> It's not beliefs, but thanx. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstandin
>
Maybe "beliefs" is not the right word to use, but I do think you might
find some like-minded folks in the FIDO POLITICS or CONSPRCY echoes.
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JT> Maybe "beliefs" is not the right word to use, but I do think you might
JT> find some like-minded folks in the FIDO POLITICS or CONSPRCY echoes.

There used to be a lively skeptics community on Fidonet, people who
disassembled attempts at manipulation and fallacies. They'd have a field
day now.

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Re: Re: Israel
By: poindexter FORTRAN to JOHN TUTTLE on Sat Feb 10 2024 07:25 am

> -=> JOHN TUTTLE wrote to PENGO <=-
>
> JT> Maybe "beliefs" is not the right word to use, but I do think you might
> JT> find some like-minded folks in the FIDO POLITICS or CONSPRCY echoes.
>
> There used to be a lively skeptics community on Fidonet, people who
> disassembled attempts at manipulation and fallacies. They'd have a field
> day now.
>
>

i wonder what happened to mi5 victim from newsgroups.
that guy had an interesting outlook on life.
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> JT> Maybe "beliefs" is not the right word to use, but I do think you might
> JT> find some like-minded folks in the FIDO POLITICS or CONSPRCY echoes.

> There used to be a lively skeptics community on Fidonet, people who
> disassembled attempts at manipulation and fallacies. They'd have a field
> day now.

I cannot speak for John, but my opinion is the POLITICS echo has taken a
real backslide since Dale retired from FIDO. He was about the last person
who could question things from a logical perspective. I didn't always
agree with him but, unlike others, his arguments were sound and didn't boil
down to "orange man bad!"

It has been overrun by folks who believe that 9/11 was some conspiracy,
that 1/6 maybe didn't even happen (and, if it did, there were no Trump
supporters there), viruses don't exist, etc.

I cannot speak about the CONSPRCY echo because I don't read it but, based
on the name, I am guessing covert chiping of people would fit right in.

* SLMR 2.1a * I am Drunk of Borg. Resistance is floor tile!

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> > JT> Maybe "beliefs" is not the right word to use, but I do think you might
> > JT> find some like-minded folks in the FIDO POLITICS or CONSPRCY echoes.
> >
> > There used to be a lively skeptics community on Fidonet, people who
> > disassembled attempts at manipulation and fallacies. They'd have a field
> > day now.

> i wonder what happened to mi5 victim from newsgroups.
> that guy had an interesting outlook on life.

There was one guy I remember, but not his name, who was on FIDO. There
used to be an echo that originally seemed to be mostly about "weird news"
and darwin award-worthy stuff.

Either the moderation changed hands, or the moderator had some sort of
"experience," but it eventually devolved into a place where this guy posted
nothing but extremely Christian conservative end times prophecy. I wish I had
kept an archive of that echo. IIRC, the moderator BBS was not in Z1 but the
guy was an native-english speaker. I got the impression he maybe lived
somewhere in the S Pacific.

* SLMR 2.1a * Hmmm, fence must still be down over at the funny farm....

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