Re: JSH: Who cares?

From: Tim Peters (tim.one_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:59:36 -0400

[JSH, in "it's wonderful to be me" mode]
...
>> 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.

[Andy Watkins]
> Well, what's important is that no one who stumbles on sci.math thinking
> that they're going to learn something about math and maybe go into math
> as a major, etc. will realize that you're an odd combination of a crank
> and a troll, and that the math community won't be scarred by your
> perversion of the process or the facts, not to mention your
> disturbingly inconsistent personality. The issue is that you'll scare
> off new potential mathematicians, more or less, who don't know what you
> are in relation to real math.
>
> I'm a sophomore in high school.

Andy, do you think you would have believed JSH was "a real mathematician" if
others weren't opposing him?

I wonder about that at times. Personally, I think he's so obviously off the
wall that nobody could be taken in by him unless they had severe problems of
their own with rational discourse. For example, I suspect you didn't "need
help" with this. Don't disappoint me, son <wink>.

> I think I know more about rings than you do. Please, please, please
> prove me wrong. I don't like being smarter than people.

Why, are you a machine with a poor self-image? It might help to remember
that a person of median intelligence is, by definition even, sharper than
half the people on Earth <0.5 wink>. You'll have to make peace with that.
Intelligence is a gift! Value it. It doesn't make you better than other
people, but it does mean you can do some things others can't; and that cuts
both ways. JSH may be a good object lesson in what can happen if you don't
honor native intelligence with discipline and study. And smart as you may
be, Tiger Woods can still kick your ass in golf, and Einstein was still
smarter than you can imagine <wink>.

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