User talk:MikeK

Welcome, Mike, enjoy your stay! Care to tell us what brought you here, and we can point you in the right direction?-α m ε σ G 17:32, 4 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I was browsing Conservapedia and somehow ended up here (apologies for the vagueness, I can't seem to find the page I saw the link on). I still have no idea what, if anything, I intend to do on RationalWiki. Mike K 17:48, 4 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I think I know why you can't find the page... it probably got deleted. 19:05, 4 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Either way, welcome aboard...now get to work!--PalMD-Goatspeed! 19:19, 5 July 2007 (CDT)

Hi Mike, and Welcome to the Dollhouse! I see you are already ledning a helping hand, over where I am trying to get unlimited discretionary powerz ;) I appreciate your input, and hope you find a reason to stick around and work on a few things with become one of us. human be in 19:20, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I just don't want to get in the way. The existing community here seems pretty close. Mike K 19:22, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Actually, we all hate each other. Just jump in.--PalMD-Goatspeed! 19:23, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * You illustrate my point well ;) Perhaps I'll find a niche somewhere... Mike K 19:25, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Many of our most prolific users (e.g. Kels) have never entered the mire that is CP. We are hoping to move this site away from CP as much as possible and work on other debunking projects, of which CP would be a small part.--PalMD-Goatspeed! 19:44, 5 July 2007 (CDT)


 * If I block you for a minute or two would you feel more at home?--PalMD-Goatspeed! 19:47, 5 July 2007 (CDT)

Discovery Institute
If you're looking for something to do, you could take a look at Discovery Institute. It needs to be fleshed out a bunch, and evidently I'm never going to get around to it... --jtl talk 19:55, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I don't really know enough about it, other than for it's advocacy of intelligent design. Do we not have Arguments for the existence of God yet? I (foolishly?) tried to balance CP's article but the edit didn't last long. Mike K 20:00, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Haaaa...nice try over there. I can't recall if we have one of those type pages here yet, but if we don't we should.  Dawkins has some nice stuff on the topic.  Ideas like "why should I have to prove your God doesn't exit...its kinda silly".--PalMD-Goatspeed! 20:04, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * How about a side by side refutation/counterargument (see our side by side articles category) of "good" "for God" arguments (not lame simply straw men)? I know people will jump in to help if it exists... human be in 20:13, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Side by side looks good. Conveniently it's the style my old philosophy of religion lecture notes were written in. Mike K 20:25, 5 July 2007 (CDT)

Dude, we'd love to see philosophy or religion articles, from ANY perspective.-α m ε σ g 21:53, 5 July 2007 (CDT)

Curiosity
What kind of things interest you, intellectually? What kind of things do you just happen to either know about or have an interest in?--PalMD-Goatspeed! 20:09, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Philosophy, politics, economics. Though I'm far from an expert in any of them. Mike K 20:27, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Then the next question is, what do you see out there in the world that takes those fields and turns them upside-down for political or religious reasons? That is what to try to figure  out a way to write about.  And, of course, you know it's a wiki, so you don;t have to "get it right the first time".  Sometimes just starting a good article is all it takes, people go nuts and build it up. human <font color="#00AA00">be in 20:32, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Also, as much as I like to believe everyone is as liberal as i am, please feel free to give your own POV. I'm an environmentalist, but i find the extremist end of those folks objectionable in a similar way to some conservatives, although perhaps for different reasons.--PalMD-Goatspeed! 21:50, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I've just made myself a userpage, which hints at my POVs. I doubt they're anything alarming. Mike K 19:29, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Glad to see you post a userpage, and hope you stick around. You're not, by any event, Mike Conley, are you?-<font color="#CC0000">α <font color="#A0A0A0">m <font color="#0099FF">ε <font color="#003399">σ (!) 19:31, 6 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I haven't the faintest idea who that is... Some basketball player you admire? Sorry to disappoint. Mike K 19:34, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Rather, some guy who hates TK (Conservapedia sysop), and doesn't like me either :-(-<font color="#CC0000">α <font color="#A0A0A0">m <font color="#0099FF">ε <font color="#003399">σ (!) 20:12, 6 July 2007 (CDT)