From: Glenn Shapiro [gshapiro@eeiconferences.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:26 PM
To: Gsg
Subject: RE: Next Symposium {:} ... Dick...Hilary Clinton...Mental Tort-ure... Go ahead scratch ... hand over to the FBI...{:}

 

Now "Don't you worry -- about a ting"

So you can't write -- well I can't sing.

But every little ting

Is gonna be all right.

 

Conspiracy? I plague you too?

When you gonna drop -- the other shoe?

It still seems like -- you just don't get it

When you gonna learn -- the meaning of "edit"?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary S. Gevisser [mailto:
gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:02 PM
To: '
Mcdermott, David E.'
Cc:
MITCHELL LUDWIG; Sandiego@fbi.gov; pattyapratt@aol.com; Jeff; Richard Delt; hannity@foxnews.com; M Wolman
Subject: Next Symposium {:} ... Dick...Hilary Clinton...Mental Tort-ure... Go ahead scratch ... hand over to the FBI...{:}

Mr. McDermott,

 

Wow, wow and wow, Dick Morris last night, not long after I sent Professor Rabbi Abner Weiss this E-mail, nailing on the Fox Network show, Hannity and Colmes, not only Hilary Pathological liar Clinton but her pussy-whipped communist puppet Colmes who I don't believe is related to our JoNathan's baseball manager-coach Mark Holmes, one of a number of folks JoNathan's pathological liar biological father, Dr. HIM, has used to shoot his "poison tipped arrows".

 

This is not to suggest that we now have proof that Mr. Dick Morris is the Almighty SMART G-D but never in all the 26+ years I have lived in this great country have I ever heard anyone either in print

 

Or

 

On the "bought and paid 4" [sic] TV Networks say it as eloquently as this political insider, Morris' blunt style invigorating me this morning, not that I need much of a boost to get me going each and every day, such a wonderful feeling it is when you can look the likes of an imbecile like Mr. Colmes square in the eyes and say words to the effect,

 

"I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BY TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT THE TRUTH SO HELP ME G-D" [sic],

 

my missive back on July 23rd 2002 contained in the "Fox Network" hyperlink coming pretty close to Dick's "Rewriting of History" which apparently depicts Hilary Rodham Clinton donning a "mask" versus a natural celebrity status seeker like her husband Bill "Wallpaper-Kitchen" Clinton who simply dons "makeup".

 

This epic broadcast brought much more than a smile to the face of many of us who have known the truth about the Clintons soon after they captured the White House, nothing quite like Morris spelling out how attorney Hilary Rodham Clinton got away with nothing short of "murder" in her role in the White Water scandal that plagued Bill Clinton through much of his presidency begging the question, however, of why Mr. Morris didn't come forward sooner with his "smoking gun evidence" just so that he could time the publishing of this "one of a kind" book with Bill Clinton coming out with his memoirs which Mr. Morris maintains is all geared toward Senator John "Catheter" Kerry being arm-twisted to choose Hilary who says in her best selling book that she was named after Sir Edmond Hilary the athlete even though the timing of her birth was some 4 years before Sir Hilary became famous, the "Sir" piece in my most recent communiqué to Mr. Glen Shapiro also causing more than a handful of folks to stir more than ever, wouldn't you agree Mrs. Debonair JRK who must be having an even harder time getting out of bed these days, agree?

 

Trust me, Mr. McDermoth, Hilary Rodham Clinton will not in the future have a "hope in hell" mosquitoes like moths to the fire, of getting elected to any position, her dreams of being the first female president of the United States of America now blown to smithereens, "over my dead body" will she ever be re-elected even to the United States Roman Senate as I plan to tackle "full on" beginning with any of my Jewish brothers and sisters anyone supportive of such a communist pig, Mrs. Clinton looking more and more Chinese, agree?

 

Nothing like beginning the day "kicking butt" which brings me "face to face" with you, you miserable specimen.  

 

Although I have yet to see Mr. "Jiggles" Ludwig Esq's legal bill of $2,700 which may

 

Or

 

May not be usurious despite my loan agreement with WAMU-SHAMU-SHAME that you point out in paragraph 11 contains the following with respect to COSTS OF COLLECTION:

 

I [Gary Gevisser],... promise to pay: (a) all costs and expenses of collection, including without limitation attorneys' fees..."

 

I thank you kindly for finally sending it to m/\E=mc², my partner-wife suggesting this morning that I wear for today's luncheon a funny looking Einstein t-shirt which our JoNathan suggested I buy this weekend, my copying on this missive a number of folks planning to attend this bon voyage spring party for Sebastian Capella who probably don't even know that I exist.

 

How would you like to be today's Master of Ceremonies

 

Or

 

What about agreeing to take a job as our temporary butler?

 

U would agree there is always the possibility that today's event might be streamed over The Internet for all your friends and family to 2 c me and u in real time, time all relative, more and more folks seeing c, the speed of light, as "relative" within a non-vacuum environment?

 

Yesterday after picking up our one kid from the Torrey Pines High School while continuing to listen to Bob Marley the strong suggestion from our other ELEMENTARY school kid as referenced in my missive earlier in the day to the Editor of the Del Mar Times I mostly just hung, hanging though The Grand Canyon with its new frame in preparation for today's springtime celebration, Sebastian and Margarita Capella off once again back to Spain, the weather expected to be picture perfect, the surf at this moment, 10:08 AM PST, as you can c in the "picture perfect" hyperlink, rather decent, the early morning fog disappeared rather fast.

