedia killed off the market for printed encyclopedias (and for professionally written encyclopedias.) There is no viable market for printed encyclopedias today. People would hand down their printed encyclopedias and dictionaries from generation to generation, because they did not think that the world was changing quickly. However, none of the country names and maps of Africa that I learned as of 1960 were around by 1970. After 9/11 all of the stuff that was of little consequence became of vital importance to the American public. People had to know about Osama bin Laden, but less so about Isaac Newton or William Shakespeare. So, the pace of change killed off the printed encyclopedia. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 09:23, 6 June 2017 (EDT)
::::::That was the later Encyclopedia Britanica. The earlier EBs when I was a child were like the World Book encyclopedia with all of the articles (long and short) in an alphabetical list. My parents bought both. As a child, I would pick up a volume and start reading articles in alphabetical order sometimes. Unfortunately, Wikipedia killed off the market for printed encyclopedias (and for professionally written encyclopedias.) There is no viable market for printed encyclopedias today. People would hand down their printed encyclopedias and dictionaries from generation to generation, because they did not think that the world was changing quickly. However, none of the country names and maps of Africa that I learned as of 1960 were around by 1970. After 9/11 all of the stuff that was of little consequence became of vital importance to the American public. People had to know about Osama bin Laden, but less so about Isaac Newton or William Shakespeare. So, the pace of change killed off the printed encyclopedia. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 09:23, 6 June 2017 (EDT)
==Religion in America==
==Religion in America==
After reading a number of CP articles, I realize that we accidentally present an inaccurate or outdated view of religion in America. Religion in America has changed since we were growing up. 1) The traditional churches have declined in attendance. To attract new members some churches have offered new ministries: weight loss, financial counseling, youth, etc. 2) Some churches are offering foreign language services or sublet to a separate foreign language congregation (such as Korean, Filipino, etc.) 3) More people are getting their sermons via television, radio or the internet. 4) Military chaplains and chapels are important for worship by the military and their families. 5) Wealthy people have private chapels on their weekend estates for privacy and security. 6) College based ministries must compete for student time and attention. 7) Historic downtown congregations have had to respond to migration to the suburbs, and small congregations face competition from mega-church congregations. Religion continues to be an important social force in America -- it is not as much of a melting pot as it was decades ago. Does anyone want to work on an article or additions to related articles? Perhaps AlanE or AugustO can tell us if similar changes are happening in other countries. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 08:12, 30 May 2017 (EDT)
After reading a number of CP articles, I realize that we accidentally present an inaccurate or outdated view of religion in America. Religion in America has changed since we were growing up. 1) The traditional churches have declined in attendance. To attract new members some churches have offered new ministries: weight loss, financial counseling, youth, etc. 2) Some churches are offering foreign language services or sublet to a separate foreign language congregation (such as Korean, Filipino, etc.) 3) More people are getting their sermons via television, radio or the internet. 4) Military chaplains and chapels are important for worship by the military and their families. 5) Wealthy people have private chapels on their weekend estates for privacy and security. 6) College based ministries must compete for student time and attention. 7) Historic downtown congregations have had to respond to migration to the suburbs, and small congregations face competition from mega-church congregations. Religion continues to be an important social force in America -- it is not as much of a melting pot as it was decades ago. Does anyone want to work on an article or additions to related articles? Perhaps AlanE or AugustO can tell us if similar changes are happening in other countries. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 08:12, 30 May 2017 (EDT)