(January 8, 2016 at 2:42 pm)athrock Wrote: My point is simply that the crackpot ideas of today often turn out to be the bedrock of mainstream thought tomorrow.
Sometimes, that's true. Often? Hardly. Either way, that's still to be established. You can't claim the title for him before the work is done.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'