these two do have one thing in common - thought experiments. the similarity between the nobel physicist and the cult-leader physician pretty well ends there, though.

einstein was known for his famous thought experiments involving trains at high speeds and what they said about relativity. they were simple models for what happens at various physically extreme situations. einstein realized these were good models but they were just that; not really things he expected to roll out in the physical world and physical reality that we live in.

ron paul, on the other hand, has his thought experiments that he badly wants to see deployed into the real world. never mind that the closest country to his current ideals would be somalia; he still believes it is what would somehow cure our ills.

in other words, because ron paul is a failure of an observationist - and likely a failure of an experimentalist as well - he cannot see what would come from what he wants to impose on the usa. so while his cult members may view him as some kind of great genius, he has a long ways to go before he can rightfully claim that title.

perhaps someday "ron paul" will come to be analogous to shortsighted in the same way that einstein is analogous in the modern vernacular to genius.

the ron paul cultists have guaranteed that i will never, ever, have karma better than terrible, or the ability to post more than twice per day under my name. as my second comment was in reply to a journal entry by a very devout cultist, i thought i would post it here as well to improve its chance of being read.

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first, mr. schiff is not a political prisoner, no matter how badly you want it to be the case. he filed false tax returns, which is a crime. he is in prison for breaking the law. just because you hate everything ron paul tells you to hate does not mean that suddenly skipping or falsifying taxes is no longer criminal.

second, your lord and savior would make far more people into prisoners than we currently have. the only difference is that people would be prisoners to their employers in ways that they are not currently. in the current situation in the us, workers have - very marginal - rights. your lord and savior wants to give all those rights away so that the employers hold all the cards. the 40-hour work week will be gone. minimum wage will be gone. health insurance will be gone. life insurance and retirement will be gone. vacation will be gone. employees will have no avenue for recourse if they are fired unjustly or if employers slander or blackmail them.

in other words your lord and savior wants to drive the us rate of incarceration up to around 90% or more. the only difference is that very little of the incarcerated people will be jailed in what we currently call a jail or a prison, instead what they currently think of as their workplaces will become their jails and prisons, with no hope for parole.

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the comment is here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2637009&cid=38812839

the journal entry it was posted in reply to is here: http://slashdot.org/~roman_mir/journal/276883

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the plus side of being eternally frozen at terrible karma, and forverer guaranteed to post at minus 1, is that nobody can moderate my comment down further.

today's most commented story - which has taken that title for the month as well - is about ron paul's son and his "valiant" quest against the tsa. naturally, the cult members couldn't stay off of that and had to insert as many incantations for their lord as possible to ensure that he takes his rightful place.

happiness in slavery - brought to you by the cult of ron paul.

i've been seeing news articles online today that congress has indefinitely delayed voting on the sopa and pipa bills. however all the news articles seem to have left out one important thing. they conveniently all forgot to mention that this was exclusively and inarguably the doing of his lord and savior ron paul. without him, nothing good can ever happen.

now if i could just find some fanatical ron paul supporter here on slashdot who could fill in the blanks and tell me what the media left out about how ron paul made this happen...

famed cult leader / congressman / presidential candidate ron paul almost accidentally made sense recently in a "debate" on abortion issues. ron paul acknowledged that passing laws against abortion won't stop people from getting abortions, it will only end up with more people in jail. for a man who is over 100 years old, and full of shit, this was a stunning act of logic.

however, what he neglected to mention is that he would still support laws that outlaw abortion. and of course, in the dream world that he and his superpac sell as part of his campaign, there would also be no us supreme court to examine such laws, as it would be thrown out to achieve the mythical "government you can drown in a bathtub".

thankfully, as much as he either cannot or will not acknowledge it, the us constitution prohibits the present from unilaterally doing such things.

the members of the cult of ron paul are again showing how much they appreciate free speech and hearing from people of differing opinion. with my karma at terrible i posted to a recent article and for a moment my comment was at plus 2. now it is back down to minus 1.

i also enjoyed seeing how a comment that was not moderated by anyone acquired a flamebait tag. apparently ron paul is so deeply entrenched in slashdot groupthink that even the code itself opposes what i say.

rand paul, the son of famous cult leader ron paul, is sometimes credited as the more personable potential candidate of the family. he supports the same illogical and unconstitutional agenda of his father, but isn't quite as condescending in his tone while speaking.

however, a recent statement from him crapped all over the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" mentality.

