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Originally Posted by Tchocky
This is exactly how forum discussions go. Someone posts a link to a book, insulting those who might disagree with it's conclusions. Any disagreements are null and void because they haven't read the book.
Good grief.
Right let's all buy the book (using Neal's handy link above, need money for new torps!).
Then we'll reconvene after a suitable interlude to discuss the book.
If you can manage to stop talking down to anyone who might disagree with you while this is going on, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it. It would be nice if you could also get it into your head that it's possible to disagree out of honesty, and not comfortable lazy illusions. So you can can all the talk about golden cows and false idols. Reading it gives me a headache.
Although I suppose discrimination against those with different opinions is right up your street.
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Nonsense. The point is this: I refuse to pay respect to people if their only reaction is not in founded argument adressing arguments by others made before, but in just some noise making and some comment like "he is insane", "totally nuts" "Cannot be that way." People then could as well answer with "blue", "13.74" or "I go fishing" instead.
Just saying "I think he is wrong", is nothing. To explain why one thinks that, and give a reason that adresses the original argument, that is what makes any comment a comment, instead of just a random sound.
I have given plenty of more reaosns and arguments why I think the way I do,. and the quotes I have choosen also include many explanations in themselves, although still leaving out many details. Compared to that the comments by some people in return are not even thin. They are just loud. Yours, for example.
Anyhow, even those of you thinking he or me are insane, you and us and we will not escape the future to come, and that future is nearer than many here want to believe. For a majority still seem to think that the party on tick can run on forever, but it cannot, and it will not. The present problems in the world have the potential to do more damage and to cause greater rifts and crackups in human history than any historic episode ever did before. Whjatz people see today in symptoms, usually is seen as isolated, singular events, that have nothing or at least not much to do with each other. And that is the great misperception. It is not many different little turmoils here and there. It all is just different feature of one and the same, overwhelming turmoil. The island is sinking, and people already stand with their feet in the water. But nobody believes it, everybody thinks its champagne, and so everybody gets a glass and demands some more.
Nuts me or Hoppe were, some claim. It cannot be what should not be, indicate others. Democracy rules, indicate the next.
I agree, some people are insane here. And its not me, trying to find a boat while the majority still parties. Because you guys think it's champagne you are standing in, you demand that the flood valves should be opened. But me is nuts, and insane, eh?
In the end the survivors will see who drinks and who swims. Just that then it will be too late. Maybe - no, probably it already is too late right now.