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To: Vaduz
Are you familiar with the concept of "confirmation bias"?

The point of it is that when you make up your mind before you investigate or analyze something, you are prone to see what supports your bias and ignore everything else.

It's a kind of intellectual blindness.

What I'm selling to you (you said "no sale") is this: Keep an open mind when investigating or examining a complicated matter.

Doesn't that make sense to you?

If you can't keep an open mind, you need to ask yourself "Why? What am I afraid of?"

As an aside, scientists are now taking over the UFO topic, such as it is. Their conclusion is: We don't know what it is. The more we dig into the subject matter, the more complicated it gets.

33 posted on 02/11/2023 8:35:29 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The “intellectual blindness” is what I call “Elizabethan Epistemology”.

That means that some folks insist on a world with no shirts sticking out of drawers and no socks on the floor.

When they see or hear of such things they insist that they are the delusions of crazy people—since such things cannot exist in the perfectly ordered universe that they were taught about in school.


36 posted on 02/11/2023 8:41:03 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The “intellectual blindness” is what I call “Elizabethan Epistemology”.

That means that some folks insist on a world with no shirts sticking out of drawers and no socks on the floor.

When they see or hear of such things they insist that they are the delusions of crazy people—since such things cannot exist in the perfectly ordered universe that they were taught about in school.


37 posted on 02/11/2023 8:41:04 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The point of it is that when you make up your mind before you investigate or analyze.

Yes like betting on your lottery number.


38 posted on 02/11/2023 8:49:19 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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