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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Actually, you don't. The only thing you have to do is determine the validity of the memories. This is a determination of what the person believes to be true and trying to determine the reliability of the memory.
I don't feel insulted. I actually don't feel anything about this, or toward you, other than embarrassment for you. I felt sorry for you by your weak attempt at a put down. I've dealt with much smarter and wittier people than you, so your attempt was just so embarrassingly weak that I felt it best to give you tips on how to be better in your weak personal attacks.
It's not moving the goalposts, its reality. The memories that people have are the memories that people have. For you to suggest that you know better without proper examination is a joke. How can you possibly know the condition of someone without either interviewing them, or placing the trust in the individua that did interview them? That's the thing. If the methodology is consistent, I tend to believe the clinician, because they are educated and versed in these interviews.
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Again I wasn’t attempting a personal attack. I was merely showing what I thought your position was was absurd. And I don’t really bother to read multi-quote diatribes. That style of posting is not productive on a message board. If you can’t make your post on your phone sitting on the toilet then you are being far to verbose an ineffective at communicating.
But anyway I took your position to be
That people of sound mind recalling an event after inspection by a qualified clinician should be accepted as evidence that the event occurred.
What I am hearing you now say is people of sound mind recalling an event after inspection by a qualified clinician should be believed that they have the memory that they state they have.
Can you in one sentence state your position.
I disagree with the first but agree with the second. I believe that some people believe they have been abducted by aliens this to me lends almost no evidence that aliens abductions occur.