The Conspiracy Theory
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Anyone want a sweepstake on how long he'll last before his first ban?www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0
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You need to start a poll.Anyone want a sweepstake on how long he'll last before his first ban?
Had a quick gander at that ctc thread and its all a bit deja vu. There are some very knowledgeable locals there, unfortunately they got sucked in as well even though they now know he's a troll."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The penny drops when you realise that he will never be proved wrong because he doesn't want to be. Any time it comes close to that, the evidence is wrong, rigged or he changes subject
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
The penny drops when you realise that he will never be proved wrong because he doesn't want to be. Any time it comes close to that, the evidence is wrong, rigged or he changes subject
He has a mental illness of sorts. Believers are often autistic: trying to make sense of the complexity of the world by finding a conspiracy to explain it all.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insights-into-the-personalities-conspiracy-theorists/
http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/sep/05/conspiracy-theories-science-belief-secret-plots
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/64114756/The-psychology-of-conspiracy-beliefseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
done, some poor, well meaning guy was getting sucked in...
Couldn't resist joining in on that CTC thread. However their mods don't seem to like me using phrases like 'trolling' and 'don't feed' so a bit milder than intended.
Don't know how lucky you have it here
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It really is hilarious that even a month after being banned, he is still managing to wind a few up.
That is quite impressive. A legacy that you may not wish for but undeniably a legacy.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It really is hilarious that even a month after being banned, he is still managing to wind a few up.
That is quite impressive. A legacy that you may not wish for but undeniably a legacy.
Is infamy really better than anonymity?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Some people seem to think so, can't imagine why.It really is hilarious that even a month after being banned, he is still managing to wind a few up.
That is quite impressive. A legacy that you may not wish for but undeniably a legacy.
Is infamy really better than anonymity?0 -
Infamy, infamy, they really have it in for me.It really is hilarious that even a month after being banned, he is still managing to wind a few up.
That is quite impressive. A legacy that you may not wish for but undeniably a legacy.
Is infamy really better than anonymity?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Blakey - You're s poet and you don't know it.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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The late Frankie Howard would appreciate that.Blakey - You're s poet and you don't know it.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
The late Frankie Howard would appreciate that.Blakey - You're s poet and you don't know it.
Kenneth Williams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw0 -
My sincere apologies to Kenneth. :oops:
The late Frankie Howard would appreciate that.Blakey - You're s poet and you don't know it.
Kenneth Williams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw
That simply proves not to rely on memory.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Still going, although at a slower one than this one did. They're quite an accepting lot over there. His latest one is that the moon is transparent...http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=97527
he has found a new home, same old story, different forum!"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Maybe he has been correct all along.....
http://news.sky.com/story/1325464/physicists-ask-is-the-universe-a-2d-hologramThe above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
A more likely explanation is that the journo in question watched 'The Matrix' recently.Maybe he has been correct all along.....
http://news.sky.com/story/1325464/physicists-ask-is-the-universe-a-2d-hologram"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Maybe he has been correct all along.....
http://news.sky.com/story/1325464/physicists-ask-is-the-universe-a-2d-hologram
This fits in beautifully with the Big Bang theorists. A parallel with conspiracy theorists in that neither can make sense of the Universe or the World respectively and therefore attempt to condense explanations of life the universe and everything into one neat, simple, explainable package.
Can the conclusion be made that Astro-physicists and conspiracy theorists are all on the autistic spectrum?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Okay.
A more likely explanation is that the journo in question watched 'The Matrix' recently.Maybe he has been correct all along.....
http://news.sky.com/story/1325464/physicists-ask-is-the-universe-a-2d-hologram
Cut out the reporter as a middle man.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Hologram-20140826.html
Now?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Erm, Press Release?
Anyroads, not being a theoretical quantum physicist, I have to rely on observation and experiences to define my world.
That bleeping bee/wasp that stung me yesterday was NOT a hologram, it was real. Still bleeping itching.0 -
Is that the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la, la, la, la, la"?Erm, Press Release?
Anyroads, not being a theoretical quantum physicist, I have to rely on observation and experiences to define my world.
That bleeping bee/wasp that stung me yesterday was NOT a hologram, it was real. Still bleeping itching.
“We want to find out whether space-time is a quantum system just like matter is,” said Craig Hogan, director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics and the developer of the holographic noise theory. “If we see something, it will completely change ideas about space we’ve used for thousands of years.”The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Is that the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la, la, la, la, la"?Erm, Press Release?
Anyroads, not being a theoretical quantum physicist, I have to rely on observation and experiences to define my world.
That bleeping bee/wasp that stung me yesterday was NOT a hologram, it was real. Still bleeping itching.
“We want to find out whether space-time is a quantum system just like matter is,” said Craig Hogan, director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics and the developer of the holographic noise theory. “If we see something, it will completely change ideas about space we’ve used for thousands of years.”
Interesting. Galileo was charged with heresy for believing that the world revolved around the sun and that was in the 1600's. So '...thousands of years'. What a lot of bollox.
