From: L' Ermit (lhermit@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 06:24:06 MST
Dylan suggested:
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My view is that david Icke is not a complete nutter. Perhaps misguided,
certainly misunderstood and whether he talks a load of bollocks or not is
irrelevant as he certainly does raise a number of interesting points and if
nothing else his views are a catalyst for intellectual discussion.
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Hermit responds:
Dylan, you should practice being skeptical. At least a few times a day.
When somebody suggests something, first ask, "on what evidence." When they
have no evidence, relegate them immediately to the dubious category.
Assuming that they they have some basis for their theories, if the evidence
is apparent collusion or secret societies, first ask if it can be explained
by stupidity or coincidence before ascribing it to malice.
Conspiracy is very unlikely. A secret is only a secret while one person
knows it. Humans as a group are not designed for keeping things secret. When
an hypothesis revolves around an organization as public as the WTO, secrecy
is almost impossible.
Coincidence is common. It has to be. There are over 6 billion people doing
pretty similar things on this planet. Odds are, when you think about it,
that some of them will be doing unlikely things at the same time. Say the
odds against something happening are a million to 1 for any day. That means
that at least 6,000 people are doing it today... Any argument from
unlikelihood can probably be explained on this basis.
The only "secret society" likely to have survived for over 1,500 years is
the Vatican. And that is only because they were the most powerful
organization in the world for a thousand or so of those years.
Even leaving "reasons of state" out of the equation, family connections are
inevitable in any social grouping, simply because they attend the same
functions and places.
David Icke is a complete loony, so far over the edge that any connection
with reality is long lost. If it were 50 years ago, I'd suspect neurological
syphilis. Heck, I still do.
Regards
Hermit
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