Could you share some of these many examples of you proving the authorities wrong?fela fan said:Personally axon i come from the angle where i distrust authorities all of the time, and never believe them.
It makes me right a whole heap more times than being wrong!
That is so true!axon said:The NIST report also didn't examine whether dolphins attacked the towers. Do you know why they didn't examine this hypothesis?
Nobidy is denying this.Jazzz said:But through all this I learnt an invaluable lesson - authority can get it wrong
axon said:I am actually in agreement with you in the distrusting authorities. However, I digress when it comes to never believing them. You need to judge each case on it's own merits.
I'm saying nothing of the sort - I'm saying that to question authority is a very good thing.Jazzz said:What you are simply saying here, without consciously realising, is very clear - 'follow authority'.
They didn't check for tuna?!detective-boy said:That is so true!
And there were absolutely no tests for traces of tuna carried out on the girders which were instantaneously removed from the site and buried in a large hole in the ground in China!
beesonthewhatnow said:You then take a pre-determined conclusion and look for evidence to fit, ignoring anything that contradicts this view.
Can you not see the flaw in this approach?
I fear I have wasted my breath with you bees.beesonthewhatnow said:Nobidy is denying this.
Your reasoning has a crucial flaw - you assume that becuase x got y wrong on one occasion then x is always wrong. You then take a pre-determined conclusion and look for evidence to fit, ignoring anything that contradicts this view.
Can you not see the flaw in this approach?
....Based on information gleaned from lunatic websites... (see: "Huntley was innocent!", "Saddam's sons are alive!", "Saddam had a double, nay, triple in court," "9/11 here's how they did it," oh, and absolutely anything that that janitor bloke says, no matter how unlikely, improbable and evidence free the claim is).Jazzz said:As I said, I make up my own mind.
Jazzz, of anyone on U75 you'd be the last one who's judgement i'd take blindly.Jazzz said:But more to the point - why isn't the BBC, CNN, and all mainstream media regarded as 'nutjob'? After all, they carried the propaganda of WMD.
Working out what is truthful is no easy task.
Don't take my word for anything.
Work it out for yourself!
axon said:I have no doubt that the US government are incompetent when it comes to combating terrorism (e.g. lets invade Iraq, that's sure to reduce the number of people pissed off at the US), but that is a long way from the US gov actually orchestrating 911.
editor said:Could you share some of these many examples of you proving the authorities wrong?
That tells me all I need to know, thanks.fela fan said:And, no, i shan't be providing any proof.
Err, yes you did. You claimed that Huntley was as innocent as the driven snow and the girls were in fact murdered by American serviceman in a truly bizarre plot (which I believe you swallowed wholesale from that rampaging nutcase Vialls.)Jazzz said:I never produced a thread entitled 'Huntley is innocent!', and never stated so.
Bob_the_lost said:Why is the BBC not regarded as nutjob? Because they report the news, not make it up from whole cloth and desires.
editor said:That tells me all I need to know, thanks.
Instead of throwing around the ad hominems, why not just try backing up your claims?fela fan said:You sneaky sly person.
editor said:Instead of throwing around the ad hominems, why not just try backing up your claims?
Just a thought, like.
Your own words:fela fan said:You what? My claims?? They're not my claims. They're claims you dreamt up, then put into my mouth, then asked me to verify them with examples.
Sly and sneaky seem eminently suitable here, not ad homs. And that's coz you've done this countless times.
I simply asked you to give some examples where your distrust of authorities has proved you right and the authorities (presumably) proved wrong.fela fan said:Personally axon i come from the angle where i distrust authorities all of the time, and never believe them.
It makes me right a whole heap more times than being wrong!
editor said:Your own words:
I simply asked you to give some examples where your distrust of authorities has proved you right and the authorities (presumably) proved wrong.
*Gives up at the stupidity (or dishonesty) of fela.fela fan said:You're changing your tune again, it's remarkable! Slippin and slidin all around. Here was your question to me:.
editor said:*Gives up at the stupidity (or dishonesty) of fela.
Talking of which, what was that you said a while ago about no longer contributing to 9/11 threads?
Apparently, whilst innocently blackberrying near one of Cambridge's US air bases, the girls accidently came across a top secret meeting involving Dubya (who they recognised from school lessons), called to discuss how to deal with the problems of the conspiracy theories which were circulating. Unfortunately for them, at that very moment Dick Cheney was showing a powerpoint slide of the WTC 1 falling, indicating where all the invisible explosives were with big red arrows.editor said:Err, yes you did. You claimed that Huntley was as innocent as the driven snow and the girls were in fact murdered by American serviceman in a truly bizarre plot (which I believe you swallowed wholesale from that rampaging nutcase Vialls.)
Of course it's a criticism of your position, becuase your position is laughable.Jazzz said:You were making no genuine enquiry. What all this is from you is simply a masquerade - whatever you might kid yourself, it's just same old criticism of my position by appeal to authority.
As I said, I make up my own mind.
I said, as you could read, that I 'no longer doubt Huntley's guilt'. That means what I did was doubt his guilt. That is not the same thing as proclaiming his innocence, which I never did.editor said:Err, yes you did. You claimed that Huntley was as innocent as the driven snow and the girls were in fact murdered by American serviceman in a truly bizarre plot (which I believe you swallowed wholesale from that rampaging nutcase Vialls.)
Luckily for you, your lunatic threads on the topic have been deleted, but here's where you finally admitted that you were as wrong as Mr Wrong on the day that he got everything wrong:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1417570&postcount=68
Then how come you started a thread entitled "Huntley is Innocent!"Jazzz said:That is not the same thing as proclaiming his innocence, which I never did.