Haunted by a child? Thoughts?
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Kewy said:
People who get cheap thrills out of being 'right' on the internet fascinate me more than ghosts I think.
Plenty of evidence that those exist in this thread.
Do you get to work on a Monday morning and discuss how many times you were 'right' on the internet over the weekend? Or maybe with the lads down the pub on a Friday night? – neither of which would care I imagine.
The irony is that its usually the ones that got bullied in school that end up becoming the bully behind the keyboard, sad really.
I'm definitely skeptic about this sort of thing but find it interesting to read about.
You'd like an environment free of mockery and ridicule. Where all ideas are heard and accepted?Plenty of evidence that those exist in this thread.
Do you get to work on a Monday morning and discuss how many times you were 'right' on the internet over the weekend? Or maybe with the lads down the pub on a Friday night? – neither of which would care I imagine.
The irony is that its usually the ones that got bullied in school that end up becoming the bully behind the keyboard, sad really.
I'm definitely skeptic about this sort of thing but find it interesting to read about.
Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking b
ks is just as good as making sense.Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking b
ks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
Kewy said:
Rawwr said:
I think we both know that's not true.
That I'm going to leave it there or that I have stuff to do? At least one of those statements is true...
SpeckledJim said:
You'd like an environment free of mockery and ridicule. Where all ideas are heard and accepted?
Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking bks is just as good as making sense.
Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking bks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.
Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
Yes I think an environment free of mockery and ridicule is a fairly reasonable expectation. There are much more intelligent ways of explaining things to the 'nutcases' and 'loonies'. Maybe people need to learn to explain themselves better?Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking b
ks is just as good as making sense.Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking b
ks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
Kewy said:
SpeckledJim said:
You'd like an environment free of mockery and ridicule. Where all ideas are heard and accepted?
Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking bks is just as good as making sense.
Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking bks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.
Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
Yes I think an environment free of mockery and ridicule is a fairly reasonable expectation. There are much more intelligent ways of explaining things to the 'nutcases' and 'loonies'. Maybe people need to learn to explain themselves better?Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking b
ks is just as good as making sense.Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking b
ks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
If you don't call me on my bulls
t, I might think it's not bullst at all. I might even think you've believed my bullst, and then all sorts of avoidable cock-ups happen. We started with the sensible rational explanations early in the thread. They didn't work (of course). Now we're left with the ridicule. That won't work either.
SpeckledJim said:
Kewy said:
SpeckledJim said:
You'd like an environment free of mockery and ridicule. Where all ideas are heard and accepted?
Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking bks is just as good as making sense.
Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking bks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.
Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
Yes I think an environment free of mockery and ridicule is a fairly reasonable expectation. There are much more intelligent ways of explaining things to the 'nutcases' and 'loonies'. Maybe people need to learn to explain themselves better?Are we drifting close to a policy of 'all opinions are valid and equal'? Where talking b
ks is just as good as making sense.Because that way disaster lies.
Ridicule is a good warning sign of a nutcase talking b
ks. Listen hard for sarcastic laughter, because it gravitates into noisy clusters around lunatics. A handy tell-tale. Like spotting someone driving a vehicle in any kind of hat.Very occasionally, granted, the ridicule is wrong and the loony isn't a loony at all - he's right. It's nice when that happens, but it's not often.
If you don't call me on my bulls
t, I might think it's not bullst at all. I might even think you've believed my bullst, and then all sorts of avoidable cock-ups happen. We started with the sensible rational explanations early in the thread. They didn't work (of course). Now we're left with the ridicule. That won't work either.
t-esque what you just said right there, and I feel this was for the following reasons… Reason 1, reason 2 and so on.'Maybe I just expect too much.
Kewy said:
I'd like to think that one would take you quietly to one side and say 'Jim me lad, that was rather bullst-esque what you just said right there, and I feel this was for the following reasons… Reason 1, reason 2 and so on.'
Maybe I just expect too much.
That does sound good. Depending on the politeness of the gathered company, I'm sure that approach yields results.t-esque what you just said right there, and I feel this was for the following reasons… Reason 1, reason 2 and so on.'Maybe I just expect too much.
But this is an e-pub. And a very famously unpleasant one, at that.
We don't have quiet corners and whispered admonitions from kindly Dutch uncles. This is war, dagnammit.
SpeckledJim said:
That does sound good. Depending on the politeness of the gathered company, I'm sure that approach yields results.
But this is an e-pub. And a very famously unpleasant one, at that.
We don't have quiet corners and whispered admonitions from kindly Dutch uncles. This is war, dagnammit.
You're finally starting to make sense. And may I compliment you on the manner in which you are providing this insight But this is an e-pub. And a very famously unpleasant one, at that.
We don't have quiet corners and whispered admonitions from kindly Dutch uncles. This is war, dagnammit.
So like in all traditional wars, no one knows who or why they are fighting right?
Guvernator said:
PositronicRay said:
If one can except an infinite universe then surely one must also accept infinite possibilities.
So what you are saying is than in an infinite universe, anything is possible therefore ghosts are also possible? It's an interesting theory with some interesting ideas although not one that has ever sat comfortably with me. In an infinite universe, everything you can imagine has happened somewhere, nope sorry just doesn't sound right. I just think the current evidence leans more towards the universe being finite so I don't subscribe to the infinite universe theory.
Edited by PositronicRay on Monday 23 October 16:21
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