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ParticipantI forgot to mention the first part of my plan, which is to ask for advice on a website I know where lots of brilliant and insightful people post. It’s one of the forums over on foreclosures.com. If anyone’s interested, I can find the exact web address. (Just kidding. It’s right here at pigginton’s econo almanac for the landed poor.)
ParticipantProven? John, you have a pretty low standard of proof. As in, someone said it on the internet. Which has been my point all along.
ParticipantProven? John, you have a pretty low standard of proof. As in, someone said it on the internet. Which has been my point all along.
ParticipantProven? John, you have a pretty low standard of proof. As in, someone said it on the internet. Which has been my point all along.
ParticipantProven? John, you have a pretty low standard of proof. As in, someone said it on the internet. Which has been my point all along.
ParticipantProven? John, you have a pretty low standard of proof. As in, someone said it on the internet. Which has been my point all along.
ParticipantJohn,
What makes you believe that Obama hasn’t furnished his Hawaii birth certificate? And what makes you believe that the guy on that website you cite has painstakingly researched the matter (and is telling you the truth)? It seems to me that the only way you could believe either of those things is if you take what is being said at face value without doing any research of your own. That’s pretty much the definition of unskeptical.
And that all-too-common lack of skepticism is what I mean to illustrate. So many Americans (so many humans, really) lack the skepticism necessary to deal with the flood of “information” that the internet brings.
Every time I say that you believe everything you read on the internet, you counter with something untrue (and easily disprovable) that you read on the internet. So this discussion is really bearing no further fruit. You’ve pretty much admitted that you’re unskeptical, but you don’t see it as a problem. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
ParticipantJohn,
What makes you believe that Obama hasn’t furnished his Hawaii birth certificate? And what makes you believe that the guy on that website you cite has painstakingly researched the matter (and is telling you the truth)? It seems to me that the only way you could believe either of those things is if you take what is being said at face value without doing any research of your own. That’s pretty much the definition of unskeptical.
And that all-too-common lack of skepticism is what I mean to illustrate. So many Americans (so many humans, really) lack the skepticism necessary to deal with the flood of “information” that the internet brings.
Every time I say that you believe everything you read on the internet, you counter with something untrue (and easily disprovable) that you read on the internet. So this discussion is really bearing no further fruit. You’ve pretty much admitted that you’re unskeptical, but you don’t see it as a problem. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
ParticipantJohn,
What makes you believe that Obama hasn’t furnished his Hawaii birth certificate? And what makes you believe that the guy on that website you cite has painstakingly researched the matter (and is telling you the truth)? It seems to me that the only way you could believe either of those things is if you take what is being said at face value without doing any research of your own. That’s pretty much the definition of unskeptical.
And that all-too-common lack of skepticism is what I mean to illustrate. So many Americans (so many humans, really) lack the skepticism necessary to deal with the flood of “information” that the internet brings.
Every time I say that you believe everything you read on the internet, you counter with something untrue (and easily disprovable) that you read on the internet. So this discussion is really bearing no further fruit. You’ve pretty much admitted that you’re unskeptical, but you don’t see it as a problem. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
ParticipantJohn,
What makes you believe that Obama hasn’t furnished his Hawaii birth certificate? And what makes you believe that the guy on that website you cite has painstakingly researched the matter (and is telling you the truth)? It seems to me that the only way you could believe either of those things is if you take what is being said at face value without doing any research of your own. That’s pretty much the definition of unskeptical.
And that all-too-common lack of skepticism is what I mean to illustrate. So many Americans (so many humans, really) lack the skepticism necessary to deal with the flood of “information” that the internet brings.
Every time I say that you believe everything you read on the internet, you counter with something untrue (and easily disprovable) that you read on the internet. So this discussion is really bearing no further fruit. You’ve pretty much admitted that you’re unskeptical, but you don’t see it as a problem. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
ParticipantJohn,
What makes you believe that Obama hasn’t furnished his Hawaii birth certificate? And what makes you believe that the guy on that website you cite has painstakingly researched the matter (and is telling you the truth)? It seems to me that the only way you could believe either of those things is if you take what is being said at face value without doing any research of your own. That’s pretty much the definition of unskeptical.
