What's going on with this?
I thought I should do a general post here to let everyone visiting know that I am by no means finished with this site. I recently learned that I will have a chance to present my paper at a research conference. I mean, of course, the paper that this site was based upon. The paper is a bit different from the site, uses much more formal language, and employs MLA-format citations rather than links, obviously. (And yes, it will continue to have such citations, as a good paper should
) I'm actually working on a follow-up portion of the paper discussing this site itself, and reactions to it, so I guess the paper is expanding itself. After I present it, if I feel up to it, I might reedit it and post the new material here.
There seems to have been a few misunderstandings about this site itself. I've gotten a lot of e-mails from people who seem to think the site was or is part of an assignment or project for a course. It is not and was not. I wrote the paper for a course. I did the research for a course. The website came after the paper was submitted, graded, and all that. I got an A on the paper, but also got some criticisms from the professor, who thought that my language was too informal and that I should have gone into more detail about some of the theories (like pantheistic solipsism).