Btbg, I previously made a request of you that you ignored:
Keenan wrote: "If you want to keep going with this discussion, then come back when you have
facts, evidence, logic, knowledge."You instead continue to double down with your spewing of baseless opinion, conjecture, and made up bull crap, while refusing to address any of my points.
From your last few posts it is obvious that you completely ignored and dismissed my discussion of and the definition of droughts. After I held your hand and reviewed the actual dictionary definition of drought, you still have ZERO comprehension and went straight back to your made up notions that have no basis in fact or reality. You are even arguing with the dictionary at this point!
Your manner of discussion/debate is stupid, disrespectful, and pointless. There is no reason for me to continue trying to have a rational, fact based discussion with you.
Here's your biggest problem, btbg: You feel that doing no actual research, but rather just making SWAGs (silly wild ass guesses) based on some rumor or anecdotal story, passes for scientific study. Like for example the claim you heard that springs on federal land run dry because not enough trees have been logged, but do not run dry on private land because they logged a sufficient number of trees. This is a child-like claim in the over-simplicity and fairy tale aspect of the belief system being employed, the asinine way you jump to conclusions that are so completely lacking in rational thought and careful study. This is completely opposite of the scientific approach. I'm actually embarrassed for you that your mind is so childlike. It is shocking that a supposedly educated adult is so childlike and simplistic in jumping to conclusions like this. You almost seem like you are straight out of the middle ages, when superstition and myths were the basis of most people's knowledge.
You continue to believe that fabricating your own far out theories based on nothing but your own untrained, uneducated opinions, rumors, and anecdotes/stories, is somehow sufficient to be able to know more than the experts who actually have the knowledge of what is going on with the biology, the environment, forest ecosystems, hydrology systems, climate science, etc. Your posts on these matters are completely free of facts and evidence. You cite no research, no science, and nothing that can be backed up or verified. And then you arrogantly present it as if it is "so obvious all you have to do is go see for yourself", when it is based on nothing beyond your weak and baseless suppositions and rejection the scientific approach. This is lunacy. You are shockingly unreasonable and irrational.
What you are doing, btbg, is the equivalence of someone decided that they can be a heart surgeon without any professional training or knowledge. You are deluding yourself into believing that you can be a better heart surgeon than the professionals, and you don't need to be professionally trained and to gain the deep knowledge and expertise that it takes to be a professional heart surgeon. In addition, you have ludicrously convinced yourself that all of the professional heart surgeons are a bunch of idiots who don't really know anything, and you yourself have figured it out all on your own based on nothing but anecdotal stories, SWAGs, and childlike simplistic conclusions, and therefore are smarter than all of the hundreds of professionally trained heart surgeons.
This is not normal, btbg. It indicates that you:
1) Have no comprehension, or insist on making up your own word definitions that suit your narrative
2) Have no critical thinking ability and no understanding of the scientific method
3) have no understand about how to make claims based on facts and evidence that can be verified
4) Have no ability to have an honest and rational debate
5) Tend to make really stupid delusional assertions ("It's better to clear cut Douglas Fir forests rather than selective cut, because all the roots are interconnected, so selective cutting will cause the others to die off, causing a worse problem.") that don't even pass the most basic common sense test that children could grasp.
After this discussion, btbg, I have changed my perception of you. I no longer can consider you an intelligent, honest, reasonable conservative. I will never be able to take you seriously ever again after this.
I expect that in the future, you will be bloviating and opining multi-page piles of bullcrap claiming:
1) That toxic sludge is good for you
2) That cigarette smoking is good for you and does not cause cancer
3) Environmental problems all boil down to one problem - too much nature is still living, not enough of the earth has been covered with concrete
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