I'll step in here. I'm passionate about Al Gore's scam. I'm inflamed by his rhetoric. I'm offended by his smugness. I'm appalled that as many people in the US as believe in Christianity have converted to AGW with the same sort of faith, insisting upon believing in the bible of "Consensus", despite the fact that no such thing exists. I have tracked the paper trail that Occam's Razor deftly shears away to explain WHY he created this scam. The SEC filings show how he profited to the tune of 8 (going on 9) figures from this scam. Extensive research by hundreds of peer reviewed well respected solar scientists, climatologists, astrophysicists, biologists and immunologists counter nearly every assertion that he has made, and yet large crowds of sheep wander around either blankly smiling and blathering on about saving the world by driving a Prius, or worse, the Fundies of AGW attack me viciously, much like the Southern Pentecostals of Christianity, hurling epithets and accusing me of either intentional ignorance, or being on the payroll of the oil companies (lord, don't I wish).
My passion is stirred in offense at ignorance, and in defense under attack. As someone who has expressed ideas which are unpopular in the mainstream (AGW is a baseless idea when really examined in depth, there is no rational reason to believe in a God), and having been attacked for it, I recognize the defensive passion. As someone who despises both ignorance and injustice (AGW "fixes" which seek to tax the US trillions while leaving China and India virtually scott free, and which cripple basically the entire African continent's ability to become a further developed nation; tele-evangelists scamming millions from the elderly and infirm, "moral" legislation), I recognize the offensive passion. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Kierkecraig <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Jan 12, 9:01 am, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is a world of difference between being passionate about there > > being no life on Mars and being passionate about the evidence of no > > life on Mars when people keep insisting that there is. > > What is that difference exactly? > > > This is > > especially true when people are making money, offering salvation, and > > altering lives due to the fiction that there is. > > Why does making money make a difference? If I believed that there was > life on mars, and I spent every one of my hard earned dollars on > research to prove that there is, why would that enflame your > passions? Why does my money matter to you? > > Why would a religion offering salvation enflame your passions? > > Why would altering lives be a reason to get passionate? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
