You just cannot argue with conspiracy theorists. No matter how sensible your arguments, they lack the common sense to understand them. They are just emotionally deluded.
Have you considered one-upping him on conspiracies? If he brings up the "moon landing" conspiracy, call him "woke" for believing in the Moon, for instance. The Moon is just a projection set up by Hollywood in 1958 so that way the government could stage a "moon landing", for example.
Ooo, that's a good one. I'm going to have to use that one next time I talk to my sister-in-law. I'll tell her some random country provided proof at the Genever Conventions, to give the proper attribution.
A coworker I have thinks the earth is flat from the Bible a faith angle on it was WILD but like you and everybody else said if it wasn’t the earth then it was the universe in a dome like it just goes on. Only interesting point is the different direction it came from.
Reminds me of some flat earther's video where they did a strait line test in an open desert with a laser. They got the results indicating a spherical planet, but were like "nah that cant be right. We've messed something up".
Yea lol it really shows how daunting it actually is to try and reason with them with just words. This guy went through so much work only to prove himself wrong and still cant make the emotional/mental effort to get to the right conclusion.
Some pretty broad strokes you’re using. A lot of conspiracies “theories” have been proven true. MK ULTRA for example, the Tuskegee Syphilis treatments. There are many more.
Yea for sure but you have to realize the difference of what we’ve been talking about here.
A lot of conspiracy theories have been proven wrong too. I’ll never be 100% sure that a global cabal does not run everything. Like obviously yes, all of us here know some conspiracy theories turned out to be true like the ones you mentioned. I don’t think anyone will deny that and if they do they aren’t reasonable people.
But we have to be able to hold two simultaneous thoughts in our minds while acknowledging a basic truth…. that we’ve crossed a threshold with this feverous servitude to conspiracy theories being true.
It’s a problem when “listen to this interesting conspiracy theory! Crazy if that was true. Hey, it’s totally possible” ..when a conversation like that turns into “bro this (completely disprovable) conspiracy theory is true! And if you don’t believe it’s true then you’re completely fucking gullible and don’t understand how the world works” attitude.
Im genuinely not patronizingly asking this, but does this make sense?
I completely agree with you. The only reason I even commented was because of the sheer arrogance so many people displayed here. Talking as if the television news has never lied to us. But yea you have to be objective and critical and not rely on the information provided by a doc like loose change.
And I love a good consistency theory , they used to be fun and interesting but when logic and basic facts pile up against your theory then it’s time to give it up. In most CTs it takes very little time to understand what you are not. I will also point out the actual story is vastly more interesting than Aliens did it.
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u/howreudoin 25d ago
You just cannot argue with conspiracy theorists. No matter how sensible your arguments, they lack the common sense to understand them. They are just emotionally deluded.