 

Naturally I would be in the surf were it not for the having to still do a number of household chores in addition to getting out another couple of emails, no response yet from my families closest friend, world renowned Rabbi Weiss, perhaps feeling caught between the "rock and the hard plate", interesting the name "Steinhardt", "Stein" stone in German?

 

Earlier before going back to bed my partner-wife, Marie Dion helped me make coffee since our JoNathan who gets paid 25 cents for every cup of cappuccino he prepares which comes each morning with a personalized design is quite hard to live up to, to mention in passing how upsetting it is that my dog Pypeetoe once again never bothered to say hello to me at the crack of dawn, simply seeing the smile on Marie Dion's face was enough of a signal to hurdle right over me, butt after French kissing my French Canadian partner-wife began to feel it a bit much to plant himself in between her legs deciding instead to simply come to my side of the bed, stretch out, protecting my flank from my friend Glen Shapiro who I feel plagues me more today than all my adversaries combined, my just noticing Glen's latest reprimand, "endless document?" in response to my follow up E-mail to the Editor of the Del Mar Times.

 

Not all that surprising of the 1300 odd people copied on my last broadcasted communiqué to Mr. Shapiro you happen to be the only individual requesting that I add your name to my "delete list" which is perhaps almost as telling as how some of the most learned religious leaders on the planet don't have the guts to answer my simple question,

 

"Do you believe in G-D?"

 

My decision to email Professor Doctor Rabbi Abner Weiss for the very first time was one that I did not take lightly for it is going to light up whatever conscience remains of those buddies of mine growing up in South Africa their deafening silences much Professor Aaron BrownNose Brown of the Yeshiva University in New York City speaking volumes, change very much in the air, agree?

 

Such a question you would think put to someone I have known since I can first recall going back to when this very learned individual "koshered" our Orthodox Jewish home in Durban North, South Africa when I was about 8 years of age should not be all that difficult to answer yet there are more than a handful of folks on my email list including the 2 other gentlemen referenced in the "Jiggles" hyperlink also members of the Durban, South Africa Jewish Congregation feeling just like so well educated Mr. Debonair JRK a little bit awkward at this point, not quite certain of my next chess move, agree?

 

Yet you in your infinite wisdom continue to go along as though you have no care in the world that your carelessness although arrogance would probably be a better choice of words has you coming back for more and more, agree?

 

And why you simply didn't attach the $2,700 legal bill to your latest email such monies paid in full along with the penalty Trustee Statutory Rape Fee of $4,073.12 back on Friday February 27th during Mission Impossible, the $7K odd more than what I owed in back payments, is anyone's guess?

 

Quite apparent today why I would go to all the trouble and expense of simply making a mockery of a system, agree?

 

Most literate folks in the world believe the system is "rigged", that we are on "borrowed time" which is not to suggest that an understanding of Quantum Mechanics requires that you simply be literate, but all these mostly well meaning folk  see are the end products, i.e. the rich getting richer, my now making available at their fingertips the evidence of corruption at the highest levels of our social structure which again is not to suggest in any way that there is any truth whatsoever to a "worldwide conspiracy", again, the folks close to the very top, like my extraordinary mother, Zena Rosland Ash Gevisser and my uncle David Gevisser have far too big an ego to sit around a table with others of similar sized egos let alone agree on anything of substance like controlling the world supply of diamonds to mention little of their bosses such as Aristotle Onassis and Charles Engelhard, both now, thank G-D, dead, agree?

 

And should Devin Standard, the executor of my estate, give me the "green light" to call his father, Mr. Kenneth Standard Esq., later in the day, I might even excuse myself from this rather special gathering of friends and begin delivering as I mentioned to Rabbi Weiss,

 

"the information in my possession when delivered to the 2 Grand Juries investigating Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes and Lerach will set in motion the necessary steps leading to the suspension of trading of all stock markets around the world freeing up much needed capital for entrepreneurs such as you, me, and the likes of Michael Steinhardt's son-in-law, agree?

 

There is a big difference you would agree between "knowing" and "believing" my now giving our Rabbi Weiss another heads-up in terms of what may be my follow question should he be so brave as to answer "Yes" to the rather simple question, but from that point on forward it becomes nothing short of a "foot race" to hell, hell as you are only just beginning to imagine is here on earth for those who play it "fast and loose", agree?

 

It is 10:35 AM PST and Marie just yelled in her wonderful French accent, "Do you realize what time it is... get going... remembering you still have to barbeque" which will prevent me from going off on a tangent about Queueing Theory.

 

Just back from the liquor, having also racked the lawn, started the barbeque, done my level best to quell any further storm from rising, interesting wouldn't you agree how so many folks in politics these days are talking of Storms, the time now 11:47 and I have to still shower.

 

I have arranged for this article to be forwarded to another individual by the code name Pipee which contains the "smoking gun evidence" of the deep rot within the highest levels of corporate America known to more than just a handful of us in the business of tracking down the worst of the worst as far back as the spring of 1999, yet for some reason you don't hear the likes of Po-li "talking head" Pollak a regular on the Fox TV Network making the masses of folks who only get their news from such broadcasts aware of such critically important information, my roundabout way of lining up my ducks so as to stay alive just one more day, although I count my blessings each and every second becoming increasing apparent, agree?

 

Transparency the key, the more we know about one another the more likely we are not to go to war with each as long as each and every one of us remains in check.

