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GopperStopper2680

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2. Quote: "I'd ask for info to debunk this troglodyte, but-"

Reply to arbusto_baboso (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:42 PM

Mar 2012

-"I don't think it would matter the slightest bit. "

It would not. One of the hard and fast rules of a debunker's toolkit applies here too: "Don't bother me with the facts, my mind's made up." In other words, if 'I want to belive the sky is orange, it's orange. Don't bother calling it blue. I'll just say that 'blue' means 'orange'." They believe what they will.

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