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3. Anything that involves the association of people in a manner resembling a religious institution or cult.
(i.e.)At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
4. Any system or institution which one engages with in order to foster a sense of meaning or relevance in relation to something greater than oneself.
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1. Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without proof supporting the claim.
3. A feeling or belief, that something is true, real, or will happen.
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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
But most importantly, you're speaking in direct absolutes. There is no maybe or perhaps in your rhetoric. You're absolutely convinced without any exception that you're completely correct about no plane etc. We all might as well go spend our time trying to convince that their (anybody) "God" isn't real, or athiests that "God" is real, and the rest like Global Warning etc, because this is your faith and you're sticking to it without any compromise. And the MIB planted the aircraft parts on the streets of NYC.
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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
If one did not have the faith of their conviction, then what would be the point?
You shouldn't need faith to have certainty, unless you're dealing with something which cannot be proven, like "God" for example. You really can't prove such a "thing" exists, or doesn't. The same goes for human CAUSED "Global Warming", which with current human sciences and understanding we can not even precisely determine how much humans are indeed actually CONTRIBUTING to it.
But people can attempt to disprove certain aspects of a "god" with the religious doctrines that are associated; Or you can disprove many of the Global Warming Alarmists arguments wrong. And when you do the arguments are ignored, rejected, sidestepped, etc and the original idea and attitudes of the faith based person are hardly shaken. In fact, all to often, challenging a biased subject's faith only arrouses their ideals even further and as absurd as it may sound you can strengthen their original faith despite putting it to shame.
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Originally posted by Arabesque
Here is the problem of disinformation in a nutshell:
There are two types of speculation:
1. Speculation that can be answered through confirmation/evidence/experiments/additional investigation, etc. (example: I see molten metal. I speculate thermite caused it. I test and confirm variant thermate)
2. Non-falsifiable speculation: can never be confirmed/proven false. (example: I speculate that an unknown laser beam destroyed the WTC. No experiment/evidence can disprove this theory because the "unknown" laser is unknown to us. Therefore, it can not be proven false.)
The non-falsifiable theories work like this: no evidence can prove them wrong (everything else is labeled "faked/planted/disinfo" evidence).
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Originally posted by Wizard_In_The_Woods
Heck, I don’t even watch television anymore. Nor have I seen a single 9-11 movie. Still I’m a no-planer. Because it’s logical. Just because some crackpot attaches himself to an issue — and contaminates the discussion with his presence — doesn’t mean we should allow ourselves to ignore the message. Doing that would give the ‘crazies’ too much influence altogether, now wouldn’t it?
Greetings,
The Wizard In The Woods
Is there anybody who has attached themselves to the no-plane belief who is not a crack-pot?
I would have to guess that drug induced paranoia and delusions come in handy when imagining how no planes were used on 9/11.
Originally posted by Wizard_In_The_Woods
David Shayler? Who the [bleep] is that?? Never heard of the dude. And presumably neither have many other no-planers like myself. What did he do, get into a bad batch of corn (liquor) or something?
Heck, I don’t even watch television anymore. Nor have I seen a single 9-11 movie. Still I’m a no-planer. Because it’s logical. Just because some crackpot attaches himself to an issue — and contaminates the discussion with his presence — doesn’t mean we should allow ourselves to ignore the message. Doing that would give the ‘crazies’ too much influence altogether, now wouldn’t it?
Greetings,
The Wizard In The Woods
Originally posted by johnlear
You should understand that those of us who have been around planes all of our lives know that there could not possibly have been 4 airliner crashes with the amount of parts that were left. It is impossible. Thats why we are called "no-planers" because there were no planes.
On the other hand "Plane Huggers" or those that believe that there were planes involved are generally unable to conceive or grasp an alternative to very few parts and insist there must have been a plane regardless of whether or not there was any evidence of a plane.
"Plane Huggers" are easily fooled by magic, illusions and PsyOps. Their heroes are Lance Burton and Seigfried and Roy and their battle cry is "I saw it so it can't be a hologram!" They are the type that leave $100 donation to the family of the lady that Lance Burton cut in half during the show.
Originally posted by robert z
Is there anybody who has attached themselves to the no-plane belief who is not a crack-pot?
Originally posted by Caustic Logic
I like the video title - Shayler's "mind destroyed by who?" using the before-and-after videos as proof that he went crazy sometime AFTER arguing for holograms/TV fakery/whatever. Funny stuff.