JSH: Who cares?

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: 21 Apr 2005 16:50:50 -0700

I go out to look at replies and I wonder to myself why I bother.

I was at one point talking about a theorem that I think is not only
interesting mathematics, but oh, by the way, it solves the factoring
problem, but in reply there are all these snide remarks from people
trying to emphasize that my idea isn't valuable and doesn't solve the
factoring problem.

Hmmm...who cares?

People spend time on Usenet posting about why others shouldn't spend
time on my work, while they spend time, posting about why other
shouldn't spend time...and it goes on and on, and the one point I think
that comes through loud and clear is that there are some people who
have time to post a lot on Usenet.

Ok, now that makes sense. Some of you have lots of time on your hands.

Do you think you motivate me one way or the other?

I use you. I talk about using you. I post out ideas to work through
them, as I try to figure out my admittedly amateur approaches to old
problems where I emphasize using mostly elementary methods.

That's what I do. I enjoy it. I like coming up with ideas and trying
to see if I haven't come up with a great, simple solution to an old
problem.

I also worry a good bit.

So I worry, and I work on math problems with my free time, and in
response, people who clearly have a lot of time on their hands, reply
to my posts, over and over and over again, as if they have nothing
better to do with their lives, as if a VERY important thing for them
every single freaking day is that if I come out and post, they need to
reply.

Now I've looked over the SFT, and it looks quite solid to me.

I can think of many ways as to how it could be quite solid, solve the
factoring problem and be ignored in our modern world as I understand a
few things about our modern world.

STILL maybe I missed something and it doesn't work the way I think it
does, but I'm not going to be the one to check.

Meanwhile, posters who checked previous surrogate factoring attempts
refuse to check, but now instead, rely almost entirely on social crap.

It's like some kind of junior high school in America, where these
people see themselves as the jocks and me as the geek who's getting
bullied, and they love it.

But I'm not being bullied. I like posting out my ideas on Usenet, and
some people like to reply to me, day in, and day out, and they use a
lot of ridicule.

But I know what I like to do.

So, chatter all you want. Reply to me as much as you like to move me
one way or the other and at the end it will still remain true that I
like working out various simple approaches, using mostly elementary
mathematics and talking out my ideas.

Some of you will go to your deaths, possibly muttering to yourselves,
just one more post and maybe that guy will stop liking to post!!!

But I LIKE posting. I LIKE working on my ideas, even if often I'm
wrong.

And I do not care a lot about people who spend a lot of their own time,
as if it were worthless, replying to me, telling me that I'm spending
my time in a worthless manner as I'm enjoying myself, though yes, at
times it does annoy me that there are people who have clearly dedicated
their time and attention to ridiculing me in a public forum.

That would annoy most people.

However, I LIKE posting, and I LIKE talking out my ideas, though I know
I'm often wrong.

I post on Usenet as it's available, and not to be a part of your
society.

In many ways I am a lone wolf. I challenge a lot as at best I like to
battle out ideas--even if I do lose, even if I lose quite often--but
otherwise, I'm not very social to you people and even insist on often
talking about your low ethics and morals, and how you lie a lot.

It makes sense that I'm this lone wolf kind of guy, who likes to put
down math society, who also likes to talk out his math ideas, and isn't
likely to change in any significant way.

I've been at this for over eight years now, so it's not like I'm going
to wake up tomorrow, say to myself, you know, I don't think I like
talking out math anymore.

It just isn't going to happen.

James Harris

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