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Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate

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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 5/13/14, 12:34 PM, in article hgu00a3.gf@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/13/14, 11:52 AM, in article hgnt803a.3@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
>>> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> wrote:
>>>>> On 14-05-13 02:40 PM, owl wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nope.  It was on seeing your appeal-to-authority logical fallacy following
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> call for "logic" and "reasoning."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why are you even bothering with Snit? Your decision to respond to him is
>>>>> doing nothing more than prolonging his stay in this group.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I only popped in for a moment and thought I'd poke him a bit.
>>> 
>>> You spewed your idiotic conspiracy nonsense... making yourself look the
>>> fool. So be it.
>>> 
>>>> I've
>>>> got too much going on in real life at the moment to stay for long.  No time
>>>> for a circus. :)
>>> 
>>> Bottom line: you know your whacked out conspiracy nonsense is completely
>>> contrary to known facts. And you know it is offensive to those who died and
>>> those who loved them, but you do not care.
>>> 
>> 
>> Bottom line: you lash out at my opinion on those events because you cannot
>> provide evidence to support the government propaganda.
>>  
>  <http://goo.gl/6LV04> [Slate.com]
>    -----
>    First of all, why do people believe conspiracy theories?
> 
>    There are number of factors, but probably one of the most
>    important ones in this instance is that, paradoxically, it gives
>    people a sense of control. People hate randomness, they dread the
>    sort of random occurrences that can destroy their lives, so as a
>    mechanism against that dread, it turns out that it¹s much easier
>    to believe in a conspiracy. Then you have someone to blame, it¹s
>    not just randomness.
> 
>    What are the psychological forces at play in conspiracy thinking?
> 
>    Basically what¹s happening in any conspiracy theory is that people
>    have a need or a motivation to believe in this theory, and it¹s
>    psychologically different from evidence-based thinking. A
>    conspiracy theory is immune to evidence, and that can pretty well
>    serve as the definition of one. If you reject evidence, or
>    reinterpret the evidence to be confirmation of your theory, or you
>    ignore mountains of evidence to focus on just one thing, you¹re
>    probably a conspiracy theorist. We call that a self-sealing nature
>    of reasoning.
>    -----
> 
> That is why you believe your conspiracy theories.
> 

Slate dot com == a bunch of insane faggots, so I guess your latest appeal-
to-authority logical fallacy just blew up in your face.

 

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OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-12 21:40 -0700
  Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 12:25 +0000
    Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 08:11 -0700
      Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 09:35 -0700
      Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 18:40 +0000
        Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-13 14:43 -0400
          Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 18:52 +0000
            Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:00 -0700
              Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 19:34 +0000
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:44 -0700
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 19:52 +0000
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 13:24 -0700
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 20:35 +0000
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 13:55 -0700
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-05-13 15:29 -0600
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 14:29 -0700
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-05-13 15:28 -0600
                Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 14:30 -0700
          Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:01 -0700
        Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 11:44 -0700

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