I'm not surprised when people know things that I don't. Impressed is not the same thing as surprised. I assume most people know more than I do. As I've said before, I don't remember most of what I learned in school, or else I didn't comprehend it in the first place. Also I'm too dumb for the Style Invitational. I'm more surprised when I do know something that someone else refers to. Daria said the same thing when I mentioned I didn't know there were pagan chaplains. I simply didn't realize there was a demand for this service, not that I couldn't comprehend the concept.
--- 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. >