 

Kenneth Standard Esq. who others new to my Next Symposiums may not know is scheduled to be sworn in this June 18th as the President of the New York Bar Association and coincidentally Mr. Glen Shapiro who continues to "kick my flank" in preparation for just one of many big paydays informed me yesterday in response to my "try for a more concise style" that this is in fact a

 

"Small world -- yesterday I received the NYS Bar Association's President Pro Bono award - alas from the outgoing President and not Devin's father.  We're all trying to do some good in our own ways"

 

to mention little of Glen like most people I know perhaps wanting to try his "luck" with my partner-wife, Marie Dion, who is in fact far better suited to the task of whipping me "left and right."

 

To provide a full airing of Glen's missive, the possible existence of their being a conspiracy of sorts between Glen and Marie has of course crossed my mind,

 

"You have asked for edits -- without regrets, I am not going to comply.  I am not going to hand you a fish -- my job is to teach you how to fish on your own.  You need to learn to be more concise if you are going to publish anything.  You promised you would try. You have not done it yet.  I will do my editing for you once you really"

 

which then takes you back to his,

 

 "try for a more concise style."

 

All this should be far less than the "Mental Torture" I prepared on Monday for the Editor of the Del Mar Times that was geared as a follow up to my Endless Universe missive which to the amazement of possibly every single person in my inner circle was actually published in this one-of-a-kind local freebie publication that may cater mostly to "rich chicks" and their "sugar daddies" with more time on their hands than they know what to do with although I don't know the precise demographics of the target audience, at least not yet.

 

Never begin a sentence with a proposition is what I most recall and perhaps the same set of rules applies to when ending a sentence but given my tuning off to the crap blasted at us school kids who attended Carmel College in Durban, South Africa I pretty much stopped commenting, focused instead on sports, never feeling the need to be a big show off which wasn't really all that difficult given my diminutive torso, dwarf sized arms, no shoulders to speak of, scarred right thigh, bones that broke when simply throwing a stone, weighing never a pound more than 140 until I met up with the other love of my life who introduced me to Greek cooking and the rest is history,

 

Or

 

So they say, depending on who gets voted on to write the history books and then one is still faced with finding the right publisher, you no doubt have heard of the expression of farting as much crap against the wall and seeing how much sticks along with sticks and stones break bones but words kill, knowing perfectly well in playing rugby against mostly much bigger women, just checking to see that you are paying attention that I was not omnipotent while continuing to pay attention which is why most of my buddies who I grew up with are rather confounded in terms of what they should do next, whether to applaud and join me

 

Or

 

Bury their heads in the sand, i.e. tell their next door neighbor who if not on my email list will in just a matter of moments in the space of time begin to look at them askew, hi Cliff Benn, hi Roy and Jeffrey Essakow, hi blah blah

 

Or

 

Choose to simply rile up someone more angry who will have the balls to take me out, the possibility no doubt exists that should say someone like Merrick Wolman use the resources of his uncle, Sol "Gambling Czar" Kerzner to hire a hit man to do the dirty work such a communiqué may in fact be picked up by a buddy of mine even very possibly law enforcement organizations like the FBI who as you can tell don't seem in the least bit bothered by my continuing to copy them on missives that often have no beginning, middle

 

Or

 

End.

 

Now for at least the again, Sol "Indian Gambling Czar" Kerzner happens to a good friend of my mother who could possibly call on her own buddies far smarter than the likes of Kerzner not idiotic enough to seek the limelight, does the name Aristotle Onassis

 

Or

 

Perhaps Robert Kennedy ring another bell, then again you would need to have perfected the art of going "back and forth" very much part of my Bottoms Up Schooling [BUS] that is catching on like wildfire, the need no doubt for me to place all the not so little chess games I have been playing in neat little boxes much like the flow chart I prepared within days of joining Insurance Marketing Services Inc. my mentioning again and again how effective this schematic was in reducing the number of interruptions caused by folks who made a mess of the bathrooms either through simple carelessness

 

Or

 

Simply sabotaging my efforts to get at the truth, so distraction techniques working quite effectively on those used to going around in circles sniffing other folks' anuses but for someone who has mastered a number of things, very possibly having completed Albert Einstein's lifetime pursuit of coming up with a

 

Unified Theory

For the inner workings

Of the universe

 

It is all but child's play, the admonition I received yesterday from Mr. Shapiro to "sh1t"

 

Or

 

"get off the pot" although my sense is that Glen may possibly be willing to take part of his fee for getting such incredible enjoyment in whipping me into shape in the form of Durban Poison [Chapter III] and I am quite certain once Cliff Benn et al [and all] come "onboard" them soon seeing the "writing on the wall" such deliveries should become quite much easier I think you would agree than the fast balls I am throwing at

 

Or

 

Near head although probably everyone around you no doubt beginning to smell how rotten you are, would consider these deliveries nothing short of knuckleballs, that previous hyperlink showing one of my first knuckleballs to an attorney who probably charges 10 times what your Mr. Luftwaffe Esq. charges to mention little of Mr. William H. Jackson possibly having to spend a whole lot less money in staying in shape than your character who knows perfectly well I ant done with him, yet, although I understand from my friend Sean who hoped to attend the hearing where Mr. Luftwaffe must have derived great satisfaction in exposing his incredible chest that Ludwig has an awesome build not to suggest that I would have my partner-wife loan him her Epilady woman's shaver, agree?

 

Again, in a non-vacuum environment such as SpaceShip earth nothing falls on "deaf ears" again my well aware that Mr. Shapiro and Marie Dion may have entered into a conspiracy of epic proportions, now think of how you might prove me wrong.

 

Better yet, Mr. Genius, who thought he just the smarty-pants by choosing only to respond to my "bull" email back on March 8th thinking that he would have just like Professor Aaron BrownNose Brown a jolly good time "kicking me butt" as I for all you knew was "down and out" having given up on trying to have you folks change from living "the greedy sinful life", the rouse suggested by Bryan Taylor, the operator of our Ccrest Bed and Breakfast, as perfect as it gets, so how would your partner say your sex life is these days?

