Yelling at each other about 9/11 (Split from the "How has Trump pissed you off today" thread)

Whereas you are so open minded that your brains are all over the floor.

Mods, can we close this thread? It’s becoming quite tiresome, and I never meant to be split off into its own thread. Clearly, there are some topics that people completely lose their shit over, and this is one of them. Thank you.

Just an FYI … this isn’t a new concept:

Tired topics. The following subjects have been beaten to death on this board and are cIosed to further discussion. If you feel new information has come to light that warrants reopening of a tired topic, you are free to petition the staff, but be aware that you face a high bar:

9/11 truthers, including but not limited to claims that 9/11 didn’t happen or was a false flag operation by the government.

Yes, those are some of the false premises I previously referred to. Since there was plane wreckage at both locations and a perfectly reasonable explanation for the WTC collapse, believing otherwise requires, if not a full-on conspiracy, at least a healthy dose of delusion.

It’s the same reason physicists don’t respond to every crackpot who sends them a scrawled thesis claiming to disprove Einstein. You can’t reason people out of positions based on ignorance and imaginary evidence, and life’s too short to spend it trying.

You should reconsider your avatar considering the level of logic you exhibit.

And probably some other life choices too.

Ahahaha! That’s funny. Keep my avatar out your fuckin’ mouth.

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I think we should all change our avatars to pictures of Spock.

Or at least add a beard

How about this one?

That was a good episode. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

You know where else I used to see exhortations for us to be “open-minded”? In the climate change denial threads we used to have here before such discussion was banned as a tired old topic that never led to anything productive.

The term doesn’t mean what you seem to think it does. Open-mindedness means being willing to to consider new facts and being willing to modify an existing theory or conclusion as justified and supported by new information.

Open-mindedness does not mean a willingness to discard proven, incontrovertible conclusions based on a vast wealth of unquestionable evidence in favour of someone’s uninformed, unsupported, and totally baseless opinion.

The frustration you’re seeing here (which you choose to attribute to posters being “assholes”) is because even though it seems strange to be asking the kinds of questions you’re still asking 23 years after the fact, your questions were nevertheless answered, and yet you keep ignoring the answers and droning on about your unsupported beliefs. If you were actually open-minded, you would act the way I just described: consider the facts being presented to you, and when you find that they disprove your beliefs, change your beliefs.

We preach because our answers are the God’s-honest truth.

No, you can’t. Because;
There was nothing unusual about the way WTC7 collapsed (unless you’d like to explain what was unusual).
There was plane wreckage at both Shanksville and the Pentagon.

I object! When some idiot CTer opens up a Pit Thread to demonstrate just how unwilling they are to hear answers they don’t agree with then they deserve all of the pittings they get.

BTW Biffster: is there ANY proof we can offer that would convince you 9/11 happened as it was reported? Or are you just going to deny any and all evidence?

I was thinking Spock would look good with my current avatar’s horns and goatee

To be fair Biffster didn’t “open up a pit thread”

He did open a can of worms, though

How did it start? I only saw this thread in the Pit