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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2014, 05:30:09 pm »
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If there's interest, I'll start a thread, and we can use it for specific topics. (Like "How do you get awesome academic articles if you are not at an academic institution!" and "The secrets of advanced Google searches" and so on.)

Any chance we could do this topic as a thread?  Some of us can't do chat for various reasons (e.g., my cognitive problems that won't let me read fast enough) but would still be VERY interested in learning more about these things.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2014, 06:06:06 pm »
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Any chance we could do this topic as a thread?  Some of us can't do chat for various reasons (e.g., my cognitive problems that won't let me read fast enough) but would still be VERY interested in learning more about these things.

 
I am also good with doing it as a thread (or doing the chat and then doing a summary of stuff that came up, and riffing on it from there.)

Let me go start a "what should we talk about" thread, because some of this stuff might take me a little prep work (or at least thinking about in advance) to do well.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2014, 06:35:29 pm »
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I am also good with doing it as a thread (or doing the chat and then doing a summary of stuff that came up, and riffing on it from there.)

Cool.

I hope I didn't come across as being anti-chat. I get that it's a great medium for some people and I have no problem with that.  I'm just hoping the info can *also* be made available to those of us who don't or can't access it via chat. Posting a summary in a thread after the chat happens would be perfect, especially if that thread will also be open for questions.

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Let me go start a "what should we talk about" thread, because some of this stuff might take me a little prep work (or at least thinking about in advance) to do well.

Jenett, I just want to say that I'm in awe of both the informative way you post and the actual information you post.  I *always* learn something from you.

I know I'm not the only one who would be extremely grateful to you for sharing your knowledge of how to access information.  Thank you for offering to do this.

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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2014, 06:40:08 pm »
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Any chance we could do this topic as a thread?  Some of us can't do chat for various reasons (e.g., my cognitive problems that won't let me read fast enough) but would still be VERY interested in learning more about these things.

I'd really appreciate this too! I think chat and board posts would complement each other. And if topics become popular enough on the boards, they could warrant multiple chats.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2014, 07:50:51 pm »
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I would definitely be interested in Baltic/Slavic discussion.

I dunno what I would volunteer to facilitate. Maybe pop culture paganism chat?

 
I'd be really interested in a pop culture paganism chat.  I love reading your posts about it :)
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« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2014, 07:56:24 pm »
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So, this is the stuff you get up to when I'm sleeping or at work. And yes, I would be very up for a Baltic/Slavic chat.

Also for a pop culture one should Jack host one. One on the basics would be very nice too.

 
I guess I'll start a new thread today about getting a Baltic/Slavic chat going.

I'd also really be interested in a chat on the basics of magic practices. However, I'm very much a newbie there right now, so I'd likely be discussing sources I'm looking at, like Jenett's website.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2014, 08:00:33 pm »
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I'd really appreciate this too! I think chat and board posts would complement each other. And if topics become popular enough on the boards, they could warrant multiple chats.

 
I'll admit, I am hoping that this goes in the direction of regular chats. It would be nice to see more of the MUX getting used. I like the idea of chats having summary in their corresponding thread.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2014, 01:21:23 pm »
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I thought that it might be a good idea to start having scheduled chats on specific topics in the MUX. Anyone can organise a chat on a topic of their choosing, they could be on your particular path, a SIG, the best pie fillings, whatever you might be interested in.

You can field for interest in this thread, then fine tune the details in a new thread of your own!

These chats would occur in a room outside of the main chat room. We have an assortment of public rooms.

It might be worth checking out the MUX FAQ to get your bearings if you're not familiar with the chat. Also please consider requesting an account if you don't have one already.

 
 
Probably sounds stupid but maybe a chat about how to use MUX? I know there's the FAQ but I personally can't really understand what's in the FAQ as it comes across assuming that I already have some knowledge of MUX or similar things when in fact I'd never heard of MUX until I joined TC (although that's probably down to my brain rather than the actual FAQ but I can't make it out). Also, most of what I was struggling with in MUX wasn't mentioned in the FAQ anyway and I didn't want to constantly interrupt the chat to ask questions.
It doesn't matter to me personally anymore as I can't get on MUX without it crashing my laptop but I've seen in the gentler on newbies thread that other people don't really understand MUX so it might be helpful.  A sort of workshop on how to use it, really.

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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2014, 08:51:38 am »
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I guess I'll start a new thread today about getting a Baltic/Slavic chat going.

I'd also really be interested in a chat on the basics of magic practices. However, I'm very much a newbie there right now, so I'd likely be discussing sources I'm looking at, like Jenett's website.

 
I'd be really interested in a basics of magic chat, as well. I'm a newbie too, though.

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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2014, 09:06:19 am »
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I thought that it might be a good idea to start having scheduled chats on specific topics in the MUX. Anyone can organise a chat on a topic of their choosing, they could be on your particular path, a SIG, the best pie fillings, whatever you might be interested in.


Would anyone be interested in a chat about accessibility at Pagan events? Or a sociology of religion chat? (Could be about religion and politics today, or secularization, or the place of Paganism in society/ies today, or interfaith work...) I'll see if I can think of anything else, or anything more specific than that.

On a more practice-orientated note, I'd love to take part in a druidry chat - there's such a diverse range of druids at TC, and we could talk about the different directions that druidry is going in, in different parts of the world, at the moment.

All the chats mentioned so far sound fantastic! I'd be keen to attend ones that can be in a mutually convenient time slot.
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2014, 09:12:39 am »
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Would anyone be interested in a chat about accessibility at Pagan events? Or a sociology of religion chat? (Could be about religion and politics today, or secularization, or the place of Paganism in society/ies today, or interfaith work...) I'll see if I can think of anything else, or anything more specific than that.

On a more practice-orientated note, I'd love to take part in a druidry chat - there's such a diverse range of druids at TC, and we could talk about the different directions that druidry is going in, in different parts of the world, at the moment.

All the chats mentioned so far sound fantastic! I'd be keen to attend ones that can be in a mutually convenient time slot.

 I would love a druidry chat. It would be really interesting to hear from all the different paths that druidry can encompass.

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« Reply #26 on: August 17, 2014, 09:33:01 am »
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Would anyone be interested in a chat about accessibility at Pagan events? Or a sociology of religion chat? (Could be about religion and politics today, or secularization, or the place of Paganism in society/ies today, or interfaith work...) I'll see if I can think of anything else, or anything more specific than that.

On a more practice-orientated note, I'd love to take part in a druidry chat - there's such a diverse range of druids at TC, and we could talk about the different directions that druidry is going in, in different parts of the world, at the moment.

All the chats mentioned so far sound fantastic! I'd be keen to attend ones that can be in a mutually convenient time slot.


I'm interested in both honestly :)
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2014, 02:28:29 am »
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Would anyone be interested in a chat about accessibility at Pagan events? Or a sociology of religion chat? (Could be about religion and politics today, or secularization, or the place of Paganism in society/ies today, or interfaith work...) I'll see if I can think of anything else, or anything more specific than that.

 
I would be interested in just about any of those!
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Re: Topical Chats! For all your curiousity ailments
« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2014, 10:24:21 am »
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Would anyone be interested in a chat about accessibility at Pagan events? Or a sociology of religion chat? (Could be about religion and politics today, or secularization, or the place of Paganism in society/ies today, or interfaith work...) I'll see if I can think of anything else, or anything more specific than that.

 
I'd certainly be interested, Naomi! If it takes part at a time where I could attend.
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