And that all-too-common lack of skepticism is what I mean to illustrate. So many Americans (so many humans, really) lack the skepticism necessary to deal with the flood of “information” that the internet brings.
Every time I say that you believe everything you read on the internet, you counter with something untrue (and easily disprovable) that you read on the internet. So this discussion is really bearing no further fruit. You’ve pretty much admitted that you’re unskeptical, but you don’t see it as a problem. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
Participant[quote=jficquette]
The only way to know for sure if Obama is eligable to be president would be for him to produce a real birth certificate but he refuses to do so.If someone refuses to provide proof of birth then what choices are one left with as to what to believe? Very few. One has to consider that maybe he is not eligible or else why not provide the BC??
Here is another article on his BC. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
John
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I read the article you cited, John, and you’re only bolstering my point that you and so many others will believe what they read on the internet regardless of its easy disprovability.
I was watching a documentary on the hippie movement the other day, and towards the end Steve Jobs was talking (in the ’70s) about how personal computers will take so much power out of the hands of “the man” and give it to the people. And that did, in some ways, come to pass. But along with it came a whole new era of ignorance and hysteria.
I think most of the (very large) segment of the population that eschews skepticism would, prior to their internet access, simply not get involved too much in politics. They were busy getting their palms read or looking at their horoscopes or attending seances. But political operatives have learned that they can spoon feed easy-to-access, easy-to-read, bite-sized chunks of bull slop to these people and get them to vote for (or against) the candidates they like (or don’t like).
John, I think you should stand up to these people who are pulling the wool over your eyes. Don’t let them make a fool of you.
Participant[quote=jficquette]
The only way to know for sure if Obama is eligable to be president would be for him to produce a real birth certificate but he refuses to do so.If someone refuses to provide proof of birth then what choices are one left with as to what to believe? Very few. One has to consider that maybe he is not eligible or else why not provide the BC??
Here is another article on his BC. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
John
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I read the article you cited, John, and you’re only bolstering my point that you and so many others will believe what they read on the internet regardless of its easy disprovability.
I was watching a documentary on the hippie movement the other day, and towards the end Steve Jobs was talking (in the ’70s) about how personal computers will take so much power out of the hands of “the man” and give it to the people. And that did, in some ways, come to pass. But along with it came a whole new era of ignorance and hysteria.
I think most of the (very large) segment of the population that eschews skepticism would, prior to their internet access, simply not get involved too much in politics. They were busy getting their palms read or looking at their horoscopes or attending seances. But political operatives have learned that they can spoon feed easy-to-access, easy-to-read, bite-sized chunks of bull slop to these people and get them to vote for (or against) the candidates they like (or don’t like).
John, I think you should stand up to these people who are pulling the wool over your eyes. Don’t let them make a fool of you.
Participant[quote=jficquette]
The only way to know for sure if Obama is eligable to be president would be for him to produce a real birth certificate but he refuses to do so.If someone refuses to provide proof of birth then what choices are one left with as to what to believe? Very few. One has to consider that maybe he is not eligible or else why not provide the BC??
Here is another article on his BC. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
John
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I read the article you cited, John, and you’re only bolstering my point that you and so many others will believe what they read on the internet regardless of its easy disprovability.
I was watching a documentary on the hippie movement the other day, and towards the end Steve Jobs was talking (in the ’70s) about how personal computers will take so much power out of the hands of “the man” and give it to the people. And that did, in some ways, come to pass. But along with it came a whole new era of ignorance and hysteria.
I think most of the (very large) segment of the population that eschews skepticism would, prior to their internet access, simply not get involved too much in politics. They were busy getting their palms read or looking at their horoscopes or attending seances. But political operatives have learned that they can spoon feed easy-to-access, easy-to-read, bite-sized chunks of bull slop to these people and get them to vote for (or against) the candidates they like (or don’t like).
John, I think you should stand up to these people who are pulling the wool over your eyes. Don’t let them make a fool of you.
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