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From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How do Universities Sell Prestigious Baubles?
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Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> Am Donnerstag000023, 23.01.2025 um 19:05 schrieb The Starmaker:
> > LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
> >>
> >> It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
> >> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
> >> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
> >> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
> >> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
> >> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
> >> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
> >> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
> >> slavish, and avoidable.
> >
> >
> > They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.
> >
> > (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)
> >
> > You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.
> >
> >
> > The cabal decides what they want you to think.
> >
> 
> No.
> 
> You are free to think whatever you like.
> 
> But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
> teacher or professors tell you.
> 
> But it's also not recommended to contradict.
> 
> Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f*** you'
> later.
> 
> TH

So tell us what you really think, How many planets are there in our
solar system?


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