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Originally Posted by j-c-c
I guess arrogance is like stupidity, it knows no limits.
Your above assumption on thoughts that you can't understand, that they where only considered for less than a few seconds before sharing, is a good example of both in my world, especially now that you have tried to go beyond even doubling down in your attempt to wiggle out of your original blanket narrow statement on "ideas". 
The hole here is getting deeper.
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Look, you wrote something that is pretty silly:
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Originally Posted by j-c-c
I'm open to all ideas, from anyone...
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A moment of thought shows that anyone who does this is going to spend their life embracing an infinite amount of rubbish.
Most people let your sort of comment pass (just like they do with: "there are no stupid questions") but if people keep spouting garbage and no one challenges, then it just goes on and on.
I showed the silliness of that notion very easily with my moon/cheese example. If you can't see that, that's fine: keep voraciously chasing mirages. But for me, and most people I professionally deal with, that would be a waste of a seriously finite life.
Instead it is far better to say, "When confronted with a new idea, I ask for the evidence for that idea, and then weigh that evidence up carefully".
[Shrug] I can see lots of stuff here that has taken on a life of its own over the years (eg The Template), where there was a severe lack of evidence but it was adopted wholeheartedly* - so maybe what you say is of no surprise.
*Yes Freebeard, I know you occasionally demurred.
I just see so much rubbish circulated re car aerodynamics that one starts to wonder what intellectual rigor (propositions; evidence for those) people are actually applying. Usually, very little or none, I think.