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Originally posted by kro32
The odds of this actually happening with no one getting caught are astronomical. But as I said I won't argue your guy's proof so i'll just have to leave it at that.
I'm sorry but the respondents question is the first and only hurdle that needs to be cleared before any further discussion can even be considered.
You may present the most elaborate, detailed forensic study - repleat with Youtube videos galore, quotes of incredulity from persons with initials after their names and plenty of photos with arrows, circles and markings but they don't amount to a hill of beans if you can't explain why you think your neighbor burnt down your house in order to get his cat out a tree.
Originally posted by heineken
reply to post by hooper
my point is quiet simple man...
youtube videos are pointless..
you have been attacked by your government..attack back cowards
thats my point
Cowards? Really? You calling Americans cowards? We may be a lot of things but Americans do not have a shared history of cowardice. We have fouhgt to protect ourselves, we have fought to protect others, we have even fought ourselves on more than one occasion so we have no fear of fighting. So you may want to rethink your position if you believe the only reason we are not attacking the "government" is because we are cowards.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by dubiousone
I agree with the OP that your post is off-topic and a deflection of the real issue being presented by the OP.
I'm sorry but the respondents question is the first and only hurdle that needs to be cleared before any further discussion can even be considered.
You may present the most elaborate, detailed forensic study - repleat with Youtube videos galore, quotes of incredulity from persons with initials after their names and plenty of photos with arrows, circles and markings but they don't amount to a hill of beans if you can't explain why you think your neighbor burnt down your house in order to get his cat out a tree.
The normalcy bias occurs when people underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations in which people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster and, on a larger scale, the failure of the government to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a catastrophe never has occurred, it never will. People judge their future according to how things have been in the past.
This is an example of Normalcy Bias, a survival mechanism our brains are equipped with that can place us in grave danger when we’re faced with something traumatic. Simply put, it causes our brains to insist that all is okay. Everything will return to normal.
Originally posted by Cross8712
You can see events like this happen all of the time. It's called a movie. Everyday on tv shows criminals do stuff that never get pieced together, or maintain the secrecy until the end of the show. Go watch Lucky Number Sleven for one good example. It's a movie involving a HUGE detailed plot that doesn't clear up until the end, and only involves 2 key players.
Many people enjoy watching TV series like CSI and other detective shows where it is demonstrated that critical thinking skills coupled with the scientific method and empirical evidence prove a hypothesis.
I don't hear anyone asking for what you describe. You're still stuck in the stage of this that existed many years ago.
Yeah, we should all act more like we're on TV. That'll help us solve these complex real-world problems.
Originally posted by wulff
The government couldn't keep all the people needed in your scenario quiet. It's as outrageous as the people that think we never went to the moon!
I remember we didn't need such an elaborate "hoax" to get into the Korean or 'Nam, the government simply said "we are going to war to stop the spread of communism" and that was that, next I knew I was 1-A and getting ready to go to a war I didn't understand, no... the government will never have to stoop to such an elaborate hoax to go to war, they don't need to!
Experts at building demolition has stated when they wire charges to bring a building down there are wires and charges all over the place, they laugh at the suggestion that you could charge and wire a building being used in secret!
Besides, if all they wanted to do was retaliate why bring the buildings down? Simply crashing airliners into the buildings would have been enough.
Also, what about the 1st Gulf war? Bush Sr. sent troops to Iraq to prevent Kuwait from falling to Saddam, and the government (and rightly so) even said it was also to protect our 'interests' in other words, our necessary oil.
If you are going to use so much time (in your case an enormous amount of non-scientific 'tests') why don't you put your time to better use?
Originally posted by hooper
Originally posted by heineken
reply to post by hooper
my point is quiet simple man...
youtube videos are pointless..
you have been attacked by your government..attack back cowards
thats my point
Cowards? Really? You calling Americans cowards? We may be a lot of things but Americans do not have a shared history of cowardice. We have fouhgt to protect ourselves, we have fought to protect others, we have even fought ourselves on more than one occasion so we have no fear of fighting. So you may want to rethink your position if you believe the only reason we are not attacking the "government" is because we are cowards.
what u r mentioning is the past...the wars you fight today are way too unbalanced
the real enemy is whom attacked you on your soil...and most of you agree it was your government...edit on 20-7-2011 by heineken because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by tyranny22
reply to post by TupacShakur
Honestly, I don't see how anyone with a full mental capacity can't connect the dots. It's all right there in front of them. They just refuse to believe it.