Firstly, what's all that crap about good intentions?

I don't have a clue where that came from, certainly from nothing I've ever said or posted ever, so I guess its come from your subconscious noggin'. Either way, best not to make presumptions in such a way else we have ourselves a heated political debate based on something that was never said, thought or referred to
Anyway, my response may have been to the 'open mind', something I always criticise, I don't think its applicable to such an instance as say, something that can't really be proved either way. I guess its a reaction to people saying 'you have to have an open mind to xyz' as an arguement
for something, or in lots of cases to give it any credibility. That should instantly put up all the warning flags, you can have an open mind and even still be confident and very much on one side of an arguement.
In this case, sure keep an 'open mind', but don't be stupid would be my advice
Back to this 9/11 stuff, these conspiracy tales seem pretty stupid and get more and more obscure and implausable in so far that I see no relation to the wacky stories which makes dubya a liar and an 'evil man' (btw, evil is a christian thing). Of course he lies, distorted/exploited what happened totally and is a tosser, but that's proven either way by fact and observation, not wacky stories
All this belief and open mind talk I
believe (

) gives this stuff a lot more credit than is due here though, don't you think? Such terms should be reserved to something where there's at least an equal weighting of 'evidence' on both sides of the arguement, for example, do you beleive in god? do you believe in aliens? etc. Here its more like is this arguement valid/justified, but I wouldn't use belief from my own personally dictionary, its too heavy a word to use I'd say, just like I don't think its was used 'properally' where I highlighted in italic, I used it in an expressive way, but I'd personally reserve it for something that's impossible to prove*.
Out of interest and slightly off topic, does anyone actually believe a) these JFK conspiracy stories b) aliens crashed in roswell c) the holocaust never happened d) Bush's administation orchastrated 911 (had a direct involvement etc.) e) the moon landings never happened f) in bigfoot ? Would like to know peoples opinions on those, either way or don't know. Call it intellectual curiousity if you like
ps. on my comments on 'the bible' I was off on a tangent of course, but was trying to comment on the lack of researching first hand, and accepting someone else's word on 'faith'. The 'faith' in what someone has told you is very different to faith in a/the god(s), but its strange how they are classified as the same thing these days.
*I am aware some people probably take such things as a matter of belief, as in 'I believe that story about 911', they are of course right to use it that way if they wish.