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Message:: [QUOTE="bikergeek, post: 7502562, member: 112428"]Interesting thread here! I want to start off by saying I agree with [USER=108985]@cplradar[/USER] and [USER=116145]@MIGuy[/USER] - if you don't like the thread, ignore it. (Don't feed the trolls!) Here's how I experience some of the dialogues on this site: noob: "Is this abnormal 'penny' going to make me obscenely rich?"oldtimer: "No, noob. You're experience pareidolia - seeing what you want to see."noob: "Why are you crushing my dreams, you horrid beast? I smite you!"oldtimer: "Nay, it is I who smite you, and my friends will quickly join ranks with me to double-smite you!"friends-of-oldtimer: "Smite! Smite!" I don't typically join these threads because:1. I never argue with a person who is immune to facts (this helps avoid arguments about politics too).2. I'm not a trained psychologist, able to diagnose instances of pareidolia from a web forum. (I do however know that it is more about seeing familiar objects where they aren't, like faces in clouds, than it is about wishful thinking.)3. I don't want to smite anyone. I used the Ignore function here to silence a few particularly noisy folks, but I found that just creates these weird gaps in a thread that make it hard to understand so I'm rethinking that approach. Happy Friday, y'all! (Hope I didn't accidentally smite you!)[/QUOTE]