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From: Mark Murray on 18 Jun 2010 06:05
On 06/18/10 05:06, JSH wrote:
> Being right is very boring. I prefer to consider the possibility that
> my ideas are wrong. But I also feel a responsibility if they are
> right. So you have a sense of conflict.

Pure verbiage, not backed up by observed action.

> After all, if I *were* known as one of the greatest mathematical
> discoverers in human history, and if it were accepted that people who
> argued with me were the "cranks" and "crackpots", what kind of fun
> arguments could I have then?

Obviously none. Can it then be concluded that you *are* a crank
who is simply arguing for fun?

> Those who know understand know that having a lot of people agreeing
> with you can be easier than the alternatives, and far less
> satisfying. It's easier to get agreement. It's also massively
> boring.

So you prefer to post that which is patently incorrect for
the purposes of having a satisfying disagreement?

M
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 18 Jun 2010 07:37
JSH <jstevh(a)gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 17, 8:29 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
>> > Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
>> > Usenet, or you can't argue.
>>
>> That's just not true.
>
> Funny. But also telling. You have to take an opposite position or
> arguing goes away.

This is an insight not seen since Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch.

--
"It's my belief that when religion and pseudoscience achieve an
official status within a culture [...], then genocide, war,
oppression, injustice, and economic stagnation are sure to follow."
-- David Petry, on why |X| < |P(X)| is bad, bad, bad.
From: Mark Murray on 18 Jun 2010 08:13
On 06/18/10 12:37, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
> This is an insight not seen since Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch.

No it isn't.

M
--



From: JSH on 18 Jun 2010 10:21
On Jun 18, 4:37 am, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jun 17, 8:29 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
> >> > Usenet, or you can't argue.
>
> >> That's just not true.
>
> > Funny.  But also telling.  You have to take an opposite position or
> > arguing goes away.
>
> This is an insight not seen since Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch.

Hey, I thought you were clever!

And I DO like to pull the curtain away at times as I've done in the
past, not like it matters.

Years go by, I'm still posting for whatever reason suits me at the
moment, and some posters start the same type insults as always, and
the circle goes round and round and round.

Some readers know most of it is just a game. And that a lot of posts
ARE about entertainment value.

But I think some are clueless! Which is also funny as well.

It HAS to be a big show. It's a worldwide entertainment, and along
with the math there has to be drama, conflict, excitement--or you lose
readers.


___JSH
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 18 Jun 2010 11:29
JSH <jstevh(a)gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 18, 4:37 am, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Jun 17, 8:29 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>> >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
>> >> > Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
>> >> > Usenet, or you can't argue.
>>
>> >> That's just not true.
>>
>> > Funny.  But also telling.  You have to take an opposite position or
>> > arguing goes away.
>>
>> This is an insight not seen since Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch.
>
> Hey, I thought you were clever!

Yes, if encyclopedic knowledge of Monty Python isn't a sign of
cleverness, I don't know what is.

(Honestly. I don't.)

--
Jesse F. Hughes
"Maybe I screwed up on one of my assumptions [...]. Otherwise, um,
it's very easy to factor, and things are about to get really, really
weird." -- James S. Harris
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