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coffee17 on September 26, 2005 - 4:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
How about instead of getting a hunch, stopping digging, and then going on with (self) confirmation, maybe dig to try and see if the hunch is likely to be right with available evidence (someone else having the hunch isn't evidence). Some hunches might not be able to be confirmed right, or confirmed wrong, and those you can hang on to. But hang on to them as hunches; don't let them become confirmed in your head, and don't talk about them without specifically labeling to the world that this isn't fact based.
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wadosy on September 26, 2005 - 6:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
so far, coffee17, you have given no indication you are able to refute any of the hunches i've confirmed.

in my short time in this forum, i have posted maybe a billion urls. nobody has been able to refute them. if you object to a position of mine, you are certainly encouraged to post urls that contradict mine.

maybe we'd both learn something, on the off chance that anybody wants to learn anything that gores an ox or two, or threatens a sacred cow, or mentions a prominent but ignored elephant in the room.

that's the biggest problem with this whole operation: it was conceived by armchair warriors whose arrogance and hubris are much greater than their wisdom. they figured they could pull it off, and they figured they could cover it all up, and they figured they had enough juice to bull on through no matter what. the official conspiracy theory will hold, by the grace of god, the washington post and the new york times.

the problem i have to think about is this: what caused such desperate, reckless, foolhardy behavior? is peak oil much closer than we think? or can we simply write the whole thing off to egomania...?

i wish i knew. but the bones of it are out there, all you have to do is dig.

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Fire Temple on September 26, 2005 - 11:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Right on!  Those who are capable of lying to the U.N. to  start a war, are capable of manipulating the markets to keep it going.  

The least we can do in an open forum is to question, and to respect those who ask.

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