User talk:King Vegita

Hermeticism

Everything looks great so far. No compliants here. I will do some touch ups on my write ups over the week as well. The article is coming together nicely. Take care.

--Armadel

Templates

If you mean the userboxes (admin, firefox etc.) they and many many others can be found at Wikipedia:Userboxes. All the best. - Roy Boy ⁸⁰⁰ 18:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alchemy problems

I can empathise with the problem you're having vis a vis Alchemy. Iv'e had similar problems in the past. Consensus reality on wikipedia is didactic materialist, and at about the level of imagination of a Ohio University grad student. The only way to introduce upopular ideas is to use unassailable prose and cite a lot of sources: basically you have to exceed the standards that other wikipedists get away with. This is always preferable to looking for an admin, because admins are usually like the people you're debating, only worse.

Citing web sources is easy. External link like this [1] and whoopie, it's a source. Citing book sources is a pain in the ass. You have to use footnotes in the Harvard referencing format, i.e.

Jesus was a pot-smoking essene¹ and really he was a butterfly².

And because it's unpopular you can't just say it. You have to couch it in language like:

During the late middle ages and especially the renaissance the idea of Mystical or Hermetic Alchemy became popular, wherein alchemy was seen as a metaphor for the purification and transformation the of the human spirit. Writers on alchemey during this era distinguished between esoteric alchemists and those they derisively called "blowers", who were frowned upon for being mere chemists.

With plenty of quotes, footnotes, citation links, and so on sprinkled throughout. Remember that you can't say it, you can only say that someone else said it.

Fortunately there's a lot of online source material for you to use if you want to sift through it. The Internet Sacred Texts Archive is one good starting place. You could also look for writings by M.P. Hall, CG Jung, etc.

Hope this helps. —Clarknova 18:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

1. Charles Manson (1972). He Was Just Like Us Maaaaan. Spahn Ranch: Corcoran State Press. 23-25.

2. Dr. Henry Moreau (1896). The Origins of Evil in the Human Genome. Moreau Ilse: BeastMan Press. 237-239.

Reiki and Psychic Surgery

As fas as I can tell, the "psychic surgeries" of Reiki and of the Filipino/Brazilian surgeons have nothing in common except the name and the use of hands. If that is the case, it doesn't make sense to discuss both in the same article. The only issue is how the articles should be named. All the best, Jorge Stolfi 19:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self

^{superscripts work like this} Jack Daniels died in a wheat threshing accident¹. He was always playing with that wheat thresher².

Cubeb

Hi, thanks for granting the good article status. Could you please add the article to Wikipedia:Good_articles#Biology_and_medicine, in which it is supposed to be listed. Thank you very much. --BorgQueen 19:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'd like to recommend to create footnotes section for Hermeticism, if you are not planning to do it already. --BorgQueen 19:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pentacle vs. Pentagram

I'm not going to revert your edit to Wicca, as "pentacle" is the common Wiccan term as far as I've seen. However, I think you might find the discussion of this issue on Talk:Pentagram to be interesting, and I wanted to comment that yes, there is such thing as a circumscribed pentagram, and quite a few people do think that "circumscribed pentagram" is more correct that "pentacle," considering the issues about the historical origins of the term "pentacle" brought up in the pentagram article and on its talk page. - AdelaMa e ^{(talk - contribs)} 02:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Christianity

If you have any thoughts on changes to the article, I'd welcome your joining in on the talk page. Tom Harrison ^Talk 23:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto - but you might want to take a look at this page before you invest a lot of time on the Christianity page. Whatever you decide to do as a result, please don't just go away. Your voice might be important in the future. Trollwatcher 16:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]