<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:25 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Do you think that there is a correlation between the outlandishness of an idea and the sincerity with which it is held?<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I belief Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota but even if I'm wrong and it's really Fargo my view would not be outlandish, at least both cities are in the correct state. And if truth be told my belief is not all that sincere, if you started beating me with a rubber hose and insisted I say the capital is really Fargo I'd say it pretty quick. And my belief is not strong enough for me to put on a dynamite vest and blow myself up at a convention of Fargo believers. </font></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark </div> </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Take Carson's ideas: wacky, right? It seems to me that really wacky ideas are almost always held very strongly, as their holders know that they are way out of the mainstream.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> Conversely, mainstream ideas are often quite easy to change, at least somewhat. Wacky idea holders, then, are going to be radical and very defensive, expecting to be attacked.<br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><br>
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