[geocentrism] Re: GWW
- From: "Jack Lewis" <jack.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:47:14 +0100
I endorse all that Neville has said here. However there is one thing that
drives me to distraction (nothing to do with this forum or its subject matter)
is the rampant commercialisation of Christianity. CD's, TV, videos, books and
all the media paraphanalia that caries a copyright attachment. How, in the name
of God, can these type of people want money (for profit or making a living) to
pass onto us how they choose to magnify the name of God? If I wrote a hymn,
that might bless in some way other people, I would not charge them money to use
it. The problem is that there are many people around who want to make a living
out of selling the Word of God in as many different ways as they can. I have no
problem with paying for a church pastor but not all the 'hangers-on' on the
fringes of preaching.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Neville Jones
To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: [geocentrism] GWW
A few years ago I wrote a paper on Special Relativity and sent it in to a
very major physics journal for review. Three months went by and I had heard
nothing, so I e-mailed the chief editor, Prof. something-or-other. He said he
would enquire of the reviewer.
The reviewer then wrote back that he had found no flaw in the paper, but that
"it must be wrong because SR is right."
I then discussed it, via e-mail, with a friend of mine who teaches the
subject to undergraduates. In the space of less than one week, I had some very
valuable feedback on the paper.
If you write outside the paradigm you will not get it published for you; you
will have to do it yourself. That requires a large degree of effort and
dedication. You will also have to brace yourself for derision and ridicule.
People will attempt to "teach" you what you yourself are qualified to teach
their teachers.
When Robert Sungenis and Robert Bennett sat down to write their book,
"Galileo Was Wrong," they no doubt did not have any major publishing house in
the least bit interested. They would almost certainly have received no funding
from anywhere.
When Steven suggested that he and I do a geocentric model of the universe for
a PC, we had no funding. We gave away what we could and we asked a very modest
price to those who we hoped would buy it. That modest price included a small
amount of profit. That profit went into buying one book and part-way towards a
new computer for use in producing the next version.
Those of us on this forum (and elsewhere) who produce things on this subject
that may prove to be beneficial to others and to the advancement of the subject
matter, do so for reasons far, far removed from monetary gain. If we were
interested in monetary gain, then we would be telling the earth what it wants
to hear, like Dawkins and Hawking (perhaps we would also consider changing our
names to something with 'awkin' in it?).
I am not telling anyone off here. All I am doing is testifying that the
production of something like GWW takes a great deal of time, commitment and
devotion.
Are we not entitled to try and reclaim production costs?
If we want to advance this subject then we can continue the struggle in
isolation and wonder sometimes why we bother, or we can pull together a bit
more and show some enthusiasm.
Neville.
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