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Thread #59418   Message #2559693
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Feb-09 - 09:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Fascinating! People will believe any form of orthodoxy if it is presented to them at the right time....by the right authority figures...and in the right way. They then take if for granted...and they ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.

Hence, most people in our society believe without question our present popular ideas about Darwinian evolution...which may be entirely right, certainly are part right, but probably are not all the answers...in my opinion. I think there will be further discoveries, and amendments to the theory of evolution, in all likelihood.

Anyway, most people believe it because it was presented to them at the right time....by the right authority figures...and in the right way. They now take it for granted...and they ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.

A tiny number of people (and I am not among them) believes the geocentric theory presented on that website. Why? Well, it was presented to them at the right time....by the right authority figures...and in the right way. They now take it for granted...and they ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.

A tiny number of people believe in the "hollow Earth" theory. Why? Well, it was presented to them at the right time....by the right authority figures...and in the right way. They now take it for granted...and they ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.

Then there are those people who believe in the trickle-down theory, the War on Terror, the benefits of Viagra, the Republican Party, "Jesus Saves", "Mohammed is the one true prophet", the Democratic Party, and the Antichrist.

You can be sure of one thing. They ALL had it presented to them at the right time....by the right authority figures...and in the right way. They now take it for granted...and they ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.

;-)

And they can all provide "evidence" too! Just ask them. They'll bore you to tears with their mountains evidence if you hang around and listen long enough. They may even convince you...and then you can join with them and ridicule anyone who thinks otherwise.