"My dad paid for my college and my medical school, and I owe it to him"

and of course, those are the only people who would be able to go to college under the destructive policies that are advocated by ron paul and recited as gospel by his cult.

after all, "i like to fire people" is practically the campaign slogan of ron paul - the only candidate who wants to see the national unemployment rate go up.

happiness in slavery, brought to you by the church of ron paul.

ron paul cultists have voted down my comments regularly, to place my karma at terrible. now i can comment only twice daily - or less. finally one of my comments, starting at minus 1, was voted 'up' to zero, and then it was immediately voted down again to minus 1.

they claim to be an oppressed minority here on slashdot, seldom heard. yet when i started this account to point out the dangers and hypocrisy behind the aims of their lord and savior, it took barely a week to be voted down into oblivion. meanwhile they post often, and are voted up almost as often; even though little of what they say is accurate.

minority, my ass. if any political opinion gets extensive space and support on slashdot, it is that of ron paul. his cult seems to practically use slashdot as a recruiting tool.

a devoted ron paul cultist on slashdot recently linked to the superpac of his lord and savior. unsurprisingly, ron paul's cult calls their superpac "revolution pac". they believe themselves to be leading a revolution, though i'm surprised they didn't call it "crusade pac" as their are religious in their zealotry.

if they want to stick to a word like revolution, i would recommend instead re-evolution (as in reverse evolution) as a more fitting name for their crusade. ron paul very clearly wants absolute power of over our country, and to thoroughly dismantle the government that is established by the constitution. it is astonishing that some people seem to actually believe that such action would somehow lead to an increase in "liberty" or "freedom", when there would be nobody left to defend either, and only one person with the right to dictate what they mean at any given time.

today cult leader / congressman / certifiable nutcase ron paul picked up the all-important american-idol-winner endorsement when kelly clarkson tweeted her endorsement. as is common with many stars, she showed her deep knowledge of the situation:

"I have never heard that Ron Paul is a racist or homophobe?"

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famous cult leader / presidential hopeful ron paul is famous for his statement of wanting "a government you can drown in a bathtub". while some of his cultists rally around this as a cry for a simpler tax code or whatever else, the truth is that it is a telling statement of his hatred for representative government, and his desire to lead everyone unilaterally without contest.

it is generally physically impossible to drown more than one adult in a bathtub at one time. if you are to drown the entire government in one bathtub, that means your entire government is one person. and if the entire government is only one person, representative government goes out the window as one person cannot represent an entire country reasonably.

however, even worse is that a government of one has no checks and balances whatsoever. ron paul's government of one is a government with only one branch rather than the three we currently have. that one person would have unlimited rights to do whatever he wants.

hence ron paul is a cult leader, an idiot, and a constitutional hypocrite.

ron paul has been questioned over some racist and offensive newsletters that were written under his name some time ago. he claims to not be the author of these newsletters, that someone else wrote them and published them under his name. the news media is eating this up and claiming to be trying to investigate the matter.

however, they are ignoring the simple fact that his answer doesn't matter. ron paul's cult is full of people who would gladly take a bullet for him. he could name any cult member he wants and if they were capable of writing at the time they would happily claim to be the author.

his cult members may be right when they claim he is not a politician; only because he is instead a cult leader.

you cannot buy the cult of ron paul. even if they don't know what they are saying, they are rabid followers who will follow their lord and savior to the end of the earth.

however the republicans can give thanks that ron paul will not run as a third-party candidate; he sees himself as the model republican and everyone else wrong. hence when he loses the race for the republican nod, he will just settle back in to writing books and running for congress; meaning the republicans won't need to worry about his cultists voting against the establishment.

i have written 11 comments. three of them were voted down, one was voted up. now my karma is "terrible" and I am not allowed to post more than twice in 24 hours. if i cannot post more often, how am i to ever recover my karma?

coincidentally, my very first comment was voted up. then i wrote a comment in the poll, which was voted down. it all came unwound after that. will an AC come to go bananas in here now?