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Re: Conspiracy theories: little green men
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:54:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
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> > There is link somewhere in my favorites folder that I cannot find at the
> > moment (this folder is dire need of organizing) which offers a cite about a
> > creationist who would not believe a scientist about the Earth being round
> > rather than flat. The scientist produced a photograph showing proof of the
> > Earth's roundness, but the creationist replied something like this..."I can
> > see how such an image could decieve a person"...
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> I've read that quote--I think it was this guy:
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> http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/032601/usn_flatearth.shtml
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> but this article doesn't show the quote.
yup, i think that was him. I looked around some more for my link, but I
think i might not have actually saved it. In fact, I might have found it
somewhere around Lugnet, but am not sure where to start looking, it has been
a couple of months since I saw it...i thought I saved it, but I guess not...
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> > Some people only accept solid, personal experience and/or observation. I
> > have seen enough "doctured" images in movies (Forest Gump) to know that we
> > can, in fact, fake our photography. I think many of the conspiracists are
> > also aware of this and find it rather chilling knowing how easy
> > entertainment can "fix" an image...what could a national government do to
> > convince a society that something was real when, in fact it was not?
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> There was, of course, that awful movie "Wag the Dog."
Although it was a terribly slow movie, I did enjoy the conspiracy.
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> Dave!
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