Nah. Sometimes it just harbors no truth. No beauty...

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Nah. Sometimes it just harbors no truth. No beauty...

et — 1/21/2007 3:14:42 AM (archived)

Like the fallacy of the Einstein analogy.

Frequently, individuals with a homebrewed revolutionary theory of everything will take deluded comfort in the fact that Einstein's early work was treated so sceptically by mainstream physics, only to later become the celebrated seminal works of modern physics.

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Our resident poet spoke sweetly of the Iraq War - Lindy - 1/17/2007 10:21:11 PM
- Another war poem - ER - 1/24/2007 12:16:20 AM
  - ...oops, I forgot to credit the above item... - ER - 1/24/2007 12:22:25 AM
    - God that took me back - Lindy - 1/24/2007 4:21:12 AM
      - "How does it feeeeeeel?" (n/t) - ER - 1/24/2007 5:13:33 AM
- re: "resident poet"? - Fox - 1/19/2007 3:57:11 AM
  - When you have critics...then you know you've arrived. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/19/2007 11:23:34 PM
    - Nah. Sometimes it just harbors no truth. No beauty... - et - 1/21/2007 3:14:42 AM
    - re: When you have critics...then you know you've arrived. ;-) - Lindy - 1/20/2007 1:19:52 AM
  - "Ahem"? - (Proudly), Bowser - 1/19/2007 4:46:05 PM
    - heh heh (n/t) - Fox - 1/19/2007 6:56:54 PM
  - Ahem - Lindy - 1/19/2007 5:09:46 AM
    - A poem inspired by war - alcaray - 1/19/2007 7:00:42 PM
      - Powerful stuff... (n/t) - Fox - 1/21/2007 5:48:16 PM
    - It's all good, Lindy - Fox - 1/19/2007 6:56:01 PM
      - Here's one - Fox - 1/21/2007 5:37:21 PM
        
        Here's two more - Fox - 1/21/2007 5:43:55 PM
  - And he didn't even know it! (n/t) - TB - 1/19/2007 3:57:51 AM
- re: And TB could predict ! - Raoul - 1/17/2007 11:10:48 PM
  - Boy, did you miss the point. - TB - 1/17/2007 11:38:31 PM
    - It was the expectations raised by Bush & Cheney. - Bowser - 1/18/2007 4:50:58 AM
      - Incidentally... - TB - 1/18/2007 6:45:00 AM
        
        23 million people, backward country, size of California, no air force, no navy, etc. (n/t) - Bowser - 1/18/2007 8:54:02 PM
        
        Longer wars tend to have greater cost than shorter ones. - alcaray - 1/18/2007 6:24:33 PM
        
        Perhaps that's why the Iraqi dollar is rising? - Lindy - 1/19/2007 1:08:41 AM
        
        It could help to settle things down. - Lee - 1/19/2007 1:57:32 AM
      - Five days into it, Bowser. - TB - 1/18/2007 6:37:20 AM
        
        Meanwhile...their currency is still going up in value. (n/t) - Lee - 1/18/2007 8:54:56 AM
        
        Didn't Podrock and I... - alcaray - 1/18/2007 9:07:32 PM
        
        Not really. - Lee - 1/18/2007 11:26:03 PM
        
        A chart you probably don't want to look at: - podrock - 1/19/2007 7:37:07 PM
        
        It fell right after the election - Lindy - 1/20/2007 1:22:13 AM
        
        Oops, my bad, I read that backwards.... - podrock - 1/19/2007 8:04:10 PM
        
        The Iraqi economy - TB - 1/20/2007 4:12:14 AM
        
        That's something conquerers do every time. - alcaray - 1/24/2007 6:18:35 PM
        
        Wiki on the dinar: - podrock - 1/19/2007 6:36:33 PM
        
        corrected blockquote - podrock - 1/19/2007 7:05:22 PM
        
        Same thing happened with Kuwaiti dinars. - Lee - 1/19/2007 8:36:40 PM
        
        It is supposed to go up, and for the reasons we discussed (n/t) - alcaray - 1/18/2007 11:58:13 PM
    - "hopes were in trumpeting negativity " - Lindy - 1/18/2007 12:17:16 AM
      - No. - TB - 1/18/2007 3:10:57 AM
- The Song of Battles - SDAi-Tech1 - 1/17/2007 11:10:47 PM
- And LJ, if you're out there.......... - Lindy - 1/17/2007 10:34:04 PM
  - re: And LJ, if you're out there.......... - Laurie Street - 1/18/2007 7:02:32 PM
    - I have trouble with all those old posts - Lindy - 1/19/2007 1:00:30 AM
  - Just an FYI, LarryJ is not LJ.... (n/t) - Yeti - 1/17/2007 11:01:32 PM

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