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  1. Daecon Kiwi fruit Valued Senior Member

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    Well, you are the resident expert.
     
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  3. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    How, dare I ask, is it irrelevant if someone believes it?

    In the words of Neil Degrasse Tyson:

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  5. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Liar.

    Read for comprehension:

    My statement wasn't about my beliefs, it was a question, directed at you, asking you whether or not you thought scientists in general, and more loosely, I suppose, these specific scientists were reliable eyewitnesses.

    If you discount their eyewitness testimony, why isn't it acceptable to you?

    You requested something other than photos, so I provided it to you - North Korean scientists claiming that Unicorns existed in the last 2,000 years. I am asking YOU for YOUR opinion. My opinion on the matter is wholy irrelevant to the discussion - unless you place some kind of intellectual value on my opinion, which you have thus far ignored.
     
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  7. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    No, it's not. Refer to the post.

    So I take it you do refuse to extend the same support to this kind of woo that you give your own woo - and thus are indeed hypocritial. (In your defense, I will say that you are a very amusing one, and I look forward to your next angry defense of a blurry picture of something.)
     
  8. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Has this dog and pony show gone on long enough, or does anyone harbor any remaining doubts about MR's dishonest tactics?
     
  9. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Why should I tell you if I believe them if you refuse to tell me if you believe? I respect your opinion and would like to know what you think. Do you think the unicorn is real or not? And if they're scientists, doesn't that mean they're always right?
     
  10. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    I was very clear about what I required. Video, photo, and eyewitness evidence in abundance, as we have with ghosts, ufos, and bigfoot, as well as background information on the photos and videos. So far you have refused to meet that standard, insisting I somehow must lower my standard of evidence for these few unicorn jpg's clipped and pasted from Google images and so accept them as authentic. The only dishonesty here is on your part for refusing to meet my stated criteria, and then implying I am applying a double standard. The standard is the same in both cases. Nothing has changed.
     
  11. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    You want evidence in abundance? Here you go - CLICK ME
     
  12. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    I don't believe that you respect my opinion, you've largely shown disdain for it in the past - in just the previous post you went as far as (falsely) accusing me of being intellectually dishonest.
     
  13. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Why don't you tell me if you believe those scientists then? Seems to me you are pretending to support evidence for something you don't really believe in. That's pretty dishonest.
     
  14. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    So now you are claiming that someone's belief in something somehow trumps the evidence for/against the existence of that something...

    Interesting... and it explains a great deal about your posting...

    It is also quite telling how, once you realize our position is untenable and you are losing the argument, you put the other person on ignore and proceed to pretend like you didn't, in fact, just lose the argument.
     
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  15. Bells Staff Member

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    I am launching an investigation into why you are not receiving any PM's for any of the infractions (the software we use automatically generates a PM each time you get an infraction) in the lead up to your bans, and that you also claim you are not receiving any of the PM's we know the system generates when you receive an infraction that triggers the bans.

    If you could please take a screen shot of your conversation list and blank out any personal conversations you have with other people and send it to me via PM, that would also help me.

    I am going to see if I can generate a 0 point infraction and if it bans you, I will reverse it. I just want to test the system to see how or why you aren't getting the notification of any warnings via PM's that I know everyone else gets.
     
  16. Bells Staff Member

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    Okay, I have sent it.

    Please check your PM to see if you got it MR.
     
  17. Bells Staff Member

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    Because I have a copy of the PM that the system generated and it is in my PM box and you are another party to that conversation, which means you should have received the infraction PM.
     
  18. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    And yet you demand the same of others. A third hand video showing a blurry figure? You become indignant and outraged when others do not accept that as evidence of ghosts. A clear image of a unicorn? Inauthentic! Not up to my "standards!"

    As I said, you may have no foundations for your beliefs, but they are funnier than almost any other woo on here.
     
  19. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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  20. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    I already told you the condition under which I'd accept those images. So far you have not provided the background information on them. You DO understand this don't you? Or are you more obsessed with one-uping me here in some petty and childish game?
     
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  21. Daecon Kiwi fruit Valued Senior Member

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    Even if we did provide "background stories" you'd just claim that they were made up.
     
  22. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    The great thing here, MR, is that you do not get to arbitrarily set the conditions under which evidence is "acceptable" without explanation.

    Either explain why the images and videos are fake, or concede that you cannot do so and that the only reason you are making a fuss about this is to be obstinate.
     
  23. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Here's another one for anybody still under the delusion that eye-witnesses are reliable:

     
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