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From: Gerry Myerson on 11 May 2010 18:47 In article <4BE9A158.9090906(a)osu.edu>, James Burns <burns.87(a)osu.edu> wrote: > It is sort of a defining feature of cranks that they > do not admit they are wrong. Does your worldview admit of a distinction between cranks and trolls? -- Gerry Myerson (gerry(a)maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)
From: Jim Burns on 11 May 2010 21:51 Gerry Myerson wrote: > In article <4BE9A158.9090906(a)osu.edu>, > James Burns <burns.87(a)osu.edu> wrote: > >> It is sort of a defining feature of cranks >> that they do not admit they are wrong. > > Does your worldview admit of a distinction > between cranks and trolls? Yes, it does. They have different motives, if nothing else. Cranks wish to force an unappreciative universe to agree with them. Trolls wish to create lots of reaction, preferably highly emotional reaction. (Or so I understand the terms.) It could be hard to tell which one a particular poster was, in practice. As I and others have pointed out, being a crank or pretending to be a crank is great way to get attention. Jim Burns
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 11 May 2010 22:36 Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi> writes: > "Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse(a)phiwumbda.org> writes: > >> James Burns <burns.87(a)osu.edu> writes: >> >>> However, you aren't disputing that cranks exist, right, >>> Tommy? That would be odd, since you have declared >>> at least a couple of posters "indefensible" >>> with respect to crankdom. >> >> Are you sure you're not confusing Tommy (crank exemplar) with Transfer >> Principle/LWalker (crank messiah)? > > I wouldn't know about Jim but lwalke's told us he won't defend James > Harris. Lwalke, I was dismayed to learn, will not put in a good word for > a poor statement the truth of which turns on Jamesiana, won't rally for > non-veracious but concrete, push-it-in-your-face-and-twist-your-wrist- > there-you-go-it's-an-Indian-burn-and-stuff-it-up-your-nostril claims; > indeed won't question any sufficiently uncomplicated claim mathematical > -- per the venerable and erstwhile this our philosopher Mill -- > pertaining, say, the arithmetick of a handful of beans, or rain drops, > these being erudite matters, the dropping of rain... > > Regarding Lwalker's fantasies, I can but imagine we might stumble upon > someone going all [...] Wow. You've read enough Lwalker that you've matched him in verbosity *and* readability. That's a feat of some sort, that is. -- Jesse F. Hughes "My experience indicates that the people who post on this newsgroup are about at the level of a 10 year old in the year 2060." -- More wisdom from James Harris, time traveler
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 11 May 2010 23:02 "Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse(a)phiwumbda.org> writes: > Wow. You've read enough Lwalker that you've matched him in verbosity > *and* readability. Thank you! I'm afraid, though, and here I must come clean, this in all modesty, that I haven't yet really mastered all the nuanced nuances of the true soporific droning Lwalker voice. > That's a feat of some sort, that is. It took some doing, yes. I'm quite proud of myself. -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Tonico on 12 May 2010 07:29
On May 12, 6:02 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote: > "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> writes: > > > Wow. You've read enough Lwalker that you've matched him in verbosity > > *and* readability. > > Thank you! I'm afraid, though, and here I must come clean, this in all > modesty, that I haven't yet really mastered all the nuanced nuances of > the true soporific droning Lwalker voice. > > > That's a feat of some sort, that is. > > It took some doing, yes. I'm quite proud of myself. > > -- > Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi) > > "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, darüber muss man schweigen" > - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ....and you should be proud of yourself, yes sir! All it's left for you now is to make a supreme effort to reach for Lwalke's annoying and outstanding capability to "guess" other posters' actual intention when deffending cranks/trollers/just-ignoramuses rantings, and ALSO for his almost christian-misionary zeal when doing so...oh, and, of course, his rare talent to completely misunderstand/misread/mistranslate/miss what's he's been said. It won't an easy task, I'm afraid....good luck with that, sir! Tonio |