Posted: Mar 13, 2020 7:36 pm
Hermit wrote:The Wikipedia is an excellent starting point for gathering information, and I applaud the fact that you use it extensively. The problem with the content of most of your posts does not lie with the encyclopaedia itself. Not at all. It lies in the frequency with which you see meanings in the bits you quote from it that simply are not there, and worse, the frequency with which you draw inferences and conclusions from those snippets that cannot be based on the snippets you do quote.
See Nevets? Stop rushing through. Read it carefully. See the actual points being raised, not the absurdly fantastical versions you tend to come up with.
Hermit wrote:One recent glaring example is your claim that the Norse had to be tough travellers because they come from the "The Hamburg culture", created around 15,500BC. Indeed, the Wikipedia provides references to the existence of the Norse, and it provides links to the Hamburg culture. What it does not provide, neither directly nor indirectly, is a link between the two, or how a connection between two types of societies that are 15,000 years apart could even be meaningful. This is the sort of stuff that springs out of your imagination, not the Wikipedia. And you keep doing this sort of thing again and again.
And further, the idea that you have provided a source is completely disingenuous when nothing contained therein actually supports your claim.
You may as well have looked up the word 'traveler' on Wikipedia and cited a line from that - it would have provided just as much justification for your opinion as citing the entry on Hamburg Culture, i.e. nothing.
Hermit wrote:Thinking of your input in this forum someone should award you with a rank. A very high rank, even. You should be crowned King of the Non Sequitur. You could actually do that yourself. Click on the User Control Panel (UCP) button, then click on "Profile" and fill in the space following "Location" with King of the Non Sequitur. Finish by clicking on "submit".
Assuming this is an Elective Monarchy, I doth fain submit unto thee, oh lord of the non-sequitur.
Hermit wrote:I have also toyed with the idea of making an avatar for you. It's a slightly exaggerated depiction of how your contributions to this forum.
That's pretty darn good work Hermit. I'm convinced.
Err, what was I meant to be convinced of? Whatever it was, that's compelling.