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No argument I have given is based on emotion. And quoting Wikipedia, as I have said many times, is a sign of intellectual laziness.
I don't agree. I look at the references used in a Wikipedia entry before using the entry as a source and will often just use the references that meet peer review and historical review, source standards with which I've found consistency and connection to my understanding instead of using the wikipedia entry.
Because of this seven became a holy, magic number. This is how people in ancient Middle East and southern Europe thought about the universe. They thought numbers were magical. This isn't something we modern people take seriously, but the ancients certainly did.
I wish modern people didn't take it seriously, but many still do! Agreement happens so slowly!(especially, when jerks like me go back and comment on three month old threads...)
Dan8267
2012 Mar 1, 5:32am
I look at the references used in a Wikipedia entry
If the article is subverted, the list of references is biased.
Physics leaves no room for the supernatural.
But leaves plenty of room for things people don't understand and might call "supernatural." Holy shit, there's some weird stuff going on!
If the article is subverted, the list of references is biased.
Ah, I think I can see how that would happen. I usually look for favorite references and go look at them, but I can see how bias would occur, even given the supposed collaborative genius of wikis. I still don't know enough about how they manage wikipedia to take it very seriously. I just keep thinking I'm going to read it at a point when some innaccurate info snuck in. What you're suggesting is even worse.
But as we all know, the war was an "epic fail", Iraqi oil never made it to market, oil went to $140/bbl in 2008, and the economy crashed anyway.
Maybe it was a fail, but as I watched the news these kinds of headlines seemed to suggest U.S. companies were benefiting from the war.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2008-10-30-exxonmobil_N.htm
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The wonderful thing about science is that it doesn't ask for your faith, it just asks for your eyes.