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Someday when you learn how to comprehend what you read you may notice that it was icarys comment and not mine.

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Tompson

"Well there is that little thing about Hugo Chavez still giving oil to poor people in amerika.
You called me a liar several times.
But yet I prove I am right and you are wrong again AS USUAL "

Except you have provided no evidence that program exists anymore. No evidence at all.


It ended in early 09.

And you are lying pretending the program still runs.


Just post an article about the current state of the program. Except you can't because it was cancelled 2 winters ago.

Posted by Kristy Kershaw on January 19, 2010 at 10:04 am


http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/2010-citgocitizens-energy-free-heating-oil-program-kicks-off-in-nyc119/

Citizens Energy Chair Joseph Kennedy. (image: static.sdnn.com)
The CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program began its fifth year Friday, with a delivery of heating oil to residents in upper Manhattan. According to NY1, residents of a tenant-owned cooperative on W. 130th St. received oil from the program, which provides discounted heating oil to needy families. To kick off the 2010 program, CITGO held a celebratory event at Manhattan’s Riverside Church. In attendance was Alejandro Granado, CEO of CITGO, Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuelan ambassador to the U.S., and Joseph P. Kennedy II, chairman of the Boston-based Citizens Energy.

Now you can suck my cock like the little bitch you are...
After you show us what kind of an apology you can make for calling a man a liar multiple times.

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I did not say I was a critical thinker I said that Hugo Chavez gives free heating oil to poor people in the U.S.
My bitch said I was a liar...I provided validation for my statements and my bitch is still my bitch.
Now if you would like to apply for membership in "my bitches" you will have to get in line because my cock is only for those who need something in their mouth to stop that squeeky noise they make when they open it.
Now if you have an actual gripe with me why don't you just say it instead of snarking behind my back?

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Well my post started off discussing critical thinking and the scientific method came in later. I still think critical thinking is key.

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The scientific method is a tool for experiencing the world. As with all tools, it is not useful in all circumstances. Similarly, the scientific method is not a way to create new ideas and theories - it is a way to validate them. To a "real" scientist (and I use the term reservedly) the source of a given theorum - whether from intuition, a dream, a joke, a small child's ponderings or divine inspiration - is irrelevant. It's the methodology for testing the proposition that will prove its validity or expose it as a fallacy - not the source of the idea. Einstein claimed that the inspiration for the theory of relativity came to him in a dream when he was thirteen or fourteen. Some might say that's not "scientific" - but the point of science isn't whether or not you have inspirational dreams but whether the conclusions you draw from these dreams are empirically valid.

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We often think, naively, that missing data are the primary impediments to intellectual progress—just find the right facts and all the problems will dissipate. But barriers are often deeper and more abstract in thought. We must have access to the right metaphor, not only to the requisite information. Revolutionary thinkers are not, primarily, gatherers of fact, but weavers of new intellectual structures.

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The progress of science requires more than new data; it needs novel frameworks and contexts. And where do these fundamentally new views of the world arise? They are not simply discovered by pure observation; they require new modes of thought. And where can we find them, if old modes do not even include the right metaphors? The nature of true genius must lie in the elusive capacity to construct these new modes from apparent darkness. The basic chanciness and unpredictability of science must also reside in the inherent difficulty of such a task.

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Well my post started off discussing critical thinking and the scientific method came in later. I still think critical thinking is key.

 
Very true. I would, however, argue that "critical thinking" - taking some new event or idea and comparing it to what you already know and believe and attempting to fit it into the group of facts and ideas that you consider valid - is a sort of "short hand" scientific method. It's going "I don't have time to run lengthy experiments on this..." and then either saying "...but it seems to match these known facts and the model of reality that I consider genuine so I'll provisionally accept it as valid until more information comes along" or saying "...but this seriously contradicts what I already consider valid, so I need to investigate and question it and my current worldview and resolve this inconsistency."
 
To go all the way back to the OP, I would agree with you that large segments of society seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills. This might be okay if they were vested in following and believing someone who has excellent critical thinking skills - but more often it seems to be a selection of very loud, very arrogant, very biased idiots.

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Someday when you learn how to comprehend what you read you may notice that it was icarys comment and not mine.

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Now you can suck my cock like the little bitch you are...

Now that's some critical thinking!

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Those are the kind of comments that show the real man behind the posts. Or should I say little boy. But if he thinks it makes him look like a critical thinker, who are we to burst his little bubble.

So how bout you sit your lying ass down.






< Message edited by thompsonx -- 5/3/2010 8:53:07 PM >

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To go all the way back to the OP, I would agree with you that large segments of society seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills. This might be okay if they were vested in following and believing someone who has excellent critical thinking skills - but more often it seems to be a selection of very loud, very arrogant, very biased idiots.

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I think the flames have digressed too far. Let's please stay on topic?

- LA

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We often think, naively, that missing data are the primary impediments to intellectual progress—just find the right facts and all the problems will dissipate. But barriers are often deeper and more abstract in thought. We must have access to the right metaphor, not only to the requisite information. Revolutionary thinkers are not, primarily, gatherers of fact, but weavers of new intellectual structures.

-- Stephen Jay Gould in "For Want of a Metaphor", in The Flamingo's Smile (1985) p. 151

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To go all the way back to the OP, I would agree with you that large segments of society seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills. This might be okay if they were vested in following and believing someone who has excellent critical thinking skills - but more often it seems to be a selection of very loud, very arrogant, very biased idiots.

Myself, I think the highlighted portion sums up this whole thread.

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Sorry, LA - I didn't mean to hijack your thread into a discussion of science. It's just one of those subjects I like to blather on about. (;

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I think the flames have digressed too far. Let's please stay on topic?

- LA

Sure thing...sorry for the interuption.

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To go all the way back to the OP, I would agree with you that large segments of society seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills. This might be okay if they were vested in following and believing someone who has excellent critical thinking skills - but more often it seems to be a selection of very loud, very arrogant, very biased idiots.

Myself, I think the highlighted portion sums up this whole thread.

You have made several important contributions to the thread and no one thinks you are a biased idiot.

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And the reason I haven't contributed is summed up above.

This entire thread is an ego circle jerk.

How pompous and arrogant can people be to decide their reasoning is superior and others lack critical thinking skills?

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And the reason I haven't contributed is summed up above.

This entire thread is an ego circle jerk.

How pompous and arrogant can people be to decide their reasoning is superior and others lack critical thinking skills?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: InvisibleBlack
 
To go all the way back to the OP, I would agree with you that large segments of society seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills. This might be okay if they were vested in following and believing someone who has excellent critical thinking skills - but more often it seems to be a selection of very loud, very arrogant, very biased idiots.

Myself, I think the highlighted portion sums up this whole thread.

You have made several important contributions to the thread and no one thinks you are a biased idiot.

And the reason I haven't contributed is summed up above.

This entire thread is an ego circle jerk.

How pompous and arrogant can people be to decide their reasoning is superior and others lack critical thinking skills?