Jumping to Conclusions is Great Exercise!

[Philosoraptor]

I do it, you do it, even people in Peru do it, let's do it, let's jump to conclusions.

As with every breaking story news cycle, people jump to conclusions, its a fun mental exercise that does no harm, we aren't lawyers or judges, we're consumers of news and we will jump to conclusions.

Take any subject in the news, and conclusions will be jumped to, then a few days pass and things of course are not always as they are first reported.

Watching reactions on chat sites is a great way to witness this conclusion jumping phenomenon. Some of us turn out to be right, others wrong, it happens every time.

To this day people differ on the JFK murder, and have come to many different conclusions, some say it was solved, others say it never was.

But there are always those who think they know the answers before there's even been a charge filed against someone. All we can do is speculate about Osama, Jon Benet, nine eleven, and any number of other breaking news stories.

That's one of the things that makes us human, but many times it comes down to two people agreeing to not agree about a subject, or waiting till the jury is in.

Let's try, and I will too, not to come to conclusions so quickly.

[unpossibles]

1. Osama killed Jon Benet with help from Saddam and hezbollah

with second hand smoke.

[johnnie]

2. And radio controlled planes n/t

[Burma Jones]

4. with snakes on them.....n/t

[unpossibles]

7. I don't know how I forgot the snakes on the m****f'ing plane

my bad

[johnnie]

9. Radio controlled snakes.. n/t

[Philosoraptor]

11. radio controlled snakes is nothing new

ben franklin invented them in fact.

[Jeanette in FL]

12. You silly goose, everyone knows it was the Iranians

with Syrian intelligence and Hugo Chavez' rope.

[unpossibles]

13. sorry - I am stuck in the last (s)election cycle's fear

I'll update my message.

thanks for the heads up.

[bryant69]

3. The Phantom Tollbooth

Yes, I get fed up with the jumping to conclusions too - the kneejerk rejection of any positive news on the economy or the "war on terror," for example.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[WilliamPitt]

5. It was the Pajamaheddin, Hezblogbollah, and the ghost of Soupy Sales

The TRUE Axis of Evil.

[Philosoraptor]

6. Soupy?!?! I didn't know. I need a few moments alone.

[WilliamPitt]

8. He was a secret Comminist/Fascist/Capitalist

and an enforcer for the Hong Kong Opium Tong.

Didn't you know?

[izzybeans]

10. I've got this mat. It has certain conclusions written on it. You know

that you can jump to.

Anyway that's how I decide which way I'm rollin'. The right conclusion is always out of reach on the first try, unless I've eat spinach just before hand, or maybe when I get bit by genetically engineered spiders. Then I can jump all the way to "correct". But that is rare because I hate spinach and I have periodic arachno-gassings in my home.

[Philosoraptor]

14. weeee