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To this Lurker one of the most maddening aspects of this board (9/11 Conspiracy Theories in particular) is the way the latest sock-puppet (most likely) or newborn 'truther' (least likely) can wander in here and instantly become the center of attention. "Oh, I stumbled onto this place" . . . Yah, right. Sure you did.
For cryin' out loud, people! There hasn't been anything new from the 'truth movement' in almost 8 years. When is this going to stop?
This '
Rewey' character is a perfect example. PNAC? Hijackers not on the flight manifests? Are you kidding me? I note that my calendar indicates that this is indeed the year 2009 but I could have sworn it was circa 2001 when I logged on this morning. This is like deja vu all over again. Six pages in that thread and most of them responses to a dyed-in-the-wool 'truther' who is doing nothing more than parroting the same tired meme that is the foundation of the 'truth movement'. It's shameful.
I know the reasoning behind some of it. It's fun to bait the 'truthers'. It's amusing to watch the cognitive dissonance in action. I'll bet some of you just couldn't resist poking the wasp nest with a stick when you were younger, huh?. Just to see what would happen? Have any of you (you know who you are) even
once stopped and thought about the Moderation Team and their workload? Great Ghu, don't you think
Politics keeps them busy enough without having to babysit this sub-forum? I've helped moderate message boards in my day and there is no way I would wear that hat here. . .unless there were trollops involved. I have a weakness for trollops-but that's another thread.
Yes, I know. This is the
9/11 Conspiracy Theories sub-forum. What the hell else are you supposed to talk about? And therein lies the problem. A while back there was a poll posted on this sub-forum asking whether or not this place (9/11 CT) should be closed. I voted to close it. This place has ran its course if, indeed, there was ever a need for it in the first place. The Bad Astronomy and Universe Today folks had the right idea when they banned any mention of 9/11 conspiracies on their site. And now Phil Plait is here at JREF. I'm hoping the same thing happens here. Personally, I do not think these people should be given a place
here in which to vent their poison. Let them inhabit those forums which encourage. . .um. . .delusional thinking.
And please don't give me any guff about lurkers and fence-sitters.
True fence-sitters (though I doubt there are too many of those around) will figure out for themselves pretty quickly that the 'truth movement' is full of bovine excrement. I firmly believe that most people come hard-wired for critical thinking. I feel it's a throwback to our evolutionary past to when we were farther down on the food chain than the position we now enjoy. We
needed critical thinking simply to survive. Yes, there is a certain percentage of people out there that lack critical thinking skills (think flat-earthers or arrogant creationists) and for those there is no hope; none whatsoever. They have gone so far down the rabbit-hole as to lose themselves completely (oh, I'm sure
some have realized their folly and climbed back out but I've never personally met one). This is sad, true, but also inevitable. We are not all of a piece.
In a perfect world, I would be Emperor of this Universe (JREF) and I, in my Infinite Wisdom and Patient Benevolence, would Cause every single 'truther' (and disdainful creationists and homeopaths and flat-earthers and whatnot) on my Holy Ignore List to be transferred to everybody else's ignore list (making sure to check the little boxes in the user control panel to hide the posts and threads started by those on the Holy Ignore List) and there would finally be peace in the land.
How's that for egotistic?
Sigh. . .sometimes I feel as if I'm the captain of a leaky lifeboat cast endlessly adrift upon a sea of fools.
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