 

Now get down on your hands and knees the very instant after kicking your ass into high gear, buying yourself a copy of Pythagoras' trousers and then give me 5,000 pushups followed by 15000 sit-ups and if I ever hear another piece of bull coming out of your disgusting mouth I will set, at a minimum, my bulldog on u, agree?

 

And if you think Marie Dion is some lightweight first read this, then this and then this and now rather than later distribute this email throughout the WAMU-SHAMU-SHAME organization, agree?

 

Pretty incredible wouldn't you agree that Marie Dion's former husband and the sperm donor of her "too" [sic] children would keep as his girlfriend someone such as "Dawn Castlemean" [sic] who not only contradicts Dr. HIM's mantra to us and the 2 biological kids we know of that he "does not get emails sent to his email account JBSTE@aol.com" but for some incredible reason both he and Ms. Dawn, why they don't get married and settle down is beyond me, thinking that neither Marie Dion nor I would think to first check with Dr. Him's attorney Mr. George Money Talks Hurst Esq as to whether in fact he no longer represents Dr. HIM, to mention little of Money Talks having lost over the course of the past 18 months since our incredible criminal court room victory back on October 24th 2002, seemingly all his balls, agree?

 

Not that I would want you to even visualize this monster of a woman who fits pretty much exactly the description Dr. HIM signed "under penalty of perjury" back on September 11th, 2002, having sex with Dr. HIM the problems pathological people face in this Digital Age, a G-D-Send, enough to want to make those of us positively charged go out and celebrate big time which is what I do each and every moment of the day, thanking the Good Almighty SMART G-D for blessing me with the spirit to make the most of each and every day, living it like it was my last, agree?

 

Now remember the issue I have former President Bill "Kitchen Wallpaper" Clinton besides for being "asleep at the wheel" as the Chinese at him for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I could care less about whether

 

Or

 

Not Bill dissected Hilary even if he was having to think about bed mites when performing oral sex as part of his marital duty, butt rather the fact that he was engaged in "public sex" in of all places the White House with a subordinate who conceivably was so incredibly shrewd to be thinking way ahead as the former President of the "Free World" unloaded his sperm on to her blue dress, my being informed yesterday by close to 100 individuals copied on that piece to Glen Shapiro the night before that I failed to complete the thought about Clinton's golfing partner, Mr. Vernon Jordon, in trying to cover up the horrific mistakes of the President of the United States of America saw no problem in subverting justice by trying to get Ms. Monica Lewinsky a job at Revlon Corporation where Mr. Jordon happens to be a member of the board of the directors.

 

So do you think Vernon Jordon played footsie-footsie with Martha Stewart another member of Ronald "The Finagle King" Perelman's board of directors, never, never, never to forget how deafening silent Christopher Byron the author of Martha Inc. became back in the summer of 1999, the title of the posting on the Yahoo Revlon Corporation message board which can be accessed by clicking on the "Christopher" hyperlink, "T0 PSAR VROMAI APO TO KEFALI KAI DATO" some of the words I learned while vacationing with my Greek friend Annie George on the island of Samos, which translates in to, "The Fish Rots From The Head Down."

 

We really don't know much about Pythagoras other than that he came from the green island of Samos,

"often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians, where at least we have some of the books which they wrote, we have nothing of Pythagoras's writings. The society which he led, half religious and half scientific, followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious figure.

We do have details of Pythagoras's life from early biographies which use important original sources yet are written by authors who attribute divine powers to him, and whose aim was to present him as a god-like figure. What we present below is an attempt to collect together the most reliable sources to reconstruct an account of Pythagoras's life. There is fairly good agreement on the main events of his life but most of the dates are disputed with different scholars giving dates which differ by 20 years. Some historians treat all this information as merely legends but, even if the reader treats it in this way, being such an early record it is of historical importance.

Pythagoras's father was Mnesarchus ([12] and [13]), while his mother was Pythais [8] and she was a native of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant who came from Tyre, and there is a story ([12] and [13]) that he brought corn to Samos at a time of famine and was granted citizenship of Samos as a mark of gratitude. As a child Pythagoras spent his early years in Samos but travelled widely with his father. There are accounts of Mnesarchus returning to Tyre with Pythagoras and that he was taught there by the Chaldaeans and the learned men of Syria. It seems that he also visited Italy with his father.

Little is known of Pythagoras's childhood. All accounts of his physical appearance are likely to be fictitious except the description of a striking birthmark which Pythagoras had on his thigh. It is probable that he had two brothers although some sources say that he had three. Certainly he was well educated, learning to play the lyre, learning poetry and to recite Homer. There were, among his teachers, three philosophers who were to influence Pythagoras while he was a young man. One of the most important was Pherekydes who many describe as the teacher of Pythagoras.

The other two philosophers who were to influence Pythagoras, and to introduce him to mathematical ideas, were Thales and his pupil Anaximander who both lived on Miletus. In [8] it is said that Pythagoras visited Thales in Miletus when he was between 18 and 20 years old. By this time Thales was an old man and, although he created a strong impression on Pythagoras, he probably did not teach him a great deal. However he did contribute to Pythagoras's interest in mathematics and astronomy, and advised him to travel to Egypt to learn more of these subjects. Thales's pupil, Anaximander, lectured on Miletus and Pythagoras attended these lectures. Anaximander certainly was interested in geometry and cosmology and many of his ideas would influence Pythagoras's own views.

