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To: aladin who wrote (121671)	12/16/2003 1:55:11 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, ok. There was a 60's - era psychological thing that said that crazy people were really the sane ones, too, R. D. Laing and Thomas Szaz come to mind. True believers might or might not be offended by this bit. If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. --Thomas S. Szasz, The Second Sin, Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1973, Page 113. , from szasz.com Or, more flippantly, there's this one: "They said Galileo was crazy! They said Einstein was crazy! They said my Uncle Herbie was crazy!" "Who was your Uncle Herbie?" "Oh, nobody, he really was crazy." It's certainly possible for the consensus to be wrong, but at the $167 billion and counting level, I'd say the burden of proof lies elsewhere.