XPost: sci.skeptic, sci.physics, soc.history   
   From: nathansmith@posteo.com   
      
   x  writes:   
   > Usenet is generally free if you don't want images or sound.  But   
   > people only want images and sound.  Strangely enough that is what they   
   > consider to be 'true'.   
      
   What I consider to be true is A: nothing, B: something I read in a Kurt   
   Vonnegut book I found interesting. What the general population considers   
   to be true is what you just said. What most people consider true and   
   what some people tightly hold onto is social constructs. They insist   
   that these ideas one of them came up with once is not just a concept but   
   a objective law of reality. Their ideas are hard as rock and exist in a   
   static state but the world does not so they shape the world to that   
   image. If something they consider true isn't true they will make it   
   true. If they one day decide every cow is green they will be very quick   
   to formulate and execute a plan to turn every cow green instead of   
   change their world view.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)