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SarahD

(1,201 posts) Fri Dec 22, 2023, 11:14 PM Dec 2023

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Your take on Nikola Tesla?

What do you think? Genius? Shyster? Con man? Persecuted and suppressed? My opinion is that he was a genius, but a huckster when he needed to be.

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Your take on Nikola Tesla? (Original Post) SarahD Dec 2023 OP

Genius but stubborn. Lochloosa Dec 2023 #1

Brilliant, but about 20% crackpot ideas. Maybe more. RussellCattle Dec 2023 #6

A fairly common genius... Think. Again. Dec 2023 #2

Delusional at times with a great talent for self-sabotage, LastDemocratInSC Dec 2023 #3

I sometimes wonder if ... Think. Again. Dec 2023 #4

Sensitive and odd. byronius Dec 2023 #5

Lochloosa

(16,067 posts)

1. Genius but stubborn.

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2023, 11:22 PM

Dec 2023

RussellCattle

(1,535 posts)

6. Brilliant, but about 20% crackpot ideas. Maybe more.

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 23, 2023, 03:16 AM

Dec 2023

Think. Again.

(8,270 posts)

2. A fairly common genius...

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2023, 11:54 PM

Dec 2023

...devastatingly victimized by George Westinghouse.

LastDemocratInSC

(3,647 posts)

3. Delusional at times with a great talent for self-sabotage,

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 23, 2023, 12:57 AM

Dec 2023

and his odd behaviors about certain numbers are evidence that the line dividing genius and insanity is quite thin.

Think. Again.

(8,270 posts)

4. I sometimes wonder if ...

Reply to LastDemocratInSC (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 23, 2023, 01:36 AM

Dec 2023

...some forms of genius are just consciousnesses that are teetering on the thresholds of incomprehensible realities.

Then I chuckle, shake my head, and get on with my day.

byronius

(7,396 posts)

5. Sensitive and odd.

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 23, 2023, 02:24 AM

Dec 2023

Which I love.

His romantic attachment to a pigeon — is quite cool.

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