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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (66843)10/9/2013 1:22:38 AM
From: greatplains_guy  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
If you have common sense, by definition you believe what is true and disbelieve
what is false.


I never thought about it like that. It is a truth. One must think to be alive. One must observe the truth to be alive. Those who substitute others' opinions for observation are wasting air and other precious resources.

A friend told me of a conversation with an apparently intelligent woman who said she read in the New York Times that the leaked emails from East Anglia were irrelevant. She chose to believe that spin rather than read enough of them for herself to draw her own conclusions about them.

I read a couple thousand of them, and found the conclusion that they were part of a conspiracy to defraud the world of scientific truth to be inescapable. The person who told me the story had read even more than I had and had reached a similar opinion.
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