Time Cube / Gene Ray Number

Inspired by Paul Erdős and the Erdős number, define the Gene Ray number:

0 if you’re Gene Ray
1 if you “work” directly with GR or have directly debated him
2 if you know someone with GR1
3 if you know someone with GR2 …

I’m at GR1, earned at the Georgia Tech (2005) debate. What’s your GR number?

I’d assume I don’t have a Gene Ray number, but I have to ask… how do you “debate” Gene Ray? The poor man is insane.

Sage advice from my grandmother: “Never argue with a crazy person.” Words to live by.

Isn’t everybody that responds to this thread kind of automatically GR2?

I was sorta- GR2 even before I responded to this thread. I “knew” **cerberus **from his previous posts. I wasn’t aware that he is GR1 and hence I was GR2 until I read this thread. Posting to it added nothing to my GR number.

FTR: I’m about 98% kidding, as I assume Half Man Half Wit is.

I have no GR number, but everybody reading this is a Discordian 0, because you are a Discordian if you reject the teachings of any religion, even if they are Discordian.

We could refine it as “know substantially in meat space.” So you’re GR2 if you substantially know, in person, in real life, a GR1.

My Batman Number is 2. I know someone who has worked with Batman.
… okay, was drawn into a scene where he interacted directly with Batman.

Anyone else got an interesting Number?

…so we’re all just sentient meat?

Well. I’M sentient. Dunno bout you, mate.

Nah, more like Filthy Beasts of Meat and Hair.

Anybody know what happened to him? I always kinda liked the guy. And he had the bestest DoperName ever.

I’ve been to his site - does that make my number one?

I’ve actually attempted a rational, in-person dialog with GR. A few of us encountered him at Georgia Tech (2005) or at MIT (~2003?). Visiting his site wouldn’t make you a GR1. Let’s keep this at the level of actually meeting him. I suppose that if you’ve had an extended e-mail sequence with him that might count.

E-S: Please either stay on topic or start your own thread. At any rate, kindly desist from hijacking mine - threads are free! Start your own!