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Conspiracies and Pseudo-Skepticism, Part I

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Buck12/15/2010 11:29:49 am PST

re: #8 Barrett Brown

Okay. What does “prank” mean? Do you think “prank” is insufficient to cover what I did? It might be. What word would you use?

I think a prank is a joke that is set up with a lie in order to suck someone in to believing the lie. Most important is that you expose the lie to the victim once the prank has worked… if you don’t do that part then it is just a lie.

I think what you are doing is giving your opinion about some evidence (not proof) that you think means something that others don’t agree with. There is nothing wrong with this. I do it all the time.

For example, I am of the opinion that the whole Fatah/Hamas war is a set up by them to play good cop bad cop. No one of any importance has been killed by one side or the other. And in the end they still move money and arms from the “good cop” to the “bad cop”. Usually by what i think is pretend violence. I guess you might see a false flag thing there…

Some will agree, some will disagree, and some will ignore. But it is NOT a prank.