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From: Jean
Date: Sunday, February 25, 2007
Time: 11:27:56 AM
One may call it assume, an idea, a hunch, I bet or what ever. Then we can go on to try to prove or disprove the idea or assumtion. We just can't present it as fact. When I first heard of the Bundy murders, I had no idea who OJ Simpson was and could of cared less about who murdered who. But I was curious as to what everybody was talking about. So I started watching and what else was there to watch esp. since I was sick and had nothing else to do. I forgot where I first saw the shoe prints and blood drops. But I knew they where wrong. Why did I know-because of my knowledge from being around blood dripping from wounds. So I assumed something was wrong. That got me hooked because now I had a mystery to solve. As the trial progressed I realized that there had to be a frame. So I made a lot of assumptions and as the trial progressed these assumptions where either proved or disproved. I had facts enought to prove that OJ was framed and if he was framed then I assumed he did not do the murder. And I later proved this to myself. At some point I got the means to get on the web and I soon found this site and alt fan. What a difference in sites. Here is a site in which people can discuss throw out their ideas and try to find if they are true or not true. While alt fan was a place to go to fight, but it served me well because I found an email group of smart people who do much of the same as on this site and many are a part of both and at times reached out to tell the other side what had been discovered by someone. But many assumptions have been introduced in both places to chew up, spit out, discuse to find the truth. So the assumption is triggered by some fact and then the assumption is proved or disproved all to find the truth. The post that I wrote about "I bet". started with a fact I heard in the court case and I keep asking myself why. And finally the light bulb went off. Am I right, I don't know. But I will keep watching to see how facts I find may prove it right or wrong as I go along. I may never know. I still have assumptions about the OJ case that I still do not know are right or wrong, because there was a why and the assumptions explain it logically. But the explanation may well turn out to be illogical. A scientist has to assume X first from his background information. Then he sets up experiments to find out if he is right or wrong. It is when an assumption or belief is presented as fact that the problem with assumptions occure.