Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 09, 2024

If only

The only way to stop social media would involve time travel

If only facts were allowed, social media would still exist. I speak facts and I spend quite a bit of time on social media.

Obviously, his message has met with very little success.

Some truths are just too heavy.

Religions: the first fake news.

So,I think, therefore I am</> is not a fact?

Is that a fact? Or is it just his opinion?

Must be the third tablet that Mel Brooks dropped.

Was this the first or second time down the mountain?

Much good it did him. The Ten Commandments, that he is holding, are exactly what the sign says!

A made-up opinion giving an opinion on opinions is THE new peak in circular logic. Now I’ve seen everything … and nothing.

And “alternative facts” are not facts, they are just lies.

and yet I watch the left rule based on opinion and feelings while ignoring facts. . . sad

Ancient Median Society was already very powerful at that time. Oh … you mean …

They worshipped the first golden calf, now another is running for prez for the Repubs.

I’m not a fan of Augustine of Hippo, but according to Galileo ol’ Augie said that if what is obviously true doesn’t agree with what you believe the Bible says then you need to question what you believe the Bible says rather than questioning what is obviously true.

Differing religions are divisive… Intolerance, hatred, killings run rampart… If God exists, is this what a supreme entity would unleash onto the world?

Social media will be the death of civilization. I have been saying that for years.

This primer, just like the rest of the commandments, and the entirety of the Holy Bible and Koran and other texts, will/has been twisted to suit the needs of some individual/group/sect/faction/politician/party/ethnicity/state/gender/grifter/church/mega church/snake oil salesman and comics page comment poster. As evidenced by our social media posts on this very page. But, that’s just an opinion….

Maybe add two commandments too: 11) correlation does not equal causation and 12) never, never, never use absolutes.

“Yeah I would testify, absolutely,” “I’m testifying. I tell the truth. All I can do is tell the truth.” – The Reality Show Con Artist 4/12/24

Donald Trump won’t testify at hush money trial as defense rests its case- The Daily News 5/22/22

When someone lies to you as obviously as the Reality Show Con Artist does to MAGAt rubes, it says he believes at least one of three things about them.

1). They are too stupid to know the truth

2) They are as racist and corrupt as he is so they are in on the lie

3) He believes he is so far above them it doesn’t matter if they believe it or not because they are insignificant and will keep their mouths shut

Either way, MAGAts are not good faith partners in our democracy.

You can still have an argument with opposing facts. Both can be right. But “facts don’t require your approval” **Sharon McMahon

If only every social media worshipping idiot in the world understood this.

Problem is facts, i.e. truth, can be more complicated than simple black and white. Most people are just too intellectually lazy to look at or consider the grey.

Facts and belief rarely have anything to do with each other.

sitting around the campfire tell tales

Too bad people can’t agree on which is which.

Even the ancients needed something to explain or blame for uncontrolled occurrences like the sun rising.

And some people are scared of being fact-checked. One even refused to do an important interview when he was told he would be fact-checked live.

A couple additions to this. Cherry picking your facts/data and taking statements out of context does not lead to anything useful.

Well, looks like we blew that one, too. The list just gets longer.

Ah, but it seems one man’s “facts” can be another man’s “opinions.” A lot of things that were in my school textbooks as facts have turned out to have been guesses, estimates, or data that simply became outdated. I remember articles saying the universe had to be at least 20 billion years old, if not older.

Moses failed BIG TIME!!!

This reminds me of the lying M A G A guy who is like an old pumpkin. Orange on the outside, rotting on the inside, and we throw him out in November.

Most important: Lies are not an opinion

Sorry, Moses, you failed.

Thank you,Moses…..for at least trying…..

In my opinion, golden calves are fractional, not factual…..

Facts are just plain inconvenient!

Correct, facts are not opinions. But opinions spring from interpretations of facts. A teenage girl announces at family supper “I’m pregnant”. That’s fact. Everyone else around the table forms their own opinion about the fact.

Nice try Moses!

Fun Fact: we used to have these arguments back before the internet when we dialed into BBS systems. It just wasn’t so widespread. But it was more nerdy.

We’ve never needed anything to divide ourselves. We have always done an excellent job of it all on our own.

Depends on your source.

I have ALWAYS believed in the “scientific method” where "truth’ is malleable ONLY based on independently verifiable facts and “reason” is NOT determined by the loudest voice or the most powerful weapon – and “facts” are not determined by what sounds good by the greatest number of people – believing THAT is what got us stuck in the belief of the “Aristotelian” model of the universe rather than the “Copernican” model for well over a thousand years. Just because something “sounds right” does NOT MAKE IT RIGHT.

One of the basic ideas of growing up is learning that a “bigger hammer” doesn’t ALWAYS make facts fit together – sometimes it just destroys the shape of the facts so that they’re altogether unrecognizable…

Incidentally, journalism teaches that NEWS is differentiated from OPINION by the existence of at least two independently verifiable FACTS. The key word, here, is “verifiable” – that was one of the MAJOR purposes of an EDITOR in any news organization. – they serve as “gatekeepers” resisting the idiotic notion of such things as claiming that anyone can “control” the weather – say… this falls into the same stupidity as “Italian” space lasers starting California forest fires – from under what rocks do these people crawl?

Nah, build a golden calf instead, that’ll impress them! ;-)

Unfortunately no one listened.

This makes little sense to me.

Can Moses part the Red Sea and then stop when Trump is halfway across?

Should’ve just chiseled in an 11th Commandment when God wasn’t looking…

And an analogy is not an “argument”.

The bible is the original “It must be true. I read it somewhere.”

A futile effort. Opinions have always outranked facts. Especially when they are inconvenient.

The sign is missing something: “alternative facts” aren’t facts either.

Wise up and stop wasting your money……

Too bad his efforts were for naught.