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>> I’m one of the biggest conspiracy theory skeptics of All Time
I used to be, too. But Q has encouraged me to look into a few of them and now I am more skeptical about “history” than I am about most conspiracy theories. I want hard evidence and facts in either case, but I no longer laugh at the “conspiracy kooks”. Too many of the conspiracy theories are showing evidence of being true, at least in part.
Remember that just because a few parts of a theory are wrong, that doesn’t mean the whole shebang is wrong. Also remember that a theory is just that: a THEORY. The whole idea when you have a theory, whether it’s Q-based or quantum theory or whatever is that you use the theory to explain what you’ve observed. You look for evidence to support or refute it. You modify or abandon the theory as new information becomes available. Most theories don’t spring into being full-formed with zero errors. If they did, they wouldn’t be theories; they’d be facts.
Thank you. Theory comes from a Greek word, “Theoreo”, “I look at, I observe.” It means that you don’t have it all put together, you are looking at the parts to figure out how they all fit.
And yes, one reason to come to this thread is the general support that people on this thread have for one another.
(Yawn! Twilight time. Time for bed.)
Excellent points. Welcome to the group of folks familiar with history more accurately described.
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I am reminded of a short essay I once read by Albert Einstein about "Theories."
His subject was one of his great predecessors, Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion that led more or less directly to Isaac Newton, and subsequently to Einstein himself.
Einstein's main point was that Kepler's original "Theory" was completely wrong, but it served as a powerful lens through which he painstakingly sifted the data until eventually getting it right.
Even Kepler's reasoning was "wrong" in the eyes of modern science. He theorized that the planetary orbits were circles (they are actually ellipses) set by God according the "perfect" intervals of the musical scale.
Hmm. Kooky, eh?
Without this preliminary theory to drive his research, Kepler would have never developed "Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion" which were so fundamental to the invention of the science of physics.
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