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Re: What clocks indicate

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > >
> > > The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > [recovered from the Bozo Bin, for once]
> > > If you want me to reply you shouldn't crosspost.
> > >
> > > > J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > [-]
> > > > > > > > "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
> > > > > > > > expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
> > > > > > > anything like this?
> > > > > > > Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jan
> > > > > > > (doubting it)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > He concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the ins
> > > ane
> > > > > asylumâ•°
> > > > > > https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
> > > > >
> > > > > Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
> > > > > I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
> > > > > It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
> > > > > in the 'attributed to' part.
> > > > > This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
> > > > >
> > > > > ======
> > > > >  *Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
> > > > > again and expecting different results.
> > > > > By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
> > > > > 1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
> > > > > =====
> > > > > So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
> > > > > by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein.
> > > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
> > > > >
> > > > > And looking that up, in that book,
> > > > > I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
> > > > > The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
> > > > > but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein',
> > > > > presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
> > > > >
> > > > > So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
> > > > anything like this?
> > > > Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ever having said
> > > > anything like this?
> > > >
> > > > anything like this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "anything"
> > > >
> > > > in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
> > > > any thing whatever; something, no matter what:
> > > > https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anything
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You didn't say "exactly that", you said..."anything".
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I posted anything.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what the 'year 1983' has to do with Einstein.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Didn't he died before the year 1983???
> > > >
> > > > Why are yous people looking for quotes AFTER he died??? dats dumb.
> > >
> > > Pfft. Do read.
> > > The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
> > > and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
> > >
> > > It is a mis-attribution,
> > >
> > > Jan
> >
> > "mis-attribution"????
> >
> > You sure it is not a 1983..plagaraism?
> 
>  J. J. Lodder lives in a world where everytime Albert Einstein utters a word someone behind him is writing it down!

Insanity is expecting someone is always behind Albert Einstein
writing and recording every word he utters.

And if it is not written or recorded, then thinking Albert Einstein
didn't utter anything else. That's insane asylum!






-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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