Balanced Water / Imbalanced Opinions
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:55 pm
Warning* small rant to follow.
I grow more emotionally unstable the more I point out the obvious to close ‘family’ members, who seem unwilling to suspend belief long enough for some common sense to seep in.
As I’m viewing the Sunday email, and considering the Picture of the Day from Mel’s 2012 article, I chuckled out loud at the postulation of weathering or erosion. My boyfriend seemed curious about my laugh, and I was curious about his willingness to listen. I usually avoid more and more subjects of conversation with him, due to my growing frustration in being misunderstood and looked at like…. A flat earther!
“What do you see here,” I asked. “How do you think that was made?” Of course the knee jerk reaction was water erosion. I asked him to look closer.
“Do you really think water would do that?”
“Well maybe wind, or something pushed something….. oh what is it, electricity?!” His sarcasm and frustration set me off.
No matter what evidence I can refer to in lab, on videos proving this can be recreated by electricity, his stance is that it is not scalable because we don’t have lightning big enough today to test the results in real time. The conversation deteriorated into an argument again, with him finally asserting “why does any of this matter,” and “you’re defending this as if it’s your family,” etc.
He’s right, I do defend this stuff like family. When something makes sense, it makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is when smart people are unwilling to let go of concepts in the face of new evidence due to its seeming impracticality, and real world uselessness.
“If everything was electric, astronomers would know it by now.”
I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place explaining the politics of why EU (and other concepts) are not accepted, and sick of putting myself in a defensive position. I don’t have all the ammo I need to verbally support my conclusions like Dave, Anthony, Wal, or Don, but you bet I consider them as an extended family of deep and critical thinkers.
When the Picture of the day is enough to make a child understand, yet keep adults in a fog of confusion, I think a great point has been made. May those of the chaff float away on the ‘wind or something’ so the wheat may seed the earth with those less gullible and stubborn.
Thanks Thunderbolts Project.
I grow more emotionally unstable the more I point out the obvious to close ‘family’ members, who seem unwilling to suspend belief long enough for some common sense to seep in.
As I’m viewing the Sunday email, and considering the Picture of the Day from Mel’s 2012 article, I chuckled out loud at the postulation of weathering or erosion. My boyfriend seemed curious about my laugh, and I was curious about his willingness to listen. I usually avoid more and more subjects of conversation with him, due to my growing frustration in being misunderstood and looked at like…. A flat earther!
“What do you see here,” I asked. “How do you think that was made?” Of course the knee jerk reaction was water erosion. I asked him to look closer.
“Do you really think water would do that?”
“Well maybe wind, or something pushed something….. oh what is it, electricity?!” His sarcasm and frustration set me off.
No matter what evidence I can refer to in lab, on videos proving this can be recreated by electricity, his stance is that it is not scalable because we don’t have lightning big enough today to test the results in real time. The conversation deteriorated into an argument again, with him finally asserting “why does any of this matter,” and “you’re defending this as if it’s your family,” etc.
He’s right, I do defend this stuff like family. When something makes sense, it makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is when smart people are unwilling to let go of concepts in the face of new evidence due to its seeming impracticality, and real world uselessness.
“If everything was electric, astronomers would know it by now.”
I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place explaining the politics of why EU (and other concepts) are not accepted, and sick of putting myself in a defensive position. I don’t have all the ammo I need to verbally support my conclusions like Dave, Anthony, Wal, or Don, but you bet I consider them as an extended family of deep and critical thinkers.
When the Picture of the day is enough to make a child understand, yet keep adults in a fog of confusion, I think a great point has been made. May those of the chaff float away on the ‘wind or something’ so the wheat may seed the earth with those less gullible and stubborn.
Thanks Thunderbolts Project.