PJ may never get that CJ is that much smarter than him tho so I do see your point.
If somehow they ever agree to take official tests for a highest IQ contest against each other, come see me and we will side bet it. I will take PJ. And I will spot you ten points that you haven't even asked for. I can do that with zero concern because that is how much of a blowout it is going to be.
You are letting your dislike of PJ bias your judgment (or you lack the intellect to be able to accurately judge, or both). You may not like his approach, you may not like his personality, he may rub every pore of your body the wrong way, but to say that PJ isn't an extremely smart guy just shows you have the worst possible judgment abilities.
People nan-saying systems, and techniques and belittleing posters without ever attempting what is being discussed tends to put a big wrench in that for the rest of us.
Ok, then please go jump from the Empire State building. My technique for flying and the secret where everyone else has been doing it wrong in the past is that you don't flap your arms at all. Just hold your arms straight out at your sides, hands extended straight out with your palms down, and as fast as you can move your hands back and forth like the "pageant wave". It will create lift and you will be able to fly, guaranteed. And don't knock it before you have tried it because as you have pointed out, you cannot say that it will not work until you have tried it.
Meanwhile, back in the real world... You don't always have to do something to know, without any doubt whatsoever, how it works or doesn't work. The truth of the matter is that sometimes people with certain intellect can see without doubt when something is 0% possible while others with lower intellect just can't see it. Just because you can't tell that my flying technique isn't going to work doesn't mean that everybody else is just at dumb. Some people have a much higher capacity for understanding things than you do.
Just off the top of my head I can think of 6-7 topics that are discussed often here where the science is not settled but some guys want to pretend it is.... Several of these are the areas that trip my trigger and will continue to do so...
Is it that the science is not settled, or could it be that you simply lack the intellect to understand how the science is in fact completely settled? Things that [should] make you go hmmmm...
When you continue to throw incomplete tests out LIKE they are fact it really doesn't matter what Dave or Bob said when they did them about theorizing...
Can you provide any example where Dave or Bob have ever stated something as fact and stuck with that when it is was actually not a fact? Any example at all? They have both made thousands of statements on many things over many years and I bet you would be hard pressed to find one example. If you do find something that you believe fits that case, 10 to 1 odds says it is just your inability to understand how it is indeed absolutely a fact, just one that you don't happen to understand and therefore disagree with.
And just believing something because that is what all the evidence supports and acting accordingly does not count as stating it as fact unless they are specifically trying to call it fact. That is just being smart and prudent. On the other hand, believing something when the evidence does not support it is the very definition of idiocy.
As far as being able to tell the brilliant minds from the idiots... From posts on a forum??
Obviously there is no way to tell if the conversation is about the weather. But if scientific things are being discussed, if you can't tell the brilliant posters from the idiots, then suffice it to say that you aren't anywhere close to being one of the brilliant posters. It is abundantly obvious who really intelligent people are to the other really intelligent people.
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