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Subject: Re: How do Universities Sell Prestigious Baubles?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:24:04 -0800
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On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>>> LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and 
>>>> thoughtlessly
>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
>>>> slavish, and avoidable.
>>>
>>>
>>> They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
>>> monopoly'.
>>>
>>> (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)
>>>
>>> You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.
>>>
>>>
>>> The cabal decides what they want you to think.
>>>
>>>
>>> How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
>> curved space for a second.
> Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the
> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
> a foolish fellow.

Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will 
never intersect.