I'll make this into a poll!

You need more options I would vote for "Up to the first font colour change"

Who writes that stuff!?

I made it about halfway through the first paragraph.

utter incoherent drivel.

I wonder what the guy who wrote it was high on.

No Pagewizard - what WASN'T the guy high on is the question. Wow.

The word "stupid" in some form is used to describe me, the reader, 78 times.


...reading that made me feel stupid.

By all that is good and holy, I read the whole thing! Bwahahahaha! I can feel my sanity slipping even now!

But more seriously, the whole thing becomes quite fascinating once you read far enough to begin to discover patterns in his deranged ramblings. I made a few notes as I read, just to keep my sanity intact. Behold, my journey into the midst of insanity:

To start off with, other than Time Cubes, this Gene Ray fellow seems quite obsessed with this "Word" thing. Hates it with a passion. What exactly does he mean by "word"? The unit of language? Possibly a reference to John chapter 1, where Christ is called "The Word"? Both? If so, then what the heck does a "Time Cube" have to do with God?

After a bit more reading, I stumbled upon this, which appears to be an attempt to explain the whole "Time Cube" thing.



Now, this is the first thing I read that came even close to making sense, and it's a quarter of the way down. If I'm reading it right, it's an interesting concept, but hardly revolutionary. Not sure why this fellow seems to think "life will be doomed" if nobody believes it...

I'd also been noticing quite a few racist comments at this point -- what does that have to do with Time Cubes, I wondered. Shortly, it was explained:



Yeah.

He claims to have been involved in a formal debate at MIT regarding Time Cubes. Of course, none of the links he gives about it work, but that proves nothing. If I were MIT I wouldn't exactly want the world to know I'd debated this guy.

The whole thing seems to be like one big incoherant blog, in reverse order. One really should read it from bottom to top, one section at a time, but I'm not bloody starting over. This is creepy.

At times it seems to resemble the gibberish you sometimes get in spam, used to simulate sentences to get by filters. Creepy.

The guy really seems to hate this "word" thing. Check it out:



That's about as close to an explanation of what he thinks this "word" thing is as we're gonna get. I still don't get it.

Keeps going on about "stupid students" and "evil educators" (nice bit of alliteration, that). If I didn't know better, I'd say he was a student at some university (MIT, perhaps?), who keeps seriously proposing these mad ramblings and gets mocked mercilessly for it.

I'm also noticing a hangup regarding adults and children. Seems to think adults are ignorant and brainwashed, and they're harming the children. If I was a psychologist, I would think that would be important somehow.

It's like the crazy crap you come up with in dreams, and you think it's all revolutionary and makes complete sense, but then when you wake up you're like: "What the heck was that?" Only this guy never woke up...

Ok, a bit of a clearer explanation of the whole "Time Cube" thing...



Makes enough sense. What doesn't make sense is what the heck this has to do with religion, words, the end of life, and a giant conspiracy to cover the whole thing up...

Anyway, that's the Cole's Notes version of this madman's near-incoherant ramblings. Now I need to go curl up in a corner somewhere and shudder in horror at the idea that this Gene Ray guy is out there somewhere, honestly believing this stuff. I mean, this stuff was posted over an extended period of time and displays enough internal coherancy to indicate that he's thought about this quite a bit, to understate the case slightly. I can only hope and pray that this is some elaborate joke, because otherwise may God help us all...

That was quite unbelievable. It just went on forever (of course I didn't read all of it, hardly even that 1/4)...

I honestly don't think one person could have written that as a joke. Maybe a whole bunch of people. Or one true madman.

I can't read any because that guy is an idiot and his "idea" is stupid. Why make it a cube? Make it any polyhedron and have as many days in a day as you want. Dumbass.

The first time I read it, I started laughing. Not "Haha, this is funny" laughing, but lauging as if I were going insane. I made it to the third or fourth paragraph. The second time I read it, after reading everyone's replies, I didn't start laughing but I still only made it one or two paragraphs farther than the last time.


Now, a tip. For the sake of your sanity, DO NOT VISIT THAT SITE!

Actually, it's kind of funny - he admits to being schizophrenic. It's about a quarter of the way down the page, I think (no way am I going to go and read it again).

Maybe the poll should be edited to include a "barely any" option.

Where's the "I read the whole ****ing thing, but I blanked my mind beforehand to prevent any mental damage" option on the poll? Had I no protection against the near-infinite ammount of material I've read, my IQ would be a negative number by now, as much of what I've read (such as that site) would've made me stupider. For as much as he hates "word," of which exaclty who or what he's reffering to is unclear, that's nearly 9,000 words used for the entire rant, an excessive ammount by almost any standard, but far less than I had suspected it would be.

As for "Gene Ray"'s obssession with the number 4, it seems to be good evidence that if this was all (or mostly) written by him, he's snapped. Just because you got to be able to lecture your idea at MIT doesn't mean it holds water at all; scientific process is based upon looking at all possibilities, even the ones "common sense" throws away. I can just imagine him in a padded room, staring at each of the four walls there, and thinking that to be full proof of his insane thought. Like most humans, he has himself stuck in a "square" mindset, one that is not capable of adapting to using different sets. Did anybody notice that the offered reward for disproving his theory gets smaller the more into the rant you read? (for those of you that got past the first 1/4)

I read about 1/20th of it and started to wonder if the guy was using a program to generate random sentences. He kept going on and on about cubes. It was really boring.

http://www.timecube.com/index6.html

efdfasda dsds???????

Give me zombo.com anyday. Far more interesting.

Oh, I hadn't considered the possiblity of random gerenation, partly because ~8,800 words isn't all that much, particularly if you're insane. (some of my massive posts have reached as large as 1,500 words)

I particularly agree with the following statements:



Also, after reading a small fraction of the article, I feel compelled to say this:
WTF?

That is all.

You know, I bet that site wouldn't be all that hard to hack, and your last post gave me a funey idea. Too bad I know nothing about codeing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ray

HEZ MY NEW HERO

Actually, "-1 x -1 = +1" is pretty stupid... I dunno about evil.

Yeah, I stopped half way through the first coloured text, scrolled/skimmed a little, shook my head sadly and closed the page forever.

To quote a friend, "that's some ****ed up ****, man!"

That was interesting and very stimulating. All 8,775 words.


pffft.

Hobbits are ignorant of the Time Cube!

Language warning... of course. It is a follower of Gene Ray afterall. Though it could just be a parody, hard to tell with how bizarre the reality is.

Has anyone ever bothered to point out to him that four points does not make a cube?

Also, how can one disprove a philosophical theory? We can't prove or disprove our viewpoint; how can we disprove yours?