Reply #63: A good example of this ability to buy whatever is offered is the pancake theory.

[John Q. Citizen]

None of the coincidence theory believers questioned it at all. They bought it.

Then when that changed, they bought the newer improved version. No questions asked.

They were victims of the bait and switch, and they don't even know it. They have never questioned either theory. It's all or nothing with some people.

I have no idea what caused three buildings that suffered three random events to all suffer rapid sequential global collapses. This uncertainty doesn't bother me at all. I do believe that another as yet unknown to me non- random agent was responsible, but i have no idea what that was. How or why would I?

Some people are very uncomfortable with uncertainty, but i'm not one of them. Some people demand tidy answers to complex questions, but I'm OK with a mystery.

Not one of the people I've read on this board who are certain that no non-random agent was causative in the rapid sequential collapses of 3 buildings suffering 3 random events will admit that NIST has no physical evidence to support their time/temperature hypothesis.

Not one of these folks that I've read will admit that 5 years after the fact, that NIST has no hypothesis for what caused #7 to collapse.

Yet they are certain, to the point of obsessiveness, that there was no non-random agent involved in the collapses.

Well Ok then. More power to them and the power of absolute belief. It's not my cup of tea though.