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Post by twinstead on Sept 3, 2005 20:13:27 GMT -4
I seriously think we might as well be telling a devout Christian that God doesn't exist.
Faith is a powerful thing.
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Post by rocketdad on Sept 3, 2005 21:29:18 GMT -4
Poor Margamatix.
He must feel like a Jehovah's Witness in a room full of Hindus. I'm starting to be rather fond of him, now that I have that picture of him for my desktop!
Faith, as I've been saying, is a powerful thing because it does an important job. Personally, I believe in thermodynamics and gravity, and Margamatix irritates me because his belief and my belief collide quite horribly.
I'm just trying to find out where his belief comes from, and what job it's doing for him.
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lenbrazil
Saturn
Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!
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Post by lenbrazil on Sept 3, 2005 21:59:19 GMT -4
In clinging to his irrational notions despite being shown overwhelming contrary evidence Margamatix is in good company.
There is Dr. John Costella an Australian school teacher with a PhD in physics who is also a HB [he seems to have been conned by Jack White]
Various PhD university professors do not believe in the Holocaust or Evolution
He himself provided the link to the article about Arthur Conan Doyle and the Cottingly Fairies. Other articles are less kind to the creator of Sherlock Holmes. According to one "Doyle {was} praised by many quarters but many more ridicule[d] him and question[ed] his sanity." He continued to believe that the Fox sisters had "spiritual powers" even after one of them admitted publicly on at least 2 occasions that they had faked everything. He insisted on believing that Houdini had magical powers even though the American illusionist repeated denied this publicly and privately.
I am participating in another forum with a PhD professor of Philosophy who has written several books. He insists that a pilot who was almost certainly responsible for the crash which killed him a US Senator and 6 others, had 5200 flight hours. He clings to this belief despite the fact that the pilot himself only claimed to have 5116 hours and it has been shown that the pilot lied repeatedly about his flying experience and doctored his flight logs. The NTSB was unable to account for about 2000 of the claimed hours.
There were some members of the Bush administration who still seemed to believe that Iraqi had WMDs months after Saddam had been toppled.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Sept 3, 2005 23:07:35 GMT -4
Has anyone else noticed that while 'm' claims to have little time to reply to everyone, he does have plenty of time to reply to any no techincal posts, in fact he -only- replies to non-technical posts. He avoids any post that might dent his arguments as if it was going to give him the plauge nd masks it with claims that he doesn't have time to respond to everyone. I suggest that from now on we avoid making the non-technical posts and thus force him to reply to the technical ones. I'd also suggest not having 5-6 people answering the same questions. If someone's answered it, add something only if it adds to it. This way he has to either answer the points made, or show by his silence that he accepts our refutations of his points and thus has changed his position on the Moon Hoax.
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Post by jaydeehess on Sept 9, 2005 1:07:28 GMT -4
The first and last signs were either altered or are from years ago before Britain converted to the metric system or are Canadian. None of the images of signs appear to photos of actual signs but appear to be copied from a map or a student driver's manual. Canadian road signs are ALL exclusively in metric units and have been for 30 years. I get to travel at 90 KPH on the highway but in Manitoba they go 100 KPH, a local bridge has 3 M clearance and it is 225 kilometers to the nearest larger city. It was also +25 C today and the wind was south at 10 KPH but one day last week we received 20 mm of rain. Is margamatix Bart? Perhaps not literraly, but spirituall yes.
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politik
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on a crusade against ignorance
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Post by politik on Sept 9, 2005 19:13:54 GMT -4
I've been reading this forum for weeks before I even created an account. I'm convinced now that Marg is just looking for attention. I'd be pretty impressed with myself if I managed to get so many people here to pay so much attention to me.
I've seen the same responses given to Marg so many times, there just can't be any other explanation as to why he is still here. If he truly believed that man hasn't landed on the moon and isn't convinced of our arguements (and you have to be pretty stubborn to ignore the stuff that is here), what is his motivation for staying here and continuing to post? No one with an open mind can come here and still think that the evidence presented by the hoax believers is anything but hogwash after reading the rebuttal of Jay.
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