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False skepticism
#31
RE: False skepticism
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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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#32
RE: False skepticism
Should have thought of that yesterday, there`s a nice youtube channel out there made by a nice guy who recently uploaded a 4 part vid series in which he debunks 9/11 truthers nonsence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIjDfpTeMc

http://www.youtube.com/user/powerm1985?feature=watch
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#33
RE: False skepticism
Pffft JFK plots, Australia LOST it's prime minister (Harold Holt) about 4 years after JFK was shot. He went swimming, and was never found again.

So we named a municipal swimming pool after him.

And I have never ever heard people say it was a conspiracy (not that it wouldn't ever happen, I've just never heard it like I do with jfk).
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#34
RE: False skepticism
I think conspiracy theorists give our government's ability to keep secrets far too much credit.

I disbelieve conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 for the simple fact that you'd have to have hundreds, if not thousands of Americans involved in a conspiracy that most of them would have to know would result in the deaths of thousands of Americans. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Do you seriously believe that thousands of conspirators could possibly be made to keep their secret forever and not a single one has cracked in 11 years? Not a single deathbed confession on record?

Show me incontrovertible evidence. Until then, I have no reason to treat 9/11 conspiracy theorists any differently from religious apologists.
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#35
RE: False skepticism
(December 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Pffft JFK plots, Australia LOST it's prime minister (Harold Holt) about 4 years after JFK was shot. He went swimming, and was never found again.

So we named a municipal swimming pool after him.

And I have never ever heard people say it was a conspiracy (not that it wouldn't ever happen, I've just never heard it like I do with jfk).

Many conspiracy theories grew up around Holt.

Quote:Or maybe he was assassinated by secret agents from the Soviet Union. Of course, he could have possibly been picked up by a Chinese submarine. Others have said that he might have committed suicide or been picked up by a UFO.

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&...LEAchNanhg

This site is a beauty....

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&...5UR3EhJu2w


Admittedly it's not as bad as the U.S where conspiracies lurk under every stone.
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#36
RE: False skepticism
(December 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Pffft JFK plots, Australia LOST it's prime minister (Harold Holt) about 4 years after JFK was shot. He went swimming, and was never found again.

So we named a municipal swimming pool after him.

That strikes me as deliciously ironic and beautifully Australian. Clap
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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