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Originally Posted by New Era
Itse, I agree with what you're saying - well, 95% of it anyways. My problem is that these people who are "believing the cool daddy" are the ones who crow from their bully platform about how smart they are and how strongly they apply critical thinking skills, when in reality they don't. They don't question the verbal diarrhea that flows from these "intellectual giants" and take what they say as whole cloth. Part of being an intellectual is thinking critically for oneself and be able to weed out the bull####. There are too many that hear what they think is a convincing argument, based predominately on confirmation bias, and don't realize they are being hoodwinked. When you go through the names of the "intellectuals" identified and posted as being reasonable arguments, its a rogues gallery of hucksters and con men. That's why you can't feel sorry for them. When they claim to be so adept at applying critical thinking skills but can't see through the obvious bull#### being sold to them, they deserve the bill of goods they buy and the ridicule they receive for being part of the multi-level marketing scheme.
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Well, I'm not going to blame you for it, they
are damned annoying
