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Discovering what's bullshit.

macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
im pretty confident...if you are making one point....and you have to write a term paper to execute it...its bullshit.


Facts come in short sentences.


this is a good way to weed these people out i think.

EX: WMD's werent found by the Bush Administration. Ever.

EX: Well you see...inspectors were here and it could have been found if you would think about how they left and why...and where they could have moved them and than saddam puts on a glove and challenges bush and than that fish just flew by me ..look at it... but ya i mean they are there ya know...and they will turn up.
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  • he still standshe still stands Posts: 2,835
    macgyver06 wrote:
    im pretty confident...if you are making one point....and you have to write a term paper to execute it...its bullshit.


    Facts come in short sentences.


    this is a good way to weed these people out i think.

    EX: WMD's werent found by the Bush Administration. Ever.

    EX: Well you see...inspectors were here and it could have been found if you would think about how they left and why...and where they could have moved them and than saddam puts on a glove and challenges bush and than that fish just flew by me ..look at it... but ya i mean they are there ya know...and they will turn up.

    I'd recommend the book "On Bull"... can't remember the author. I think it is written by a philosophy professor at Penn. It talks about how people generally accept the bullshit that is handed out daily, both consciously acceptance and unconscious.... very interesting... the follow-up "On Truth" I didn't think was nearly as good.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    However, marketers use the opposite method. "A diamond is a girl's best friend" is a short soundbyte that repeats in a person's head. If they tried to actually explain how that is true and weigh all the objects in a girl's life. It would turn out that diamonds are pretty much useless.
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  • mookie9999mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    macgyver06 wrote:
    im pretty confident...if you are making one point....and you have to write a term paper to execute it...its bullshit.


    Facts come in short sentences.


    this is a good way to weed these people out i think.

    EX: WMD's werent found by the Bush Administration. Ever.

    EX: Well you see...inspectors were here and it could have been found if you would think about how they left and why...and where they could have moved them and than saddam puts on a glove and challenges bush and than that fish just flew by me ..look at it... but ya i mean they are there ya know...and they will turn up.

    This reminds me of what Dennis Miller once said about how we in America like our dose of politics to be like Pez: Short, Sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head. It's quite ironic considering how he has now permanently affixed his mouth around Bush's satanic dick.
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  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    I'm gonna prety much diagree and say that our biggest promblem is that complex issues get reduced to sound bite sized discussions. teh result is a world of simplistic black and white in stead of the complex gray it really is. Politicians get slaughtered by teh media when they try to give a balanced opinion on a complex issue or a complex answer.
    Your demand for problems to be simplified into sound bites means that you will only ever get simplistic solutions.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    mookie9999 wrote:
    This reminds me of what Dennis Miller once said about how we in America like our dose of politics to be like Pez: Short, Sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head.

    oh god, i just choked on a biscuit. thanks i needed that laugh. :)
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    mookie9999 wrote:
    This reminds me of what Dennis Miller once said about how we in America like our dose of politics to be like Pez: Short, Sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head. It's quite ironic considering how he has now permanently affixed his mouth around Bush's satanic dick.

    No shit.
    I saw him in some sort of interview not long ago and he has lost any kind of objective pretext in US foreign policy stating that "even if Bush" quit Iraq, he would still support it.

    What an asshat.
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  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    gue_barium wrote:
    No shit.
    I saw him in some sort of interview not long ago and he has lost any kind of objective pretext in US foreign policy stating that "even if Bush" quit Iraq, he would still support it.

    What an asshat.


    ....people with plastic heads.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    he still stands wrote:
    I'd recommend the book "On Bull"... can't remember the author. I think it is written by a philosophy professor at Penn. It talks about how people generally accept the bullshit that is handed out daily, both consciously acceptance and unconscious.... very interesting... the follow-up "On Truth" I didn't think was nearly as good.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122946/ref=pd_bowtega_1/202-6990174-1385417?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180069917&sr=1-1
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