[Xantar]

Originally Posted by Dyne

I hate to tread into a political-esque thread, but what's your proof that it happened? CNN? News websites? I mean it's fine and dandy to believe news stations like that, but what's your proof that it isn't like another burning of the Reichstag.

Personally, the fact that a sister of one of my friends died in the towers and that several of my relatives were literally on the ground near the towers and watched the planes colliding with them is pretty persuasive. But that's not all there is.

You're committing a fallacy here. The burden is not on anybody to prove that the terrorist attacks did happen. There are too many eyewitnesses and there have been too many investigations by too many people to believe that a minimal standard hasn't been met there.

I don't know what you actually believe (it looks like you choose to believe some kind of middle ground), but if you want to say that the terrorist attacks never happened, then the burden of proof is on you. Just saying, "Well you can't prove they really happened so I'm right" doesn't work.

If you want to suggest that there are flaws in the "official" version of the story, then go right ahead and provide some arguments and proof. I won't argue that the 9/11 Commission's report is perfect. But they have presented their findings and met their burden, so now if you want to dispute their findings, you have to show evidence of your own.

You cant stop people from thinking what they want to. So why get hung up on it?

In this case, it can have a profound effect on our foreign policy with literally thousands of lives in the balance. I'm not saying that fringe conspiracy theories will become mainstream all of a sudden, but if they did it would be a tragedy. If we are supposed to be devoted to truth and liberty, we owe it to ourselves to discover the facts.

I'm a Buddhist, so I'm no stranger to the ideas of relative reality. But there is a proper time and place for even that kind of thinking, and it's not here.