Re: JSH: Brainstorming over, for now

jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Ok, I've finished brainstorming on the SFT and how to best present it.

You could (and should) have done that off-line.

> It's been a VERY useful few days as most importantly I've managed to
> air out my paranoia about the dangers of this research, and communicate
> loud and clear I hope, so that the people who are supposed to pay
> attention to problem areas assuredly noticed!

Nothing has changed. Readers of this newsgroup continue with their daily
lives and assuredly notice when you treat them like a baby treats a diaper.

> Which makes me feel a little silly for being worried--as nothing has
> happened--but then again, how do you know if you don't check?

Most people apply common sense, rational thought, and experience to assess
the value or significance of some idea. In fact, that's what most posters,
aside from yourself, have been doing all along.

> My fears about working on the factoring problem go back for YEARS and
> have affected a lot of things for me, so it's a tremendous relief to be
> here now with what I feel is a major result, and it looks like
> everything is fine.

In your last posts things didn't look fine, they looked disasterous -- but
both perspectives were from the same belief that you have "a major result".
How come your "major result" threatens to destroy the world and leave
everything unchanged at the same time?

> No worries.

Who, besides you, expressed any worries?

> Things get a lot more boring from here for the rest of you, as there's
> less need for me to talk anything out,

Any need to "talk anything out" came from you, not the other posters.

> as I think I've learned what I
> needed to know, and a lot less interest on my part in this subject
> area anyway, as I'm getting that been there done that feeling.

Who hasn't?

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> In any event, the world is still here. The economy didn't crash, and
> I'm feeling stupid but giddy.

You *are* stupid! But giddy? That isn't the word I would use...

> Sometimes fears are just uncalled for, and unnecessary, but you have
> them anyway.

There are special places built to house individuals whose "fears are just
uncalled for". They are designed to soothe and keep the unfortunate,
demented individual from harming himself or others.

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