Talk:Fountain of Youth
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the fountain of youth just restored peoples' youth, not made them permanently young... --Dfndoe 23:24, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Old Texts
I'm curious and would like to read some of the older versions of this myth. Does anyone know of a link online?
[edit] Pointing here
I've been redirected here from Water of Life regarding Frank Herbert's Dune... might anybody write at least a line about it, to justify this?
[edit] Editing
Twice on the 22nd I've attempted to add in a very small article in 'Fountain of Youth', plus a single external link. Both times the edits stayed put for about half an hour. After about an hour they completely disappeared. The entry was under the headline 'The Revelatorium'. The Revelatorium is a pubslished book by Commoners Press and has been online as a website since 1999. Who do I need to talk to about not removing the edits? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CliffR (talk • contribs).
- I removed your edits because they violated some Wikipedia policies. See Wikipedia:Spam, Wikipedia:No original research. There's a Help button on the navigation panel to the left if you need more.--Cúchullain t c 19:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC.
Can you specify the violations instead of me trying to figure out a lot of policy. Either I will be able to appease the terms and condions, or I won't, and will stop trying to post. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CliffR (talk • contribs).
- I've posted it to your talk page.--Cúchullain t c 23:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Two things. First as you might gather, I'm brand new at submitting to the Wikipedia, so where is my 'Talk Page'?
Two, I've noticed the following quote on your Cuchullain page: "Of two competing theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the more ridiculous and/or awesomer one is to be preferred." Hancock's Razor, named for 20th/21st century alternative historian Graham Hancock.
On the one hand you seem to be embracing new and original ideas. On the other you seem to be excluding the two comments I posted under 'Fountain of Youth' and 'Holy Grail' for the specific and stated reason that they were new and original ideas. Wild and wooly ideas I can understand being bounced and agree with you 100%. But these two offered new approaches to the subjects which were both logical and not dependant on supernatural magics, such as are the idea that sic, a supposed tin cup somewhere ever fills with magic drink that will make you live forever, or sic that a supposed fountain springs forth water somewhere in Florida? that will magically make you young again. You see what I mean. If Jesus Christ were teaching his disciples, which of the two interpretations, these or the ones in the Revelatorium, do you think are more likely for him to be teaching. You see what I mean.
By denying new ideas out of hand you cut off the very right hand of the Wikipedea. Which should be to bring new ideas to the fore so your readers have the old and the new to counter balance each other and stimulate new thinking and ideas of their own. That's how society evolves. Every idea known to science, since the very beginning, has eventually yeilded to a greater understanding. Itis on an ongoing basis and will ever contiue. I am willing to bet that a good percentage of your readers come to the Wikipdia specifically hoping to see if there's something new about a subject rather than just for the same old same old.
What you are doing here with the Wikipedia is equivalent to the great Library at Alexandria, and is by many tens of thousands of times greater. It is now one of the now foremost validators of the power of the Internet in existence. Yet its greatest potentially is in being able to juxtatose old ideas with the new in a potentially intelligent and clear cut format. Let new ideas in if they make sense or make good counterfoil to the existing scholarships and endless regurgitations. Then let the readers decide, or steer them into debate with the authors. Yet even more grist for the mill. After all, you already have a policy in place where the reader can voice a complaint about a submission. At the bottom line you still have the right to edit if it becomes necessary. Thanks. ((CliffR)).
Cuchullain - My appologies for forcing you to do extra work. I have found my CliffR page and followed the links. The policy of excluding unverifiable work, etc. is of course no different than any bookshelf encyclopedia. So again my appologies.
To allow the fact of new and original materials I would propose something like an 'Alternate Views'link immediately under the last article on any page. The page would be identical in every respect to the normal Wikipedia page except it would contain postings which are outside the normal qualifications but which aren't patent nonsense. Over time the Alternate Views section of the Wikipedia would become almost like a parallel Wikipedia, easily accessed. The Question of course is would the directors want to go into this extra purpose. Thanks, CliffR.
[edit] AofEIII
It should be noted that the Fountain of Youth plays a major storyline in the Microsoft game Age of Empires III. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Climie.ca (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
