Do TOP CONTRIBUTORS just cut and paste bits from the wikipedia

Question

while the rest of us call on personal experiences to answer questions

Answer 1

Sounds like someone's jealous.

Answer 2

Well not all of them. I've seen a lot that look like they cut&paste, but most of the time they seem like personal experienced answers that couldn't have been from Wikipedia. And some people just seem to know it all lol.

Answer 3

Personal experience

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Personal experience of a human being is the moment-to-moment experience and sensory awareness of internal and external events.

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An early belief of some philosophers of Ancient Greece was that the mind was like a recording device and simply kept somehow-objective records of what the senses experienced. This was believed in the Western world into the 20th century until cognitive psychology experiments decisively proved that it was not true, and that many events were simply filled in by the mind, based on what "should be". This among other things explained why eyewitness accounts of events often were so widely varied.

In Ancient Rome it was believed that personal experience was part of some divine or species-wide collective experience. This gave rise to notions of racial memory, national mission, and such notions as racism and patriotism. It was likely easier to create political movements and military morale with such notions, than a strictly personal idea of experience. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were notable investigators of these ideas of collective experience in the 20th century.

During The Enlightenment, there was rigorous investigation of these ideas. Immanuel Kant noted that it was only possible to explain "experience and its objects" as a consequence of each other: either experience makes those objects possible, or those objects make experience possible. This is seen today as dualism, and denying the possibility of a third thing making both experience and whatever reality its objects have, both possible. That thing could be a more universal cognition, as proposed in some versions of Christianity or Gaia philosophy.

Answer 4

Yep all the time which is so annoying,I try to answer with experiance and ONLY answer in  places I CAN answer lol...some people answer with a yea I no or if its a "do i look okay" its an easy 2points for them just to say The 1st pic is best without them looking..

I think they should have a thumbs down if they copy and paste...If your gonna give a webbie than put it in source and type out the rest?

Answer 5

ya  pretty  much it  looks like

Answer 6

Often people ask for opinions. then I go by my own experience and by what I think.. like everybody.. if someone asks something specific sometimes I google it, if they want to know what is a good song in a certain language I copy and paste it from youtube.. x*x or I google things but so can everyone and most of the time i don't do that..

Answer 7

Because they're arrogant and lazy...and many times very rude as well.

Answer 8

I do cite information from Wikipedia on occassion, as one of the things a lot of askers look for is a source.  Some askers don't want just personal experience.  

Answer 9

top contributors live at yahoo answers