Here is an answer I sent to Kurt Kawohl on a request to oppose the deletion of his material:
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kkawohl wrote:
Please voice your opinion on deletion.
21st Century Transcendentalism is not a religion and does not advocate (request belief, membership or anything else) anything; it stands for religious rationality in the 21st Century. If Wikipedia can describe what atheists, Christianity, Islam, Bokononism thinks then why can not I as a 21st Century Transcendentalist describe what I think? Bias, maybe?
The reason is exactly that this is about what _you_ think. When we describe atheism, Christianity, Islam, we describe the common belief system of a large group of people, a belief system that makes an important impact on society as a whole. On the other hand, 21st Century Transcendentalism is just your ideas. If you get a reasonably large following for it, or if it otherwise becomes influential, then I would be in favor of addition. But I see no evidence whatsoever for it now.
Andre Engels
on 8/28/03 3:31 AM, Andre Engels at engels@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
Here is an answer I sent to Kurt Kawohl on a request to oppose the deletion of his material:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kkawohl wrote:
Please voice your opinion on deletion.
21st Century Transcendentalism is not a religion and does not advocate (request belief, membership or anything else) anything; it stands for religious rationality in the 21st Century. If Wikipedia can describe what atheists, Christianity, Islam, Bokononism thinks then why can not I as a 21st Century Transcendentalist describe what I think? Bias, maybe?
The reason is exactly that this is about what _you_ think. When we describe atheism, Christianity, Islam, we describe the common belief system of a large group of people, a belief system that makes an important impact on society as a whole. On the other hand, 21st Century Transcendentalism is just your ideas. If you get a reasonably large following for it, or if it otherwise becomes influential, then I would be in favor of addition. But I see no evidence whatsoever for it now.
Andre Engels
There is a bit on this on the internet. A self-published book at:
http://www.authorzone.com/view_books.php?bookid=246
and an associated biography at:
http://www.authorzone.com/view_authors.php?&authorid=1426
Fred
Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net writes:
There is a bit on this on the internet. A self-published book at:
Hmm, a self-published book plugged on wikipedia... Are the illustrations by Daniel C. Boyer?