User talk:Desertphile

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[edit] Cults: votes for removal of bias

Please vote at the cults talk page for removal of bias, as suggested in my proposal. As soon as I have sufficient number of people supporting this, I will rewrite the article. Thanks. --ExitControl


Ahem. I'm afraid that I evilly deleted your Sporgery page. You really don't need to start a new page by just saying that you're going to put a new page there! When you have something to put in the page, put it there; until then, there's no real point in having it... But hello, anyway. -- Oliver P. 05:40 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ah, now that's an article! But "sinister commercial enterprise"...? I think you need to read our neutral point of view policy... -- Oliver P. 06:45 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for cleaning up my entry. When the a.r.s. sporgery attack was occuring, I wrote software to cancel the articles, plus software that hunted down and identified the people responsible. I ended up with the name and telephone number of a wealthy Scientologist who apparently added a telephone line to his residence specifically to inject sporgery into a.r.s. Needless to say, this did not endear me to Scioentology Inc. (HEAVY SIGH!) We tried to subpoena this person's telephone bill and get the FBI to prosecute (for identity theft, as well as abuse of a National Public Switched Network---- i.e., telephone system), but Scientology Inc. successfully squashed the subpoena. The FBI later investigated my sibling and I to see if *WE* had committed any crimes during our investigation! I was accused of successfully decoding military-grade encription and the FBI wanted to learn how I did it. Needless to say, I did no such thing--- I'd be worth millions of dollars if I could do such a trick! Newspapers and on-line magazines started to hear about the sporgery attack, and it became an embarassment to Scientology Inc. so the attack ceased--- the threat of law enforcement didn't stop the abuse: bad publicity did! http://holysmoke.org/cos/pi-fun.htm shows one of my Scientology stalkers.

Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia! Could you upload a PNG version of the chart in Scientology? The JPEG compression artifacts are making some of the text barely legible. Thanks! --Eloquence 19:17 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I have the original data, plus projection, in a Microsoft Excell file. At the moment I do not have software to create a PNG image: I will go fetch one, and replace the image in the wikipedia.
Thanks! Are you sure that Excel cannot export to PNG? If not, perhaps it can export to GIF, which is also lossless. JPG is great for photos, but the compression becomes very visible on text. As for conversion from BMP or another lossless (but large) format to PNG, I suggest using IrfanView, which is also freeware. --Eloquence 20:27 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi! I've done a little editing to your contributions to various Scientology-related pages, such as sporgery. I'd like to take the opportunity to explain some of it, in terms of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy.

As much as you or I might detest Scientology, Wikipedia is not served by using a.r.s buzzwords here, or other expressions that imply Wikipedia taking a stance against Scientology. Wikipedia articles are supposed to describe their subjects neutrally, not to take sides. I know this is hard -- but it is possible. We're able to discuss Nazism more or less neutrally as well -- we do not have to call them damnable genocidal bastards, even though they were. The facts -- not rhetoric -- will bear out the villainy of the Nazis and of the Scientology organization as well.

The contributions of active Scientology critics are welcome here because they provide knowledge about the actual practices and history of the Scientology organization -- knowledge that Scientologists themselves are apparently not about to come here and post. However, in the medium of Wikipedia (which is not the medium of a.r.s) you can serve your cause better by not coming off as having a chip on your shoulder -- even if that chip is well and truly deserved.

I refer you, for example, to the contributions of User:Modemac to these pages -- a name I am sure you will recall from a.r.s and elsewhere.

Thanks for your contributions, and I hope you will continue to bring them. --FOo 23:49 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for the corrections. Since I cannot write about Scientology in a NPOV, I will refrain from doing so in the future. I am currently working on a long article about the Pipa a'ha macave language (Mojave "Indians"). That will put my efforts to better use. Desertphile 19:20 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Regarding the articles on "theta" and "entheta:" It probably isn't necessary to add new Wikipedia articles just for Hubbard's nonsense words. Why give him any more legitimacy than he deserves? I appreciate your efforts, and hope we can work together in making these articles more truthful and accurate. I agree that NPOV is very hard to maintain when dealing with subjects like Scientology, but I don't think it's not impossible. It certainly is NPOV to give pointers to hard evidence and facts that reveal the truth. This will go a lot farther and appeal to many more people in a place like Wikipedia. --Modemac 13:30 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)


[edit] Anti-Psychiatry Activities

Hello, Desertphile, please help having a look on the activities of user AI - he is concentrating on inserting negative psychiatry articles. Uses expressions like "does not confront his past" and reacts pretty strong, as soon as criticized - see on my talk page an example). Irmgard -

[edit] remote viewing

Thanks for your input on the Talk page of Remote Viewing Timeline - you might also want to take time to review the various characters linked from remote viewing and Stargate Project currently at AfD. Just zis Guy you know? 17:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)