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How photos support your own "reality" Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.
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  • @ -- Aycharaych

    Yes, you are loud enough, blustery, even; unfortunately, that's all.

    No intelligence under that aluminum foil helmet you're wearing, with magnets to protect against the cell phone waves that are controlling everyone's mind -- but your own.

    Yes, you are commanding the raki energy to your purpose, and you alone know the terrible secrets of 9/11 -- the secrets we'd all know if only we re-directed, magical, magnetic pyramids around our house as you do.

    Aycharaych, it's a good thing intelligence doesn't inhibit you from knowing the real truth.

  • Whew!

    Even I couldn't plow through all of the comment so far, so please forgive if this was covered.

    The first thing I think of every time I hear about 9/11 or see pre-2001 movies or TV shows where the Twin Towers are still intact is a single question I've yet to see an answer to. ANY answer. When stripped of its context, it honestly comes down to a chemistry and p-chem issue:

    apparently jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt the girders of the towers, but thermite does burn hot enough, and thermite does have a signature burn, which was shown in video on TV, so the question is: what produced enough heat to melt the girders?

    Never seen a satisfactory answer--or any answer, really--to that simple question.

    Anyone got anything on that?

  • @ motherwell

    Thank you, you summed up exactly what I meant to say in far fewer words! That is the beauty of paranoia: once embraced, it relives you of ever having to think again.

  • Subtle but more accurate

    I think that primary flaw in Jayhan's reasoning is not seeing something in one bit of video, but actively seeking and interpreting every little bit of video, photography, and documentation in order to support a conclusion he had already reached. He has entirely turned the scientific process on its head and therefore we really can't trust his conclusions about anything on this topic. If you want any shot at a good answer to what happened on 9-11, look to science, not to cherry-picking. Science looks at all evidence and seeks the most likely explanation - not the one that feeds its fantasies. Google 9/11 Popular Mechanics for the seminal scientific look at the events of 9-11.

  • @ Bushwhacker Thanks for clearing that up.

    I was worried there for a minute.

    You say that no engineers or a least those of the right flavor, believe in alternative explanations for the attacks and ensuing collapses.

    Here are 300 of them.

    http://www.ae911truth.org/

    So let me get this straight, if someone is talking outside their field then nothing they have to say has any value? Correct?

    What did you say your field was?

  • @ motherwell

    Elegant point, motherwell. Such chains of thought may on rare occasions be accurate, but when they are, the accuracy is the result of accident, not thinking.

  • @ Brian Schlosser

    Funny, one could say the exact thing about blind faith.

    Cheers!

  • Yes, I'm a "9-11 Truther," and Very Ashamed (of what it says about my Country, that is).....

    I am very sad and ashamed that I do not trust my government, but I think you'd have to be insane to trust this particular government we've had for the past twenty years (Bush-Clinton-Bush). There's a reason why the "X-Files" was so popular in the 1990s---it's because NOBODY in their right mind really trusts the US Government anymore. Brian Strosser wrote: "That is the beauty of paranoia: once embraced, it relives you of ever having to think again." I demur!

    Whether we agree on the historic details of specific conspiracies or not, however, I think we can or should ALL agree that it is blind faith in the power and righteousness of our Government that has made up one flimsy excuse and lie after another to go out to kill, kill, kill throughout the world while we jail, jail, jail our own people here at home.

    One aspect of history that has so far been ignored by the other posters is "pattern"---the repetitive patterns of medium range history that characeterize different eras.

    In the United States a decade of political assassinations, started in 1963 with Kennedy, followed in rapid succession by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, & ending, strangely enough, with George Corley Wallace, who survived as a paralytic cripple the attack on his life in Silver Spring Maryland in 1972. There were attacks on Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan each several years later, but the era of the successful "lone gunman" assassin seems to have ended with Arthur Bremmer and the Alabama Governor.

    It seems that the world’s puppetmasters simply decided that it was time for a new strategy, because there had never been a decade of political assassinations like 1963-1972 in U.S. history, and there has not been one since. Or did the psychoses which generated “lone gunmen” just ameliorate thanks to sufficient doses of readily available “soma”?

    And then in 1992, a decade of incidents of terrorism started in 1992 with the Federal standoff at Ruby Ridge. Immediately after Ruby Ridge, at the start of the Clinton Administration, followed the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, the tragedy at Waco (Branch Davidian Mount Carmel) and then Okalahoma City 1995.

    After Oklahoma City, the "endgame" became more readily apparent: Congress enacted AEDPA, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, origin, source, and precursor of the Patriot Act, most elements of which had been proposed in 1993 after World Trade Center I.....

    But even Oklahoma City was not the "new Pearl Harbor"---that had to wait another five years, and then it happened, with 9-11 culminating the decade of domestic terrorism in the United States---and nothing much has happened since, except that Bin Ladin remains at large (allegedly the most wanted criminal in the WORLD---but it's nice to have him around to keep people fearful---even if he's actually just retired and gone on vacation to Rio or something) and American Civil Liberties and the Constitution as a whole are all imprisoned, on starvation diet, and will soon die if not released from their "cold steel storage."

    So IMHO there's a connection between the Kennedy Assassination and 9-11 all right---both are arguably incidents used as tools of U.S. National Policy.

    Why are there prisons being built at breakneck speed around the country with Federal Dollars?

    Why is Congress criminalizing almost every form of conduct while judges arrogate themselves the power to violate the constitutional rights of every citizen with impunity AND immunity from prosecution?

    Why is former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer resigning from the Governorship of New York for involvement with a good-looking hooker when the entire legal profession has prostituted itself to every value for which "America" ever stood? Look at the attached article on the sordid history of the Bush Administration's attack on a more recent Democratic Governor of Alabama...it is scandalous and inexcusable!

    No, indeed, I think that it's time to admit that with our Government, if you trust them, if you're NOT paranoid, you're truly insane and delusional...

    There was one candidate this year who MIGHT have changed all this country's trustworthiness for the better, and like most of my fellow "9-11 Truthers/9-11 Deniers/9-11 Non-Sheep", Ron Paul was ridiculed and belittled.

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