Kraichgauer
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28 Jul 2013, 1:57 pm
babybird wrote:
I'd still like to know who THEY are.
My best guess is the Cigarette Smoking Man and his cabal of intelligence agents working with/against the extraterrestrial occupation.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
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nominalist
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nominalist
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29 Jul 2013, 2:53 pm
29 Jul 2013, 3:01 pm
nominalist wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
I never said I had evidence for anything. I never even said I believe in this theory. I just think it's worth entertaining.
Well, you keep on backing away from it. Before, you called it a fact. IMO, evidence is worth entertaining. Conspiracy theories are best left in the trash heap. I have seen many people become so totally obsessed with them that their lives were ruined.It's entertaining to watch conspiricists squirm and lose their cool when confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of their beliefs. It's as much fun as confronting fundamentalist Christians with the contradictions in their Bible and the conflicts between what they believe and what the Bible actually says, and then watching them squirm and lose their cool.
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29 Jul 2013, 5:18 pm
Fnord wrote:
It's entertaining to watch conspiricists squirm and lose their cool when confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of their beliefs. It's as much fun as confronting fundamentalist Christians with the contradictions in their Bible and the conflicts between what they believe and what the Bible actually says, and then watching them squirm and lose their cool.
It is, but I am always concerned when people on the Autism spectrum develop a special interest in something so negative and depressing. Once a person goes down that direction, selective perception, selective exposure, and selective retention take over. People then perceive, expose themselves to, and remember whatever supports the conspiracy and ignore anything that doesn't fit. "Connecting the dots" (lowbrow rationalism), so popular with many conspiracy theorists, is a poor substitute for hard empirical data.
29 Jul 2013, 6:35 pm
nominalist wrote:
Fnord wrote:
It's entertaining to watch conspiricists squirm and lose their cool when confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of their beliefs. It's as much fun as confronting fundamentalist Christians with the contradictions in their Bible and the conflicts between what they believe and what the Bible actually says, and then watching them squirm and lose their cool.
It is, but I am always concerned when people on the Autism spectrum develop a special interest in something so negative and depressing. Once a person goes down that direction, selective perception, selective exposure, and selective retention take over. People then perceive, expose themselves to, and remember whatever supports the conspiracy and ignore anything that doesn't fit. "Connecting the dots" (lowbrow rationalism), so popular with many conspiracy theorists, is a poor substitute for hard empirical data.
The dots are what They want you to connect.
ruveyn
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29 Jul 2013, 6:52 pm
I just got issued a shiny new black helicopter! 
29 Jul 2013, 6:59 pm
Misslizard wrote:
I just got issued a shiny new black helicopter!
Did you get the D refit, with the neural interface and neutrino tracking suite?
Be advised - they had to remove the chemtrail nozzles to make room for the Schumann Wave generator.
29 Jul 2013, 7:05 pm
nominalist wrote:
Fnord wrote:
It's entertaining to watch conspiricists squirm and lose their cool when confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of their beliefs. It's as much fun as confronting fundamentalist Christians with the contradictions in their Bible and the conflicts between what they believe and what the Bible actually says, and then watching them squirm and lose their cool.
It is, but I am always concerned when people on the Autism spectrum develop a special interest in something so negative and depressing.That is a valid concern, imo. All I can do is make them question their methods, and hope that something 'clicks'.
nominalist wrote:
Once a person goes down that direction, selective perception, selective exposure, and selective retention take over. People then perceive, expose themselves to, and remember whatever supports the conspiracy and ignore anything that doesn't fit. "Connecting the dots" (lowbrow rationalism), so popular with many conspiracy theorists, is a poor substitute for hard empirical data.
I've seen this with otherwise reasonable individuals too. My neighbor is a district manager for a major banking concern. He has this theory that ties everything together from Obama's birth certificate to the evolution of AB blood types to the Schumann Wave to the Fukushima disaster to MTV's format switch to <insert name of favorite social website here>. Yet this man handles international monetary exchanges on a daily basis.
29 Jul 2013, 7:15 pm
Fnord wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
I just got issued a shiny new black helicopter!
Did you get the D refit, with the neural interface and neutrino tracking suite?
Be advised - they had to remove the chemtrail nozzles to make room for the Schumann Wave generator.
Well shoot,the chemtrails were my favorite.
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Kraichgauer
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29 Jul 2013, 8:49 pm
Fnord wrote:
nominalist wrote:
Fnord wrote:
It's entertaining to watch conspiricists squirm and lose their cool when confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of their beliefs. It's as much fun as confronting fundamentalist Christians with the contradictions in their Bible and the conflicts between what they believe and what the Bible actually says, and then watching them squirm and lose their cool.
It is, but I am always concerned when people on the Autism spectrum develop a special interest in something so negative and depressing.That is a valid concern, imo. All I can do is make them question their methods, and hope that something 'clicks'.
nominalist wrote:
Once a person goes down that direction, selective perception, selective exposure, and selective retention take over. People then perceive, expose themselves to, and remember whatever supports the conspiracy and ignore anything that doesn't fit. "Connecting the dots" (lowbrow rationalism), so popular with many conspiracy theorists, is a poor substitute for hard empirical data.
I've seen this with otherwise reasonable individuals too. My neighbor is a district manager for a major banking concern. He has this theory that ties everything together from Obama's birth certificate to the evolution of AB blood types to the Schumann Wave to the Fukushima disaster to MTV's format switch to <insert name of favorite social website here>. Yet this man handles international monetary exchanges on a daily basis.
A conspiracy theory about AB blood types? That's a new one to me. Any chance you can explain it?
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
