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Entry: The Rothschilds, Opus One, and Opus Dei Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_rothschilds_opus_one_and_opus_dei#1159 Post contents: ”...people who encounter an explanation for some event or situation for which the evidence is unknown to them,the logic of the argument is too complex or for which they already possess an explanation which they are too emotionally invested in to abandon it regardless of the evidence or the logic.” Actually, that sounds more like a description of conspiracy theorists… Posted by Degu on May 05, 2007. When a rational man encounters an explanation with which he disagrees, he presents a rational counter-argument to that explanation. He does not disingenuously attempt to refute the argument offered in that explanation by simply labeling it with the negatively connotative pejorative phrase "conspiracy theory". Conspiracies do in fact occur and theories which explain those conspiracies ought rightfully to be called "conspiracy theories". Unfortunately, that phrase has taken on the negative connotation of its being an incorrect explanation. All that one calling some explanation a "conspiracy theory" is really doing is saying that he disagrees with that explanation. Without presenting a rational argument refuting the theory, he merely exposes himself as an insincere disputant. The postmodernist "privileging" of anti-rationalism has replaced refutation-by-rational-argument with refutation-by-pejorative-labeling. To the detriment of public discourse in Western Civilization. Sent at: 2008 09 07