What Drives The Critic's Corner Folk to Keep Returning Here?

[prole art threat]

I would probably say 'fear'.

[optimus79]

[telecasterisation]

[xmasdale]

Money?

Arrogance?

[Skeptic]

it's a good question

I always wonder what motivates the people on the markthomasinfo.com forums too

the answer you will get is that 'someone has to expose the fact that these conspiracy theories are based on no evidence whatsoever' or something like that

but if there was nothing to the theories, would they not be deconstructed easily? why the need to spend so much time attacking them?

do they really believe 'conspiracy theorists' are brainwashing people into believing that for which there is no basis? do they do this knowingly? that would be a huge conspiracy haha

if they don't do it knowingly, is there a pandemic of naievety?

I would say part of the motivation is the will to cling onto a world view, to fight for stability as they know it - for the alternative really does cause a great deal of despair and takes a lot of courage and effort to confront

[Ignatz]

[blackcat]

[Skeptic]

urrrr either you mean "sceptics" or you're confusing me with someone who is against the truth movement

noone remotely sceptical, in the true epistemic sense, could possibly believe the official story

[John White]

[chek]

Anyone might certainly suspect that's the case, John.

I am of course paraphrasing and characterising somewhat, but it seems to me the gist of the so-called 'critical thinking' model goes something like this in paractice:

Truther: Two skyscrapers are hit by jets and fire breaks out (all within the buildings' specifications) then within the hour, they explode into pulverised dustclouds of total symmetrical collapse?

Critic: As they are inevitably bound to do, nothing strange about that. Government and most respected scientists proved it. Sh*t happens.

Truther: No other buildings have ever done that?

Critic: These were the biggest building collapses in the world.
Sh*t happens.

Truther: The molten metal in the basements?

Critic: Friction and natural blast furnaces. Easily understandable.
Sh*t happens.

Truther: Why did NIST not explain any of these phenomena?

Critic: Nothing of interest happened after collapse was initiated.

Truther: But surely how a disaster progresses provides a lot of information about what happened before - especially if you've had to tweak the input of your unreleased and un-peer reviewed simulation to get the necessary result.

Critic: Not to experts and scientists. You don't understand these things.

Truther: Another building suffers asymmetric damage and scattered fires and later performs a perfect simulation of a CD?

Critic: It's plainly ridiculous that anyone want to do that, therefore CD makes no sense. It was going to collapse anyway - the fireman said so - and one collapse is much like another. Sh*t happens.

Truther:Airliners stooge around for over an hour in the same general airspace area without being intercepted on the morning the exact same drill is being tested?

Critic: Human error. Air defences aren't all they're cracked up to be. Sh*t happens.

Truther:Intelligence warnings all the previous summer not acted upon and actively lied about?

Critic: Human error. Sh*t happens.


And so on, ad infintum.

The common factor seems to be that there is absolutely no curiosity displayed about how any of this happened in total, and zero 'critical thinking' applied to the official story.

I think I prefer my 'experts' to be interested in the discovery model of science rather than 'thinking critically' about it.

[blackcat]

[Skeptic]

[SHERITON HOTEL]

Is there a NGO 9/11 official story fundermentalist website where it's proponents can debate its gospel truth, openess, water holding capacity and anomoly free consistency from day one?....and an attached critics forum??

[Abandoned Ego]

The easiest way to address these "skeptics" has already been done.

Namely, all you need to do, is ask them to address point by point the RI blogspot post entitled "the official conspiracy theorists guide to 9/11".


I watched one such skeptic, someone who Im sorry to say, I might only best describe as a comedian from the James Randi forum , farting and floundering, and making excuses about this post. The post is at least 50 "coincidences" long, and this "skeptic" hadn't even debunked the first, despite being offered about 10 chances to do so.

This leaves me to conclude that there are 2 options at play here.

Either

a) these guys have sold out to the largest bidder- they took the silver, and have absolutely no concept of what this life is really all about

b) they have some major cognitive dissonance issues.

Either way, I guess compassion is in order.

Meanwhile, To all of you "skeptics" who dont feel you fit into either of the above categories, and wish to address the post, then lets get it on.

Otherwise, as far as Im concerned, you are either option a or b.

[SHERITON HOTEL]

[Bicnarok]

rather skeptics than sceptics

[Me]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/171006enemypropagandi sts.htm

Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror"

[John White]

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=4959&start=0&postday s=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

[Me]

I refuse to even lay an eye on the Critic’s Corner. I refuse to waste my time either arguing with shills or reading their foolishness anymore. I’d never tell anyone what to do but personally I wish that everyone would just ignore them and let them post themselves in to obsoleteness in an empty void of non-activity. Eventually they’ll grow tired of not being the center of attention.

Of course, others would argue that it’s best not to let their drivel go unchallenged.

Many of these dubious naysayers are simply starving for the attention that their parents never gave them as the pathetic, fundamentally loathsome children they were. They probably never had any real friends in school and spent most of their golden years being shoved in to lockers and having their heads flushed down in the urinal.

Now thanks to the Internet these pesky cowards can come online, hide behind an anonymous alias and unleash all of their pent up frustration.

What did your parents always tell you when your brother or sister kept bugging you? Ignore….

The more attention we give them, the more they thrive on the drama in my honest opinion. Either way, these pea-brained drones aren’t worthy of an ounce of my precious time reaching the truth. ‘Truth’, a word that has been permanently removed from their vocabularies.

A final message to the critics. You don't even exist to me. You're dead to the world as far as I'm concerned. Now that you have been formally dismissed, go back underneath the filthy rock that you crawled out from.

[John White]

Any critic that tries to refute this deserves to be ignored

[blackcat]

[Me]

What I don’t understand is, why are 9/11 truthers and those offering alternative views of current events obligated to cover both sides? For one, the official story literally blankets the print press, airwaves, television and everything else. You can’t avoid it. How often does the mainstream media cover both sides by offering an opposing “conspiracy theory”? And yet we’re expected to be so fair to critics by providing them with equal footing from which to criticize and denigrate?