The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie
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slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
consiracy theorists = hardcore critical thinkers who question everything.
Quite the contradictory.Post edited by Jeanwah on0 -
Jeanwah wrote:slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
consiracy theorists = hardcore critical thinkers.
Quite the contradictory.
more like this...
conspiracy theorists < hardcore critical thinkers.0 -
slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman and shot JFK?0 -
Jeanwah wrote:slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
consiracy theorists = hardcore critical thinkers who question everything.
Quite the contradictory.
Again, I'm not making this up. It's a psychological fact. There is some fascinating research out there on the psycology of conspiracy theorists.Post edited by slightofjeff oneverybody wants the most they can possibly get
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Byrnzie wrote:slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman and shot JFK?
I think Dick Cheney did it.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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I wonder if all the yahoo's on this message board throwing around the term 'Conspiracy theorists' would have been criticizing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1972 and calling them conspiracy theorists for daring to claim that the President was behind the Watergate break-in?0
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slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:slightofjeff wrote:People who believe in conspiracy theories have a lot of the same mental characteristics as people who join cults.
I'm just saying is all.
consiracy theorists = hardcore critical thinkers who question everything.
Quite the contradictory.
Again, I'm not making this up. It's a psychological fact.0 -
Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if all the yahoo's on this message board throwing around the term 'Conspiracy theorists' would have been criticizing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1972 and calling them conspiracy theorists for daring to claim that the President was behind the Watergate break-in?
Probably.
Until they produced facts. Or something other than crackpot conjecture and unprovables.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do0 -
Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if all the yahoo's on this message board throwing around the term 'Conspiracy theorists' would have been criticizing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1972 and calling them conspiracy theorists for daring to claim that the President was behind the Watergate break-in?0
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I wonder if those responsible for uncovering the Iran-Contra scandal were also conspiracy theorists?0
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Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do0 -
Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if those responsible for uncovering the Iran-Contra scandal were also conspiracy theorists?
Here's a common fallacy of conspiracy theorists right here. Just because conspiracies have existed before in the course of human history, it must mean that other things are also a conspiracy.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.
And what's the psychology pf people who believe everything they're told by authority figures, even in the face of a mass of evidence to the contrary?Post edited by Byrnzie on0 -
slightofjeff wrote:Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if all the yahoo's on this message board throwing around the term 'Conspiracy theorists' would have been criticizing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1972 and calling them conspiracy theorists for daring to claim that the President was behind the Watergate break-in?
Probably.
Until they produced facts. Or something other than crackpot conjecture and unprovables.0 -
Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if all the yahoo's on this message board throwing around the term 'Conspiracy theorists' would have been criticizing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1972 and calling them conspiracy theorists for daring to claim that the President was behind the Watergate break-in?
And that might not even be true. Some think it was actually the people under Nixon who set him up to look bad...people like Poppy Bush. Who knows if that is true or not but I got it from this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Dy ... 850&sr=8-1
You might be interested in reading it sometime because it does go into the Kennedy assassination a bit too.0 -
Byrnzie wrote:slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.
And what's the psychology pf people who believe everything their told by authority figures, even in the face of a mass of evidence to the contrary?
Again, conjecture and unprovables do not constitute evidence.
One thing 9.11 conspiricists have never been able to answer to my satisfaction: If it was all George W. Bush's fault, why did Osama bin Laden take credit for it?everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.0 -
slightofjeff wrote:Byrnzie wrote:I wonder if those responsible for uncovering the Iran-Contra scandal were also conspiracy theorists?
Here's a common fallacy of conspiracy theorists right here. Just because conspiracies have existed before in the course of human history, it must mean that other things are also a conspiracy.
Strange leap of logic you make there. Are you suggesting that as humans we should never question anything, even when the facts presented to us are so full of holes that they resemble Swiss cheese?0 -
Byrnzie wrote:slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.
And what's the psychology pf people who believe everything their told by authority figures, even in the face of a mass of evidence to the contrary?0 -
Jeanwah wrote:slightofjeff wrote:Jeanwah wrote:They're not psychological terms! They're socialogical terms. :roll:
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. Maybe we're talking about two separate things. I don't know.
I'm specifically talking about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. According to some psychologists, they cling to their theories for many of the same reasons other people cling to their cults.
Take it up with science. Not with me.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do0
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