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  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,025 Championing
    edited May 3

    You have the freedom to believe what you like, but shouldn't we base our belief on rational thought?

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,786 Championing

    Bill Gates & the 'chemtrails'? https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-not-chemtrails-length/

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-42195511

    https://fullfact.org/search/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Bill%20Gates&gsc.sort=

    I'd like to stop the spread of any misinformation & have been trying to ignore it. With apologies that such comments continue on this thread & elsewhere & are both untrue & irrelevant to the discussions in hand.

    I know the majority of our members will read things for themselves to make an informed decision, but this sort of continuing misinformation here needs to stop.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,025 Championing

    It is tinfoil hat territory. I have an estranged brother who believes all kinds of unsubstantiated rubbish he read online. I agree that it has no place within this community.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 1,101 Pioneering

    My estranged sister did to, conspiracy theories which were just too far removed from reality. My answer was just 🙄. Here, I can just 'scroll on' thankfully 😊

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,025 Championing

    The thing is, this brother of mine works in 'the city', the first of us to go to university. If anyone should be diving down these rabbit holes, it's me -"divorced, unemployed, involuntarily celibate etc; not the wealthy, educated, happily married one.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 1,101 Pioneering

    I hear you. For me, as soon as the conspiracy theorists started about the horror and tragedy that was 9/11 and the holocaust deniers, I just think whoah (well, I think more than that obviously...) but I wouldn't even waste my precious energy giving time to the nonsense. One of the very BEST things about the Internet is the ability to scroll on. Who'd have knew ☺️, just like skipping a page in a book.

    I know what kind of world I want to inhabit and luckily for me, it hasn't been one where people only look out for themselves. No 'I'm alright Jack' here. I wonder sometimes what my lovely dad would have made of it all. I pretty much know. Like father like son, as the saying goes (or Like father like daughter, in my case 🫠😊).

  • Topcat71
    Topcat71 Online Community Member Posts: 132 Empowering

    I don't know how to prepare I sm just scared.Sorry

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 911 Pioneering

    While I agree with your comments and that of others, the whole Idea of a discussion is promote ideas and possibly change someone elses view because they were told this or that and they have agreed to it at the time.

    Yes I have discussed Flat earth, and that we are having the sun go round us, and that one day we are going to have a meteor hit earth that is going to be of solid gold and make our gold reserves plumit and not be the basis of currency, and that Donald Trump will never get another term in office as long as I have a hole in my shoe.

    Well folkes, I do have a hole in my shoe otherwise how do you get your foot in? What you do is design the shhoe to be fit for purpose. Make them slip on, or zipped up at the front, side, back, have no heels or stilletto's. Made from man made materials, plastic, crocodile, or the latest fad by making them from the Skin of a T-Rex that was found in the perma-frost that is still eatable today?

    To make a valid point is not about the Tin foil brigade and whether you support that or not since we have the Raving Looney Party in Parliament, but how change can be achieved through discussions "not" wars.

    Nigel is now proving this by winning more and more seats, yet a year ago people were calling him a Radical?

    In order to go forward in anything, you have to look from both sides and not be afraid to say we made a mistake.

    In the news to state that will Keir have to back down and change his plans, is rubbish to me, what he should be saying, which he is, is, that we hear you and we are going to resind some things that are not being reacted to quickly enough or the expected results were not in line with our master plan.

    Its not a question of being "forced" to do something but listening to the people on the Ground, the likes of you and me that are becoming a scociety of Money run institutens where budgets and Bonuses set the markers, and reinvestment come as a TAX RELIEF, except when things start to break then its pass the cost onto the people who "have no say" in the matter because we are on the receiving end of every thing except an easier life, now even when you retire.

    It all comes under a DIFFERENT HAT, and a different set of cuts.

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 298 Empowering

    There's lots of irrelevant posts on this discussion , but when someone asks a question its polite to answer.

    Keep burying your head in the sand it stops you seeing the poison falling on you .

    Or start your own thread and we can discuss our theories , because what you said doesn't mean its fact .

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 298 Empowering

    Definitely , so what is your rational thought ?

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 298 Empowering