LOL that’s funny! I suppose the terrorists conspired to pilot the planes into the towers, but what I meant by conspiracy is that the government orchestrated it or was in on it.
It’s not about believing in conspiracies, but being prone to believe in them or tending to think too many things are conspiracies. Just like any other hallucination.
It’s hard for me to relate here because evolution seems “common sense” to me, and by that I mean “readily apparent to even the dumbest person”. What makes no sense is that some fictional sky fairy poofed all species into existence from nothing.
I can look at a cat skeleton and see eons of honing and refinements that went into making it perfectly adapted for its purpose and in no way does it appear “made”.
Apologists appeal to the “fine-tuning argument” to support creation, but to me the fine-tuning is a result of iterations (evolution). Nothing in nature is a round number; it’s always some oddball number that doesn’t indicate design in any way. 365.25 days in a year. God couldn’t get it perfect? Or did he try to make it look non-designed?
Idk what you’re driving at here. Are you saying morons have a window to the world that smart people don’t have?
All I’m saying is that any group of smart people assembled will always have a higher proportion of liberals than conservatives. Does it mean liberalism is correct? No, but it means conservatives are stupid. Dummies aren’t necessarily conservative, but conservatives are necessarily dumb (ignorant anyway). And I was conservative most of my life (I was raised in it). Indeed, I was ignorant. The internet fixed that since I could perform my own research.
And regarding 9/11, I just don’t know and it’s not anything that I could know and for that reason I’ve always avoided trying to know. I didn’t need it to dislike Bush since the Patriot Act was sufficient. 9/11 wouldn’t surprise me if it was an inside job and it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t.
The architects and engineers say jet fuel is not enough to melt steel. I’ve seen videos showing that it’s not enough. But even that evidence is not enough for me to be sure because maybe there is some variable I’m overlooking. I know from experience that heating steel and letting it cool is sufficient to weaken it. I discovered that as a kid playing with candles. Put steel in a candle flame and it’s pretty much worthless after and there’s no way to fix it (except recarbonating it and quenching).
And if they placed bombs in the buildings, how did they know where to put them? Or how did the pilots know where to fly the planes into the buildings to coincide with the placement of the bombs to make it all look natural? Nobody could have predicted where the planes would hit and no pilot willing to sacrifice himself would be able to hit the right bullseye. And if the government is so inept that it can’t run a post office or amtrak, then how could it pull off something like that?
Who? Gloom? He’s who they were talking about here:
Furthermore, compared with liberals, individuals who
endorse right-wing ideologies are more fearful and anxious that
out-groups will cause the disintegration of societal moral standards
and traditions (Altemeyer, 1996; Jost et al., 2003; Sibley
& Duckitt, 2008).
scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-conten … 421206.pdf
He should recognize he has that propensity and work to correct it or at least moderate it. Much of what he’s freaking out about is either nothing or inevitable.
And I could be wrong about global warming. My opinion is that I am not, but I’ve been wrong about it before (or maybe I wasn’t and I’m wrong now, idk). The fact that so many agree with global warming makes me wonder if I am missing something. The problem is I don’t know what I don’t know… and that’s what I need to know in order to know.
2 years ago I was a theist. You may even find some early posts of mine on here that contradict what I say now. I change my mind a lot. When the evidence changes, my opinion changes.
I don’t think it’s a matter of missing brain cells, but what part of the brain is exercised. Have you seen those guys with great big arms and chicken legs? Nursing conspiracy theories probably better-equips one to continue nursing conspiracy theories along with other fear-based ideas which probably leads to asymmetric neural growth analogous to the chicken-legged guy at the gym.