User:Phildonnia
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[edit] Who is this guy and why does he keep writing here?
I have great respect for the JREF, it's mission, and its members. But I haven't been able to justify a paid membership to Mrs. Phildonnia, so I figure I'd do some kind of community service instead.
Oh, and it helps to keep up my writing skills. (Insert snide comment here). As Douglas Adams(?) pointed out, explaining something to someone else forces you to organize it in your own mind so you understand it better. The teacher learns more than the student.
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[edit] And what exactly is my expertise on the stuff I write about??
I must confess, I'm an amateur at just about everything. Surely I have (and you have too!) believed something I read on the 'net, just because it was written in complete sentences and had footnotes. I apologize if any of that crap gets into the articles I've written. I try to cite references, and in doing so I've been corrected before embarrassing myself.
Don't take my word for anything, or you're a prime candidate for the next wooism.
It's a wiki! Don't criticize. Edit!
[edit] The Name
Before there was Phildonnia, there was Phildonnics, the name for the peculiar argot used between "Phil" and "Donna". It was something of a lame satire on Ebonics, a multiculturalist fad that passed briefly through the Oakland California school system.
By back-formation, Phildonnics must be the native language of Phildonnia.
Phildonnia still only has two citizens. It has one wretched serf, Westley, a Labrador Retriever with no vote. The US does not recognize the sovereignty of Phildonnia, and exacts tribute in a most imperialistic manner. The official flag of Phildonnia is whatever nylon garden banner happens to be currently hanging on the front walk. Unlike the US flag, it is left flying in inclement weather, and in a tattered state, as a symbol of the fortitude of our great nation and the laziness of its officials.
[edit] Wikipedia articles I wrote
[edit] The expertise question, again
I'm still an expert on nothing, but if Upchurch can write about UU, then I suppose this former Catholic might know something about the mother Church. I say "former", although the church ministers and my parents might prefer the term "temporarily lapsed". Time will tell which is more accurate, I suppose. Randi recently brought up transubstantiation in one of his weekly commentaries[1]. A reader had challenged Randi's suggestion that the transubstantiation was to be understood on a more spiritual level, and that the Catholic claims were thus not so bizarre. Randi was, of course, right about the official Catholic view; this is known from childhood Sunday School, let alone the authority of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
