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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.180939.12582@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 18:09:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hpcvaac.1992Jul21.180939.12582
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- schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
- : These things have gone from amusing, to annoying, and are now pathetic
- : and alarming. By hanging on his five-years-old daughter's every word
- : and treating her as a prophet of revealed truth, Whatsisname is doing
- : her an enormous disservice. She will be shocked and embittered when
- : she enters the real world of school and is either ignored or ridiculed
- : by her peers and by adults. She will be fortunate if she manages to
- : recover from this and grow up without hating either the world, or
- : herself and her bizarrely-opinioned father.
-
- One of two things is occurring. Either it is a con - by the father. Note
- that he has to 'interpret' everything. Or, it is random babble of a fantasy
- world. If it is the second, then I doubt if this idiot is bright enough to
- ask his daughter the same questions he asked her a month ago. He would find
- out that the answers are different - thus made up.
-
- : I suggest that we give him neither the encouragement of serious replies
- : to these fantasies, nor the ego-inflating challenge of ridicule, and
- : instead ignore him completely.
-
- A suggestion I intend to follow in the future.
-
- Bill
-