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Originally posted by Stiney
I hope everyone will agree that it's completely irrational to believe that something like this would happen without a very good reason.
Originally posted by bsbray11
It's also irrational to believe that we would know all of the reasons leading to its demolition...
Originally posted by Essedarius
Are you joking? People talk about the reasons for WTC7 like they are SURE FIRE fact...all the time! [...] Suddenly now you're going to have a bout of conscience and stop speculating??
Originally posted by Vinadetta
The reason behind this is they wanted the attacks to look like they attacked NYC and not just the financial power of the twin towers.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Wowee gee! Maybe you should stop being a smart ass and talk to those people, huh?
...you can't expect us to read the minds of people we don't even know to pick out which reasons predominated or why things weren't carried out differently.
Originally posted by Vinadetta
One idea that has been put forth by some people, is they believe that Flight 93 was intended to hit WTC 7, but did not reach its target because it was shotdown.
The reason behind this is they wanted the attacks to look like they attacked NYC and not just the financial power of the twin towers. It was already pre-rigged but since flight 93 never hit it's target they decided to bring it down anyways.
Originally posted by Vinadetta
One idea that has been put forth by some people, is they believe that Flight 93 was intended to hit WTC 7, but did not reach its target because it was shotdown.
The reason behind this is they wanted the attacks to look like they attacked NYC and not just the financial power of the twin towers. It was already pre-rigged but since flight 93 never hit it's target they decided to bring it down anyways.
I don't fully buy into this idea, but I truly think it is an interesting idea, and really gets you thinking.
Originally posted by amfirst
It doesn't matter what you come up with to debunk the conspiracy. They'll just come up w/ more BS for example, wtc 7 contain infomation about the plan 911 conspiracy, so at the last minute the decided to blow it up too, so no "evidence" will ever be found.
Originally posted by Essedarius
Now is you calling me a smart ass irony, or hypocrisy?
I would tend to go with irony, since you didn't really make a value judgement.
...you can't expect us to read the minds of people we don't even know to pick out which reasons predominated or why things weren't carried out differently.
You just described what prosecuting attorneys do every day.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Jesus, you want me to defend everyone on the planet but me!
I don't really like the legal system.
Originally posted by Essedarius
If WTC7 was rigged to go down, why didn't they just hit the button when it was completely consumed by dust when Tower 1 dropped?
It would have been much cleaner. Why do you think they waited to implode the building until the smoke cleared and TV cameras could record the entire thing?
(This question is for everyone but bsbray11.)
Originally posted by bsbray11
Who posts here that would definitively know the answer to your question?
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by Stiney
I hope everyone will agree that it's completely irrational to believe that something like this would happen without a very good reason.
It's also irrational to believe that we would know all of the reasons leading to its demolition, seeing as how this information wasn't exactly released in a convenient little memo for all of us to read.
...
Who posts here that would definitively know the answer to your question?
Originally posted by Stiney
I'm saying you need to at least have a reasonable hypothesis of what the motive could be... otherwise, believing the government is behind it is not rational - my point stands...
The reason I find it so ignorant is because of the fact that we are living in the digital age; all of our important information is in digital form, and we have something called "disaster recovery" which basically means that even if any large organization's "base of operations" is completely destroyed, they can be back in business in a relatively short period of time because all their data is backed up on fileservers in another building, or perhaps even another city.
Originally posted by Essedarius
(Just between you and me, I see the point you’re trying to make about the Official Storyers falling back on the “Why would they do that?” questions. But surely you understand that this is a natural byproduct of outlandish conspiracy theories…and could be ended by simply providing even a mildly realistic answer.)