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Old 02-25-2004, 09:00 PM
jseal jseal is offline
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silentsoul,

Tess has pointed out the principle that one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Another way of saying this is that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.

It is, of course, possible that the events of 9/11 were a Machiavellian plot on the part of the Bush administration. It requires rather more effort on my part to make your theory work than it does to believe it was executed (however ineptly) by an organization that has professed a goal of overthrowing Western Civilization.

If you want to persuade people that your thesis is correct, you’ll need to come up with rather more than convenient coincidences and innuendo.
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