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  1. 2 hours ago, cclarry said:

    We, being only flesh, form our opinions mostly by our "indoctrination" and "experience" and those "opinions" may, or may not, actually be "factual"!
    We fail to grasp the concept that facts don't require us to believe in them...they exist outside of "opinion and belief"! 
    The big problem is that most people don't want "facts"!  They want what THEY PERCEIVE as
    facts to be reinforced by "external sources"!  Hence why most, even when provided with UNQUESTIONABLE FACTS, will 
    reject those facts - because that information doesn't "reinforce" their own "perception of the facts"!

    Truth is truth..it has no pre-requisite for ANYONE to believe it.   It's TRUTH!  The problem
    comes when "humans" relay that information to one another, where it get's "molded" into a "narrative"
    that supports our personal "perception", rather than what is factually accurate.

    To quote:  Truth, after all, is so poorly lit

    As an example:

    Two people see an accident between a red car and blue car.  One person is on one side of the accident, and is POSITIVE that 
    the blue car is at fault.  The other person, having seen it from a "different perspective", is POSITIVE that they red car is at fault.
    BOTH believe that their "perspective" is FACTUAL!  However, NEITHER have considered ALL of the variables, but have 
    passed judgement based solely on their "visual perspective and perception" but not on "Facts"!

    Hopefully that makes it understandable why it is SO IMPERATIVE that things be INVESTIGATED, and ALL possible known 
    information be considered, BEFORE we draw any "conclusions" and decide what is "Factual"!  Otherwise it's just a "self-reinforced delusion"!

    And THIS is WHY we have what we have TODAY!  Politics and the Media have become about "molding narratives to
    shape the perception of reality, and controlling the masses", rather than about what is FACTUALLY ACCURATE!

    Thanks for the lecture....?

    My point (joke) was that a person castigating someone just for thinking their opinion is always correct, regardless of topic, is like them saying that they don't believe their own opinions.

    BTW...

    Why do people say IMO after they say something?  We already figured that. We didn't assume that you were giving someone else's opinion. ?

     

     

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  2. On 12/28/2021 at 3:37 PM, Bapu said:

    There are no facts in a world where everyone's opinion is stated as a fact.

    Here's the thing tho......

    Why do some people get all worked up about other people because they think that their opinion is correct ?

    Does anybody actively decide to have an opinion that they don't think is correct ?

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  3. 1 hour ago, cclarry said:

    Well apparently the "members" are interested..

    I'm not, but I wouldn't care if there was one because I just wouldn't look at it.

    However........I do think that anything that made this place more like KVR would be a backwards step.  

     

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  4. Just now, Paul_in_wales said:

    you don't search on the local library - that's just to get the library card number which you use in libbyapp.com

    Yeah, I know. There's a problem with my sign-in for some reason so I can't do that at the moment.

    All the same though.....that search result.....FFS. LOL.

     

  5. On 12/26/2021 at 10:30 PM, Paul_in_wales said:

    online local library sign-up+libbyapp.com = free+legal access to all the major music mags including computer music, future music, sound on sound and beat.

    Yours obviously works better than mine.....a search for "computer music magazine"  on my local lib returns 1 result....

    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (DVD). ?

    ?

     

  6. 45 minutes ago, cclarry said:

    I have 330 "Friends and Family" on Fakebook...
     

    I always say to people not to waste time and money on researching their relatives/ancestry....just announce on FB that you won the lottery.

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