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Pastimes : James Cramer Skeptic Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mr.mark who wrote (988)	11/30/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Thomas G. Busillo	Respond to of 1254

mr. mark, hmmm...that's somewhat analogous to the theory that Sherlock Holmes was also Professor Moriarity. How could Professor Moriarity be a figment of Holmes' immagination if they both went over the falls and Dr. Watson saw them go over the falls? Then again, it was Dr. Watson reporting the event...what if he got it wrong? What if Dr. Watson in a fit of experimentation took some of Holmes' cocaine and hallucinatd the whole thing? What if the real Dr. Watson was Mrs. Hudson? What if Holmes was Moriarity, Watson was Mrs. Hudson, and Holmes/Moriarity married Watson/Hudson, they all moved to the US and started a family, and had a little girl who showed precocious crime-solving skills... Nancy Drew's mother was Dr. Watson!!! Of course, that "theory" is cut to shreds by Occam's Razor. Sometimes there's no clear and overwhelming need to insert an additional level of complexity grounded in a hypothetical reality. IMHO, this is one of those cases. (You never know. Given the current state of the Academy, in the right English Lit. department, "Nancy Drew's mother was Dr. Watson" may be a valid topic for a Ph.D. dissertation <g>). Cramer as WmGaldstone - I submit that's one too. And yet, metaphorically speaking, isn't intellectual advancement predicated on someone or some group standing up in Plato's cave and saying, "no, there's something else going on here." But then it's still a hypothetical reality until that someone finds the source of light, right? But what if you can never find the source of light? What if you walk out of the cave and are eaten by a lion? Or even worse, what if you walk out of the cave and are cornered by someone trying to get you into Amway? <g> Good trading, Tom