The brother of my manager at work was injured in the fall of the Towers. He was a doctor that had rushed to the scene to aid any survivors, and was clobbered pretty bad. It is real life that makes "it's all fake" a pathetic denial of reality.
I don’t doubt that real people were injured in a real collapse. I don’t doubt that your manager’s brother was injured there. I don’t even doubt that planes hit the towers, though I expect explosives were used.
However, I don’t KNOW a single one of those things, I only believe them.
There are plenty of fake things that can be misrepresented even to people present, involved, witnessing. It’s probably very frustrating, but that’s what we have to deal with. Even when people are honestly stating what they perceived, perception can be mistaken, misremembered, or tricked.
I’ve run into this exact problem myself. Just understand it’s nothing personal. Give your testimony, and that’s all you can do.
Imagine you knew people who’d come back to life from being dead for 12 hours, then talked with someone who didn’t believe in God and thought the idea was ridiculous, except you knew of almost a dozen such miraculous events.
Simple. The planes and the towers and the collapse were all real. There were no explosives. There were no physical impossibilities. I haven't seen any faked imagery. All the doubt I have heard comes from people who don't understand collision dynamics, don't understand combustion chemistry, and don't understand inertial restraint of a rapid failure process. So they fill the holes of their ignorance with "common sense" imagination---which is simply in error.
I don't see any relevance to your imaginary hypothetical. If anything, the normal world and eyewitnesses are the ones who saw a real event, and the conspiracy theorists think the idea is so miraculous as to be ridiculous.
Re-read, fren. I didn’t state any hypothetical situation.
The comment is an assertion of dealing with epistemology - studying what we truly know and how we know it - with regards to other people, and what they cannot know in a world filled with liars, deception, and misperception.
I stated that I have had people tell me things were fake in a world where I had direct contact with the thing they were calling fake.
It’s not their fault, it’s a byproduct of what we are dealing with. Whether my tactic for dealing with that is good or not is a separate question, but I don’t see any other viable solution. Getting angry at it only hurts yourself, at best.
We may never know. It could have all been faked.
The brother of my manager at work was injured in the fall of the Towers. He was a doctor that had rushed to the scene to aid any survivors, and was clobbered pretty bad. It is real life that makes "it's all fake" a pathetic denial of reality.
well obviously the buildings were real, and actually collapsed. but it's been proven several times over that the planes were digital inserts.
Not when they find the structural material of the airplane in the remains. Eyewitness accounts are not "digital inserts."
eyewitness accounts do not outweigh the evidence to the contrary, which is irrefutable.
I don’t doubt that real people were injured in a real collapse. I don’t doubt that your manager’s brother was injured there. I don’t even doubt that planes hit the towers, though I expect explosives were used.
However, I don’t KNOW a single one of those things, I only believe them.
There are plenty of fake things that can be misrepresented even to people present, involved, witnessing. It’s probably very frustrating, but that’s what we have to deal with. Even when people are honestly stating what they perceived, perception can be mistaken, misremembered, or tricked.
I’ve run into this exact problem myself. Just understand it’s nothing personal. Give your testimony, and that’s all you can do.
Imagine you knew people who’d come back to life from being dead for 12 hours, then talked with someone who didn’t believe in God and thought the idea was ridiculous, except you knew of almost a dozen such miraculous events.
Same thing.
Simple. The planes and the towers and the collapse were all real. There were no explosives. There were no physical impossibilities. I haven't seen any faked imagery. All the doubt I have heard comes from people who don't understand collision dynamics, don't understand combustion chemistry, and don't understand inertial restraint of a rapid failure process. So they fill the holes of their ignorance with "common sense" imagination---which is simply in error.
I don't see any relevance to your imaginary hypothetical. If anything, the normal world and eyewitnesses are the ones who saw a real event, and the conspiracy theorists think the idea is so miraculous as to be ridiculous.
Re-read, fren. I didn’t state any hypothetical situation.
The comment is an assertion of dealing with epistemology - studying what we truly know and how we know it - with regards to other people, and what they cannot know in a world filled with liars, deception, and misperception.
I stated that I have had people tell me things were fake in a world where I had direct contact with the thing they were calling fake.
It’s not their fault, it’s a byproduct of what we are dealing with. Whether my tactic for dealing with that is good or not is a separate question, but I don’t see any other viable solution. Getting angry at it only hurts yourself, at best.