Davin L. said:

Johannes:
Nothing I said made a dent- I'm not surprised. Why don't you just simply go away? Has anyone here treated your drivel with anything but the disdain it actually deserves?

"Dent-" to what? How should I react to soothe your ego?
I could go away, ( I may need to do that, getting busy with work) but staying is a fun way to waste time. It is interesting to argue with simple minds that are *programmed* to respond like computers and have the "hard drive" (dense drive may be more appropriate) so full of information that there is no more room for new info. Not only that, but the *imagination* program seems to be totally corrupted. (Reference is directed not only to you Davin but also to, R.L. and Nick) There are many intelligent humans also that post here and their posts are sensible and informative and not argumentative. I learn a lot from the intelligent posts.

Drivel? Disdain? Did you drop those words because your brain was too full :-)

I can't even really begin to untangle and correct the roots of your fundamental confusion. I can't for two reasons:
1) It simply goes to deep. You are living in a palace of delusion and self-reflection. You look at the universe and see your ego and fantasies and, basically, your self. There is no hope in educating you until you drop that mode of behavior.

I could say the same thing about you.

Teaching you about Math, Logic and Empirical Science is directly similar to trying to teach a fundamentalist creationist Evolutionay theory.

Let me see if I understand what you are trying to imply here. Are you saying that anyone who states that the universe is a *creation* should be scorned? If the universe was not *created* how did it come into existence? (Where did the mass and space come from?)

2) You refuse to drop your pretense.

By *pretense* do you mean my claim that; I know something that you do not?

You think you have something to say,

Not only do I think, but I also DO have something to say.

and insist on saying it over and over.

I was hoping that some * intelligent * person would ask me what it was that I had to say.

When challenged, you simply say it in another way,

So far I have not seen a challenge from anyone on this board. It is not a * challenge * to throw insults at people who insult me.

or (my god!) quote the dictionary!

I thought that the dictionary was your god.

Say less and listen/read more.
Davin L .

That is good advice for anyone, even you.

Genius
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Grey, ch. 1 (1891).1