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False skepticism
#21
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 6:42 pm)Voltron Wrote:
(December 7, 2012 at 3:10 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's the same as being 'skeptical' of evolution, or being 'skeptical' that the earth is round.

Not even close.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but man, you just gave government and science the same degree of trust in reporting the truth. Yikes.

No I didn't. That is the strawman position of what I said. Most conspiracy theories (9/11 shinanigans and JFK assination) have been very vigorously and independently scientifically investigated. It doesn't have anything to do with the government or trusting the government. That's the way conspiracy theorists always try to twist everything. Do you think the government was the only people who investigated these events? It comes down to believing good evidence or bad evidence. Something that should be fundamental to true skepticism.
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#22
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 6:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Do you think the government was the only people who investigated these events?

..... Yep ... gullible ... Do you have ANY idea how politics work ?
"Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter "
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#23
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 6:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(December 7, 2012 at 6:42 pm)Voltron Wrote: Not even close.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but man, you just gave government and science the same degree of trust in reporting the truth. Yikes.

No I didn't. That is the strawman position of what I said. Most conspiracy theories (9/11 shinanigans and JFK assination) have been very vigorously and independently scientifically investigated. It doesn't have anything to do with the government or trusting the government. That's the way conspiracy theorists always try to twist everything. Do you think the government was the only people who investigated these events? It comes down to believing good evidence or bad evidence. Something that should be fundamental to true skepticism.

How is it strawman when you made a funny ass comment about everything that was reported in those cases being in the same vein of truth as the earth being round?
Maybe your analogy was just wack.
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#24
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 6:50 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Okay, I'm going to get to play your game, and argue like a conspiracy theorist. Not because I think I can pound information into your dull brain, but because I think it will be fun.

I just told you i'm not a CT ...

And the fact that you think the public slaughter of you President is fun says it all ... that makes me cringe ...
"Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter "
R. Gervais
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#25
RE: False skepticism
the germans is amused
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#26
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm)Kousbroek Wrote: And the fact that you think the public slaughter of you President is fun says it all ... that makes me cringe ...

He didn't say JFK being killed is fun, he said the exercise of pretending to be a conspiracy theorist would be fun. Your argument, good or bad, would be better served by not resorting to silly strawmen and ad homs.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#27
RE: False skepticism
(December 7, 2012 at 7:18 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(December 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm)Kousbroek Wrote: And the fact that you think the public slaughter of you President is fun says it all ... that makes me cringe ...

He didn't say JFK being killed is fun, he said the exercise of pretending to be a conspiracy theorist would be fun. Your argument, good or bad, would be better served by not resorting to silly strawmen and ad homs.

We were discussing the JFK murder and talking about that seemed to be fun, not my words, and i am ignorant and have a dull brain ... oh yes and i am an insult to him for not believing the JFK fairy tale, or that's what i understood of the OP ... I think i've been quite nice and patient.
"Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter "
R. Gervais
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#28
RE: False skepticism
Let's recap the actual words employed:

(December 7, 2012 at 6:50 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Okay, I'm going to get to play your game, and argue like a conspiracy theorist. Not because I think I can pound information into your dull brain, but because I think it will be fun.

Playing the conspiracy game is what was regarded as being fun. Twisting that into a false observation that JFK's murder was fun is playing into Capn's hands with regards to ignorance, n'est-ce pas?

In other words, it might not be to your advantage to give your opponent ammunition, merely to score cheap points.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#29
RE: False skepticism



Could one of the two of you spill some blood? I'd like to see some blood in the next act — if that's not too much to ask. And not the fake stuff, either.


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#30
RE: False skepticism
I actualy had the feeling that they were just about to kiss.
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