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Old 6th September 2008, 09:28 AM   #1
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If you do not see me posting in here much...

...it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
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Old 6th September 2008, 10:06 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
...it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
Sounds good. Its much better for the sanity that way.
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Old 6th September 2008, 10:30 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
...it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
9/11 conspiracy theorists were a threat to the history books and rationality around about 2006. Ever since we came out against that with factual debunking and rational discourse, we have diminished their movement, and the threat is no longer existent.

I don't blame you if you feel no need to engage in this debate any more.
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Old 6th September 2008, 01:56 PM   #4
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I shall continue to monitor them because they are part of a larger threat that is not going to go away. Their white nationalist component will always be there, trolling for useful idiots.

Keeping them in check will be especially important if Obama wins in November.
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Old 6th September 2008, 02:01 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by The Doc View Post
9/11 conspiracy theorists were a threat to the history books and rationality around about 2006. Ever since we came out against that with factual debunking and rational discourse, we have diminished their movement, and the threat is no longer existent.

I don't blame you if you feel no need to engage in this debate any more.
Is that what you keep telling yourself? Are you really convinced yet? There shouldn't be any need for you to be here then. When will you be checking out?
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Old 6th September 2008, 02:04 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Homeland Insurgency View Post
Is that what you keep telling yourself? Are you really convinced yet? There shouldn't be any need for you to be here then. When will you be checking out?
Why are YOU still here? Shouldn't you be bringing the Government to its knees with the masses of evidence you have to prove they perpetrated the 9/11 attacks?

Let me know how that goes.
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Old 6th September 2008, 02:10 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by SatansMaleVoiceChoir View Post
Why are YOU still here? Shouldn't you be bringing the Government to its knees with the masses of evidence you have to prove they perpetrated the 9/11 attacks?

Let me know how that goes.
I don't have access to any evidence. I can only point out the lack thereof. I can’t rely on faith in authority like you obviously have.
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Old 6th September 2008, 02:19 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Homeland Insurgency View Post
I don't have access to any evidence.
You got that right champ. Unfortunately a few semantic arguments, and some inconsequential gaps on one of the most chaotic days in history isn't enough to make me turn to the rabid lunacy that is the 'Truth' movement.

Plus, I can stand back and be objective - I'm British and don't really have an emotional involvement.
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HI admits the truth movement is dead! You heard it here first!

Originally Posted by Homeland Insurgency View Post
<snip> There shouldn't be any need for you to be here then. <snip>
...is his response to:

Originally Posted by The Doc View Post
<snip> Ever since we came out against that with factual debunking and rational discourse, we have diminished their movement, and the threat is no longer existent. <snip>
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Yep it sure is no threat to anyone these days (except possibly wheelchair-bound teens) if indeed it ever was. I only pop in here occasionally for the comedy these loons generate.

Last night I got my first ever warning because I apparently ignored a mod box. Oh well, I'd rather keep my membership of the forum than let these freaks provoke me into saying stuff I might regret.
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Old 6th September 2008, 04:04 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
If you do not see me posting in here much......it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
Havent really noticed.
You see one debunker you seen them all.
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Originally Posted by Homeland Insurgency View Post
I don't have access to any evidence. I can only point out the lack thereof. I can’t rely on faith in authority like you obviously have.
We don't need faith in authoruty. We have evidence.
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Havent really noticed.
You see one debunker you seen them all.
you seen one truther and you have seen them all. Thats all there is. one!
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If you don't see me around here much anymore its because the NWO has repurposed me to more pressing concerns such as weather modificaiton, earthquake propagation, chemtrails, HARRP, Warming the planet, fractional reserve banking, election fraud, putting mercury in vaccines, and robbing cave fish of their sight.
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Old 6th September 2008, 07:00 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by portlandatheist View Post
If you don't see me around here much anymore its because the NWO has repurposed me to more pressing concerns such as weather modificaiton, earthquake propagation, chemtrails, HARRP, Warming the planet, fractional reserve banking, election fraud, putting mercury in vaccines, and robbing cave fish of their sight.
Don't forget devaluing the currency and cornering the world string market!
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Don't forget devaluing the currency and cornering the world string market!

