Well bust my buttons, I thought forums were for talking about stuff!
And talk I had. I don't have a copy of any of the drivel that the Discouragement Fraternity had posted on my thread and the whole thread was deleted. All that's left of the conversation is the post that got me banned. Here are excerpts:
"The Bob Neal compression
unit was built and tested in this (the 21st) century, and the results
were good.
"I have made every conceivably necessary noise
to the effect that there is an energy source for this and I do not believe in
denying or avoiding or going around any law or principle of science... If you woke up on the wrong side of your b.s.
degree then sorry you were having a bad day, now please try to stay on topic as
I have put a lot of effort into this and I don’t need to hear from people who
aren’t interested in digging into my work to find its specific strengths and
weaknesses.
"Generalities (especially
framed as threats to have me banned from your omnipotent presence) are religious
assertions based on meta-physical interpretations of laws and principles. I don’t mind generalities when there has been
some thought put into them so that they are applied correctly to the question at
hand, but what you are doing here is trying to beat me at the altar of your
omniscience...
"By meta-physics, what I
mean is that certain kneejerk skeptics Truly Believe that all they have to do is
quote some Law of Physics (or even have one vaguely in mind) and once they are
thus armed, they become the Fundamentalist Army of the SCIENCE IS PERFECTED
religion, shouting slogans like “It’s all been done before,” and “If it would
work you could just buy one at Wal-Mart.” In other words, your presumed
education plus some law you imagine to apply to a theory you haven’t studied
towers over empirical findings and new applications, canceling all, and
elevating you to the status of Forum Gods..."
(The thread had been started to attract criticism of the constructive kind to material that is being posted at my new blog http://selffilling.blogspot.com. Obviously I should have stayed out of the conversation as nothing was being said anyway and it could have died a natural death instead of my getting myself thrown out for disagreeing with consensus opinion. Oddly enough, being threatened is my least favorite thing in the whole world! Except for pig intestines cooked in pig blood and octupus cooked in octopus ink!)

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