[ExI] didn't know he was at the party... was: RE: Wrath of the Old Ones

[William Flynn Wallace]

It is too numerous to even list it all.  Far too many people in our world
today are at the party but do not recognize it as a party.  I consider us
the lucky ones, for we are right in the middle of the party, and we know
where we are.


Access all the worlds' music and fiction and a lot more.  But who's not at
the party?


While discussing IQ with my undergrads I pointed out that IQ geniuses are
in every population.  Does that mean that somewhere in deepest Africa is a
pygmy with a bone through his nose who has an IQ of 190 and is potentially
the greatest mathematician since Fermat?  Yes it does.  Maybe there isn't,
but there could be.


So many geniuses throughout history had no opportunity to show their stuff,
and so many today as well, though arguably fewer never get to be heard.


I wish all the people of the future have the same privileges and advantages
that I do or at least the opportunity to have them.  Let's ALL party!


Bill W


On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:

> Spike, you brought (tender-yet-steely) tears to my ideas with that.
>
> Party on! (And on and on and on)
>
> --Max
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:33 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Rafal Smigrodzki
>> *…*
>>
>> >…BTW, I just bought the complete works of HP Lovecraft, for mere $
>> 0.99. Hail Amazon!  Rafał
>>
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>>
>> Rafal, your comment reminded me of an incident which has nothing to do
>> with HP Lovecraft, but is relevant.
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>> A few years ago my brother organized a high school 30th reunion and
>> someone suggested a special celebration for the band geeks over at a local
>> park.  Some of the locals brought in Subway sandwiches, chips and sodas and
>> such.  We had a grand time, and afterwards I made arrangements to do
>> realtime text chat for those band members who couldn’t make the reunion.
>> One of the band members who was a known party animal showed up and we got
>> to discussing matters.  I said something about the band party, he
>> commented, Oh, I am sorry I missed that.  I wrote back, Jeff… you were
>> there; I have plenty of pictures.  He wrote: Wow, I must have really been
>> drinking (etc.)  I wrote, No, we had it in the morning, you were sober and
>> a Methodist deacon.  Everyone stopped writing for several minutes, a
>> text-based embarrassed silence.  Then he said: Oooooh, OK, is that what
>> that was?  You said party, I had envisioned something else entirely.  I
>> went to several parties that day…
>>
>>
>>
>> There is a point to this story.  Our fellow band member was at the party
>> and didn’t even know it.  He didn’t recognize that gathering as a party.
>>
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>>
>> Our world today is a riotous epic party, so many cool things going on.
>> If one is a science, engineering, technology or math geek, you don’t need
>> to tell her she is at the greatest party in history; she knows.  This is
>> such a time to be into astronomy; all the cool new instruments giving us
>> new cosmic discoveries like crazy, the digital technology coming along
>> getting better and better and better without end, the computers, the
>> mathematical discoveries coming all the time, genomics, the new learning
>> and teaching tools, the avalanche of material available cheap or free
>> online such as Amazon’s e-books and such…
>>
>>
>>
>> It is too numerous to even list it all.  Far too many people in our world
>> today are at the party but do not recognize it as a party.  I consider us
>> the lucky ones, for we are right in the middle of the party, and we know
>> where we are.
>>
>>
>>
>> spike
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> --
>
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