In about 535 BC Pythagoras went to Egypt. This happened a few years after the tyrant Polycrates seized control of the city of Samos. There is some evidence to suggest that Pythagoras and Polycrates were friendly at first and it is claimed [5] that Pythagoras went to Egypt with a letter of introduction written by Polycrates. In fact Polycrates had an alliance with Egypt and there were therefore strong links between Samos and Egypt at this time. The accounts of Pythagoras's time in Egypt suggest that he visited many of the temples and took part in many discussions with the priests. According to Porphyry ([12] and [13]) Pythagoras was refused admission to all the temples except the one at Diospolis where he was accepted into the priesthood after completing the rites necessary for admission.

It is not difficult to relate many of Pythagoras's beliefs, ones he would later impose on the society that he set up in Italy, to the customs that he came across in Egypt. For example the secrecy of the Egyptian priests, their refusal to eat beans, their refusal to wear even cloths made from animal skins, and their striving for purity were all customs that Pythagoras would later adopt. Porphyry in [12] and [13] says that Pythagoras learnt geometry from the Egyptians but it is likely that he was already acquainted with geometry, certainly after teachings from Thales and Anaximander.

In 525 BC Cambyses II, the king of Persia, invaded Egypt. Polycrates abandoned his alliance with Egypt and sent 40 ships to join the Persian fleet against the Egyptians. After Cambyses had won the Battle of Pelusium in the Nile Delta and had captured Heliopolis and Memphis, Egyptian resistance collapsed. Pythagoras was taken prisoner and taken to Babylon. Iamblichus writes that Pythagoras (see [8]):-

... was transported by the followers of Cambyses as a prisoner of war. Whilst he was there he gladly associated with the Magoi ... and was instructed in their sacred rites and learnt about a very mystical worship of the gods. He also reached the acme of perfection in arithmetic and music and the other mathematical sciences taught by the Babylonians...

In about 520 BC Pythagoras left Babylon and returned to Samos. Polycrates had been killed in about 522 BC and Cambyses died in the summer of 522 BC, either by committing suicide or as the result of an accident. The deaths of these rulers may have been a factor in Pythagoras's return to Samos but it is nowhere explained how Pythagoras obtained his freedom. Darius of Persia had taken control of Samos after Polycrates' death and he would have controlled the island on Pythagoras's return. This conflicts with the accounts of Porphyry and Diogenes Laertius who state that Polycrates was still in control of Samos when Pythagoras returned there.

Pythagoras made a journey to Crete shortly after his return to Samos to study the system of laws there. Back in Samos he founded a school which was called the semicircle. Iamblichus [8] writes in the third century AD that:-

... he formed a school in the city [of Samos], the 'semicircle' of Pythagoras, which is known by that name even today, in which the Samians hold political meetings. They do this because they think one should discuss questions about goodness, justice and expediency in this place which was founded by the man who made all these subjects his business. Outside the city he made a cave the private site of his own philosophical teaching, spending most of the night and daytime there and doing research into the uses of mathematics...

Pythagoras left Samos and went to southern Italy in about 518 BC (some say much earlier). Iamblichus [8] gives some reasons for him leaving. First he comments on the Samian response to his teaching methods:-

... he tried to use his symbolic method of teaching which was similar in all respects to the lessons he had learnt in Egypt. The Samians were not very keen on this method and treated him in a rude and improper manner.

This was, according to Iamblichus, used in part as an excuse for Pythagoras to leave Samos:-

... Pythagoras was dragged into all sorts of diplomatic missions by his fellow citizens and forced to participate in public affairs. ... He knew that all the philosophers before him had ended their days on foreign soil so he decided to escape all political responsibility, alleging as his excuse, according to some sources, the contempt the Samians had for his teaching method.

Pythagoras founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton (now Crotone, on the east of the heel of southern Italy) that had many followers. Pythagoras was the head of the society with an inner circle of followers known as mathematikoi. The mathematikoi lived permanently with the Society, had no personal possessions and were vegetarians. They were taught by Pythagoras himself and obeyed strict rules. The beliefs that Pythagoras held were [2]:-

(1) that at its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature,
(2) that philosophy can be used for spiritual purification,
(3) that the soul can rise to union with the divine,
(4) that certain symbols have a mystical significance, and
(5) that all brothers of the order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy.

Both men and women were permitted to become members of the Society, in fact several later women Pythagoreans became famous philosophers. The outer circle of the Society were known as the akousmatics and they lived in their own houses, only coming to the Society during the day. They were allowed their own possessions and were not required to be vegetarians.

Of Pythagoras's actual work nothing is known. His school practised secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers. Certainly his school made outstanding contributions to mathematics, and it is possible to be fairly certain about some of Pythagoras's mathematical contributions. First we should be clear in what sense Pythagoras and the mathematikoi were studying mathematics. They were not acting as a mathematics research group does in a modern university or other institution. There were no 'open problems' for them to solve, and they were not in any sense interested in trying to formulate or solve mathematical problems.

Rather Pythagoras was interested in the principles of mathematics, the concept of number, the concept of a triangle or other mathematical figure and the abstract idea of a proof. As Brumbaugh writes in [3]:-

It is hard for us today, familiar as we are with pure mathematical abstraction and with the mental act of generalisation, to appreciate the originality of this Pythagorean contribution.

In fact today we have become so mathematically sophisticated that we fail even to recognise 2 as an abstract quantity. There is a remarkable step from 2 ships + 2 ships = 4 ships, to the abstract result 2 + 2 = 4, which applies not only to ships but to pens, people, houses etc. There is another step to see that the abstract notion of 2 is itself a thing, in some sense every bit as real as a ship or a house.

