From: Ian Goddard (igoddard@erols.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 1996 - 23:29:28 MST
At 01:11 PM 11/12/96 -0600, Ira Brodsky wrote:
> It is also possible to be skeptical about some things and optimistic about
> others. I tend to be skeptical about suggestive "here's what really
> happened" stories, and optimistic about the future. IMO, not such a bad
> philosophy.
IAN: Let's be optimistic: we're getting heaps of more govt, but heck,
govt is great, let's have more, why be such a anti-govt pessimistic
party pooper, join the happy govt club.
It seems to be a universal tactic all over the internet that those who
want to pooh-pooh the Navy TWA 800 theory are actually assuming to score
points against the theory by suggesting that those who broach the theory
are saying "here's what really happened." Yet in fact I've yet to see
someone, with perhaps the exception of Salinger, say that.
But even if one become 100% convinced that X happened, how is this
anti-thetical to optimism? This suggestion seems a plea to ignorance:
"no nasty bad conclusions, only nice happy days, no mean bad conspiri-
tors, the only 'slave' is the one who sees evil, think happy thoughts
and all those bad thugs out there will just go away."
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