Wait. "String" as in "ball of"?

Crap, what am I to do with all of these violas?
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Don't forget devaluing the currency and cornering the world string market!
*sigh* The work of the NWO is never complete!
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Originally Posted by Hokulele View Post
Wait. "String" as in "ball of"?

Crap, what am I to do with all of these violas?
...et voilá! Um, maybe you could start a string millenniet?

Originally Posted by portlandatheist View Post
*sigh* The work of the NWO is never complete!
And you'll do it with a smile on your face, mister, or report to The Camp for re-education!
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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
...it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
Cue Truthtards bragging that they are "beating us" and "making us run away".
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Old 7th September 2008, 11:51 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by 1337m4n View Post
Cue Truthtards bragging that they are "beating us" and "making us run away".
If they can do that by boring us to death, then yeah.
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Ben is so wrong, IMO, about so many things but I think he has a point here.

Let me add that while I disagree with Ben, he isn't stupid, truthers tend to be but Ben isn't.

Quite frankly, the "debate" was over a long time ago. Most posters who ID as truthers do not answer questions

One in particular just brags about how much he knows about 9/11, yet ignored the one question I asked him that a true zealot would have been able to answer.

I'm going to drop in a see what's happening but I'm going to be doing other things more than I am going to visit here.

The truth is out there, and there is nothing to debunk, the truth is we were attacked from outisde out country.
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I don't have access to any evidence. I can only point out the lack thereof.
So the whole point of your movement is to point out that there is no evidence connecting the US Government with the 9/11 attacks? I thought that was our job. Has NWO Central stuffed up the assignment register again?

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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
...it is because I have nearly totally lost interest in Truthers. They come up with nothing whatsoever that is new or that requires any real detective work to counter, and they are no longer a political threat to my Party, so I have no more reason to come in here and counter them, and would rather go dissect UFO reports and bigfoot lies.
If Palin were a truther you'd live here.
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Ben;

I hear you. Lately I have simply begun to put them all on ignore. Consider the ignore function the equivalent of a mosquito net. It beats having to swat the truthers away with logic and ACTUAL EVIDENCE.

Makes it boring, but less aggravating.

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If Palin were a truther you'd live here.
If Sarah Stalin were a truther, Brainster would implode.

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Originally Posted by Homeland Insurgency View Post
Is that what you keep telling yourself? Are you really convinced yet? There shouldn't be any need for you to be here then. When will you be checking out?
You can't possibly argue that I am here much at all.

When I started researching, and subsequently debunking as a result of my research, I was genuinely concerned about how 9/11 was going to be viewed in the future. Would people talk about the horrible loss of life that day when it arose in conversation? Or would they talk about how they heard from Larry at work that the government did it as the JFK assassination has turned out?

Ever since major debunking efforts were put in play to counter every single piece of "evidence" your "movement" had come up with (the popular mechanics book and article, the Loose Change guide, Screw Loose Change etc.), the threat of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream has diminished. Because of people like Mark Roberts and the folks at Popular Mechanics, the majority of people who have heard of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 have also heard the fact that there is sufficient counter-evidence to prove them wrong.

The only reason I'm still here is because I get bored from time to time and I'm interested to see if you conspiracists have come up with anything new to persuade me that I'm wrong. That, my friend, still hasn't happened.
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Wait. "String" as in "ball of"?

Crap, what am I to do with all of these violas?
Hmm, my viola needs restrung. I'll take some. Could I get a bridge off of you too? Maybe a new bow? The horsehair is kind of... well... straggly...

This has nothing to do with 9/11 Truth. Seriously. Keep telling yourself that. Yellow paddles pancake prior. 4902E4542RX320T.
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If Palin were a truther you'd live here.
Are you sure she's not?
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Originally Posted by BenBurch View Post
Are you sure she's not?
I sense a new thread coming from you Ben!!!
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