"John Smith" wrote

K0HB:

Suppose the aliens are running their evil "Confabulator?"

How would a guy ever know then?


Hey, ya know what? We could change the name of the "Steve and Mark **** Fight"
to "The Confabulators"!

From a discussion in another venue, I captured this....

"A confabulator often appears to be unable to recognize the erroneous nature or
absurdity of his statements even in the face of painfully apparent contradictory
evidence. Hence, his replies to questions or statements may appear tangential,
circumlocutious, irrelevant, and delusional. Moreover, rather than relinquishing
an incorrect belief when confronted with contradictory information, these
individuals may make further erroneous extrapolations or partially incorporate
some aspects of the contradictory information within the confabulatory schema."

For example, when a 20-year-old individual who had lost control of his auto and
suffered a serious head injury was questioned about his accident and injuries,
he responded by"attributing his hospitalization to having been in an atomic
explosion which occurred when his rocket ship had crashed. He stated that he was
still filled with radioactive fluid and pointed to the numerous scars on his
body to show where the doctors used needles to remove fluid".

Having read that, doesn't it put Mark and Steve both in a whole new light?

Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB