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Originally Posted by N0B0DY  Most folks respond with insults when they become stuck, but I didn't think you were of the same stock.
At any rate, I'll put it yet another way: if the presently-accepted notion of gravity were to be correct, the earth would be rotating clockwise due to friction; if your notion of gravity were to be correct, the earth would be swallowed by the sun - any type of friction wouldn't be a factor. |
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As tens of thousands of readers over the past four and more decades know, lately including those on the net (since 12/'99), not one of the premeses that you have ascribed accomodates or gainsays the information in my book - the one you apparently hold yourself above reading. ("...become stuck"?) That is to say, you speak volumes of futility about that which you choose not to learn - whether you agree or not. Speaking of insults... There have been a few in the past that evoked this example in the present (Are you familiar with the import of the malevolent art of 'crazymaking'? By that name I mean. Notwithstanding, you would impose it on me and get away with it, if you could): This entire 'misunderstanding' reminds me of an incident from a story I read, where two bitterly opposing groups of people sit on opposite sides of a banquet table with the intention of negotiating for peace. The 'good guys' are on one side of the table, the 'bad guys' on the other - each group represented by a spokesman leader. Hours pass and as the evening wears on with little hope of finding peace, due to the fact that the bad guys at the table are hurling epithets and name calling and falsely accusing and so forth. The bad guy's spokesman is the worst of all and goading his ne'er do well team mates on.... The good guys have little to say, following in suit with their leader who is likewise without a lot to say in retaliation or self defence. Finally the leader of the bad guys holds his hands up to silence his following, going on to ask the good guy leader if he has anything to say - why he isn't saying much, along with his followers who are equally conservative in their speech. The good guy leader replies: "Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak for myself and my comrades... All of this reminds me of a case where two fisherman on a large trawler are engulfed in heavy seas and the trawler sinks with nets and equipment on deck dragging the two men down with it. One man survives by struggling to stand on the other man's shoulders and making his way to the surface. He is rescued and the body of the perished man is recovered, at which time it is determined that there are severe claw boot scars all over the drowned man's shoulders and head. The surviving man is finally persuaded to explain that in order to save himself he panic'd and events unfolded as described..." At this time the bad guy leader impatiently queries: "Why are you telling me all this?" The good guy leader sighs patiently and resolves: "Well sir. I can understand a panic'd man on a sinking trawler inadvertantly drowning another man in such a way... (pause) "But, what I don't understand, is when it happens at the dinner table." (Paraphrased from a an episode in the novel, Dune, by Frank Herbert) Regards, - RP