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This is about what I expected. Why don't you add this response to your bully thread.

 

This mess continues to be ridiculous.

 

Yeah, the sleepy face and the word "yawn" were very polite comments in response to my comment.

 

***Bump***

[still looking for a response]

 

Is it because of instinct or conditioning?

In the real world, statistics from a 2004 National Safety Council report, the National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control show:

Read More At: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-people-stupid.html

 

whew!!! that's a relief.

Now I can sleep at night. :sleeping_2:

 

Before you go to sleep give up your rights just in case the terrorists get you before you wake up. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Nope. Nor my guns.

Hopefully I won't get killed in a wreck before I wake up.

 

Oh my gosh you have guns? Isn't owning guns racist?

 

I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't have any white guns. They're all black. And I own 'em. slavery?

 

Only the military, police and Mexican drug cartels need guns.

 

Fine. As long as they don't need mine. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Molon Labe!

 

Exactly. :thumbs:

 

Greetings poncho,

Many years ago I took a course in statistics at the University of MA.
Which course had a heavy math prerequisite as it turned out to be the toughest math course I had ever taken to that point.

The first day of the course the professor walked in and said "with the use of statistics you can prove anything".

"100% of all people who eat carrots will die".

Ever since then I am always skeptical when statistics are used to prove a point and in our case of discussion when used by anybody on any of the news commentary presentations (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, etc...)

However we would probably agree that in the case of this discussion, statistics are a persuasion mainstay of both sides (and their devotees) of the rightie-leftie aisle.

I read through the piece as well as some of the responses (with not a few in Arabic BTW).

Some responses showed the illogical skewing and misuse (probably an oxymoron when it comes to statistic use) of the statistics within the piece. But it did have some value for me proving one more time that statistics are probably the number one tool in the propagandists bag of tricks. I think we can agree.

In reality, the result of a fear induced psychosomatic disease (e.g. heart attack) will kill you just as dead as being the victim of a plane crash.

Also, the sin nature combined with our natural fear of death comes into play here.

So, I would say both the skill of the propogandor working upon the emotional instability of the propogandee can be used to trigger the "kill or be killed" mentality which IMO is innate in all of us.

HankD

 

Yes I do agree about stats but as you say they do have some value.

In this case the stats were meant to show that American's are far less likely to die in a terrorist attack than our government and media lead us to believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSk4SUpWVuY

"So, I would say both the skill of the propogandor working upon the emotional instability of the propogandee can be used to trigger the "kill or be killed" mentality which IMO is innate in all of us."

Agreed. The government and media (propogandors) started working our emotional instability right after 9/11 and haven't given up yet.

It's gotten to the point of absurdity. The government funds and arms the Islamic fighters it calls "rebels", see Libya and Syria until "ISIS" emerges from the fray then the government tells us that we have to fight these "new terrorists" because they pose a grave threat to our national security, then congress okay's sending the Syrian "rebels" half a billion dollars to fight "ISIS" who rose out of the ranks of the "rebels" because we were funding and arming them so well.

Someone is making a killing from terrorism, and the threat of terrorism, and it's not the American, Iraqi, Libyan or Syrian people.

 

No pun intended, right? :smilewinkgrin:

 

Maybe a little one.