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Originally Posted by xilsharn  So, you can't substantiate anything? Like I said in a previous post, you're taking something that can be explained through less nefarious reasoning and instead ascribe it to some malevolent higher power who controls our lives. I've read reports that some of the hijackers were in fact misidentified and the record was never publically set straight, but to use that as a springboard to proclaim that Bushitler and/or Cheney's Shadow Government and Halliburton Blood->Oil Alchemy Incorporated personally ordered the destruction of the World Trade Centers using cruise missiles and shot down Flight 93 with a Sidewinder is reaching just a tiny, tiny bit. |
Man, this stuff. When I was working I was kissing a client's ass and did a lot of stuff with them. I went to their church a couple of times when they invited me. It was a Jewish/christian type thing of some sorts.
Anyway, the church held a 2 hour presentation on how Hurricane Katrina was used by God to hurt America for abandoning Israel. I sat through it.
OK, the premise sounds nuts to most people, right? I agree as well.
Even still, for as much as I didn't buy into it, the proof put out there was very persuasive to listen to.
The author of the premise made all these connections to things that happened. Quotes from politicians and biblical stuff, stories, proof of events with articles in major newspapers and TV, photos, dates. Then he would draw parallel after parallel. Not just one or two things, easily 50 to 100.
Afterwords most of the 200 people in the church, many were guests, were buzzing about how this had so much merit. I almost immediately thought of all the 9/11 stuff and how people buy into that.
There is just so much stuff happening on large events, all those people doing all those things, billions and billions of possible sequences and possibilities of how stuff happened for inferences to be made.
I imagine with all of these seemingly plausible inferences anyone, who makes that one choice early on to believe there might be merit to what is being said, and so open themselves up to it, can be easily sucked in.
