User:Andries

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Good intention for 2009 is getting or making useful diagrams and pics. (I learnt at Uni that explanation of abstract concept require abstract diagrams.)

Busy with removing mistakes and inaccuracies.

Moral judgements are always bad.

Wikipedia is both self-correcting and self-degenerating.

Working on this draft article User:Andries/Theories_of_religion Theories of religion - (wp gwp g | eb 1911 co en gct sw)

"When asked why they joined, members usually say that they joined their group because of some ideal such as salvation, enlightenment, or whatever; they may pad this explanation with complex philosophy or psychotheology. [..]what joining them had allowed them to achieve, or what leaving the group would mean to them, quite different themes emerged."

Oakes, Len: Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities, 1997, Syracuse University press, ISBN 0-8156-0398-3, page 127