Re: Weekly posting summary

"Troia" <troia.legata@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> whisky-dave wrote:
>> "H Duffy" <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Erm, not universally, by any means; while I'm not a professor in the
UK 
>>> or US sense, I mark students' assignments,a nd they get marked down if

>>> their references consist of a list of URLs.
>>
>> I'm not sure what they do here but I wouldthink that method is bad 
>> practice
>> and open to abuse, a buy or 'obtain' my book or I'll mark you down
isn;t
>> soemthing I would likoe to see.
>
> No, that isn't what it implies;  it's a matter of actually going to the 
> library and properly researching.

Do you really have to go to a library to do that ?
I've got some old books at home on the planets, things were believed about

Mars
30 years ago that have since been disproved, such as how they formed.
I'm sure sigmund wrote somethingn about having *** with your mother or
somethign doesn;'t make it true just because it has appear in a book.


> One obvious problem with using the internet is that the sources are not 
> always authoritative, as anyone can pretty well publish anything they
want 
> & have it appear credible.
But isn;t the whole idea of furthering education is to think for yourself
rather than just proving someone elses point of view remmebr that one of
the
best selling books in the world is the Bible how authoritive is that ?
And most im****tant should w ebelieve it and therefor believ in heven and 
hell etc..
Surely it's not such a bad thing to be able to think for yourself even
when 
threratened
with death for beign a heathen or justy discagreeing with your boss.