Reply #55: There is none. [View All]

[Jazz2006]

(re: your query "where is the proof?")

That's the beauty of being a CTer... CTers never have to actually support anything they say, and they don't even try to do so by means of any actual research or by means of expending any effort to ascertain facts.

I don't know how many times its been shown in this forum (since I haven't counted) but the unsubstantiated and unresearched and wholly unfounded claims by CTers here are ubiquitous. If they read something on another CT site, it's presented as "factual" even though none of them have actually reserached it. If it's suggested on a CT site, it's presented as gospel, even though none of them have actually researched it. Etc. etc. you get the idea.

It is easy - and wholly justified - for CTers to ask questions, but when the response is along the lines of "why don't you call the guy and ask him about it?", the CTer answer is inevitably (paraphrasing) "I haven't the resources" (as if a long distance telephone call is prohibitively expensive) or "he'll just lie to me" (yes, okay, I won't ask because I think he'll lie to me - that exhibits some real "truth seeking" reseach skills, doesn't it?), or "others should call and ask him" (um, okay, but why are you presenting as fact something that you're afraid to look into yourself?)


Even on the professional level, those who are selling a whole lot of dvds and tee shirts hawking their "alternate theories" don't ever seem to actually do any research to back up the alternate theories that they espouse. How many years has it been since Jones started touting his controlled demolition theory without ever actually providing any evidence of it, without ever backing up a single thing that he says with a shred of evidence, and without ever even being able to articulate a controlled demolition theory with any specificity whatsoever? It's easy to ask questions. It's not so easy to come up with answers. CTers rely upon that to sell their books, dvds, and tee shirts. Just feed the credulous enough to keep them interested but for god's sake, don't ever provide any detail or alternative theory that might (would) be easily torn apart.

It reminds me of the "Paul McCartney is dead" stories from way back (not that I'm old enough to remember them when they first happened, but I remember when I first heard about them as a teenager many years after the fact.)


Bottom line: it's easy to pretend to be a self-proclaimed "9/11 truthseeker" without ever actually expending any effort whatsoever in actively seeking anything remotely close to the truth. But if CTers want to be taken seriously, they really do have do some work and present some rational theories based on facts, and that takes a little more than smoking a joint and playing the album backwards in the basement. (not that there's anything wrong with that)




Edit: missed a closing bracket.