She's attractive, and her profile text did seem normal.Ego wrote:@C40, exactly what criteria did you use when swiping right on that one? And please tell us how you explained string theory.
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She's attractive, and her profile text did seem normal.Ego wrote:@C40, exactly what criteria did you use when swiping right on that one? And please tell us how you explained string theory.
David Icke would be your source. I remember V.jennypenny wrote:Where the reptile thing came from, I have no idea. I can't imagine anyone young enough to hang around youtube remembers V.
The internet facilitates confirmation biases. And they can hang out with other "smart" people who have similar world views.C40 wrote:
Nowadays, I don't see that dynamic being as obvious. It seems like the believers think themselves to be smarter than the general population.So now, they think the general population is unintelligent, uninformed, and brainwashed into believing the earth is round or that trails left behind airplanes are condensation. So now the believers get further and further entrenched.
And 40% Miley Cyrus, congrats to C40 who once dated a reptilian celeb.like her brain is only 60% human.
This is the same with conspiracy theories and reminds me of that thread that was on here about how intelligence doesn't = rational thinking and maybe the intelligent conspiracy theorists get street cred from deep diving into facts and tying them together where no ties exist which not only makes the 'theory' seem more plausible, but further incentivizes adding in supporting evidence. Damn.normal and even cool in some circles.
Funny, I look at it the other way around.jacob wrote: What's horrifying for those of us who take our shared reality seriously is how easily these urban legends spread [like viruses] in people who share them completely sincerely (so not tounge-in-cheek) because it speaks to the complete lack of an effective "general education", that is, the lack of an effective framework for how the world actually works.---A more reasonable explanation would be that he's really into airplanes.
I don't know, but you can break both paranoids and conspiracy theorists into two similar camps.1) Is this [conspiracy theories] mainly the purview of paranoids?
For the primary camp, years of therapy? The prognosis for Paranoid Personality Disorder is not very positive.2) Is there anyway to break out of this belief in perception?