Person Above Your Game

[Darzog]

^ has no tolerance for creative writing.

[JonIrenicus]

^ Has odd views on creative writing

[Fiona]

^^^^Exemplifies a peculiarly American attitude to stupidity?

I have noticed this before amongst Americans, though it is perhaps peculiar to computer boards

[Chimaera182]

Say what???

[Lestat]

^ does not realise this concerns his contribution to the top ten thread, which took > also quite some time until he remembered that ^^ is an inveterate crossthreader.

[Fiona]

^Is very helpful on occasion

[Chimaera182]

^ is correct

^^ is very helpful some times

^^^ understands now; he forgot about that, too

[Damuna_Nova]

^ Made three comments. :speech:

[Chimaera182]

^ points out the obvious a lot

[Damuna_Nova]

^ Points out people pointing out the obvious.

[Fiona]

^ thinks it is turtles all the way down?

[Damuna_Nova]

^ Uses expressions which I don't understand.

[Chimaera182]

^ is agreed with by me.

[Fiona]

^ and ^^ should read this:
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.

At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"

"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."

[Damuna_Nova]

^ Describes a Discworld-like world. :laugh:

[Chimaera182]

^^ rofl'd at

^ is surprised by this?

[Fiona]

^^Confuses Hindu theology with Discworld?

The association of Russell with this story is most likely due to his telling a version of it in his 1927 essay Why I Am Not a Christian, in discounting the "First Cause" argument intended to be a proof of God's existence:

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."

[JonIrenicus]

^ Is complicating the thread

[Fiona]

^Gets an apology from Fiona

Spoiler

Cherish it: they are very rare, you know

[Damuna_Nova]

^ Spreads falsehoods regarding her apologies.

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