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Josh111485
New Member
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 Posted - 01/19/2009 : 20:23:19
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Hey everyone!
My name is Josh and I am with the Cleveland Skeptics. I want to share my new blog post with you. It's called "Critical Thinking 101" and it's purpose is to provide people with the basic tools for critical thinking and skepticism. I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback about the post.
Here is the link to the post:
http://www.clevelandskeptics.org/2008/12/here-be-dragons.html
Enjoy!
Josh 
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2009 : 20:57:30 [Permalink]
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| Welcome Josh |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2009 : 23:16:11 [Permalink]
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Great Web site, Josh! Welcome to SFN!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 01/20/2009 : 02:34:18 [Permalink]
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Welcome to SFN Josh!
And thanks for the resources...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 06:00:43 [Permalink]
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| Welcome Josh! Nice to meet you! |
"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 08:45:15 [Permalink]
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| Hey Josh, welcome to SFN. As it happens, I was born in Cleveland. Nice to see a skeptic organization in my city of birth!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
 Posted - 01/20/2009 : 12:57:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
As it happens, I was born in Cleveland. |
Ah, I never knew that, Kil. Whereabouts?
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
| Edited by - H. Humbert on 01/20/2009 12:57:53 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 13:34:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hittman
Welcome, Josh, but your link isn't working. |
The link works fine for me, but maybe it's our software. What browser/OS are you using, Hittman? |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 14:28:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
Originally posted by Kil
As it happens, I was born in Cleveland. |
Ah, I never knew that, Kil. Whereabouts?
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Cleveland Heights. But, we moved to California when I was seven.
I have lived in Southern California ever since. But I do remember some things. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 15:14:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Cleveland Heights. But, we moved to California when I was seven.
I have lived in Southern California ever since. But I do remember some things. |
Ah, an east-sider. I grew up on the west side, so I'm not all that familiar with the area. But I've been through there. It's nice.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
134 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 21:41:10 [Permalink]
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| The link works fine for me, but maybe it's our software. What browser/OS are you using, Hittman? |
XP Pro/Firefox, and the link it working fine now. Evidently something was screwed up on the DNS server I was hitting (other sites worked fine at the time).
Looks like you've got a lot of good resources there, Josh, but I'd suggest breaking it up into separate pages or posts.
I visited Cleveland many years ago, and wasn't expecting much based on the numerous negative comments, and of course, jokes, about it. It was fine. It reminded me of Albany (where I'm from) with the exception that the people there were noticeably more friendly.
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When a vampire Jehovah's Witness knocks on your door, don't invite him in. Blood Witness: http://bloodwitness.com
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Josh111485
New Member
4 Posts |
 Posted - 01/20/2009 : 22:12:34 [Permalink]
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| Thank you all for your kind greetings and feedback. Hittman, that is a great idea as far as breaking them into different pages or posts. I just have to figure out a way to do that. If anyone knows a good way to do that let me know. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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26022 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2009 : 23:05:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hittman
XP Pro/Firefox, and the link it working fine now. Evidently something was screwed up on the DNS server I was hitting (other sites worked fine at the time). |
Oh, good. I was using the same setup when I asked the question. Would have been hell for me to debug. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Critical Thinking 101
