Kwijibo said:
And CW, good post until you tell us you're a fat guy. More keyboard heroics. Facts carry more weight than the guy poking keys.
There are no heroics here. I am 6 foot, 235 lbs., large framed.
I added the phrase as a joke and to defuse any thoughts of aggression. But I don't back down from threats, nor will I be intimidated by paranoia. I spent 23 years in the transportation industry doing everything from slinging a sledge to lifting 100+ lb transmissions, pumps, and motors. I am no "bad, bad" boy, but I am no wuss, either. I don't back down from physical threats, nor go looking for fights. OTH, what I was saying is, it is one thing to call someone names like BP has been doing, quite another to stand face to face and do it. Face it, most of us would be reluctant to call someone a "fool" in person, particularly if the one doing the name-calling is smaller than the one being insulted! *I* wouldn't do that.
Obviously, Mr BP has some issues if he is THAT obsessed with conspiracies and hate towards his fellow man that he must insult others; he can't discuss an issue nor brook any other opinion than his own. He cannot support his theories, so he must insult and "scream" at his opponents in the debate. Anything different about any other human being is "shown" as a defect, either in character or in genetic makeup. These people HAVE to have some group to hate, to put down in order validate their own sense of self-worth, thus they come down on a group of people. And these pronouncements of conspiratorial misdeeds must needs always show some sort of misbehavior by said group. "The International Jewish Conspiracy", "Them Jewish bankers"--SOMEBODY has to be a culprit in order for their theories--and bad theories they ARE--to survive. Yet, if the Jews, so reviled by these ignorant people, were/are such a threat to a nation, how was it that
"Crystal Night" came to be? How was it that they were corralled into ghettos by Himmler? OH! I forgot! It "never" happened. Them "pitchers" lied, right? IF they were so intent on carrying out some worldwide conquest, do you REALLY think
they didn't have the numbers to do it? And yet, we forget that WE got the likes of Einstein instead of Herr Hitler. Had we not had this bit of fortune, Ve vould be shpeekin' das Deutch!
VERDAMMT!! Mein Gott!!!
You see, pictures, documentation and even eyewitness accounts are nothing. They require BELIEF. We CHOOSE to believe the things we want to, and reject those that WE see as fake. Even credibility is for sale to the highest bidder and we "buy" truth the same way we buy a hat. "Truth" may be as true as can possibly be, but if it is still worthless to those who want to make "truth" fit their own mold. We BELIEVE in a God.
Or we REJECT Him. We BELIEVE that the world is round and most of us accept that Christopher Columbus came to America.
Did we SEE Columbus come to America? How do we know he did? OH! Someone probably TOLD us he did! Maybe a teacher. Or a BOOK!! Someone TOLD you that "certain" people were inferior, or you READ a book. AND, therefore, you CHOSE to believe what was in that book, or accept the words of another person. But you STILL don't KNOW that Columbus ever came to the New World and you STILL don't know that that person who may, or may not, LOOK just like you is "inferior" OR means you any harm whatsoever!
Conspiracy-mongers usually talk about a "Communist" threat. Here's one clue (that the wild-eyed ones wont accept). The cradle of Communism collapsed (USSR) under the sheer weight of freedom. People will not long endure the shackles of totalitarianism. Freedom still rings in this land, there were fearful emotionalists in the 30's, 40's, 50's and now. Communism is a just ONE example of "socialism" that does not work. So long as people are not willing to give up their freedoms for security, there is hope. So long as people will FIGHT to preserve freedom, it will survive. And survive without
wild-eyed conspiracy theories.!