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pink sasquatch
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Message 9 of 28 (157364)
11-08-2004 3:46 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Percy
11-08-2004 11:12 AM


Re: are you now going to separate PS and JAD? Mam and JAD? Hambre and JAD?
I will add that the recent posts from Mammuthus and Pink Susquatch seem more oriented toward continuing the discussion than toward helping JAD "recover", but as long as they stay focused on the issues that is certainly acceptable.
When I did try to make suggestions to JAD, and I think I did so in a polite manner, I was met with ideological lectures and personal insults.
By simply continuing the discussion I was in part hoping to lead by example, by showing evidence while asking for the same from JAD, though that hasn't worked.
The gist of this returns to some criticisms voiced about Boot Camp at its start - that those who do not take constructive criticism well are precisely the people that will end up in Boot Camp, so there is little chance of reform.

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pink sasquatch
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Message 20 of 28 (157799)
11-09-2004 11:33 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Jazzns
11-09-2004 2:59 PM


Re: Markov JAD
I thought it might be fun to do Brad too but I am too lazy to go collect a big enough sample of his posts to do it.
Interesting.
What you just produced already has shades of Brad (if asked which human on this planet wrote it I would probably guess Brad); but it is tainted with JAD's inflammatory ego. I especially enjoyed the closing line, "It is all over the world. I don't need my approval do you?"
I'm actually more interested to see what would happen if you used posts from a more 'average' or 'normal' poster... would anyone be fooled?
I think it would be fun to have a computer denizen in the forum, occasionally responding to messages. It would be interesting to see how long it took people to catch on, or for the computer member to get suspended...
...or perhaps we should have your Markov JAD respond to the real JAD, and see how long they go at it.
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pink sasquatch
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Message 21 of 28 (157803)
11-09-2004 11:53 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Mammuthus
11-09-2004 6:47 AM


Re: are you now going to separate PS and JAD? Mam and JAD? Hambre and JAD?
You did a great job of staying cool with JAD....way better than I did
Thanks I guess; I ended up learning a few things along the way - though mostly from my own research rather than from JAD.
Next time I'm in a library I may dig up JAD's Science papers from the fifties on the genetics of frog pigmentation pattern - I'm interested in that subject and would be interested to see "young JAD" at work.
After seeing how pointless it is to talk to that lunatic, one thing is clear, he has a completely overinflated ego. I think the worst thing that can happen to him in a forum like this is to be completely ignored.
Perhaps, but my analysis of JAD is not that he has a simple inflated ego. I think he wants to be persecuted, so that when his hypothesis is discovered and accepted he will be seen as a struggling hero fighting the ignorant establishment.
If you are ever bored enough to check out his UVM website, you'll find an essay prominently displayed where he recasts UVM and its leadership in terms of the novel "1984". Apparently he's been made an "unperson" by speaking out against "groupthink" (they cancelled his classes where he began teaching his hypothesis). He revels in the hole he has dug for himself.
One reason I believe this is that he was reacted just as nastily when I agreed with him as when I was questioning his hypothesis. Why would someone do that? Obviously he doesn't want allies, he wants to be a lone wolf arguing against the masses...

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pink sasquatch
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Message 23 of 28 (157845)
11-10-2004 4:12 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by Mammuthus
11-10-2004 3:42 AM


Re: are you now going to separate PS and JAD? Mam and JAD? Hambre and JAD?
But I don't think you will find much genetics. He was a physiologist.
The papers have "genetics" in the titles, which is partly what piqued my interest.
I can't recall if you overlapped with Stephen ben Yeshua or not...
I didn't have the pleasure - does he have a website and political aspirations, too?
He also claimed that farts where evidence of demonic posession.
I rarely laugh out loud at my computer screen, but I just did. I can see how farts are demonic though - check the Darwin Awards thread. They kill people.

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