To: ahhaha who wrote (22832 ) 4/6/2013 12:08:31 PM From: deeno Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 24758 ot "You only can think along accepted lines" it seems to me that everyone creates a personal foundation of truth. Stoves can be hot, 3 leaved bushes should be left alone, supply and demand.......Once you are convinced of truth, you extrapolate, seems natural. "This is the way it is in a think tank................doing that leaves you clueless" That's what Ive really enjoyed about your thread. The opportunity to really challenge a fundamental truth of which a number of suppositions are made. Once you challenge that fundamental truth, the rest of your suppositions seem to fall apart. Occassionally a newbie drops by and when you challenge something that they, in their heart, know is true, they either get really hostile (they don't want to go through the work of defending what they obviously know) or very occasionally engage in a chat. "The fools can't see that it is money pumping whether the core money is utilized or not, causes the deflation they're presumably trying to address." imagine a group of people, all with a similar charter, trying to think up a solution? An opinion with a bias and a support group. Why would they take time to revisit some truth they already know to be true? So the final answer is usually worthless to someone that does not agree with the Think Tanks fundamental values. Think tank=group think. Have you ever had the opportunity to join with like minded individuals to solve some problem? Did you all challenge things that you all knew to be true? Yet if you had a mixture of ideologies you all wouldn't get past the definition of "is". So if you ever run across a think tank that you believe have the correct fundamental truths, well, point them out. Anyway just a back handed way to say thank you for the opportunity to explore.