I stopped reading anything Roger posted a long time ago... Cheers
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:24:38PM -0700, freqflyer07281972 wrote: > There are two different, yet equally fruitless ways of conceiving why Roger > Clough bothers to post garbage all over what used to be a very bright and > interesting list. > > One, he is old and retired, so he has little else to fill his days. > > The other reason is that he thinks his ideas have some kind of merit, and > he self-deceptively thinks they smack of some brilliance that is opaque to > others. > > According to Roger, everything that was ever thought or will be thought > that had any merit was thunk up by Leibniz, a german fancy boy from the > 1500s who had a major hard-on for god-centric explanations of the universe. > The fact that Roger has a major hard-on for fancy boys from the 1500s and > has little of any original thinking to bring the the table himself should > indicate to you the staleness of his thinking. > > Roger frequently makes vague pronouncements about 'what Leibniz thought,' > punctuated by casual anti-semitism and political bear baiting. Rarely, > though, is any of this backed up by sustained argument or evidence. It is > as though you are witnessing a man in a fugue state, unaware that he makes > no sense but believing strongly that he has the secret keys to the palace > of universal knowledge. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
