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Cuban Reged: 01/09/03 Posts: 19274 Loc: Rabbit Hole |
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Suicide Bombers hold arbitrary beliefs that cannot be verified or falsified. They hold these beliefs with such fervor, that they are blinded to all alternatives. They never admit even the possibility that they may be wrong and stick to their beliefs in the face of evidence contradicting them. If the contradictory evidence is persuasive, the Suicide Bomber resorts to questioning the integrity of the person presenting the evidence rather than addressing the evidence directly. When Suicide Bombers are cornered in debate, they make recourse to invisible beings who happen to hold the same principles and ideals they do. Since these beings cannot be seen, heard, or questioned, it is not possible to show the Suicide Bomber that he is wrong even if it is the case that he actually IS wrong. When a Suicide Bomber is asked a hypothetical question he knows will draw out and highlight faults, omissions, and contradictions in his beliefs, he refuses to answer and verbally attacks the questioner rather than address the question. Suicide Bombers do not seek to update their beliefs or to find Truth; they stagnate and seek only to support their bygone conclusions. They spin new information to make it 'fit' into their world view rather than treat the information neutrally, allowing it to fit or not fit on its own. If the information can be spun enough to fit, it's kept. Otherwise, it's summarily discarded without being considered. When other types of mystics tell the Suicide Bomber he is wrong and try to explain why, the Suicide Bomber tells the other types of mystics that it is THEY who are wrong and for the exact same reasons! Suicide Bombers are closed and rigid of thought. They speak in absolutes rather than in propositions: "this is how it is" rather than "this is how it appears to be" or "I am not wrong" rather than "I don't think I'm wrong". So, Suicide Bombers: -make up things -decide those made up things are real -refuse to consider anything that undermines their made up things -spin or discard new information to support their made up things -act according to those made up things as if they were real, all the while avoiding everything that might contradict them. Now replace Suicide Bombers above with the following and see how it works: astrologer, priest, psychic, telekineticists, telepathists, remote viewer, clairvoyant, psychic surgeon, numerologist, Christian, pope, UFO caller, third-eye seer, santero, crystal wearer, 2012 nut, astral projector, spoon bender, levitator, George Bush... -------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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