tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post5528606657057899095..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: Why Mrs. Nesmith Got RichFather Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-2558673866166850732011-02-17T20:27:01.862-05:002011-02-17T20:27:01.862-05:00But what about those of us among your many adoring...But what about those of us among your many adoring fans who, prior to your pressing of the delete button, copied and pasted your thoughts for wider distribution? webAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-5788279752312168012011-02-17T01:52:32.406-05:002011-02-17T01:52:32.406-05:00Gah! See what I mean about typos? Thanks.
Funny...Gah! See what I mean about typos? Thanks.<br /><br />Funny thing is that my brother went to Springield, so I should have that drummed into my head.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-57175391105199307282011-02-16T16:49:14.691-05:002011-02-16T16:49:14.691-05:00Nesmith for bubblegum music, Naismith for basketba...Nesmith for bubblegum music, Naismith for basketball. <i>Wenn ich Kultur höre</i>, indeed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-19122933064984646392011-02-16T16:38:21.761-05:002011-02-16T16:38:21.761-05:00Trust me, you're better off not knowing.
In a...Trust me, you're better off not knowing.<br /><br />In a nutshell, I was trying to figure out why the Birthers choose to believe something that the rest of us don't. They have no evidence at all. We do have evidence, and lots of is, which they simply can't accept. So the question is why?<br /><br />At first I thought that there might have been one trusted leader,w hose story convinced them all -- a Borg Queen. Or a Borg Pope, really. It would have fit with the usual authoritarian structure of conservative religious movements -- you trust the Leader above anything else. <br /><br />But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there is no Birther Queen. They aren't convinced by any actual negative testimony; they are simply not convinced by any positive testimony. The presume anything Obama or his supporters say to be false. In a sense, they are using a hermeneutic of suspicion. Which is pretty ironic.<br /><br />Of course, this also means blunting Occam's Razor. For all the positive evidence to be false, there has to be a very complicated and unlikely conspiracy, probably stretching back decades. Most people recognize that as unlikely, and therefore conclude that the evidence is valid; the Birthers, unable to accept that possibility, construct a Rube Goldberg world, in which a chain of wildly improbable things can be assumed to have taken place.<br /><br />Sort of obvious, when you think about it. But it took me pages of badly-written nonsense to say any of this. I'm embarrassed.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-52278667867729861312011-02-16T16:22:24.078-05:002011-02-16T16:22:24.078-05:00Well shoot. I missed it. Now I want to know the ...Well shoot. I missed it. Now I want to know the connection between the birther movement and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza.Pastor Joelle Colville-Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06099855286381262526noreply@blogger.com