Subject line restored to what it was. Connoisseurs of Pentcho Valev's
outpourings will notice that after all these years he still hasn't figured
out how to send a news group message with breaking the thread. Anyway, he
wrote:
>I think you have slowly been moving to the truth, Athel.
...and I said to myself:
I will not rise to the bait;
I will not rise to the bait;
I will NOT rise to the bait.
...but in the end it was too strong for me. I hope that I have been slowly
moving towards the truth, but there is one person that I fear has learned
nothing.
He continued:
>Idiot questions
>are very dangerous when they are taught (eg for a long time), but they
>are more than useful on a forum like this. Besides, idiots may turn out
>not to be idiots in the end (remember Julius Robert Mayer) and then
>those who have called them idiots may become famous.
For every misguided genius who was once derided there are a thousand people
who deserved all the derision they got. Mostly they are now forgotten,
which is why we remember the exceptions and give them more prominence than
they merit.
>>In case someone finds this enigmatic, please see
>>http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/~athel/valevfaq.htm>I thank Mr Valev for drawing attention to my web page where his ideas are
given a lot more attention than they are worth. The URL has changed,
however; it is now
http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm
(The old one should still get there, at least for the moment).
In his own words, he is "not an educator not even a scientist". People
inclined to take his opinions about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics seriously
may like to bear this in mind.
As my web page makes abundantly clear (see, e.g.,
http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm#soundmind) the problem with his
contributions to this news group was never that people ignored them but
that he ignored the responses.
athel
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