Originally posted by Lira
It's all right, it's a welcome twist
Actually, that isn't so. There have been many attempts to find proofs that the parting of the red sea, for instance, made sense. I heard that, specially in the XIX century, it was common to look for rational explanations for biblical stories - and, it turns out the parting of the Red Sea may have been a ludicrously exaggerated account of something that may have indeed happened thanks to the low tide in the said sea during a certain time of the year that matches the probable day of the event.
sure, 1800s but now? Remember we have progressed significantly in science and thought since that time. Especially with space travel, genetics, and our ideas on evolution. Its obvious that those explanations are outdated. I am not saying that everything we know is correct and nonfalsifiable. But simply with our senses and preception of things they seem to make more sense. Relgion is simply an evolution of myth. Myths are not reality as we perceive through our senses.
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Wait, there's something wrong with the way you numbered these examples. In the first example, the former is correct and the latter is false. The same applies to the second example. Without any concrete facts, these sentences are indeed similar.
not really
myths are myths they are both not real.. hence the 1 1. In essence none can be correct since none are true or hold empirical weight.
saying a myth is correct is essentially an oxymoron. Otherwise we would call it a truth. No?
Sep-09-2009 05:02
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Re: Conspiracy Theorists
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Originally posted by gehzumteufel
What can you do to help them "see" the light? lol
Take away their shrooms.
Or, cut and paste a bunch of pictures onto construction paper about how things REALLY work, make a youtube video about it, and have them watch it. It's the only stuff that will convince them.
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Sep-09-2009 06:10
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
sorry, but Galileo had logic and evidence on his side, which automatically precludes him from being a conspiracy theorist. A theory involving a conspiracy /= conspiracy theory. CT has a very specific definition, as provided here by our friends at wiki.
Now, are you able to point out in which of the 11 trademarks you think Galileo fits into?
I thought wikipedia would be fairly impartial, but that's as good as any rebuttal of conspiracy theorists I've ever seen.
Originally posted by DJ Damerchi
what if the government paid people to help perpetuate the illusion that conspiracy theorists are paid directly in order to cover up the truth?
didn't think about that did you, you fucken sheep.
Sep-09-2009 06:42
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nanothermites.
The only thing I can come up with is maybe if commercial airplanes have flares in them just in case someone decides to launch a heat seeking missile at it.
But why exactly would a domestic airliner have military grade flares in them? Answer? To defuse a threat from domestic terrorism.
Domestic terrorism? Am I talking about US Citizen on US Citizen violence?
Yep.
I wonder who was a US citizen on 9/11.
Bush
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Sep-09-2009 07:00
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this is my friend chad.hes a huuuge conspiracy theorist.i mean over the top.heres my one of my segments with him on what i call "CHADspiricies" its about autism and vacines:
a little long.but something to watch if your bored at work today.
his 911 views are epic also.he's going to ground zero in 2 days for the annual 911 conspiracy protest.
The autism vaccine thing has actually cost lives because people use that misinformation as justification not to get vaccines for preventable illnesses.
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Sep-09-2009 11:36
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Originally posted by Domesticated
I beg your pardon? There's a reason why they're called 'conspiracy theorists' and not '9/11 theorists' or 'Roswell theorists'. It's because a majority of them will blindly believe the opposite of whatever the authorities or the media tell them. I don't think this qualifies them for 'stupidity directed at a certain subject'.
Rather, their mindset of logical reasoning and intelligence is inherently flawed, which you yourself admitted. In the context of life in general, I would say that the inability to employ logic is a fairly major flaw with serious implications.
Actually, plenty of people who only believe one theory are still labelled a conpiracy theorist, even though that's beside the point. The "subject" I'm referring to is that of government/authority being deceptive and untrustworthy. Perhaps "concept" is a better word.
Either way, my point is that governments very frequently lie to us, and shouldn't be trusted. What seperates a cynic from a conspiracy nut is spotting when it's just got a little too stupid to be true.
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
The autism vaccine thing has actually cost lives because people use that misinformation as justification not to get vaccines for preventable illnesses.
Not only that, but herd immunity in some places in the US has basically been eliminated because of this. California has a real problem with it. Some schools are vaccinated as low as 60%. Pretty horrible considering for herd immunity to be effective it has to be 80% or above.
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