The value of images
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The value of images
They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but some pictures are worth millions of votes.
While the caption on this image is a bit tin-foil-hat for me, i can't deny its value as a counterpunch.
Im curious what the Democrats on this board think about this image.
While the caption on this image is a bit tin-foil-hat for me, i can't deny its value as a counterpunch.
Im curious what the Democrats on this board think about this image.
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Re: The value of images
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth?
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Can’t argue with that. I’m burning my liberal card and buying a MAGA hat first thing tomorrow.
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Re: The value of images
Like almost all images I have seen of UFOs purporting to be alien spaceships, it is of such low resolution and so poorly exposed and out of focus, that any close detail is obscured, as if someone was trying to hide what it really was in a deliberate attempt to deceive and pass it off as something it was not.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
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But the video!
(It's a computer generated UFO)
(It's a computer generated UFO)
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Re: The value of images
DoubtingThomas wrote:While the caption on this image is a bit tin-foil-hat for me, i can't deny its value as a counterpunch.
What’s at all “tinfoil hat” about the caption “Mail Online?”
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honorentheos wrote:But the video!
(It's a computer generated UFO)
That's not at all hard to believe.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
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Re: The value of images
Dr. Shades wrote:DoubtingThomas wrote:While the caption on this image is a bit tin-foil-hat for me, i can't deny its value as a counterpunch.
What’s at all “tinfoil hat” about the caption “Mail Online?”
I am just messing with subgenius.
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Re: The value of images
So... we're being invaded by Stetson?
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For many years I worked with a Filipino man. He told me the story of his grandfather, a peasant working in a rice paddy, when the first airplane he ever saw flew by. His grandfather said that some people fell to the ground and began prostrating themselves to the 'flying cross' that was flying overhead. Closest thing to a cargo cult story I've heard.
Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Digital image manipulation makes it ridiculously easy to hoodwink the technologically ill-informed.
Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Digital image manipulation makes it ridiculously easy to hoodwink the technologically ill-informed.
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"We've kept more promises than we've even made"
- Donald Trump
"Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist."
- Edwin Land