And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to fifteen, no more, no less. Fifteen shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be Fifteen. Sixteen shalt thou not count, neither count thou fourteen, excepting that thou then proceed to fifteen. Seventeen is right out. Once the number fourteen, being the fourteenth number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
The first plane to hit was American flight 11. Following that, the subsequent flights, when their individual numbers were added together, resulted in the ascending numbers...
Good evening. The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife.
'All wood burns,' states Sir Bedevere. 'Therefore,' he concludes, 'all that burns is wood.' This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. 'Oh yes,' one would think. However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me, for how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder?
I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell: sex is more fun than logic. One cannot prove this, but it 'is' in the same sense that Mount Everest 'is', or that Alma Cogan 'isn't'.
The OP demonstrates quite nicely how conspiracy theories get made and passed around as truth. Deannalw shot it down quite nicely by showing that 11 (1 plus 1) actually equals 2, which shows the hole in he theory. Thankfully, the OP agreed there was an error, and recanted a bit.
Unfortunately, most people nowadays are unwilling to see the holes in their logic, instead looking for ways to twist it around so they don't have to abandon their original premise.
I've often though that there were other flights that were not taken because we landed the planes, the terrorists on-board chickened out, or didn't make it onto the planes to start with.
I would imagine--based on nothing--if there is "something they don't want us to know", it is that there were far more terrorists operating that day than the 19 (or 20 if you count ZM) that died/are imprisoned. Why bring it up if you're the FBI? Why let the terrorists know that you know about them and drive them deeper under ground? Why bring it up that "Flight 602 out of St. Louis was supposed to be taken as well" and the passengers who are blissfully ignorant who were on that flight consider what might have happened?
The OP demonstrates quite nicely how conspiracy theories get made and passed around as truth. Deannalw shot it down quite nicely by showing that 11 (1 plus 1) actually equals 2, which shows the hole in he theory. Thankfully, the OP agreed there was an error, and recanted a bit.
Unfortunately, most people nowadays are unwilling to see the holes in their logic, instead looking for ways to twist it around so they don't have to abandon their original premise.
