British Museum - Faith after the Pharaohs

[Outrider]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

[Owlswing]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

[BashfulAnthony]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

What are Samhain,"  and the Mangy Expo?"

[Rhiannon]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

What are Samhain,"  and the Mangy Expo?"

Everything you need to know about Samhain is on the Halloween thread. As for the rest, you need to check your spelling - people might think you are being deliberately provocative otherwise.

[Nearly Sane]

Oh don't worry about it, if Bash doesn't know about it, he is forbidden by the precepts of Googlelessness from doing any research. 'If you don't know it, you aren't allowed to find out about it'

[Udayana]

Is that a new religion? Sounds fun

[Owlswing]

Is that a new religion? Sounds fun

Which one?  Samhain or Manga?

[BashfulAnthony]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

What are Samhain,"  and the Mangy Expo?"

Everything you need to know about Samhain is on the Halloween thread. As for the rest, you need to check your spelling - people might think you are being deliberately provocative otherwise.

Far be it from me to be provocative.

[Owlswing]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

What are Samhain,"  and the Mangy Expo?"

Everything you need to know about Samhain is on the Halloween thread. As for the rest, you need to check your spelling - people might think you are being deliberately provocative otherwise.

Far be it from me to be provocative.

Oh, I knew it was not a typo!

I would ask you to come along to the Excel and see what a Manga Con is but you would be about as welcome as a Christian Fundamentalist at the Witchfest in Croydon.

[BashfulAnthony]

Oh don't worry about it, if Bash doesn't know about it, he is forbidden by the precepts of Googlelessness from doing any research. 'If you don't know it, you aren't allowed to find out about it'

Just to be accurate and to correct the above mis-representation:  I said that it is not ethical to use Google to make arguments as though they were a product of your own thinking.  I also said that it is only the correct thing to state your sources, so that they can be checked.  I did not say it is "forbidden" to google.  If I use it, I use it on those terms, unless I am merely checking a spelling, or something equally trivial.

[floo]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

I'll sub you a tenner!

[BashfulAnthony]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

What are Samhain,"  and the Mangy Expo?"

Everything you need to know about Samhain is on the Halloween thread. As for the rest, you need to check your spelling - people might think you are being deliberately provocative otherwise.

Far be it from me to be provocative.

Oh, I knew it was not a typo!

I would ask you to come along to the Excel and see what a Manga Con is but you would be about as welcome as a Christian Fundamentalist at the Witchfest in Croydon.

I am not well enough to travel, or I'd attempt to go.  Perhaps you could enlighten me though?

[Owlswing]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

I'll sub you a tenner!

Thanks for the offer, Floo, I'll make it during November after the 8th when the pension comes through!

[Nearly Sane]

Just to be accurate and to correct the above mis-representation:  I said that it is not ethical to use Google to make arguments as though they were a product of your own thinking.  I also said that it is only the correct thing to state your sources, so that they can be checked.  I did not say it is "forbidden" to google.  If I use it, I use it on those terms, unless I am merely checking a spelling, or something equally trivial.

So how do you know what people are using it for? Or inddeed, are using it - it's not as if you have cited any form of plagiarism, merely asserted that someone has goodgled something. Further as to citation,, can you be sure that anything you say is just your own thinking?

[BashfulAnthony]

Just to be accurate and to correct the above mis-representation:  I said that it is not ethical to use Google to make arguments as though they were a product of your own thinking.  I also said that it is only the correct thing to state your sources, so that they can be checked.  I did not say it is "forbidden" to google.  If I use it, I use it on those terms, unless I am merely checking a spelling, or something equally trivial.

So how do you know what people are using it for? Or inddeed, are using it - it's not as if you have cited any form of plagiarism, merely asserted that someone has goodgled something. Further as to citation,, can you be sure that anything you s...

Some posts, especially those of a technical or very involved nature, are very clearly the product of googling.  As I said, I have no objection to that as long as the poster makes it clear, and thus gives others the opportunity to check the veracity and integrity of the information, or view, taken.  Now what is wrong with that?

[floo]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

I'll sub you a tenner!

Thanks for the offer, Floo, I'll make it during November after the 8th when the pension comes through!

BTW it was a serious offer I wasn't joking.

[Owlswing]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

I'll sub you a tenner!

Thanks for the offer, Floo, I'll make it during November after the 8th when the pension comes through!

