[quote]jeffdirect wrote:
Lonnie123 wrote:
As with any good skeptic, I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.
Well, a lot of people i have talked to realise , after reviewing the evidence, that the gouvernament was complicit in 911.
I have yet to see one of them changing back his mind.
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I say “as with any good skeptic” … not simply someone you talked to. A skeptic is not what most people think it is. We study logic, logical fallacies, science, pseudoscience, how people deceive themselves (this is a big one) and many other things including conspiracy theories. We require good evidence for something before we will believe it. Not simply “well, I dont know about that, im skeptical.” Check out websites like www.skeptic.com and www.theskepticsguide.org, and www.theness.com for more info. 2 of those sites have good articles on these subject matters.
Also, as I said before, conspiracy theorists are VERY convincing and clever with their arguments. Most people do not take the next step after they hear the “truth.”
Take Rosie of Donnel for instance, there are several clips of her saying “I dont know if the government did it, but this is the first time a fire melted steel” and “Do you know how long it took the buildings to fall, 9 seconds. Thats the same as free fall speed…its physically impossible” Again, she stops the research when she hears the “truth” and doesnt look for evidence that they did in fact NOT fall at free fall speed. Then all the people watching the view go “Wow, this is interesting” and dont do anymore research, they dont go online, they dont have any knowledge or skepticism about these things. So now that rosie has said it…it has to be true right?
This is the way it works almost all the time. I myself have even heard someone say “Well, this is also what Charlie Sheen belives” … WHO CARES!? Charlie Sheen is an actor, and unfortunately that counts for something here in America. Thats what happens… You, the guy from Lose Change, Rosie, Charlie… They make these comments without doing the proper research and then the people they said it to just believe them.
Seriously, really read over that website I sent you (http://www.debunking911.com/), it will give you the arguments from the other side which I feel are convincing.
The number one rule of this kind of stuff is to be OBJECTIVE. You have to follow the evidence no matter what, which is what I would do if it did indeed point straight to Bush. Considering his confessions and further tapes explaining that he was planning this for a long time after we blew up some of his buildings, Osama seems to be the number one suspect.
You have the read all information with an open mind. Its so easy to be convinced of something if you go in thinking that its true.
