Ellen wrote: >You can google just about anything, obviously. But Max dropped it >into his post with no explanation, giving at least me the impression >that he assumed everyone knew what it was, or if you didn't you >weren't in the loop and had to take the extra step of googling it. >For all I know he might have done a search on UU and Pagans this >morning and found it that way and only knew about it 12 hours longer >than I did, who knows. I was just impressed he knew what it was, >whether he took the time to look it up this morning or already knew >about it or whatever. That's all (as Miranda Priestly says in The >Devil Wears Prada). > > I didn't assume it would mean anything to anyone except other pagans, but if other people were curious I figured it wouldn't be hard to find more information online if they really wanted to know more about it. I guess I did assume that most everyone on this group would know how to search for more information when they come across something with which they aren't familiar, and that most people on this group like challenging themselves at least on occasion by looking up something they don't know, and so have found the need to search for information on the Internet in the past. Therefore, I assumed that people on this list would pretty much either not be interested in finding out what I was talking about, or would routinely look it up if they were curious enough.
A lot of assumptions there, I know, but while I try hard to limit my assumptions, we can't take into accout every random eventuality, now can we, just the most likely ones. I guess we're surprised that you're so surprised when other people know things that you don't. I'm sure you know lots of things that I don't about things that are specific to you and your experiences. -Max H.
