User talk:Defenestrate

Korean Buddhism
Thank you for your edits. I have just a small remark, could you please put an edit summary when you edit that page? That helps other people follow what you are up to. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov 01:22, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) Oh, and a signature on your messages to the Talk page would not hurt either. 01:25, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes. I will do that. Thank you for not biting the newcomer.

--Defenestrate 01:47, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Shunryu Suzuki
Def, I am game to try to improve the Shunryu Suzuki page, and I'll have a bunch of free time for such projects in a few weeks. However, I don't really have any special expertise in the subject, though. Also, let's be careful not to end up writing a hagiography. - Nat Krause 04:52, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Chögyam Trungpa
Another thing, the Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche article that you made is in addition to one that already exists at Chögyam Trungpa (don't feel bad -- this is a really common mistake for new people). It would be cool if you would merge your text into the main article and then change it to a redirect. - Nat Krause 04:59, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Female Circumcision
I worked a more NPOV. I think that my use of religious jargon was confusing. --The Brain 01:39, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

Korean Buddhism
Ok. Let's evaluate on Korean Buddhism.


 * I think they are fundamental, at least from the generl point of view. So many people have converted to Christianity in the 20th century, draining the Buddhist and Shamanist populations in South Korea considerably greatly.


 * Fundamentalist means to do things to extremme ends. By looking at David Yonggi Cho article, especially for this sentence  Goals for the decade of 2000-2010 include the establishment of some five thousand satellite churches and five hundred prayer houses, similar to Prayer Mountain. and Cho and church members began a vigorous campaign of knocking on doors and inviting people to come to church, and within three years, it had grown to four hundred members.


 * Also, look at the Future section of Christianity in Korea. They seemed Fundamental, by the way.

Mr Tan 11:37, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Zen temples and masters
Zen temples is a subcategory of Buddhist temples and I think we should choose the lowest category. Cheers!

If you agree with me, revert your last change here, please. Vuvar1 2 July 2005 17:44 (UTC)

About Zen masters: I agree, but only partly - because for ancient teachers word master is IMHO a little better than teacher, and of course this is a tradicional and well-known title. Cheers! Vuvar1 2 July 2005 18:12 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I reverted your change in Eiheiji, because (like I said You) we should use the lowest category. If You still disagree - revert it and I will not revert it again...Cheers! V1t 4 July 2005 01:56 (UTC)

Recent edits to Charles Anderson article and ACIM article
Dear Karl, Thanks for your concern and help in both the ACIM article and in the Charles Buell Anderson article. Your 'throwing out the window' of what you recognized needed considerable improvement in both of these articles was helpful. In the ACIM article it has resulted in a complete rewrite of the Critical Reviews section. In the Anderson article it has resulted in a significant rewrite of this article too, leading me to find and review Anderson's Invitation to Forgiveness Week and to incorporate this critical information (critical in the sense of crucial) into the article. It has also enabled me to perhaps rewrite some other sections from a more NPOV perspective. Any further edits you might be able to make in either of these articles would be most appreciated. I must admit, I did reinsert some of the info that you had not been able to find documentation for, as this documentation was in the links in the bottom. A thorough review of those links is something that I am learning I must always do.


 * Cheers and thanks for your recent defenestrations! :)


 * -Scott P. 15:35, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Bogdanov affair
The fact that the vast majority of recognized, credentialled, and working physicist understand the Bogdanoff's publications to be a hoax, crackpottery, or at the very best "wrong", is not POV. the relevant threads to sci.physics.research (that used to be linked in the article) proves it.

Probably neither of us understand the intricacies of the physics involved to critique the veracity of the Bogdanoff's published work, but we do have the ability to see what the established physics community now says about it. Neutral POV does not mean that anything goes or that any POV is equally valid.

I'll have to carefully go through your edits and revert almost all of them. but i'll try not to toss any baby out with the bathwater. r b-j 19:13, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Natonal Public Radio move
Did you misread the message I left at the talk page?? See what I wrote below your comment. Georgia guy 00:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Your Saskia Sassen question
Hi Defenestrate: You asked, on my Talk Page,

"I have a specific question about Sassen's work, which you seem to be very familiar with. If you could recommend one thing, and one thing only, to understand her approach to labor migration, what would it be?"

I am no expert on the subject, or on her work, but I suppose Sassen's very complex position on labor migration would be best understood by saying, "Don't blame the migrant laborers, it's not their fault".

Beyond that, she thoroughly analyzes modern "Globalization" economics, and finds that such migrants respond to a demand for their services created by us, not by them, and so if anyone is to blame we are... But blame is not her basic concern: she is more interested in what to do about the labor migration phenomenon, and she does offer various solutions for that.

Most of all though, I would think, she is concerned to make her readers understand that our modern economics -- we ourselves -- are creating these labor migration situations, not the laborers who respond to them, and that individual laborers should not be discriminated against and punished as they so often are.

Labor migration is a difficult problem, though. Sassen's greatest virtue as a thinker and a writer is that she does not underestimate such difficulties: she does not oversimplify or "talk down" to her audience, as so many commentators and particularly opportunistic politicians do on these issues. So my own simple statement, up above, is only a beginning at understanding Sassen's full analysis and her positions on labor migration issues. She wouldn't disagree with my statement, I believe, but she certainly would say that it's not enough.

You ought to read her books and articles yourself: Sassen writes very clearly, and her work is available in many formats and languages.

--Kessler 00:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your message.
I really fail to understand what you hope to achieve when you leave a message with that kind of snide tone. I felt that your edits were unhelpful, so I reverted. If you feel that I was wrong, make a case for your edits on the article's talk page, and we can sort it out. But, when you leave messages like the one you posted on my talk page, I see no reason to assume you are in good faith. --- RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  19:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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