"Galileo's advocacy of heliocentrism was controversial within his lifetime, when most philosophers and astronomers still subscribed to the view that the Earth stood motionless at the centre of the universe. After 1610, when he began publicly supporting the heliocentric view, which placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, he was opposed by astronomers, philosophers and clerics. One of the latter, Niccolò Lorini, eventually lodged an informal complaint against Galileo with the prefect of the Congregation of the Index, and another, Tommaso Caccini, formally denounced him to the Roman Inquisition, early in 1615. The subsequent investigation led to the Catholic Church's condemning heliocentrism as "false" and "altogether contrary to the Holy Scripture" in a decree by the Congregation of the Index in February 1616.[8] Although Galileo was not then judged to have committed any offence, he was nevertheless warned by Cardinal Bellarmine to abandon his support for heliocentrism—which he promised to do. When he later defended his views in his most famous work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in 1632, he was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to abjure, and spent the remaining nine years of his life under house arrest"seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Quite an ironic post.
Are you aware of the origins of the word - heliocentrism?
Also, a scientist proclaiming a possibility which is discounted as nonsense by the majority?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Quite an ironic post.
Are you aware of the origins of the word - heliocentrism?
Also, a scientist proclaiming a possibility which is discounted as nonsense by the majority?
A doubly ironic post perhaps. I hadn't posted it for ironic purposes so chapeau for the observation. However, the establishment was faced with reason just like Darwin and other ground breakers, whereas Mancy boy isn't arguing with reason.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I don't think he is arguing.Quite an ironic post.
Are you aware of the origins of the word - heliocentrism?
Also, a scientist proclaiming a possibility which is discounted as nonsense by the majority?
A doubly ironic post perhaps. I hadn't posted it for ironic purposes so chapeau for the observation. However, the establishment was faced with reason just like Darwin and other ground breakers, whereas Mancy boy isn't arguing with reason.
He is merely hypothesising a theory.
This thread is about theories. Correct?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Is that the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la, la, la, la, la"?Erm, Press Release?
Anyroads, not being a theoretical quantum physicist, I have to rely on observation and experiences to define my world.
That bleeping bee/wasp that stung me yesterday was NOT a hologram, it was real. Still bleeping itching.
Not so much "la, la, la" as "ow, ow, ow"
I read both those links. While not professing to understand much at all of the subject matter therein, I would propound that their use of the terms hologram and holographic are a far cry from conspiracy theories from the Manc-man and his ilk that the moon is a hologram projected by Them and that somehow we live in The Matrix.
Grabbing random words out of context to provide support for a viewpoint Mancy style can't be a sound basis for a hypothesis.0 -
I don't think he is arguing.Quite an ironic post.
Are you aware of the origins of the word - heliocentrism?
Also, a scientist proclaiming a possibility which is discounted as nonsense by the majority?
A doubly ironic post perhaps. I hadn't posted it for ironic purposes so chapeau for the observation. However, the establishment was faced with reason just like Darwin and other ground breakers, whereas Mancy boy isn't arguing with reason.
He is merely hypothesising a theory.
This thread is about theories. Correct?
No he isn't arguing. He never lets it get that far as his arguments are flawed. He simply goes down another track when faced with reason.
Not quite sure what you mean Blakey. At one time before being accepted theorem, Galileo and Darwin presented theories. In some states in the US, evolution can only be presented as theory but creationism as fact. In some states, evolution cannot even be discussed in schools but that is going off track.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Precisely.Not quite sure what you mean Blakey. At one time before being accepted theorem, Galileo and Darwin presented theories. In some states in the US, evolution can only be presented as theory but creationism as fact. In some states, evolution cannot even be discussed in schools but that is going off track.
Just because the establishment presents an opposing "fact" it doesn't mean that the opposing view has to be incorrect.
Just because the masses present an opposing "fact" it doesn't mean that the opposing view has to be incorrect.
Time will tell in the end.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Precisely.Not quite sure what you mean Blakey. At one time before being accepted theorem, Galileo and Darwin presented theories. In some states in the US, evolution can only be presented as theory but creationism as fact. In some states, evolution cannot even be discussed in schools but that is going off track.
Just because the establishment presents an opposing "fact" it doesn't mean that the opposing view has to be incorrect.
Just because the masses present an opposing "fact" it doesn't mean that the opposing view has to be incorrect.
Time will tell in the end.
Haven't we had time enough to fully ascertain that Mancy boy is a total and utter fruitcase. When he finally concedes because no one is listening to him, will he do something stupid? That is the problem. Is he going to feel that the world is against him and in order to get noticed... Or is he in contact with other fruitcakes and so feels a part of something?
It is another irony that he has chosen Cycling forums to spout bollox which on the whole are reasonably benign and are unlikely to elicit aggressive attitudes towards him.
Wish it would stop friggin raining.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Why do you keep mentioning him?Haven't we had time enough to fully ascertain that Mancy boy is a total and utter fruitcase.
I have not referred to him in ages.
Methinks you doth protest too much.
Although he probably enjoys the attention.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Why do you keep mentioning him?Haven't we had time enough to fully ascertain that Mancy boy is a total and utter fruitcase.
I have not referred to him in ages.
Methinks you doth protest too much.
Although he probably enjoys the attention.
I wish it would stop friggin raining.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
