Joshua Cude still impresses me as the only adult in the class in junior high school -- very impressive clarity of comprehension, speedy assessment of essential factors, vigorous lucid communication, terse effortless pointed prose, alert compassion, as he tackles the tedious task of pointing out to the dubious crowd that the emperor has no clothes...
Hey, Jed, you Reb, you've got General Grant running you down... I can hardly believe that anyone still pays any attention at all to BlackLight Power... The last famous SPAWAR "triple track" report took pages to end up with estimates about a single triple spot out of millions... We can enjoy all this if we treat it as a "reality show", believers versus skeptics, playing it for laughs, especially at ourselves. If what's going on is truly infinite, then all apparently finite flows of perception-thought are always going to fall flat on their faces, including CM, SR, GR, QM, BB, SS, evolution, linear one-way causality... Get used to it... I learned a lot at MIT when the professors would leap over a gap in their presentation by waving their hands in the air with a decidedly sheepish grin... Rich, the punch bowl that floats the turd...
