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ShanoirII said:
Many people find it easier to argue in favor of acceptance of their idea, rather than in favor of their idea.
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If everyone accepts what you are saying, because everyone else seems to accept it, it's far easier for the sheep to walk into the jaws of the wolf.
 
HugDoggy said:
Sometime "impossible" gives somene the drive to prove the statement wrong.
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"This is the Impossible level, boys. 'Impossible' doesn't mean 'very difficult'. Very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize; impossible is eating the Sun." - Lou Reed
 
YIMBY said:
"This is the Impossible level, boys. 'Impossible' doesn't mean 'very difficult'. Very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize; impossible is eating the Sun." - Lou Reed
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Ok, I'll bring the hot sauce then shall I. I'm pretty sure hot sauce is what goes well with flaming gas giants
 
I believe there are other worlds out there actually created by evil hypercomputers, but I don't think we find ourselves in one.
 
"It was Friday night last week. It will be Friday night next week, and every week until we're dead. And even then the whole rotten business will go on and on."
 
“There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.” -Oscar Wilde

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha

Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” -Buddha
 
The notion that humanity as a whole is not always objectively morally good, or is at any point not unquestionably right in judgment, or - perish the thought - that mankind may not be the central axis around which the world revolves, is an idea that is so modest and mild in scope and terms, and yet which causes nearly everyone to recoil in horror as if you had maliciously toppled a grand sacred monument.
 
The matter in which it is easiest to gain a following by employing paper-thin arguments is that matter which the public considers to be trivial common knowledge, thinking they know the whole of the issue, when in reality there are more nuances and exceptions than they would have ever imagined. And then, the well-studied man who knows of these complexities will begin to try to explain them to the crowd which thinks itself wise, and will sound like a "hairsplitter" attempting to over-complicate an issue that should be "left simple", likely to "suit his own agenda".
 
"This is my first day, and I don't even have a parking space. I really think you should have a parking space before you're assigned to fight an evil conspiracy."
 
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