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Are Hardcore Skeptics and Debunkers Actually Brain Deficient? Their Own Beloved ’Hard Science’ Might Well Suggest Many Are.
The debunker and the hardcore skeptics, on the other hand, will even attack these open-minded Materialists, similar to how a flying saucer cult will have very public witch hunts of so-so members who have not shown their unconditional devotion to the messages sent from the ’space brothers’. The irony is that many of the open-minded skeptics that they attack often have a scientific or engineering background, and these folks are being attacked by debunkers whose sum total of their own quest for reason and logic rarely extends beyond procuring a ’Mythbusters’ DVD box set or having a poster of Richard Dawkins on their wall. Any Reductionist fence-sitters will be treated with ridicule and contempt—even fascistic vitriol and vicious insults. There is simply no grey areas within the concrete consciousness of the debunker or the hardcore skeptic; instead, only a kind of scientific idealism—and idealism, both secular or otherwise, is really just a nice way of saying ’fascism’.
So the next time you find yourself confronted with a hardcore skeptic or debunker, do not even bother to try and make your argument or present your point of view to them, as you are throwing 100% of a human experience in 50% of a self-repressed cognitive understanding. It’s not their fault they are the way they are. They are victims of an educational system which began in Prussia in the eighteenth century and which has led humanity into one scientific genocide and meat grinder after the next. Use your intuition and ignore them. You do not need their validation and approval, as they are only interested in what the men in the white coats tell them that which is a ’fact’. Be polite and continue to follow your own field of study and knowledge path, and then see where it leads you. This may lead you nowhere, but so what. The journey is often more important than the destination. Your life will be more rewarding, creative and enriching for allowing your right brain to take part in the imagination of yourself within this five-sense reality we call human existence.
The reality is ... most people find such arrogant and obnoxious debunkers and hardcore skeptics to be strangely angry and boorish, and often confrontational to the point of hysterical.
So many of them seem to lack basic social and behavioural skills when ’debating’ with their ’kook’ of choice.
This is simply a lack of critical thinking on their behalf; a distorted worldview where only they are right and everyone else is an idiot.
Originally posted by Klassified
The problem with this is, it will be used as an ad hominem attack more than it is used to describe well observed behavior. Anyone who is skeptical of a theory becomes ODD. Labeling certain behavior as a disorder is easy to do. But more often than not, disorders like this are used to oppress dissenting voices.
I'm all for considering possibilities far beyond our current science and knowledge, but quelling dissent from those who don't agree by labeling them with a disorder will not move us forward as a civilization. I think history is replete with examples of such behavior.
Originally posted by intrptr
"Debunking" isn't the problem, most people are glad to find out the truth about stuff. Its "obsessive denial disorder" that creates problems.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by Klassified
The problem with this is, it will be used as an ad hominem attack more than it is used to describe well observed behavior. Anyone who is skeptical of a theory becomes ODD. Labeling certain behavior as a disorder is easy to do. But more often than not, disorders like this are used to oppress dissenting voices.
I'm all for considering possibilities far beyond our current science and knowledge, but quelling dissent from those who don't agree by labeling them with a disorder will not move us forward as a civilization. I think history is replete with examples of such behavior.
And you sir, clearly have ODD.
Debunked!!!!
Oh wait...do I have it now?
Originally posted by stars15k
As someone on the debunker side of it all, I think that it is just wrong.
You can't have too many facts and too much truth.
If you think someone is wrong, prove they are, don't label them with shill, troll, disinfo agent, and now ODD.
Originally posted by superman2012
reply to post by ParanoidAmerican
So ignore trolls is the crux of the argument?
Originally posted by B1rd1nFL1ghT
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by Klassified
The problem with this is, it will be used as an ad hominem attack more than it is used to describe well observed behavior. Anyone who is skeptical of a theory becomes ODD. Labeling certain behavior as a disorder is easy to do. But more often than not, disorders like this are used to oppress dissenting voices.
I'm all for considering possibilities far beyond our current science and knowledge, but quelling dissent from those who don't agree by labeling them with a disorder will not move us forward as a civilization. I think history is replete with examples of such behavior.
And you sir, clearly have ODD.
Debunked!!!!
Oh wait...do I have it now?
No. You clearly do not have it. Because your reply was way too short and did not involve any snarky commentary intending to shut down the OP. Also you did not make yourself look as if you were king (or queen) of enlightenment. There are certain criteria for ODD, you see... I know EVERYTHING!!! Lol