Pythagoras believed that all relations could be reduced to number relations. As Aristotle wrote:-

The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

This generalisation stemmed from Pythagoras's observations in music, mathematics and astronomy. Pythagoras noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonious tones when the ratios of the lengths of the strings are whole numbers, and that these ratios could be extended to other instruments. In fact Pythagoras made remarkable contributions to the mathematical theory of music. He was a fine musician, playing the lyre, and he used music as a means to help those who were ill.

Pythagoras studied properties of numbers which would be familiar to mathematicians today, such as even and odd numbers, triangular numbers, perfect numbers etc. However to Pythagoras numbers had personalities which we hardly recognise as mathematics today [3]:-

Each number had its own personality - masculine or feminine, perfect or incomplete, beautiful or ugly. This feeling modern mathematics has deliberately eliminated, but we still find overtones of it in fiction and poetry. Ten was the very best number: it contained in itself the first four integers - one, two, three, and four [1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10] - and these written in dot notation formed a perfect triangle.

Of course today we particularly remember Pythagoras for his famous geometry theorem. Although the theorem, now known as Pythagoras's theorem, was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier he may have been the first to prove it. Proclus, the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD wrote (see [7]):-

After [Thales, etc.] Pythagoras transformed the study of geometry into a liberal education, examining the principles of the science from the beginning and probing the theorems in an immaterial and intellectual manner: he it was who discovered the theory of irrational and the construction of the cosmic figures.

Again Proclus, writing of geometry, said:-

I emulate the Pythagoreans who even had a conventional phrase to express what I mean "a figure and a platform, not a figure and a sixpence", by which they implied that the geometry which is deserving of study is that which, at each new theorem, sets up a platform to ascend by, and lifts the soul on high instead of allowing it to go down among the sensible objects and so become subservient to the common needs of this mortal life.

Heath [7] gives a list of theorems attributed to Pythagoras, or rather more generally to the Pythagoreans.

(i) The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles. Also the Pythagoreans knew the generalisation which states that a polygon with n sides has sum of interior angles 2n - 4 right angles and sum of exterior angles equal to four right angles.

(ii) The theorem of Pythagoras - for a right angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. We should note here that to Pythagoras the square on the hypotenuse would certainly not be thought of as a number multiplied by itself, but rather as a geometrical square constructed on the side. To say that the sum of two squares is equal to a third square meant that the two squares could be cut up and reassembled to form a square identical to the third square.

(iii) Constructing figures of a given area and geometrical algebra. For example they solved equations such as a (a - x) = x2 by geometrical means.

(iv) The discovery of irrationals. This is certainly attributed to the Pythagoreans but it does seem unlikely to have been due to Pythagoras himself. This went against Pythagoras's philosophy the all things are numbers, since by a number he meant the ratio of two whole numbers. However, because of his belief that all things are numbers it would be a natural task to try to prove that the hypotenuse of an isosceles right angled triangle had a length corresponding to a number.

(v) The five regular solids. It is thought that Pythagoras himself knew how to construct the first three but it is unlikely that he would have known how to construct the other two.

(vi) In astronomy Pythagoras taught that the Earth was a sphere at the centre of the Universe. He also recognised that the orbit of the Moon was inclined to the equator of the Earth and he was one of the first to realise that Venus as an evening star was the same planet as Venus as a morning star.

Primarily, however, Pythagoras was a philosopher. In addition to his beliefs about numbers, geometry and astronomy described above, he held [2]:-

... the following philosophical and ethical teachings: ... the dependence of the dynamics of world structure on the interaction of contraries, or pairs of opposites; the viewing of the soul as a self-moving number experiencing a form of metempsychosis, or successive reincarnation in different species until its eventual purification (particularly through the intellectual life of the ethically rigorous Pythagoreans); and the understanding ...that all existing objects were fundamentally composed of form and not of material substance. Further Pythagorean doctrine ... identified the brain as the locus of the soul; and prescribed certain secret cultic practices.

In [3] their practical ethics are also described:-

In their ethical practices, the Pythagorean were famous for their mutual friendship, unselfishness, and honesty.

Pythagoras's Society at Croton was not unaffected by political events despite his desire to stay out of politics. Pythagoras went to Delos in 513 BC to nurse his old teacher Pherekydes who was dying. He remained there for a few months until the death of his friend and teacher and then returned to Croton. In 510 BC Croton attacked and defeated its neighbour Sybaris and there is certainly some suggestions that Pythagoras became involved in the dispute. Then in around 508 BC the Pythagorean Society at Croton was attacked by Cylon, a noble from Croton itself. Pythagoras escaped to Metapontium and the most authors say he died there, some claiming that he committed suicide because of the attack on his Society. Iamblichus in [8] quotes one version of events:-

Cylon, a Crotoniate and leading citizen by birth, fame and riches, but otherwise a difficult, violent, disturbing and tyrannically disposed man, eagerly desired to participate in the Pythagorean way of life. He approached Pythagoras, then an old man, but was rejected because of the character defects just described. When this happened Cylon and his friends vowed to make a strong attack on Pythagoras and his followers. Thus a powerfully aggressive zeal activated Cylon and his followers to persecute the Pythagoreans to the very last man. Because of this Pythagoras left for Metapontium and there is said to have ended his days.

