Anaxagoras
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Joined: 5/9/2009 From: Eire Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras Well then you won't mind if I and others on here disagree with your assertions!  Indeed, I do not mind. But your lack of faith does will sadden me. It is good that you lot of ordinary people are blissfully unaware of your plight, but it would be better if you were not unaware. Lack of faith in yourself? Honestly you crack me up!!! Ordinary people? Well I for one certainly wouldn't want to be "special" like your good self! quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras It isn't a confession, it is an honest admission for the sake of clarity. It is sufficient to look to expert knowledge for guidance. This is what the vast majority of people actually do all the time, including experts in other fields, such as judges. I am not the vast majority of people. Bloody good thing you aren't! quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras Very few people actually have sufficient expertise to make factual pronouncements based purely on their own technical knowledge of certain events like the collapse of the towers. People in these instances rely on expertise. I know you don't possess such expertise either so stop embarassing yourself by pretending to be a know-all. Yeah, yeah, and the vast majority of people actually do need someone else to light the light, put fire into the hearth and to wipe their nose, not so? A boyscout who hasn't left high school yet can tell you that a couple of kitchen fires cannot bring down such buildings. Please stop parroting your experts and go to one of them boyscout associations and rent there a brain. What are you? A tape-recorder? If you lack wits, then consult somebody who has plenty of wits. Well I'm sure you are completely independent, having possession of all the learning of the last 2,500 years inside your head. Need a TV? No problem, Rule can make the parts and build it for you. I don't parrot experts, I rely on them to understand the situation. That is infinitely preferable to a Walter Mitty daydreaming conspiracist who thinks he knows everything, and has all the answers! In civilisation there is an inter-dependence of ability and knowledge. That is what got man out of the muck. Deal with it. Sorry but who rents a brain from a boyscout association? Is that where you got yours? Did you learn all you need to know from learning how to tie special knots and read a map? quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras I have listened to the experts. Experts are the people who provide their expertise to assist others. Thats what experts do Rule! So that is your excuse for not thinking yourself? You are gullible, an easy mark. ... as opposed to a daydreamer who simply invents whatever he wants to believe or rips it from any nutty conspiracy text? quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras LOL Rule, if someone is wrong then it means they are not right. Once people thought that nerves were pneumatic tubes that made the muscles swell up and deflated them. Wrong? Yes and no. Yes they were wrong: nerves are not pneumatic tubes. But also: Yes, they were right: electrical signals conveyed by the nerves do make muscles contract. Your failure to realize that people who are wrong may nevertheless be right, is telling. You lack the ability to perceive truth. You said in post 110 "That somebody is wrong does not mean that they are not right. It merely means that they cannot perceive the truth either." to which I replied that a person cannot be right if they are wrong. Now you are shifting the goal posts by cioting an instance where they were partly right. That is not the same thing so quit strawmanning. quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras Rule, I think everybody here knows you have a very active imagination. However, imagination is not a sufficient quality. You won't find the truth in your conspiratorial daydreams. It is rather that you lack the ability to perceive truth as you know it not. If by that you mean that I listen to experts while you refuse to believe and invent your own stories which you claim to be "truth", then yes you are right my friend!
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