BTW it was a serious offer I wasn't joking.

I did not doubt it for a second.

Do not, please, think that I am not grateful for the offer, but for reasons that I do not want to go into it is an offer I cannot accept at the moment and not just from you - from anyone!

[floo]

Saw an article today on a new display at the British Museum that's on for a couple of months, highlighting the 'cross-pollination' of religious ideas and iconography during the centuries after Cleopatra - looks interesting.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/faith_after_the_pharaohs.aspx

O.

If I can scrape up a Tenner I'll go see this - not this week-end though, this week-end is Samhain and the Manga Expo.

I'll sub you a tenner!

Thanks for the offer, Floo, I'll make it during November after the 8th when the pension comes through!

BTW it was a serious offer I wasn't joking.

I did not doubt it for a second.

Do not, please, think that I am not grateful for the offer, but for reasons that I do not want to go into it is an offer I cannot accept at the moment and not just from you - from anyone!

Fair enough, no problem.

[Udayana]

Is that a new religion? Sounds fun

Which one?  Samhain or Manga?

No, the one you're not allowed to find out about unless you already know it - Googlelessness.

[BashfulAnthony]

Just to be accurate and to correct the above mis-representation:  I said that it is not ethical to use Google to make arguments as though they were a product of your own thinking.  I also said that it is only the correct thing to state your sources, so that they can be checked.  I did not say it is "forbidden" to google.  If I use it, I use it on those terms, unless I am merely checking a spelling, or something equally trivial.

So how do you know what people are using it for? Or inddeed, are using it - it's not as if you have cited any form of plagiarism, merely asserted that someone has goodgled something. Further as to citation,, can you be sure that anything you say is just your own thinking?

I'll try again:  if you use a google site to make a point, then you should say so in order that people may check out its credentials.  Why can't you see that, or, presumably, accept it?

[Owlswing]

Just to be accurate and to correct the above mis-representation:  I said that it is not ethical to use Google to make arguments as though they were a product of your own thinking.  I also said that it is only the correct thing to state your sources, so that they can be checked.  I did not say it is "forbidden" to google.  If I use it, I use it on those terms, unless I am merely checking a spelling, or something equally trivial.

So how do you know what people are using it for? Or inddeed, are using it - it's not as if you have cited any form of plagiarism, merely asserted that someone has goodgled something. Further as to citation,, can you be sure that anything you say is just your own thinking?

I'll try again:  if you use a google site to make a point, then you should say so in order that people may check out its credentials.  Why can't you see that, or, presumably, accept it?

Because there is no reason why, if you Google the subject, you should not come up with the same information for yourself; but, as has been said before, by others, you are too bone idle to do your own checking, you want it handed to you on a plate without any effort on your part, and you have yourself said that you "cannot be bothered" to do your own research.
 

[Nearly Sane]

My issue is that it isn't really clear what your point is, or how you would know the difference between someone go ogling to check some facts, and it somehow coming up with the entire idea
If I consult a book I own where I read something previously, should I cite it? I didn't come up with the idea of hard solipsism on my own, indeed almost none of the ideas we might express are original, so should I cite whichever book I read it in first, every time I mention the idea?

[Owlswing]

My issue is that it isn't really clear what your point is, or how you would know the difference between someone go ogling to check some facts, and it somehow coming up with the entire idea
If I consult a book I own where I read something previously, should I cite it? I didn't come up with the idea of hard solipsism on my own, indeed almost none of the ideas we might express are original, so should I cite whichever book I read it in first, every time I mention the idea?

NS

This is, of course, where BA has the advantage over us mere mortals.

We get our ideas and information from a plethora of sources, authors etc; he gets his from only one source - the god of the Christians via the bible - so he doesn't have to cite anyone or any publication.

This is, of course, why he is so anti-Google - he doesn't need it (for the aforementioned reason) so he cannot see why anyone else should be allowed to do so.

[Outrider]

Some posts, especially those of a technical or very involved nature, are very clearly the product of googling.

Except that, with your grasp of some of the 'technical' subjects, what you think is the product of googling is in fact just a facet of the fact that some of us spent part of our lives going out and actually learning stuff.

O.

[Hope]

No, the one you're not allowed to find out about unless you already know it - Googlelessness.

Not a new religion, Ud., but a new craze - rather like 'Mindfulness'