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Whysper - the screwed up and ridiculous opinions are of course, everyone
else's opinions except yours and mine.
Do you really have a website?
posted by
gomedome
on October 15, 2007 at 11:38 AM
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gome....
'Simply put, anyone can publish their opinion online, no matter how screwed up and ridiculous that opinion may be'
how did you find out about my website? Which search engine did you use? Would you stop by there again, even though my opinions are screwed up and ridiculous?
I'm trying to draw funding and since not many have found it, I'm hoping I can use your visit there as a reference.
posted by
Whysper
on October 15, 2007 at 11:06 AM
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Gome -
It's really difficult to find reliable information on the internet. So much that I come across as "fact" has no citations for it but is used by others as "fact" to push their particular agenda. I love the access to information that the internet allows, but it's almost more work researching on it then at the library.
posted by
sannhet
on October 14, 2007 at 2:23 PM
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arGee - that is my single biggest fear of religious influence
Religious groups seem able to influence large groups of people to collectively think this way. It's like a contagious selective reasoning that becomes more acute and less likely to be cured as time goes on. The problem with so many people in a society adopting this mindset is that it inevitably pollutes the collective knowledge base of the entire society in time. The pollution comes on many fronts, from attempting to institutionalize a number of irrational constructs that have now been "proven" by the very process you describe, to the ongoing attempts to discredit real facts if they do not support the constructs.
posted by
gomedome
on October 14, 2007 at 10:50 AM
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MISINFORMATION HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER
it's just easier to spread it farther.
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 14, 2007 at 8:45 AM
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I checked out your two sites, Gome...
The second is pure drivel – entirely unworthy of any time. The first, however, is fascinating. In my article
Through a Glass Darkly I describe a mindset that is ruled by a mental construct. When incoming data do not fit the construct, they are ignored or modified to fit. I ascribe this mindset primarily to the Left. Your first link, however, is a beautiful example of how the religious right does exactly the same thing. Accurate information is available. In fact, the author actually presents some of the data, but then proceeds to modify them to fit his construct, while simultaneously accusing mainstream scientists of doing the same thing with the same data. It's beautiful!
posted by
arGee
on October 14, 2007 at 6:43 AM
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gome
thanks for sharing
posted by
richinstore
on October 13, 2007 at 10:56 PM
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Kayzzaman
Happy writing!
Thanking for visiting my blog. It is always inspiring for me.
Just visit my blog regularly.
posted by
Kayzzaman
on October 13, 2007 at 9:46 PM
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Kayzzaman
Happy writing!
Thanking for visiting my blog. It is always inspiring for me.
Just visit my blog regularly.
posted by
Kayzzaman
on October 13, 2007 at 9:46 PM
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