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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 14:29:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> bad💽sector wrote on Thu, 30 May 2024 21:42:00 -0400 :
> 
>>> The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths
>>> that have no basis in fact when you bother to doublecheck the facts.
>> 
>> There's a dividing line you seem to be confused about, the one between 
>> science and belief, the two equally are important realms that are by 
>> definition mutually exclusive of one another. The latter tries to 
>> process issues that the former is incapable of resolving. To think that 
>> all that is is what we 'know' in the folly of many. I once read a 
>> perfect example of this when an astronomer (of all people!) said "we 
>> cannot find dark matter so it does not exist".
> 
> You touch on a point that I've always tried to figure out 

Yet you don't respond to posts which directly answer the question at hand. 

> why people come 
> up with religious beliefs about anything (e.g., Apple phones), where that 
> belief system is always two things, it seems, 

You're more interesting in name calling or reducing topics you don't
understand into meaningless categories. 

> which is the crime here.

There's no crime. 

> 
> 1. The belief is fed to the people (by someone with something to gain)
> 2. The belief is wrong
> 
> Take the iPhone, for example:
> a. Apple feeds iPhone owners all sorts of false messaging, right?
> b. And Apple benefits greatly by feeding Apple owners these myths
> 
> Same here with cellphones.
> a. The government benefits with the increased revenue from ticketing
> b. And the government feeds people that it's "doing something" for safety.
> 
> And yet, as with Apple, the only benefit is to their bottom line.
> Even as most people never question those two myths, right?
> 
> Back to your point, religion was the first "science" that explained 
> everything, 

Religion was never and never will be a "science". They are diametrically
opposite in application. 

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