Tamrin
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 4, 2008 22:07:00 GMT
Your measure would seem to be a very practical "experiment" to test for credibility.
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Post by holist on Oct 17, 2008 13:50:59 GMT
Dear Russell,
You are considering proof as something independent. My expeience shows that it can be considered only in combination with social structure and ideology. Some mesages here also point to this fact. For example, if you composed a PROOF of a theorem, you go to SOCIAL STRUCTURE and find whom to address it. It is some mathematical community. Hopefully, they accept your proof. Then all the rest people accept your claim without the proof simply because mathematicians confirm that it is OK becuse IDEOLOGY reads so. If mathematicians do not and you turn to me, I look at your proof and say: everything is OK, but what can I do for you? I have no power and so on.
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Post by maat on Oct 20, 2008 22:45:28 GMT
This morning on TV news they were running the story on the releasing of British archival material verifying that their forces had encountered UFO's, and to the extent that orders were given to "lock in on it" and shoot it down (poor ET!) They also released photos of the craft and radar images.
Then - for some reason, the reporters felt the NEED to finish off this groundbreaking report with some stupid anecdote of a lady admitting to be an alien. This was followed by the usual smirks and guffaws.
Some cannot handle the proof or the truth.
Another thing that I cannot understand is why many religious people state outright that there is no life after death. No argument, no discussion, when you are dead, you are dead! There is so much evidence to suggest that this is not the case, but they will get agitated if the subject is broached.
Maybe the implications are something beyond their coping mechanism.
I can understand this, I can't cope with non stop gratuitous violence and 'bad message' TV. I NEED to leave the room (husband doesn't mind it).
Maat
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