User:Ash/My Philosophy

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My philosophy here...coming soon

When I first began Thelemapedia, I thought that it would be pretty straight forward. The idea was simply to have a site that would give plain information about Thelema. I know, I was naive. The fact is, the formal presentation of information is very difficult. Ultimately, you have to draw the line somewhere, because without one—if a collection of data has no epistemic standards—then it ceases to have any value beyond a repository of chaotic voices babbling into the void. Now then, I'm not putting down chaotic babbling: projects which have that goal are no less valuable than Thelemapedia. However, the model isn't an effective one for an encyclopedia.

In the beginning, I borrowed largely from Wikipedia's model of information. At the core of Wikipedia is the idea that articles should present knowledge from what they call a neutral point of view (or NPOV for short), which means without bias and representing all views fairly. Of course, this being an encyclopedia about Thelema, it would make sense to bend that rule and say it is preferable to give articles a pro-Thelema bias.