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I would agree with you about anon froggies whose only purpose is to hide
from the light, not from the dark. I just don't necessarily believe you
are making the points you think you are.

Bill Heyman wrote:

Samuel Clemens was an anonymous author. Of course he didn't hide behind
his nym, just became it.

> For over forty years I have had my "Great Books of the Western World" with
> me.  Every book reflects a great thought and every great thought has an
> author.  There are no great thoughts without an author.

there are plenty of great deeds done without a witness. there are plenty
of great deeds done without someone approving. rescuing someone from a
car crash doesn't require approval and often is done without a witness.
does a hero need approval from someone to validate and act of heroism.
In the military sure, but in daily life, no.

> 
> In front of me are several medals and each one has a description of what was
> done, and my name, and they are signed, as is the custom, by two people, the
> nominating person and the authorizing person.  There are no great deeds
> without a person.  There are no great deeds without a witness.  There are no
> great deeds without someone approving.

there are plenty of good ideas without authors. consensus builds some of
these ideas into movements or other changes.

> 
> Behind me is my patent 5,319,360.  It describes an idea and requires a
> signature.  There are no ideas without an author.  There are no ideas
> without public examination.

It still would have been the same book and would have created the same
uproar. Was the heresy the book or was it the author?

> 
> Salmon Rushdie wrote "The Satanic Verses" knowing full well that it was
> Islamic heresy and publicized what Islam is.  What if he had published it as
> "anonymous?"
> 

The theory would still be just as correct or incorrect as it is with his
signature. Ideas aren't validated by who creates them so much as they
are validated by their truth.

> I have, in my small collection, a copy of Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the
> Special Theory of Relativity.  What if he didn't sign it?

There are no great truths without examination by one's peers, anyone can
have an idea.

> 
> Richard Feynmann had a great idea.  So great that his doctoral professor did
> not understand it.  And so at his doctoral dissertation the young Feynmann
> had, as his critics, Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein.  Feynmann got his PhD
> and, years later,  a Nobel Prize.  There are no great ideas in physics
> without examination by one's peers.
> 

Great ideas transcend names. 

> There are no great ideas without the sacrifice of your name.


On the net great names transcend ideas.



Not too many people know who Deep Throat was in the Watergate Follies,
but the idea of presenting the truth changed how we thought.


Once again the anon froggies will never have great ideas, they are just
the cumulative white noise of those afraid...afraid of who knows what,
but it isn't that they are being persecuted.