Just a 'heads' up. This is common..take this! Use this! 10 years later ...causes the big C

@pedrohedgerow Yeah, the authorities say wear seat belts, dress warmly in winter, don't drink & drive, smoking causes cancer. Please assure me you do none of these things,[b] LOL!!![/b]

[@ElwoodBlahblah Why would they state anything other than what is obvious?!!It is in the realms of the unknown,where knowledge is power where they are untrustworthy.LOL!!!

@pedrohedgerow [quote]Why would they state anything other than what is obvious?!![/quote] It's obvious that the Earth is flat and the sky is a bowl to which the stars are affixed. Most of modern science [i]begins[/i] with getting beyond the obvious. Medicine, disease, immunity - these are all subtle and full of twists & turns. "Obvious" is the wrong approach.

@ElwoodBlues Perhaps I should have made myself clearer.Governments will,have always and always will lie and deceive in order to retain power.They have nothing to gain from stating outright lies without some believable liar to lie with them.I know them for what they are through personal experience,in truth.

@pedrohedgerow Makes sense. But, wouldn't that apply equally to those out of power trying to get into power, as well as those trying to sabotage those in power? I see no reason to limit my distrust to governments.

@ElwoodBlues 👍

@ElwoodBlues "@pedrohedgerow Yeah, the authorities say wear seat belts, dress warmly in winter, don't drink & drive, smoking causes cancer. Please assure me you do none of these things, LOL!!!" I am anti-authority...I do all of those things because I don't wanna DIE...NOT because I was told to

@pedrohedgerow Is there something in the water in the US that makes people prone to believing in conspiracies? Governments are made up of people just like you, they aren't a different species.

@ninalanyon I talk from my life experience,not theory.

@pedrohedgerow LOL!!! My life experience says the world is flat, the sky is an inverted bowl, and the sun & moon are disks that travel across the bowl!! Luckily, I got beyond my life experience and learned a thing or two about how the universe can be highly counter-intuitive.

You want to accept all the many benefits of modern science, like cars and computers and modern medicine, but reject one particular set of statistical conclusions because Tucker Carlson told you to. [b]LOL!!![/b]

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@pedrohedgerow blocked me, [big]LOL!!![/big]
I guess he couldn't handle the fact that much of science is counter-intuitive, SAD!!

@ElwoodBlues You assume far too much,and know nothing of my life experiences,preferring to try to belittle and mock me.I have no time for you or your kind.Goodbye.

@ninalanyon politicians DO become a different species. I have no respect for authority figures, never have. I've seen too many abuse their power. Power corrupts. Nothing to do with conspiracies'. It's MY life experiences that make me this way.