I probably shouldn't have posted that, and I probably just need to stay out of that thread. I don't think I have a problem discussing thing with people who disagree with me on climate change, but in threads I participate in, I do want to be clear when we are talking about something like a scientific paper and when we are talking about a politically charged article on Breitbart.GaryK wrote:Bootstrap, I wonder if you've considered how this kind of response could come across to people who don't hold to your view on climate change?
So the bottom line really might be that for threads where we try to figure out what's true, I need separate threads with a little structure. As I said in the other thread:
I suspect spawning separate threads for the things I want to discuss that way may be the right way to go. I probably need to just avoid the drama threads.Bootstrap wrote:Maybe I just live in a very different world. I do a lot of research, so when someone says they think something is true, we all say, "oh, is it? how can we tell?", and we go off and look at that question one step at a time, changing our minds as we learn new things. We learn what the facts are as we go and challenge each other's conclusions. When one of us says, "I think it's like this", another one says, "no, I think it's like this", we compare, and we move on. I'm rather used to being proven wrong several times a day, and there are days that it may be much higher.
That just doesn't go well when I try to do that here, at least not in the political threads, and I think climate change is usually treated more as a political controversy than a scientific question here. We actually do that reasonably well when discussing what a Bible passage means or how to apply it, and we've started doing well at that even in the sexual abuse thread. I think we are living in a time that anything that touches politics brings out rancor and high emotions and makes it hard to discuss. That part of our brain isn't very good at science or at analyzing what's going on in politics.