Why waste your time?

[sedric]

So many times in past centuries has there been condemnation of theories that turned out to be true. Cosmology, medical knowledge etc. People from Einstein to Edison say to ignore skeptics and persist in your work. If you wrestle with pigs you get dirty. Kind of like debating something with Don Trump. Why bother. Why ask the air force if there is such a thing as flying saucers. Lesser minds lacking objectivity and who aren't worth bothering with get caught up in ego battles- not on searching for merit in a thing but in trying to resolve offended personal beliefs. If we don't ignore authority then maybe we're all dummies.

Edited June 10, 2017 by sedric

[swansont]

So many times in past centuries has there been condemnation of theories that turned out to be true. Cosmology, medical knowledge etc. People from Einstein to Edison say to ignore skeptics and persist in your work. If you wrestle with pigs you get dirty. Kind of like debating something with Don Trump. Why bother. Why ask the air force if there is such a thing as flying saucers. Lesser minds lacking objectivity and who aren't worth bothering with get caught up in ego battles- not on searching for merit in a thing but in trying to resolve offended personal beliefs. If we don't ignore authority then maybe we're all dummies.

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This is a discussion board, so preaching and rhetorical questions are out of place here. That, coupled with this scattershot approach of raising several diverse issues, means this is closed. If there is a specific topic you wish to talk about, you are free to open a thread on that specific topic, as long as it lends itself to discussion. Otherwise, go start a blog somewhere or take the discussion to another kind of site.