26-12-2009, 08:10 PM
James H. Fetzer Wrote:But this sounds like a rather more complicated--even convoluted--explanation than mine, namely: They knew it was going down. They wanted to be there. They were there! By Occam's Razor, an explanation that explains the data as well as an alternative but based upon fewer or less complex premises is a preferable explanation. That would be mine.[emphasis added]
Quite reasonable, James, but for one condition:
I contest the validity of the data.
P.S. -- Are we in the process of driving each other crazy (er)?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene