From: Mark Murray on
On 25/07/2010 15:44, Penny Hassett wrote:
> Oh, I'd forgotten that, but someone else found the reference, I just
> turned it into a google search and answer. Socrates is good at arguing
> but won't use my laptop, it has a touchpad but no mouse.

*Cackle*

M
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Mark "No Nickname" Murray
Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: JSH on
On Jul 24, 10:05 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jul 24, 7:45 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >> > On Jul 24, 5:55 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> >> >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >> >> > I am a world figure for a reason.
>
> >> >> Aside from your stellar performance in Google searches, and the fact
> >> >> that spammers the world over scan your blogs for email addresses, what
> >> >> evidence do you have that you're a world figure?
>
> >> > That is such a setup for a trite response.  Something like I could
> >> > tell you, but....
>
> >> >> Has any site at all independently referred to you by name?  (Cranks.net
> >> >> notwithstanding, of course.)
>
> >> > If they had, why would I tell you?
>
> >> > And what makes you think you'd know?
>
> >> > Hmmm...a Google search maybe?
>
> >> > Why do I have to remind you there are a lot of people in this
> >> > world--6.8 billion of them approximately--and you can't keep up with
> >> > everything.
>
> >> > So tell me, if I had the evidence you seek, why would I give it to
> >> > YOU?
>
> >> Why, to help prove your own claim, of course.
>
> > Why would I do that?  My mathematical proofs are rather direct and
> > clear using primarily elementary mathematics.
>
> To prove your claim that you are a world figure, you silly.

But if I am, why would I have to "prove" it?

Do you think you know all the current world figures in all areas of
human endeavor?

Name 2 outside of the US, Britain and Australia. I dare you.


James Harris
From: Mark Murray on
On 25/07/2010 17:56, JSH wrote:
> Name 2 outside of the US, Britain and Australia. I dare you.

Mathematics: Grigori Perelman (Russia)

Politics/peace: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma), Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

Religion/peace: The Dalai Lama (Tibet (exiled))

World Politics: Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary general (Korea)

Thats 5 in about five seconds of thought. It took me MUCH longer than
that to type this out. What do I win?

M
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Mark "No Nickname" Murray
Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: JSH on
On Jul 25, 10:24 am, Mark Murray <w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote:
> On 25/07/2010 17:56, JSH wrote:
>
> > Name 2 outside of the US, Britain and Australia.  I dare you.
>
> Mathematics: Grigori Perelman (Russia)
>
> Politics/peace: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma), Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
>
> Religion/peace: The Dalai Lama (Tibet (exiled))
>
> World Politics: Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary general (Korea)
>
> Thats 5 in about five seconds of thought. It took me MUCH longer than
> that to type this out. What do I win?

Are there are any more?


James Harris

From: Joshua Cranmer on
On 07/25/2010 01:43 PM, JSH wrote:
> On Jul 25, 10:24 am, Mark Murray<w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote:
>> On 25/07/2010 17:56, JSH wrote:
>>
>>> Name 2 outside of the US, Britain and Australia. I dare you.
>>
>> Mathematics: Grigori Perelman (Russia)
>>
>> Politics/peace: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma), Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
>>
>> Religion/peace: The Dalai Lama (Tibet (exiled))
>>
>> World Politics: Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary general (Korea)
>>
>> Thats 5 in about five seconds of thought. It took me MUCH longer than
>> that to type this out. What do I win?
>
> Are there are any more?

Merely listing political leaders:
Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, Dimitry Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Naoto Kan,
Jacob Zuma, Goodluck Jonathan, Luiz Silva, Felipe Calder�n, Hosni
Mubarak, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Those are current leaders which are capable of effecting (not a typo)
regional politics, if not international politics at some level. I could
also include, if a bit more controversially, figures in Israel, Qatar,
Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Syria, South Korea, North Korea (hey, he does
cause convulsions in China and the U.S.!), Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe,
etc., as well as terrorist groups like Al Shabaab or Al Qaeda.

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