This seems accepted by most but Iamblichus himself does not accept this version and argues that the attack by Cylon was a minor affair and that Pythagoras returned to Croton. Certainly the Pythagorean Society thrived for many years after this and spread from Croton to many other Italian cities. Gorman [6] argues that this is a strong reason to believe that Pythagoras returned to Croton and quotes other evidence such as the widely reported age of Pythagoras as around 100 at the time of his death and the fact that many sources say that Pythagoras taught Empedokles to claim that he must have lived well after 480 BC.

The evidence is unclear as to when and where the death of Pythagoras occurred. Certainly the Pythagorean Society expanded rapidly after 500 BC, became political in nature and also spilt into a number of factions. In 460 BC the Society [2]:-

... was violently suppressed. Its meeting houses were everywhere sacked and burned; mention is made in particular of "the house of Milo" in Croton, where 50 or 60 Pythagoreans were surprised and slain. Those who survived took refuge at Thebes and other places.

Who on this planet in a "command and control" position such as yourself really cares that much about the past and the future all meeting up in the present since if you have a good enough memory to "lie steal and cheat" and eventually own the Big House and find someone equally pathological to put up with your pigsty who really cares?

 

Although again you may have noticed not a single person including Professor Aaron BrownNose Brown, a professor of finance at the Yeshiva in New York City, a Yeshiva you may not know despite your obvious incredible formal education having interfered with your learning is an establishment where not necessarily smart religious Jewish people go when they cannot afford to get into places like Harvard and Yale.

 

And don't have the imagination of Mr. Debonair JRK's very close friend who is married to Ms. Susan Bailey a real estate inherited "rich chick" from Coronado Island which is across the San Diego Bay, Mr. Susan Baily incapable of coming up with anything better than to threaten suicide in order to be admitted into Harvard Business School full time, later Mr. Susan Bailey while leveraging his Harvard Business School certificate managed to botch up quite incredibly the marketing of the Vatican memorabilia built up on the backs of the impoverished masses, such information you would know if you have been following closely my missives as I protest you have been doing ever so diligently ever since you and I were fortunate to become acquainted courtesy of Mr. Debonair JRK himself, my "credibility" amongst some of the most powerful and richest people on the planet is something even a genius athlete such as yourself able to think on your own too feet shouldn't have that much difficulty in fathoming at this time, and I assume that you like Vincent Hinojosa III are also looking into whether you might find some level of protection in WAMU-SHAMU-SHAME's Employee Liability policies in the event you were to be fired from your job, although you could in fact be the "top dog" for all I know and to produce the same defense as Vincent that you were "co-opted" by higher ups may in fact fall on the deaf ears of a jury of your peers, agree?.

 

Which brings me to just a couple more points I covered in my missive to Mr. Shapiro last evening before enjoying quite a wild time in the surf with our 11 year old JoNathan, the size of the surf catching both of us a little off guard, our output measured best by how well both of us slept, poor, poor Maggie though had a bowl movement on the upstairs carpet that had only yesterday been spotlessly cleaned.

 

Nothing you would agree says it best as "To see me [2 cm=E]=We" the mathematics which a genius such as yourself would well appreciate without me having to spell things out but then again I am trying to cater to all human beings with Intelligence Quotients over 85 which is not to suggest that your biological parents where monkeys possibly monks, does the name Dennis Monk ring a bell, hi Derrick good morning.

 

Sidebar to Derrick Beare: Please let my "uncle" Jonathan Beare know that given the delays I have had in getting out a number of very very very critically important missives the 7 day window I had imposed for him to invest a $1 million in www.NextraTrerresTrial.com will only begin once I send in Glen Shapiro's words, a "concise" introduction to Manager Minute One?

 

There is no beginning, middle

 

Or

 

End in E=mc².

 

Everything has become so convoluted and no where is it more apparent than in the world of insurance, so may I suggest you read ever so carefully this communiqué I received earlier today from a Trusted Fellow and remember genius by the time I had reached age 16 I learned from my buddy Cliff Benn's father, Alan Benn quite the businessman-accountant in Durban, South Africa, pretty much everything there is to know about the business of insurance, although if my life depended on it I still, despite having run the leading marketing-publishing company in the insurance industry for period of 5 years perhaps to the day, I wouldn't be able to tell you a single thing in terms of whether you have the right insurance policy to cover whatever cancerous enzyme may very likely be making its way up your colon but at the same time there isn't an insurance person on the planet who would be willing to engage me in "open debate" about my declarations which I would be willing to sign "under oath" that if in fact the insurance carriers were to make a "good faith" attempt in determining the "reserve provisions" needed to offset past, current and future exposures only, however, on those policies which they have received payment, all such companies would be "under water", and the incredibly gifted writer that you are would know, "He-she who controls water, grabs the land owns the bank!"

 

Go ahead scratch your arse before reading this.

 

The name of the chess game being played by both the Republicans and the Democrats in both houses of Congress is nothing short of "stalemate", each one playing off the other to their "pimps" advantage.

 

I have yet to hear back from Devin Standard and so I will wait perhaps another day to speak with his father, make no mistake though the end of the games are fast approaching and there is nothing short of murdering me that will stop the winds of change, Grand Jury here I come, those daring to get in my way, be forewarned.

 

Mr. McDermott, while you wait my next move and again there is nothing to stop you from loaning me more money against the equity of my 6 unit property, again all you will get out of me is my word that I will pay you on time each and every month if not sooner and of course you could always foreclose on my property

 

Or

 

Better yet make a whole bundle of money for yourself and your pitiful attorney phatso attorney Mr. Ludwig, remember now I, believing that Mr. Debonair Krinsk would do the right thing and represent me in court where he would have been "skilled and knowledgeable" enough to introduce "smoking gun proof" of political corruption at the highest levels of the Democratic Party with eerie connections to the all omnipotent California Coastal Commission who have allowed runaway development to take place creating nothing short of "inflationary bidding wars" my "best of luck" now going out to Patty and Steve Pratt who placed a "4 Sale" [sic] sign outside their residence today, and come this Friday beginning at 7AM PST I will be, G-D willing, providing my viewers with a real time commentary as prospective buyers of the property I am renting right next door to our beach house in Del Mar, California do a "look and c" [sic].

