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> <channel><title>Comments on: Twilight Zone Contrails</title> <atom:link href="http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/</link> <description>The Science and Pseudoscience of Contrails and Chemtrails</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:04:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>By: Uncinus</title><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48310</link> <dc:creator>Uncinus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://contrailscience.com/?p=316#comment-48310</guid> <description>ruffneck:
&lt;blockquote&gt; If one were not to suspect the powers that be, it would make you a complete idiot. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
Very true.  But you need to use science and reason when suspecting them.  What is the actual evidence that they actually did any particular thing?  What is the evidence that chemtrails are being deliberately sprayed?  You can&#039;t just suspect and then make up a theory because it sounds like the type of thing they might do.
&lt;blockquote&gt;Did BP release the M.S.D.S on that corexit shit? I should know all about that or maybe I skipped that class.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Yes they did:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf
But again, just because BP is evil, it does not &lt;i&gt; necessarily follow&lt;/i&gt; that contrails are chemtrails.  You need some actual evidence to make that assertion.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ruffneck:</p><blockquote><p> If one were not to suspect the powers that be, it would make you a complete idiot.</p></blockquote><p>Very true.  But you need to use science and reason when suspecting them.  What is the actual evidence that they actually did any particular thing?  What is the evidence that chemtrails are being deliberately sprayed?  You can&#8217;t just suspect and then make up a theory because it sounds like the type of thing they might do.</p><blockquote><p>Did BP release the M.S.D.S on that corexit shit? I should know all about that or maybe I skipped that class.</p></blockquote><p>Yes they did:<br
/> <a
href="http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf</a></p><p>But again, just because BP is evil, it does not <i> necessarily follow</i> that contrails are chemtrails.  You need some actual evidence to make that assertion.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Ross M</title><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48237</link> <dc:creator>Ross M</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:59:17 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://contrailscience.com/?p=316#comment-48237</guid> <description>Excellent!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: JazzRoc</title><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48229</link> <dc:creator>JazzRoc</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:20:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://contrailscience.com/?p=316#comment-48229</guid> <description>I just want to say that the last two commenters have all my support.
The first takes it for depth of expression, the second for calmness and rationality.
I would give a lot for the latter, but the former is still greatly appreciated.
&quot;Science on the other hand&quot; needs &quot;a set of well argued rational hypotheses based on the actual evidence&quot;.
Don&#039;t have high expectations... that&#039;s all... :)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just want to say that the last two commenters have all my support.<br
/> The first takes it for depth of expression, the second for calmness and rationality.<br
/> I would give a lot for the latter, but the former is still greatly appreciated.<br
/> &#8220;Science on the other hand&#8221; needs &#8220;a set of well argued rational hypotheses based on the actual evidence&#8221;.<br
/> Don&#8217;t have high expectations&#8230; that&#8217;s all&#8230; <img
src='http://contrailscience.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Uncinus</title><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48226</link> <dc:creator>Uncinus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:33:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://contrailscience.com/?p=316#comment-48226</guid> <description>But anyone who uses terms like &quot;Hegelian conflict resolution&quot; is obviously thinking that they ARE educated.  His request that you be able to explain Hegal before he reveals his results seems to indicate he thinks he&#039;s vastly more educated (or at least aware of what is &quot;really&quot; going on) than we are.
&quot;Hegelian conflict resolution&quot; is not even a real concept.  If you search for the term, you&#039;ll see a smattering of usages on various conspiracy minded web sites.  They use it to indicate an artificially created conflict that is used to control a situation towards a desired outcome - specifically one used by the powers-that-be to control or dupe the masses.
This seems to have its origins in the anti-communist roots of modern american conspiracy culture, possibly combined with the writings of Karl Popper.  Marxism is partly built upon Hegelian Dialectic.  Hegelian Dialectic (and dialectic in general) is a method of determining the truth by rational discussion.  This in turn is based upon Socratic dialog - which is basically the art of talking about a thesis to determine its veracity (which is what I&#039;m doing here).
Hegel more formalized this as the synthesis of thesis and antithesis - where consensus arises as a result of rational conflict between specifically opposing ideas.  (Socratic dialog does not require a specific antithesis). Hegel framed history as a continual surging cycle of such naturally arising conflicts, both large and small.
Somewhere along the line,  this idea was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bb970219.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;corrupted in conspiracy circles&lt;/a&gt; into the idea of &lt;i&gt;deliberately creating&lt;/i&gt; conflicts between thesis and antithesis (at least one of which is artificial) in order to create a specific result.  History is then narrowly re-framed as being essentially deliberately scripted (Popper pointed out the obviously flaws in this theory in &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=nxIntaspvegC&amp;pg=PA105&amp;lpg=PA105&amp;dq=hegel+conspiracy+popper&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=b267mVtWHP&amp;sig=j204udn6Vrjdo9xYnv4eqWTABaY&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=4j47TKKFF8OmnAeOgb2yAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CB8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the same work&lt;/a&gt; that the theorists quote to suport it).
