Wrong.
Surely you jest.
That thread was titled "Been to the moon?"
Rather than questioning Apollo, it was about how people know it happened without direct experience.
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Wrong.
Surely you jest.
That thread was titled "Been to the moon?"
Rather than questioning Apollo, it was about how people know it happened without direct experience.
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
Seriously, though, do you watch Penn and Teller and come away questioning the very fabric of reality, or do you accept that people can be fooled by well-practiced trickery?
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
I know what the thread was titled, I wasn't quoting the title of the thread, hence the "discuss" part, lol.
The thread was clearly some half-assed attempt at getting another conspiracy thread going, oddly in the General Skepticism and Paranormal section.
Armitage72
Philosopher
You joke, but I've met people who believe that David Copperfield uses supernatural powers to perform his tricks, and at least one preacher has declared him to be the Antichrist.
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
Which is as perplexing as the rest of your odd threads.
Why would you need "experience" to accept anything that you're generally told on a day-to-day basis?
(Wife: I just picked up some bread and milk from the store.
Husband: Can I accept that as the truth, though? I didn't experience it for myself.)
We've got pictures and deposits from the moon, and that bloke's wife had the bread and the milk.
Fin.
abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
FFS. This is the Bubba no-claim baloney. Chuck utter nonsense and pretend not to have done so. It is not new.
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
I totally believe that there are people who would think such a thing.
It's what keeps these run-of-the-mill "psychics" in business every other Thursday night down at the social club in most towns and cities across the land.
Douche: "I'm getting a Jay...a Jay...John, Jack..."
Victim: "Joseph! It's Joseph, my late husband!"
Douche: "Ah, yes, Joseph is with me in the room."
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
It's an old routine, a trend that can be "experienced" with one look at his thread and post history.
Imhotep
Graduate Poster
A pickpocket assistant that steals everyone's ID and puts it back.
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
A friendly ghost that can see through a person's wallet and then relate the information to the magician.
Nay_Sayer
I say nay!
and I asked you how can I be sure your house exists without direct experience
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
You can't, apparently.
You also can't be certain that Kuala Lumpur exists unless you've personally been there, the same goes for Huddersfield.
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
And you believed him? lol. Pull the other one, mate, it's got bells on.
Define direct experience vs belief / having faith in what you are told is true
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
It doesn't work like that.
Imhotep
Graduate Poster
I think I'd just stick with the friendly ghost bit then, and drop the guessing of the signs.
OK how does it work then, if you'd be so kind as to explain...?
Imhotep
Graduate Poster
Direct experience: I touched it, felt it, heard it, saw it, got my nose rubbed in it
Belief/Faith: No sensory data received from subject
Belief/Faith: No sensory data received from subject
Gilbert Syndrome
Philosopher
Because you don't need direct experience in order to believe that something may be so.
It doesn't matter whether it's going to the moon, or going to the local shop for a jar of pickles.
That being said, I started out presuming you were trolling, and now I've had direct experience of it.
Do any of your threads have an ultimate goal/point, or are you merely taking a tinkle in the wind and seeing which way the droplets fly?