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To: Arguss
So if you want to ridicule the conspiracy theory thing, you just show your own ignorance - or your true colors.

You just continue to get further out there, Arguss.

Ottaviani rebuked his "intervention." Now, you'll come back and say somebody made him sign something against his will, but, see, I can always predict what a conspiracist will say.

One can never beat a conspiracist in an argument, because there's always another boogey man around the corner.

409 posted on 08/02/2004 11:25:38 AM PDT by sinkspur (It is time to breed the dangerous Pit Bull Terrier out of existence!)
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To: sinkspur

Dear sinkspur,

"One can never beat a conspiracist in an argument, because there's always another boogey man around the corner."

Actually, the technical term for this is the non-falsifiability of a hypothesis.

Evidence for the conspiracy is taken as just that: evidence for the conspiracy. Evidence that tells against the conspiracy is re-interpreted as evidence that the conspiracy is all the more effective; the conspiracy is even able to produce "counter-factual evidence" ostensibly disproving the conspiracy.

When you've reached that point regarding any topic, it's time to resort to psychotropic drugs.


sitetest


411 posted on 08/02/2004 11:31:25 AM PDT by sitetest (That, and a whole lot of therapy.)
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To: sinkspur; Arguss
Sinkspur... are you still trying to use references to conspiracy theory to distract from the real issues of bad prelates, suppression of Catholic Doctrine, and suppression of the traditional Latin Mass?
413 posted on 08/02/2004 12:06:04 PM PDT by pascendi (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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To: sinkspur
"One can never beat a conspiracist in an argument, because there's always another boogey man around the corner."

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't following me.

Just responded to your assertion that there were no Masonists. That's of course ridiculous. Haven't you ever seen all those clowns tumbling out of a volkswagon? ;^)

Just for the record, are you saying Bugnini wasn't a Mason? That Bishop Montini wasn't censured by Pius for conspiring secretly with communists? That these two facts might not account for something? That you are not a total socialist, trying to appear orthodox, denying that the true Church did not appear until 1962?

414 posted on 08/02/2004 12:26:02 PM PDT by Arguss (Take the narrow road)
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