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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld
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Robin Farine |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld |
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:18:16 +0100 |
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Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
* IMHO, we haven't had a Secretary of Defense since 9/11
Speaking about 9/11, I find the whole thing a good illustration of
1. something happens
2. some people interpret (i.e. abstract, transform) what they
"observed", facts related to what happened, and produce a theory
3. other people mix there own "observations" with what people in 2
said about what happened and arrange bits of the whole thing to
produce a "plausible" theory
4. the rest of us makes no direct observation but we build our own
theory based on what we hear and we happily ignore/hide any
contradiction or suspicious deduction
5. one of the theory emerging at 4 becomes the official explanation
of 1 and it also becomes the truth (since one could see it on
every TV channel and in every newspaper).
As an illustration, here is an alternate theory about 9/11 that does not
look less plausible than the official theory
"http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/questions/ghost-riders-in-the-sky.txt".
Let us guess why it did not become officially recognized as the truth.
Not that I say that it contains more truth than the official version,
but rather that to promote peace, responsible behavior or whatever in
this direction, one should start by thinking a lot about the "truth" on
an event before jumping to conclusions and reacting.
Robin
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld, Tom Lord, 2004/03/19
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld, Miles Bader, 2004/03/19
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld, Robin Farine, 2004/03/20
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld, Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/03/18