(09-24-2023, 02:46 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Has nothing to do with paranoid vs rational. It's about how you reason. It's not "rational" to believe everything you're told. In fact, there are many instances where believing what you are told is irrational. I believe this is one of those instances, but I can respect why others might question my point of view. What I don't respect is absolute certainty that one is right when they have no way of corroborating that information. You have no epistemic humility. Inductive reasoning is how almost all progress is made.

Yes, that's what I'm doing, LOL. If I believed everything I'm told on Ray Epps, I'd believe 107 different theories about his involvement and affiliations. I don't.  Because I culled through all that stuff to find the only reasonable conclusion supported by actual [BLEEP] evidence, while you cling to interpretations from a bunch of tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs blathering on some crackpot YouTube channel. 

But, big kudos on finding an eloquent way to explain your paranoia. That was cute. 

Big, big difference between applying inductive reasoning and buying a bunch of conspiratorial horse [BLEEP] because you keep overlooking all of the holes in these crackpot theories. Holes that you are clearly smart enough to know refute the principle theory. But it would appear you adopt a "suspension of disbelief" when you enter the rabbit hole on these things. That's is not inductive reasoning. 

Inductive reasoning has also led a ton of people to failure and demise when they completely bungled assumptions about correlation and causation, which is exactly what you've done with Ray Epps. 

I know it drives you crazy that you can't make me see that I'm acting too smart for my britches - you've harped on it incessantly with all those little snide remarks. And - you know what?  I am a cocky prick. Get over it. 
Whatever your insecurity may be that makes you fixate on the lack of humility/cockiness in my stances dissenting your opinions - that [BLEEP] is on you. 
Not me.

Don't try to put it on me that your garbage interpretation of events is so riddled with flaws I can confidently be an arrogant prick when pointing out how stupid it is.

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