Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
9th April 2016, 01:01 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
That was a bit of a turning point for me. I got...
That was a bit of a turning point for me. I got through the 15 or however many it was points... and realised what a mountain of evidence there was to refute each point, and realised that no one who...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
6th April 2016, 10:45 PM
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Replies: 641
Views: 147,271
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
6th April 2016, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
I actually just wonder if it was a result of...
I actually just wonder if it was a result of people growing up and realising there were real problems in the world to deal with?
The popular mass of the 9/11 Truth Movement seems to have been...
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
6th April 2016, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 462
Views: 70,712
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
6th April 2016, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 462
Views: 70,712
Just as a backstory, the purpose behind the...
Just as a backstory, the purpose behind the graphic - and jaydeehess is quite right, it's only a (very simple) graphic, not a scientific schematic - was to use as a reference point for erroneous...
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
6th April 2016, 03:07 AM
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Replies: 462
Views: 70,712
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
6th April 2016, 03:02 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
31st March 2016, 05:02 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
31st March 2016, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
I think you can make a legitimate argument for...
I think you can make a legitimate argument for some of the bombing campaigns of WW2 (by various belligerents) being terrorism. There is, however, one crucial argument against it which I think does...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
31st March 2016, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
IS attacks only really function as a form of...
IS attacks only really function as a form of terrorism when considering IS attacks against Muslim populations. At it's essence, terrorism is a socio-political tactic whereby civilians are targeted...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 08:44 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 4,655
Was Chicken Little Right?
I have been musing on recent global events, which seem to have a decidedly negative flavour. Whether it's terrorism, instability in the Middle East, climate change, Corporate influence, or any range...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
The situation in Saudi Arabia is a bit more...
The situation in Saudi Arabia is a bit more complex than that. The Wahhabists and the Royals basically hate each other equally, but they tolerate each other, because each protects the other from the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 07:10 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
Bush is actually a really good demonstration of...
Bush is actually a really good demonstration of the notion that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Bush was an idiot, and nearly everything he said was idiotic, and the criticism of why he used...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:44 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:35 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:25 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
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Forum: USA Politics
22nd March 2016, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 4,921
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
Yes.
It's disturbing that...
Yes.
It's disturbing that you seem to genuinely believe something that's quite fundamentally untrue, and that anyone with even a passing familiarity with the organisations involved...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 03:42 AM
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Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 03:30 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
Very good point. Belgium gets what they deserve...
Very good point. Belgium gets what they deserve for their imperialist ambitions in the Middle East, and we can expect France to soon suffer further attacks in response to their retaliatory invasion...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 631
Views: 80,966
Statistically, if a terrorist bombing occurs...
Statistically, if a terrorist bombing occurs anywhere in the world at the moment, the most likely perpetrators are Islamic extremists. Sure, other people commit terrorist bombings from time to time...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 111
Views: 13,706
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2016, 01:24 AM
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Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
Huh?
It says fat chicks are harder (more...
Huh?
It says fat chicks are harder (more difficult) to kidnap, not that they're less likely to be victims of attempted kidnapping, or that no one wants to kidnap them. The inference is clearly...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
21st March 2016, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 294
Views: 25,969
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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
21st March 2016, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 206
Views: 29,905
I'm confused, if the Naudet documentary was...
I'm confused, if the Naudet documentary was staged days earlier, does that mean Joseph Pfeifer is in on it? What about his brother Kevin, who died in WTC1? Was he in on it too? How does that work?
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
21st March 2016, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 3,927
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
21st March 2016, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 1,340
Views: 233,997
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
Having everyone change their clocks on the same...
Having everyone change their clocks on the same arbitrary date, and keeping the same business hours, is far more manageable and less chaotic than having individuals and businesses arbitrarily change...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
That's actually a myth, and more or less the...
That's actually a myth, and more or less the opposite of the truth. DST was first proposed by a New Zealander; George Hudson and the reasoning behind it was to provide more leisure time in the early...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 04:52 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Are you sure about that? I find it hard to...
Are you sure about that? I find it hard to believe the Netherlands has passed legislation banning the watching of DVDs encoded to another region. No one else has a law like that.
I'd be very...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Distribution rights have nothing to do with...
Distribution rights have nothing to do with copyright law; it's a contract between the content owner and the distributor, and it in no way binds the customer. If you use a proxy to access US Netflix...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 04:26 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
I know you didn't being up crime rates, but...
I know you didn't being up crime rates, but comparing crime rates between countries is absurd. The way countries report crime varies enormously. To demonstrate just how enormous that difference is,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 03:57 AM
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Replies: 619
Views: 76,752
That's not particularly surprising. Flags are...
That's not particularly surprising. Flags are symbols, and their "value" is directly relative to the value of the thing they represent. New Zealanders will generally value the thing the NZ flag...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 02:56 AM
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Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st March 2016, 02:49 AM
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Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
11th March 2016, 09:24 PM
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Replies: 149
Views: 23,384
As a child, a friend of mine had a really nasty...
As a child, a friend of mine had a really nasty ear infection that resulted in a severe fever with pretty crazy hallucinations. He was convinced that his family and the doctors were actually alien...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st March 2016, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 2,821
Views: 226,335
Driverless cars are decades away. The "millions...
Driverless cars are decades away. The "millions of miles" that Google like to trumpet doesn't reveal that all of that driving has been done on a very tiny selection of pre-prepared roads. Currently...
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