academia.edu; yes great resource/networking place

closed groups, open groups, inbetweengroups; it's like the height markers at
Disneyland or the maximum age to join the armed forces, they do that for a
reason. People might not like the particular reasons for any entry criteria,
but there's no point in banging on a door that is already labelled as "if you
are x or are not y then you don't get in". Join the ones you can, ignore the
rest, and if you do insist on forcing your way into a group that avowedly
doesn't want you it's going to be painful and isolating anyhow, so what's the
point?

a paraphrase of the entry criteria for here is pretty much 1. ability to
discuss in academic fashion, and 2. not be an arse, and we are rewarded with a
huge, diverse, proactive, supportive community that is 99.9% a delight to be
part of

rogue scholar i like!

"Independent scholar" used to mean "independently wealthy so can take the time
to do research for the pure pleasure"

nowadays it is closer to "under- or unemployed academic, often poorer than a
church mouse (any denomination of)"

Dave E (of the latter form of IS)

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From: Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]

Sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:59:29 -0400
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] FW: [Pagan Studies] Feature on what
rituals may have sounded like at Stonehenge

> On 9/14/2011 3:17 PM, Charlie Farrow wrote:
> >
> > I wasn't aware that it was a list that belonged to a particular
> > institution nor that it was hidden from the riff raff. It sounded
> > interesting in terms of the material that was being forwarded here and
> > seemed to imply that independent scholars and people with genuine
> > research interests might be welcome, but that's fine, I was mistaken. I
> > shall creep back under my rock knowing myself to be a want-wit hoddypeak
> > and quote Monty Python "How shall we fuck off oh great one?"
>
> A lot of doors firmly shut; still others are wide open.
>
> The folks at the *National Counsel of Independent Scholars*
> ( http://www.ncis.org/ )were kind enough to disabuse me of
> /my/ notion of what an "independent scholar" is after I had
> joined.
>
> The term "outsider scholar" is taken. Until something better
> comes along, "rogue scholar" will just have to do ;)
>
> rogue scholar
> @UrbanDictionary
> http://tinyurl.com/5tsosds
>
> For purposes of networking, allow me to recommend Academia.edu :
>
> http://academia.edu/
>
> Congenial environment, with lots of friendly scholars from all
> around the globe.
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
>
> ~ Khem Caigan
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
> Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
> Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
> Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
>
> *Of the Division of Chaos*
> -Dr. Simon Forman

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