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[William Flynn Wallace]

there is a fine line between genius and insanity.  John

This is one of the myths about psychology that doesn't seem to want to
die.  Completely false.  Perhaps because most people cannot understand
geniuses they call them crazy.  bill w

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 9:11 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 9:46 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>  >> the best word to describe that sort of behavior is Doublethink. And
>>> that is not conducive to competence or even sanity.
>>
>>
>
> > Then how would you regard Isaac Newton?  He was a spiritualist
>> according to what I have read (not a lot),and out side of math he was wacky
>> (to use the proper term).   bill w
>>
>
> Newton was probably the most intelligent man who ever lived but he was
> also a very unpleasant human being, and there is a fine line between genius
> and insanity. It can't be denied that Newton devoted most of his brilliant
> mind to wacky religious ideas that nobody today thinks have any value. In
> his defence Newton was a man of his time and back then nearly everyone
> suffered from the same form of Doublethink, although even judged by the
> standards of his own era Newton was a son of a bitch.
>
> John K Clark
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