 

Another thing you could do is take a look at the hyperlinks I placed earlier on certain names and numbers in my missive to the Editor of the Del Mar Times, beginning with "extension 24" remembering the youth who are all our futures despite the handful of rich people getting richer our masses of kids don't get enough of an education to compete against the Chinese who only sleep when having sex, and then think when you next get aroused and of course I assume you have an abundance of Viagra handy just to impress your current co-workers that you can handle anything I dish out at you which is not to suggest that you are no more than the diarrhea our poor poor Maggie experienced at the crack of Dawn, of our young service people who don't have the tools to complete their deadly assignments.

 

So important wouldn't you agree that we first expose the level of corruption here in our own back yards, us Americans having no right to tell anyone anywhere how to behave until such time as we ferret out our own deep rot, thank G-D again for having gifted us an incredibly responsive president such as George W. Bush who inherited a mess of epic proportions perhaps nothing quiet as bad as the fact that so many of our youth take their cue from the failure of our Congress to convict Bill "Wallpaper Kitchen" Clinton who saw like anyone else who has allowed his formal education to interfere with his learning no wrong whatsoever in lying under oath, signing a materially false and grossly misleading statement-complaint "under penalty of perjury" the notion that it was "just about sex with a young intern" violating many a rule on the book to mention little of the former president getting his one buddy Vernon Jordan, blah blah.

 

Again those on the extremes constantly meeting up, their being no beginning, middle

 

Or

 

End to much in this universe, thank G-D again for this Digital Age that now has more than a handful of these rogues in permanent check, agree?  

 

Just a question of moments in the history time before Warren "bail me out" Buffett " bites the dust", agree?

 

So who amongst the "rich and famous" actors would you prefer to play you in our movie, you know of course I have a close relative who co-produced Saving Private Ryan with Spielberg, I doubt though that Tom Cruise would go along with being on the receiving end once again of "Give me the money!", you wouldn't happen to have Tom

 

Or

 

Spielberg's email address, what about my cousin Gary Levinson?

 

You would agree in this "worn torn" environment it is time we all began getting used to recycling worn and torn garments, much along the lines I proposed to Ms. FrancIS, the principal of the Del Mar Hills Elementary School, surely you haven't forgotten that $557 contribution from WAMU-SHAMU-SHAME that allowed you folks to inaugurate as well as indoctrinate kids of our JoNathan's age and their parents to mention in passing we have yet to hear Ms. Francis account of what took place when Mr. Vincent Hermosa III under orders from exactly who in WAMU-SHAMU-SHAME went about what I consider to be very very dirty business, then again we know that Ms. Francis has on at least one occasion played it "fast and loose" with me and my partner-wife, Marie Dion, not all that surprising that Ms. Francis never responded to this knuckleball courtesy of a rather bright and beautiful French Canadian who is only now getting "warmed up", wouldn't you agree?

 

So sad wouldn't you agree how it comes to pass that the Del Mar Hills Elementary school is able to afford spending $2.2 million on a Multiple Utility Room [MUR] while the teachers have to go begging for contributions to pay for the marginal costs associated with a poetry reading, you know of course that the only thing taught at business schools other than one should stop producing when the marginal revenues associated with each additional offspring is greater than the marginal cost associated with that additional revenue is the art of larceny, i.e. how to lie, steal and cheat and get away with more times than say a "handyman" holding up a 7 Eleven to feed his-her children forget the cost of housing, agree?

 

I am getting rather hungry at this time, Marie just calling me to begin barbequing, one of Derrick Beare's "legs of lamb" comes very much to mind, then again I am trying awfully hard to cut back on all meat products, bearing in mind that I have perfected the art of slipping my dog, Pypeetoe probably more than his fare share of meat in an effort to win him back from my wife who has several weapons in her arsenal which if I were to go on could result in me having to sleep outside, all alone in the dark, should I not be successful in "blowing up" the sale of this one of a kind property, although of course everything I do will not only be broadcasted to the world but well within the law, Mr. Debonair Krinsk having over the years provided me with some incredible gifts which reminds me that he should return the Inka stone I gave him from when Marie and I visited Peru a second time in 2002, and of course he is under strict order to hand over to the FBI all documents he has held in safekeeping relating to the rigging of the California Gubernatorial elections held on November 8th 2002.

 

Not to forget how on January 22nd in a missive to David Wolf, another Carmel College alumni who apparently decided that he didn't want to be added to my "delete list" I remarked on a comment by Marie Dion,

 

I need an extension tu my squigy...---... I need a good man. Any offers? They can respond through your website, u can weed out the fakes and flakes."

 

 

Time to fly.

 

Good day.

 

Gary S. Gevisser

The Rattlesnake

 

 

Ps - Do you like Bob Marley?

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mcdermott, David E. [mailto:david.mcdermott@wamu.net]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:24 AM
To: gsg@sellnext.com
Subject: Legal invoice - Loan # 701722864

 

Washington Mutual Bank has received the invoice for the legal fees

incurred in conjunction with the judicial foreclosure and receivership

actions filed in conjunction with the default of this loan in February.

 

This invoice has been mailed to P.O. BOX, 307, DEL MAR, CA 92014.