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Villan Of The North
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Why should there be anyone controlling the common souorce? If I am involved in something newsworthy then it's natural that several reporters, from different organisations, will want to talk to me. I can either give one interview to all of them or one each, which may provide som variety but ultimately the story will have a common theme as it's coming from a common source but no one is controlling me.
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Villan Of The North
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Ketchup is surely more common than HP.
That really loses something without the picture so I've edited.
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/swim-in-denial/201704/psychology-conspiracy-theory
Conspiracy theories are labor-saving devices and home remedies for anxiety and depression.
Since the theories are false, anxiety comes back as obsession with the theory and efforts to convert others to believe. Preachers or cult gurus play out the same dynamics when they advertise the secret of eternal life to convert followers or explain a catastrophe as “God’s wrath” or the wages of sin.
Conspiracy theories are labor-saving devices and home remedies for anxiety and depression.
Since the theories are false, anxiety comes back as obsession with the theory and efforts to convert others to believe. Preachers or cult gurus play out the same dynamics when they advertise the secret of eternal life to convert followers or explain a catastrophe as “God’s wrath” or the wages of sin.
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Villan Of The North
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A great comment from a friend of mine on Facebook:-
It derives from cognitive processes (such as pattern recognition), certainly helpful for detecting danger among other things, but if employed more than your critical and skeptical thinking, also makes you horribly susceptible to cognitive biases that people can use to manipulate you (i.e. snake oil salesmen telling you to buy their magic detoxifying because they've convinced you that some boogeyman like Big Pharma is poisoning you). Alex Jones follows the same pattern as any snake oil salesman, because he has an online Infowars shop that conveniently sells solutions to all the contrived imaginary problems he tries to scare you with.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/25/15408610/conspiracy-theories-psychologist-explained
"These people will swallow anything you feed them, so long as it leaves them with a demon to wrestle with in their dreams." - Matt Taibbi
It derives from cognitive processes (such as pattern recognition), certainly helpful for detecting danger among other things, but if employed more than your critical and skeptical thinking, also makes you horribly susceptible to cognitive biases that people can use to manipulate you (i.e. snake oil salesmen telling you to buy their magic detoxifying because they've convinced you that some boogeyman like Big Pharma is poisoning you). Alex Jones follows the same pattern as any snake oil salesman, because he has an online Infowars shop that conveniently sells solutions to all the contrived imaginary problems he tries to scare you with.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/25/15408610/conspiracy-theories-psychologist-explained
"These people will swallow anything you feed them, so long as it leaves them with a demon to wrestle with in their dreams." - Matt Taibbi
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
I think that sums it up nicely.
I particularly like the fact they take their information from such a small range of sources, and yet they are the ones getting the right information. The trick, surely, is to read everything, and then analyse it all to determine the truth?
I particularly like the fact they take their information from such a small range of sources, and yet they are the ones getting the right information. The trick, surely, is to read everything, and then analyse it all to determine the truth?
JuanPabloAngel
Alert Team
Didn't he play (badly) in goal for Man United in the late 90s?
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
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HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
Let's not forget, the World is ending today (again).
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Villan Of The North
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"She turned me into a newt...............................well, I got better."
BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
"To spend any significant amount of time in truther forums is to feel the traps being set, the hooks sinking in. What if?, the mind wonders. For those short on critical-thinking skills, the forums can be infectious and addictive."
It's a quote from an article about the freakshow who runs The Daily Stormer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
It's a quote from an article about the freakshow who runs The Daily Stormer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
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What if the conspiracy is true and the critical thinkers like yourselfs have got it wrong.
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
If we can use critical thinking to prove a conspiracy isn't true, it isn't true. That's the nature of proof.
If we can't, we don't, and there is still room for you to be right, but how often has that happened?
The problem is that you claim so many are true, it creates a fog and distrust. Perhaps if you checked your facts first, and stuck to the ones that haven't been disproven, we'd respect your opinion more. As it is, your opinion is less than worthless, based on past experience.
If we can't, we don't, and there is still room for you to be right, but how often has that happened?
The problem is that you claim so many are true, it creates a fog and distrust. Perhaps if you checked your facts first, and stuck to the ones that haven't been disproven, we'd respect your opinion more. As it is, your opinion is less than worthless, based on past experience.
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/what-is-illuminati-google-autocomplete
What is the Illuminati?
It is a powerful and savagely guarded organisation that secretly controls the entire modern world, probably while wearing cloaks. It has done this mainly through infiltrating the media and brainwashing everybody. It could be doing it right now.
What is the Illuminati?
It is a powerful and savagely guarded organisation that secretly controls the entire modern world, probably while wearing cloaks. It has done this mainly through infiltrating the media and brainwashing everybody. It could be doing it right now.
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
???????
Did you read the rest of the article? The whole thing is tongue in cheek. Do you really think I didn't spot that before posting?
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Did you read the rest of the article? The whole thing is tongue in cheek. Do you really think I didn't spot that before posting?
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