Re: JSH: Questioning certainty

James Harris wrote:

Why? I was probably in a lot of stupid arguments and posting very fast
as I usually do, and said something wrong.

You are missing the point. The fact that you said something wrong is
not, by itself, what makes the thread such revealing reading. What
makes it such revealing reading just how condescending you were to
those people who had the gall to point out that you were wrong. For
example:

"Well, I take this as evidence that your intellect has been compromised
by your emotions.
"I figured only the novices would find a problem with that statement."

also:

"Wow, do any of you call yourselves mathematicians?"

There you were, not only making statements that were laughably wrong,
but talking down to the very people whose job it is to know these
things. What's even more amazing, though, is how little you've learnt
from the incident. Despite such a clear example of you mouthing off in
a manner that demonstrates breathtaking ignorance, and insulting those
people who know better than you, you nonetheless continue to behave in
the exact same manner on a daily basis, even to this day.


I do BRAINSTORMING which means that you just spit stuff out, and get
lots of things wrong, even stupidly wrong, as you're not being very
critical as you type.

Brainstorming is a valid excuse for posting crap ideas, so long as you
accept that they are crap when it is explained to you. It is not an
excuse for posting ignorance.

Who knows what exactly was running through my mind at the time, I don't
remember.

It's called "idiocy".

Brainstorming is a lot about releasing the critical mechanism of the
mind so that you can come up with new ideas.

But you weren't coming up with new ideas. You were coming up with old
definitions - definitions that are well known to any competent
high-school student - and getting them hilariously wrong.

-Rotwang

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