An example might be the 9/11 attacks and resultant invasions of Afganistan and Iraq.  The argument would be that the illuminati engineered the attacks specifically to create the wars, and to distract the public from their other machinations.
The problem with this argument in the context of chemtrails is that it can equally be applied to the chemtrail theory itself.
Consider: what is there to suggest that the chemtrails theory is not something artificially created to distract people from the real problems?  Theorists devote all their time chasing illusory malignant lines in the sky, allowing big business to carry out some other nefarious plan.
So, no, an understanding of the theory of Hegelian conflict resolution is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a necessary precursor to a scientific discussion of if something unusual is happening with contrails.  The Hegelian theory cuts both ways here, and hence for the purposes of determining what is actually going on, it is irrelevant.
Science on the other hand, a set of well argued rational hypotheses based on the actual evidence, is what is really needed here.
So where is your evidence?  Where is your science?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But anyone who uses terms like &#8220;Hegelian conflict resolution&#8221; is obviously thinking that they ARE educated.  His request that you be able to explain Hegal before he reveals his results seems to indicate he thinks he&#8217;s vastly more educated (or at least aware of what is &#8220;really&#8221; going on) than we are.</p><p>&#8220;Hegelian conflict resolution&#8221; is not even a real concept.  If you search for the term, you&#8217;ll see a smattering of usages on various conspiracy minded web sites.  They use it to indicate an artificially created conflict that is used to control a situation towards a desired outcome &#8211; specifically one used by the powers-that-be to control or dupe the masses.</p><p>This seems to have its origins in the anti-communist roots of modern american conspiracy culture, possibly combined with the writings of Karl Popper.  Marxism is partly built upon Hegelian Dialectic.  Hegelian Dialectic (and dialectic in general) is a method of determining the truth by rational discussion.  This in turn is based upon Socratic dialog &#8211; which is basically the art of talking about a thesis to determine its veracity (which is what I&#8217;m doing here).</p><p>Hegel more formalized this as the synthesis of thesis and antithesis &#8211; where consensus arises as a result of rational conflict between specifically opposing ideas.  (Socratic dialog does not require a specific antithesis). Hegel framed history as a continual surging cycle of such naturally arising conflicts, both large and small.</p><p>Somewhere along the line,  this idea was <a
href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bb970219.htm" rel="nofollow">corrupted in conspiracy circles</a> into the idea of <i>deliberately creating</i> conflicts between thesis and antithesis (at least one of which is artificial) in order to create a specific result.  History is then narrowly re-framed as being essentially deliberately scripted (Popper pointed out the obviously flaws in this theory in <a
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=nxIntaspvegC&#038;pg=PA105&#038;lpg=PA105&#038;dq=hegel+conspiracy+popper&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=b267mVtWHP&#038;sig=j204udn6Vrjdo9xYnv4eqWTABaY&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=4j47TKKFF8OmnAeOgb2yAw&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=4&#038;ved=0CB8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage" rel="nofollow">the same work</a> that the theorists quote to suport it).</p><p>An example might be the 9/11 attacks and resultant invasions of Afganistan and Iraq.  The argument would be that the illuminati engineered the attacks specifically to create the wars, and to distract the public from their other machinations.</p><p>The problem with this argument in the context of chemtrails is that it can equally be applied to the chemtrail theory itself.</p><p>Consider: what is there to suggest that the chemtrails theory is not something artificially created to distract people from the real problems?  Theorists devote all their time chasing illusory malignant lines in the sky, allowing big business to carry out some other nefarious plan.</p><p>So, no, an understanding of the theory of Hegelian conflict resolution is <i>not</i> a necessary precursor to a scientific discussion of if something unusual is happening with contrails.  The Hegelian theory cuts both ways here, and hence for the purposes of determining what is actually going on, it is irrelevant.</p><p>Science on the other hand, a set of well argued rational hypotheses based on the actual evidence, is what is really needed here.</p><p>So where is your evidence?  Where is your science?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: ruffneck</title><link>http://contrailscience.com/twilight-zone-contrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48223</link> <dc:creator>ruffneck</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:03:49 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://contrailscience.com/?p=316#comment-48223</guid> <description>History is also a good method to see were the truth lies, or maybe I could believe in the owned media. The media never lies and its not raining oil in the southern states and smoking wont kill you. If one were not to suspect the powers that be, it would make you a complete idiot. Did BP release the M.S.D.S on that corexit shit? I should know all about that or maybe I skipped that class. Pathetic are the people that believe ever thing is all good, dont question, just do, serf.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>History is also a good method to see were the truth lies, or maybe I could believe in the owned media. The media never lies and its not raining oil in the southern states and smoking wont kill you. If one were not to suspect the powers that be, it would make you a complete idiot. Did BP release the M.S.D.S on that corexit shit? I should know all about that or maybe I skipped that class. Pathetic are the people that believe ever thing is all good, dont question, just do, serf.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
