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To: Quix

“FIRST HAND, PRIMARY SOURCE REPORT.”

When I did my Masters thesis on slave families I had to provide solid primary sources for any information which supported my thesis. I had lots of diaries and writings by slave owners in the Ante-bellum south claiming slaves were treated well. I could not rely on this data because a slave owner has a very clear point of view and is trying to promote his own agenda. I couldn’t use the writings of abolitionists because they also had a point of view and had an agenda of making slavery look as bad as possible.

Both were primary sources but of little value given their clear desire to promote an idea. This is precisely what you do. You post all kinds of writings by people who make no secret of the fact they believe in extra terrestrial visits, therefore their writings can be automatically dismissed as biased and not worthy of consideration in trying to prove extra terrestials.

The problem with what you call your 30 years of “study” is that it is not really study but just reading that which you already want to believe. When you see anything that challenges your point of view you dismiss it as a conspiracies by world firsters or coverups by the govt.

You still have not provided one bit of valid evidence for what you claim. Not one single tiny bit.


681 posted on 01/27/2009 12:53:45 PM PST by yazoo
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To: yazoo

Yet again . . .

THOROUGHLY UNTRUE ABOUT ME

AND

THOROUGHLY UNTRUE ABOUT THE TOPIC.

What tenacity for willful ignorance. Amazing.


683 posted on 01/27/2009 12:58:06 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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