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To: nopardons
The amount of socalled " open mindedness " on tinfoil hat threads, is so open , that the true believers' brains have all fallen out.

Do you have a problem with those that think beyond what they've been told to think? There is a difference between a "true thinker" and a "true believer". To "believe" is to base your knowledge on faith. To "think" is to critically analyize facts. Closing your eyes and pretending something isn't there is more akin to preserving one's belief system than it is to seeking truth...

I suppose that would make you a "true believer" of your own opinions.

117 posted on 11/02/2002 11:32:56 PM PST by FormerLurker
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To: FormerLurker
I have a VERY big problem with people, who don't know very much at all, about a topic that they " feel " something about and believe any and every crackpot website, because it jibes with their already madeup minds. I take a great deal of umbrage, with people, who are supposedly educated , but who swallow, as whole clothe, erronious and spurious " facts ", and then come here to spew bildge. I suppose that makes me something horrid, in your opinion. I shan't tell you what that makes you , in mine. LOL

" TRUE BELIEVER " ? Is that the best you can manage ? I have debated ( more like fought knock down drag out flame wars ) here, with people who don't know the first thing about a subject, except what they have read / been told , by someone else, with an agenda, who doesn't know the first thing about the subject ; however, I do . That doesn't make me whatever horrid thing you are alluding that I am.

Your own hubris proves that you, instead of me, has made you into what you seem to think I am. And as to " thinking ", NO the tinfoilers don't T-H-I-N-K ; they just parrot other people's garbage.

120 posted on 11/02/2002 11:43:07 PM PST by nopardons
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