Originally posted by @romans1009Ouch. One of the very worst things I ever met was a boy killed himself and mom found him.
... killed herself ...
Originally posted by @romans1009You don't like critical thinking?
Back to those again? “Logical fallacies” are what InterWeb folks trot out when they wanna sound intelligent. Ain’t gonna work with me, hombre
Originally posted by @apathistYeah, that sounds terrible. The girl I was talking about killed herself by carbon monoxide poisoning. Turned on a car in a closed garage and just let it run. Don’t know who found her.
Ouch. One of the very worst things I ever met was a boy killed himself and mom found him.
Haven’t thought about her in quite a while.
Originally posted by @romans1009I'm wondering how you could tell.
Conventional wisdom? Yeah, that’s never wrong.
Originally posted by @apathistConventional wisdom said Hillary Clinton would be elected president. We know how that turned out.
I'm wondering how you could tell.
But I mostly can tell when conventional wisdom is wrong by listening to the news and people on the news predicting something that doesn’t happen, despite their experts and polls claiming it’s a sure thing.
Originally posted by @romans1009You evaded the question. How do you figure out how to think?
Conventional wisdom said Hillary Clinton would be elected president. We know how that turned out.
But I mostly can tell when conventional wisdom is wrong by listening to the news and people on the news predicting something that doesn’t happen, despite their experts and polls claiming it’s a sure thing.
Originally posted by @romans1009You haven't tried to figure out how you come to conclusions?
Conventional wisdom said Hillary Clinton would be elected president. We know how that turned out.
But I mostly can tell when conventional wisdom is wrong by listening to the news and people on the news predicting something that doesn’t happen, despite their experts and polls claiming it’s a sure thing.
Originally posted by @romans1009You did not reject critical thinking?
You asked how I could tell conventional wisdom was wrong and I answered you. I didn’t evade anything. If you meant to ask a different question, that’s not on me.
Originally posted by @romans1009Good answer. But isn't there a system?
The same way everyone else does, I guess. Intelligence and experience. Intuition probably fits in somewhere too as does fact gathering and hearing differing points of view.