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EricBarbour
post Mon 12th March 2012, 9:09am
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about Wikipedia becoming an "important educational resource".

Because it already is. Read this guy's rant.

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My main hobby is myself. Improving myself, educating myself, trying to be more than I am. To that end I've been (too lightly) pursuing education (tons of wikipedia reading followed by those books that catch my attention mostly), meditation (mantrayoga mostly), and attempting to take control of my emotions (as the drug and alcohol abusing adult child with three dead children of an abusive drug addict/alcholic that tried twice to kill me (loooooong story), I have a lot of emotional problems).


Would anyone like to go and tell that poor guy he's asking for trouble by making an "education" for himself by reading WP articles?
He'll end up being an expert on anime and manga, and ignorant of anything important.....

That is Wikipedia's primary cohort.

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post Mon 12th March 2012, 9:54pm
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Now we know why most want to send you down to the dungeons along with Ottava.

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EricBarbour   about Wikipedia becoming an "important educat...   Mon 12th March 2012, 9:09am
Cunningly Linguistic   about Wikipedia becoming an "important educa...   Mon 12th March 2012, 9:26am
Mister Die   [quote name='EricBarbour' post='301868' date='Mon...   Mon 12th March 2012, 12:15pm
Cunningly Linguistic   [quote name='EricBarbour' post='301868' date='Mo...   Mon 12th March 2012, 12:35pm
Detective   Has anyone ever done fact finding mission to find...   Mon 12th March 2012, 12:58pm
Tarc   about Wikipedia becoming an "important educa...   Mon 12th March 2012, 1:16pm
Cunningly Linguistic   about Wikipedia becoming an "important educ...   Mon 12th March 2012, 2:54pm
Tarc   So, in your humble opinion, what should he be? I...   Mon 12th March 2012, 3:32pm
Cunningly Linguistic   So, in your humble opinion, what should he be? ...   Mon 12th March 2012, 3:41pm
Tarc   That's a tad arrogant don't you think? Dec...   Mon 12th March 2012, 4:24pm
Cunningly Linguistic   That's a tad arrogant don't you think? De...   Mon 12th March 2012, 4:47pm
Tarc   A spectacular fail I may say. Says the person wh...   Mon 12th March 2012, 6:18pm
Cunningly Linguistic   A spectacular fail I may say. Says the person w...   Mon 12th March 2012, 6:21pm
Tarc   I didn't say anything of the sort. Careful, ...   Mon 12th March 2012, 6:22pm
Cunningly Linguistic   I didn't say anything of the sort. Careful,...   Mon 12th March 2012, 7:16pm
Tarc   [quote name='Tarc' post='301994' date='Mon 12th M...   Mon 12th March 2012, 7:59pm
Cunningly Linguistic   [quote name='Tarc' post='301994' date='Mon 12th ...   Mon 12th March 2012, 8:02pm
Tarc   None of which equates even remotely to... So I o...   Mon 12th March 2012, 9:36pm
Cunningly Linguistic   None of which equates even remotely to... So I ...   Mon 12th March 2012, 9:47pm
Cunningly Linguistic   Now we know why most want to send you down to the...   Mon 12th March 2012, 9:57pm


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