I find it interesting that when I present irrefutable,
verifiable credible evidence, folks like you resort to
impugning my reputation rather than discuss the issue, or
providing evidence to refute my position. Nope, personal
attacks are the among the first & most frequent response.
Where am I an absolutist? Where am I too black & white?
I look at who said what when the issue became an issue. I
review reports that have exhaustively reviewed source
documents that have been properly referenced for accuracy.
I review verbatim quotes against known facts.
When I take an absolute, black & white position, I back it
up with clear irrefutable facts.
If you see that as a bad thing, well you are entitled to
your opinion.
Here are some real words of wisdom IMO.....
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality
can be attained only by someone who is dedicated."
- Simone Weil.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw.
“Mud often gives the illusion of depth.” - Stanilaw Lem
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.” - Richard Feynman
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
“It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning." - Claude Bernard (1813-1878 French Physiologist)
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." - JASSAMYN WEST
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."
Mark Twain
“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.” - Kristen Stendahl
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. - Douglaus Everett
“People only see what they are prepared to see.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." -Anon.
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief - Gerry Spence How to Argue and Win Every Time
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” - Niels Bohr
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
-Jerome K. Jerome
A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie but hard to tell only one lie. - Thomas Fuller (1608 - 61) English divine |
