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The choir blowing its own horn on the spur of the moment.
Yikes! Are you serious? You're saying you've planted planted a 'mystery' in your/your group's 'homosexuality articles'? Intriguing. I'm sure this isn't something you just made on the [[Spur of the moment]]. [[User:EJamesW|EJamesW]] 16:45, 25 January 2015 (EST)
Yikes! Are you serious? You're saying you've planted planted a 'mystery' in your/your group's 'homosexuality articles'? Intriguing. I'm sure this isn't something you just made on the [[Spur of the moment]]. [[User:EJamesW|EJamesW]] 16:45, 25 January 2015 (EST)
What a delight it is to see that the latest meeting of the Conservapedia Philosphical Society is meeting at EJamesW's house today. And what a delightful place it is—we don't take fireplaces very seriously in America. But we do take backyard patios seriously, and I like this one. The weather is lousy now, of course, but in the summer I hope we can meet on your patio.
EJames (may I call you "[[British]] liberal [[evolution]]ist [[User:EJamesW]], the way some of your friends do?), the previous meetings have been at the bottom of [[User_talk:SamHB|my house]] and near the bottom of [[User_talk:AugustO|August's house]].
Down to business. Cons, I'm pleased to see that you are back to intense editing (I'm thinking of "Atheism statistics" in particular.) For a short while, I thought you might have lost your touch, and were ceding the high ground in this matter to TAR. Your<ref>I recently chewed someone out for confusing "your" and "you're", but I can't find it just now. Apparently it wasn't you.</ref> writing is vastly more interesting than his<ref>or maybe I should say "You're writing in a vastly more interesting way than he is."</ref>. In fact, as I've said before, you are the most interesting and fun person here. TAR isn't fun. Also, you don't have a malicious bone in your body.
But there's another matter of writing style that I'd like to address. You've moved away from starting a sentence with "Plus", but I see, in a lot of your writing, sentences of the form "X said regarding Y, Z." Where X is a person, Y is a topic, and Z is the statement being quoted. I think the sentence would flow more smoothly if you said something like "X had this to say on subject Y....." Or, even better, make it clear what the topic is from the context. This requires that your paragraphs stay on topic, so that you don't need to repeat the topic. Then you have a lot more freedom in your sentence choice, like "X had this to say on the subject: ...." or "This comment on the topic by X was particularly telling: ...." or whatever makes the paragraph flow well.
As long as I'm commenting on your style, there's another issue, that I think causes your material not to be put in the appropriate place. You sometimes fail to follow the topic of a discussion, and write whatever you're thinking, on whatever page you have open. A case of this is your response above to the [[Preaching to the choir]] article. You put in two whole sections ("Re: Preaching to the choir" and "The choir is singing their praises. Hallelujah!") about how pleased you are with your recent "statistics" article, and about the predicted progress in Christianity. Here's the problem: Shouldn't that be on the main page, or someplace where it can be seen by lots of people? You put it on one person's user talk page. People coming to Conservapedia don't typically go looking for wisdom on user talk pages. Furthermore, it was on a totally unrelated discussion of a recent article. I'm sure there are better places where you can put this prediction for 2015 and atheism, that will have a larger audience.
The [[Preaching to the choir]] article is excellent, by the way. Though it is very short, it pretty much says all that needs to be said on the subject. Some topics merit long articles, and some don't. The phrase "Preaching to the choir" is one that one often hears, and explanations of what it means are often hard to come by. This short article is an example of Conservapedia at its finest, as a resource for students. The "blowing your own horn" and "spur of the moment" articles are also very good. Just the right length for an explanation of a common idiom. EJamesW is to be congratulated for writing these.
[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:24, 25 January 2015 (EST)
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