Can't speak for anyone else, but if someone references an acronym in a post that I haven't heard before I will look it up so I can understand what you're talking about. I wouldn't know what I was deciding to learn more about unless I knew what the acronym stood for. I didn't know you were pagan; it wouldn't be surprising that a pagan would know about it. But you had mentioned Jewish guilt, therefore I thought maybe you had been curious about pagans and UU or something so you did a search and came across it. Anything is possible. Yes I wouldn't have known that Regina Barreca wrote the afterward to Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe if I hadn't found it online. It isn't necessary to be condescending.
--- In [email protected], "Max H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
