Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 29, 2013

You probably only saw pictures of your grandparents, too. So what?

Alleged grandparents.

The best thing to do with people as toxic as this is to move them far out of your circle of influence.

He’s a Lawyer… Lawyers don’t deal in fact, truth or even justice… they bend evidence to mean what they need it to mean. Face it, they only have to convince 12 people to doubt their eyes and ears to win a case or make a national issue out of an incident.

I was on a jury, and it turned out even an asshole got a vote. And the result was the defendant, who had beat the victim with a 2 × 4, walked away…Takes twelve….Harder than you would think…Ever wrangle cats?

Seriously, I could really use a lime at this point…I need a lime now…..I really need a lime now…..

Um,… Bob,…. I know you don’t know me…. but….could I have your lime?….

I have the same opinion about that alleged planet Uranus.

just like people who don’t believe in dinosaurs.

You only know who YOU are via hearsay…. Even though you were there!

I wonder if you slap him upside the head and hide before he sees you, will he believe that he was slapped upside the head?

If the law is on your side cite the law…If the facts are on your side cite the facts…If you have neither going for you make some really crazy $$!+ up and hope the jury buys it!

watmiwori, you are absolutely correct….You’ve stated the concept behind Cooley’s" Looking Glass Self" metaphor…We can’t know what we are like without the feedback from others…..In a sense, we are what others think of us….And we learn that from them….

There’s a pretty decent article out there that demonstrates that at the time of the moon landings, faking that footage would have been harder than actually going to the moon.

…then there was the one about the grassy knoll…

what happened to the legend it was green cheese…wimper wimper?

Fair Witness?Harshaw snickers…

Sharing a cup of coffee with an alleged person……

Everything you think you know eventually boils down to taking someone’s word for it. Excessive skepticism enables many to believe the most improbable of conspiracy theories.

Thought it was just a ball of green cheese….

That depends on the laws of the state

Everybody hates liars…errr… lawyers!.What’s the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?..... A lawyer can remove his wingtips!

I don’t believe that Wiley Miller exists. I haven’t seen him in person and a photo can be faked!!!

Sadly, there are those who try to say that the holocaust never happened during WW II.

It certainly is interesting what someone will get huffy about. At work some years ago, I made a comment to one of the other guys in our Computer Services Department about a certain Microsoft software package not doing something specific very well. Well, he was the one that maintained that package and he got upset with me, even after I assured him I wasn’t casting aspersions on him.Another time, a friend and I were discussing scientific “laws” or “truths”. He said they would still be true anywhere in the universe. I said maybe, but maybe not. We aren’t actually “out there”. There is no way we can assume that what we see as true here will also be true there. I wasn’t saying he was wrong, but he got upset anyway!

I have always found, that the most skeptical people are the most gullible, and the easiest to con.

The moon landings were fake. They were all done on a soundstage on Mars.

Tonight at 9 pm most PBS stations will be carrying the program ‘American Experience’, and it will feature a commemoration of Orson Welles’ famous broadcast of the H.G. Wells story ‘War of the Worlds’ on radio. Although Welles had a disclaimer at the beginning of the broadcast, his effect were very realistic, and people generally accepted what they heard on the radio back then. There was a general panic and even some suicides. A lesson for all of us when considering who and what to believe without question….

good point!

I find it silly that he only believes things that he can personally witness. How does he know he can trust his own senses?

So since he didn’t witness his parent’s births, does that mean they just sort of happen to exist? Does that mean that WW one didn’t happen either? He didn’t witness it.

What I really think is funny is when people don’t believe in the moon landing, but they believe in a deity.

‘K’ to James (MIB): ‘A person is smart. People are dumb,panicky dangerous animals and you know it.Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knewthe Earth was the center of the universe.Five hundred years ago,everybody knew the Earth was flat…’

And even today some people still believe the earth is flat just because they haven’t been around it or seen it from space.

Some things ya gotta take on faith…

I worked at a NASA tracking site during Apollo. I covered #3 through #7. My job was operating and maintaining the tracking system. It was real, folks.

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”― Gautama Buddha …slightly more expansive and somewhat different in meaning than the “excerpted” posting – context can be most important.

Sounds a lot like my brother in recent years…..I can only imagine the Hell this guy inflicted on his Mother and little brother about their “alleged Father” which no one ever speaks of!

No, I think most of us actually met and interacted a great deal with our grandparents

I like Bob…wish there was a real guy out there like him that I could meet! Toooo funny!