tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post114641102199189156..comments2023-10-26T05:57:03.209-07:00Comments on Skeptacles: Winds of Conundrous Time TravelStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211730939356678631noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post-1146949156789925872006-05-06T13:59:00.000-07:002006-05-06T13:59:00.000-07:00I read the Simmons story, which is pretty powerful...I read the Simmons story, which is pretty powerful. I have a couple of problems with it, though. Using a time traveler to support a particular scenario is basically unfair. It reduces all counter-arguments to straw men, easily blown away by the self-evident truth, which the time traveler alone has access to. Making this argument after 9/11 is also a bit cheap. If he had written it in August, 2001, it would have been on the front page in October, 2001.jj mollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011855944240477996noreply@blogger.com