BeNotDeceived wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:15 am
Marcus wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:58 am
Not in this case. The interview was referring to NYC firefighters pulling back.
"Maybe the smartest thing to do is 'pull' it, so we made the decision to 'pull' and watched the building collapse". Yep, he meant 'pull' the firefighters out since firefighters are all 'its', not 'them' and because they expected the building to collapse even though no steel-framed high rise had ever collapsed due to fire. You guys are great, keep the lunacy coming.
This is the perfect example of anomaly hunting. 911 was chaos with death everywhere. Firefighters were risking their lives fighting a massive fire on one side of the building. It was an incredibly dangerous situation, chaotic and stressful. But the anomaly hunter expects parses word choices as if people always use perfect grammar and diction in normal situations, let alone in situations of enormous stress.
Not only that, once they claim an anomaly exists, they avoid any effort to investigate the alleged anomaly to see if it’s an anomaly at all. The full quote that the subject of the conversation was firefighters whether to have them continue to fight the fire or to order them out of there. Which is more probable? Silverstein referred to the firefighters as a group, which would be perfectly grammatical and fit the context of the discussion or that, saying nothing about the fire fighters had been talking about, Silverstein, who is not in the demolition industry used a word that is actually not a common term in the demolition industry to refer to a controlled demolition to tell another guy who is not in the building industry that he short initiate a controlled demolition? Pulling firefighters fits the context. “Pulling” makes no sense for a controlled demolition, which isn’t “pulling” the building. Silverstein’s word choice is not anomalous at all.
As a bonus, note the claim that the only thing we should expect to happen are things that happened before. If something new happens, that’s totally evidence of a conspiracy. Where is the evidence that buildings similar in construction to those destroyed on 911 have ever been subjected to similar conditions?
With a little investigation, the alleged anomalies become completely mundane. That’s why the anomaly hunters never investigate their precious anomalies.
