Do you believe that things happened in your life that other people deny?

When in elementary school, I was in a snowball fight (one of many over the years) with some other kids in the neighborhood. After I threw one at and hit a girl, she cried, and her friend claimed a put a rock in the snowball. She was insistent that I had, even though I knew darn well that I hadn't. I imagine if you asked them to this day, they'd both still believe it just as they did then.

The point is that it is possible to believe something happened that didn't. You can be utterly convinced, but your perception could have been wrong from the very start.

Just a thought to ponder as we judge the credibility of Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh.

How about we just put someone up for nomination who isn't a born asehole. Trumps last nominee sailed through without a problem. This is not a witch hunt. This is about the behavior of one man and whether or not he passes the smell test.
To me, he stinks to high heaven.

Yes. I was accused by a girl in my high school for being in a truck where everyone was drinking and doing weed. She swore she saw me. Her dad believed her. I told him she was a liar and he didn't like that. Not until others came to my defense did he finally back off but still didn't believe me. I've hated her and him to this day.

Yes. People's experiences are often subjective.

and some people are convinced that clairvoyance and telepathy don't exist

What's wrong with putting rocks in snowballs?

It's well known people can have false memories, however

i doubt that the assault she describes is something she'd likely "misremember." if anything, i expect she'd remember something like that, very vividly.

if you want to pull such speculations about false memories out of your special place, i'd say it seems to me a lot more likely that it would have been the perpetrators would totally forget such an incident, purportedly commonplace in their experience, and in which they would have presumably been drunk

but whatever

Certainly. Study some academic works on the nature of memory and be prepared to question your grasp on reality itself.

The point here is that more than just the credibility of two people are at stake. Obviously there's no shortage of people who are willing to pass judgement based on their shallowest impressions of vague claims… The issue here is what the SYSTEM will uphold.

Will our traditions of placing rights and due process prevail, or will the system that is supposed to be above that kind of pettiness sink down to that level just because… Like some modern parent… It can't be bothered to do what is right and would rather end the crying by handing out more candy?

The point is that something that happened a long time ago (or rather didn't happen) has nothing to do with the now and shouldnt even be talked about

That happens all the time. I've had insignificant things with my wife that she has a completely different story on. There's a whole weekend trip that I remember that she says didn't happen. She says we couldn't go and only talked about it.

There was no reason for either one of us to lie. So one of us has a false memory. I've seen enough case study to know it could be me… But I don't buy it.

FYI: She totally thinks I'm screwing with her if you ask her. I totally would, but I'm not.