merlyn wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 3:41 pmOne strategy the elite use to control people is 'divide and conquer'. ... By that logic you're doing the elite's work for them. ... As long as ordinary people are fighting with each other the elite are safe.
But then you used a tag a few replies back. Expressions of a narrow mind falls exactly into the same category:
merlyn wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 10:50 pmThe Corbett report seems to me fairly typical right wing propaganda.
Of course the conditional is used. Seems. There's a way out.
This said, AJ was replying to bhilmers. His very next reply was to both bhilmers and you.
bhilmers who at least in my case used an insulting tone right off the bat. Cynically I could add: maybe you do not have a problem with that.
In any case setting oneself 'higher' as a 'rational' person isn't exactly the type of thing to attract flowers isn't it.
Or is it, in this case, just OK ?
bhilmers looks like having no qualms at all to treat people with insults. Which is a bit strange for someone who comments:
bhilmers wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 2:04 amLOL! As someone who works in science it bothers me to no end when people spread this kind of garbage
I see it more as someone who needs to be identified with a 'certainty', no matter what.
Being asked about the current chief of the World Health Organization nominating tyrant Robert Mugabe as an honorific ambassador of the World Health Organization, he replies nothing.
"The fact that Mugabe died in a Singaporean hospital is the final act
of betrayal by a dictator who destroyed the health system of a country
that had saved many lives in the first 15 years of his repressive
rule." . The Guardian, Sept, 8 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ll-chinono
bhilmers quotes a World Health Organization page on the benefits of vaccines but when faced with some facts about the very same World Health Organization a short circuit seems to have happened.
He then insists on reading that page nevertheless, as that page embodies truth that he stands for.
A science person ignoring well-known facts to blindly focus on only one aspect that affects the whole world ?
In another, parallel world one could ask: "What ? You want me to believe Al Capone that I need security services for my little shop ?"
Science is a tool. Who is using the tool is what mostly matters as soon as one gets out of a not really comfortable nerdy position.
I'm fascinated by some science although not to the point of obliterating any societal consequences. At least not anymore. I have taken refuge as a nerd into the intricacies of science although when I popped my head out of it the time was long due to realize that science is only but a means. And one that can be quite limited at that once one ceased to be obsessively amazed by it.
Science is no substitute for human spirituality. Or even basic human behaviour.
So what we have here is the World Health Organization chief nominating in honour a person who has destroyed the health system of a country.
Isn't that ironic ?
And that's only one single point about the World Health Organization meanders.
Wasn't it Jesus who once said: "
You can see the other person's smartphone but you cannot see the embedded subcutaneous microchip under your skin ?"