Quote Originally Posted by TIC View Post
larry the sperg wants to keep it civil when it suits him. you treat larry how you feel he should be treated & i'll treat him how i feel he should be treated. you were the one wanting to continue the covid dialogue i this thread. i said i was wanting to focus on what might be next. you wanted to continue. no one needs to prove their belief. just admit it is only a belief or prove it is real. you can forget onuses & burdens. i will continue to hold those making claims to their responsibility. everyone is free to believe what they want. if they want to claim that belief is real it needs to be proven. i've never said the world revolves around me. just asked people to prove their claims are real. sound fair?

Just an observation... but you see to have a huge chip on your shoulder. It shows with everything you post. Why the aggressiveness? No one here is trying to change your mind about anything. Just realize that no one is changing their own minds based on what you say, either. So it's pretty much a stalemate in that regard.

You don't want to talk about COVID, and would rather concentrate on other things you call "scams"? Please... go right ahead. I already made my own point in that I don't believe everything in life is a conspiracy.

I'm a "middle-ground" type of guy, in that I don't believe everything the media says... but I also don't automatically discard everything the media says. I take things on their own merit, using my common sense, experience, and putting different amounts of weight on what others say, based on their amount of expertise. If "Joe Blow" puts something out there as factual, I'm less inclined to believe it than if it is said by a known expert in the field. And this applies to just about everything... not just COVID.

I also don't limit my knowledge and beliefs solely to those I can "perform experiments myself", as I'm realistic enough to know I don't own a microbiology lab, a physics lab, an observatory, nor have I ever flown into space. Most of the classes I ever took in school taught me things I never experienced myself. Yet I don't question EVERYTHING. I choose what to question and what not to. But that's just me.

But back to your defensiveness... I think if you took a deep breath and approached the forum and its posters with an open mind and open to dialogue... you'd be surprised at how different things would go.

This isn't a pissing contest. It's an Internet forum.