Harristotelian Logic

I get a good deal of feedback from people who tell me I should not be posting.

And I think some of you wonder why I bother if a bunch of people just call me names and repeatedly claim I'm wrong.

Well I'm an amateur dabbler who likes to play with simple math ideas and talk about them.

There are people who hate you for that, and no, it's not my manner as I've been posting for over ten years and I've tried different ways of going about talking out my ideas—never mattered.

If I was polite, people still called me names.

When I was careful about details and tried to sound closer to standard terminology, they'd still question my sanity.

One poster who at least is honest about his intentions would just tell me—if I wanted the verbal attacks to stop I had to stop posting.

Now if I had somewhere else to go, maybe I would, but who do you talk out math with?

So should I have to get a math degree to talk out simple ideas on Usenet in public forums?

I don't think so.

But maybe some of you think that you should be able to make up the rules for your groups and DEMAND a math degree or that people follow some outline of posting that fits in with your way of thinking.

Hey, that's un-Usenet in flavor but you have the right to your opinion—and I have the right to ignore it.

So there's a lot of noise. I know that no matter how I post there will always be some people who will reply in a nasty way, but there's a freedom in that as well!

If I want, I can let loose as well knowing it does not matter either way. Whatever I do as long as I post there will be people replying nastily as intention is—to stop me from posting.

Your culture has some issues which it gets away without addressing by forcing people out, so then you can all tell each other what you want to hear and act like you fit with mainstream social values, yet in the mainstream society I know it's considered bad form to impinge on the rights of others in public places to try and make them your own.

One analogy I like is to a gang of teenagers who decide that a public park is THEIR space, so they harass and intimidate others who try to use the public space, and as long as the police don't roust them out, they congratulate themselves on their accomplishment.

What you have are gangs of posters who harass and intimidate other posters they decide are unwanted, and usually they get away with it, so you have the noise.

But I have nowhere else to go to talk out math ideas, so I stay, but in so doing I also remind you that your society is sick. You act out from your hatreds and can be intolerable of free speech that you disagree with, to an absurd degree, while lying about your own behavior and intolerance.