"Adam Beneschan" <adam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Anton van Uitert" <AntonEnCaroline@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Independent minded thinker? Please allow me to doubt either
>> qualification.
>>
>> Anton,
>
> Fully recognizing that "Stupid... Stupid... STUPID" describes me for
> getting involved in this thread, I would like to say something in our
> (Americans') defense.
>
> We have plenty of independent-minded thinkers here, and we have plenty
> of people who aren't, and probably the vast majority of us are IMT's
> some of the time and less so at other times. We base our decisions on
> our worldviews, on our own experiences, on information we get from
> friends, family, and those around us, and on information we get from
> our news sources, which may sometimes be inaccurate, incomplete, or
> biased. I seriously doubt that it's different anywhere else in the
> world---I don't think there are Knowledge Fairies in either the
> Netherlands or anywhere else that allow people some magical access to
> information that they don't get from the same kinds of sources I
> described.
>
> However, I do believe that one of the hallmarks of being an IMT is
> acknowledging that someone else can be an IMT and come to a completely
> different conclusion or world view than another. Thus, you cannot
> tell whether someone is an IMT by looking at *what* they believe or
> what they think; you have to know *how* they arrived at that
> conclusion, and I don't think most of us really even know that much
> about how our neighbors do their thinking, much less large groups of
> people a whole ocean away.
>
> Just my US$0.02. Yeah, I know this is going to have about as much
> affect as trying to explain the correct application of combinatorial
> theory to a fish.
You're feeding two trolls with one post!
Way to go :))
Peter
>
> -- Adam
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