Conspiracy theorists

Kermit.de.frog

So I have this friend who believes all the usual one world government, 9/11 was an inside job, man did not land on the moon stuff. Really annoys people with his ramblings.

But here is the thing. His mind is warped in to this. It does not matter what you say or how you try to talk sense to him - he does not listen. His mind is made up and that is that.

When asked for reason and evidence it always comes back to interweb videos.

I mean why not believe a young fella in his bed room who is an expert on every scientific and financial theory known to man?

I don't get how anyone can be so weak minded and gullible. Yet so many seem to be.

It comes to the point where you have run out of things to say. How does one deal with these people in preferably an adult way without resorting to violence out of rage?

biko

The same way they put up with you and your blindness to what's actually going on.

Lapin

People who begin a sentence with the word 'So' live an average of 12 years less than left handed people.

Fact.

It says so on the internet.

Kermit.de.frog

Lapin wrote: »

People who begin a sentence with the word 'So' live an average of 12 years less than left handed people.

I am left handed so should not be a problem:P

Kermit.de.frog

biko wrote: »

The same way they put up with you and your blindness to what's actually going on.

You mean how Boards is part of the illuminati infrastructure?

Cpt Sh!t Craic

As long as he's not hurting anybody or himself, I think you just have to accept that his opinions and beliefs are his own and that you have an oddball friend.

Weak minded and gullible people are literally everywhere. People believe in an omnipotent human who lived 6 thousand years ago without evidence.

P.S The Irish Water protests are organised by ISIS

porsche959

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It comes to the point where you have run out of things to say. How does one deal with these people in preferably an adult way without resorting to violence out of rage?

So your friend has a different perspective to you and you have to be talked down from resorting to "violence out of rage"?

Calibos

Lapin wrote: »

People who begin a sentence with the word 'So' live an average of 12 years less than left handed people.

Fact.

It says so on the internet.

Millennial marketing speak wrecks my head. They've given up buzzwords like synergies and simply start every sentence/reply with 'So'

porsche959 wrote: »

So your friend has a different perspective to you and you have to be talked down from resorting to "violence out of rage"?

His friend is entitled to his own perspective....but not to his own 'facts'.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/conspiracy_theory_psychology_people_who_claim_to_know_the_truth_about_jfk.html

Tzardine

I have a cousin like this. She does my head in. Actually unfriended her last week on FB because of the cack coming out of her mouth. Some gems such as:

Government is controlling us by spraying chemicals from airplanes (Chemtrails)

Fluoride in the water is being used to poison and kill us as a form of population control.

She take pictures of various ESB stations and claims that they are HAARP installations.

But dangerously she wont vaccinate her kid because she believes it will cause down syndrome.

And every other post is anti water charges and how she wont pay. Bleeding clown still lives at home with her ma !

You cant pick your family and all that.

Putinovsky

In the majority of cases a lot of those who latch onto conspiracy theories do so because they live uninteresting lives and need to be apart of something that makes their world more interesting. Many of them tend to be unemployed and socially inept from what I can see. Conspiracy theories give their life meaning, they can pretend that they are part of a select few in the know who are fighting a battle against imaginary evil tyrants that will save the world.

Birneybau

Cpt Sh!t Craic wrote: »

As long as he's not hurting anybody or himself, I think you just have to accept that his opinions and beliefs are his own and that you have an oddball friend.

Weak minded and gullible people are literally everywhere. People believe in an omnipotent human who lived 6 thousand years ago without evidence.

P.S The Irish Water protests are organised by ISIS

Which one would that be?

Tasden

Tzardine wrote: »

But dangerously she wont vaccinate her kid because she believes it will cause down syndrome.

Autism? Or does she actually think vaccinating a baby without DS will cause DS in that baby?

Tzardine

Tasden wrote: »

Autism? Or does she actually think vaccinating a baby without DS will cause DS in that baby?

Sorry you are right. Its Autism she believes is caused by vaccinations.

We have another cousin with DS so I got them mixed up.

Joshua J

I've always found the weak minded and gullible like to belittle and insult sections of society that they disagree with or don't identify with. They usually look for people with similar ideals to back up their prejudices so they can feel "normal". Like kids in a playground.

smcgiff

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

You mean how Boards is part of the illuminati infrastructure?

HAH! Ha! very funny. :pac::D:p















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Tasden

Tzardine wrote: »

Sorry you are right. Its Autism she believes is caused by vaccinations.

We have another cousin with DS so I got them mixed up.

Ok that's a little less ridiculous :pac:

I dunno, as much as I don't agree with people choosing not to vaccinate their kids I can see why they'd be apprehensive. I got my child all the usual vaccinations but not the swine flu one, i think it was-could have been a bird flu or something else, I decided not to cause I didn't think I knew enough about it and the risks associated with it, and in comparison to the actual outbreak I didn't feel it warranted that risk. Now in reality I actually don't know any more about the usual ones than I do about the swine flu one but there you go

But I can see why people feel uneasy about them, especially when it was "medically questioned" or whatever for a while, despite it being disproven, its like everything, mud sticks. That's not to say I agree with them though.

paulbok

smcgiff wrote: »

HAH! Ha! very funny. :pac::D:p




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*****, they're at the door

Duggy747

It's a checklist of the usual stuff from people I know:

• Fake moon-landings and subsequent space missions never happened. "Space missions" are primarily used to spy and control the world's population / distract from other things.
• 9/11 controlled explosions
• Illuminati
• The "eye" symbol in music videos to brainwash children
• Satanic messages in Disney music if played backwards like the Jonah Bros (This one coming from someone I know who listens to heavy metal bands who had been accused of this in the past, this point flies over his head.)
• The Occult
• Georgia Guidestones
• New World Order
• Chemtrails
• Fluoride
• Vaccines making people sick, autism, controlling the population to throw votes, etc.
• Bill Gates and his eugenics programme to control the population
• Ebola is made up by the Big Pharma to sell vaccines.
• Malaysian airlines shot down because scientists on it had the cure to AIDS / military people were about to expose US secrets.
• Big Pharma have the cure to cancer and AIDS.
• All major assassinations were faked.
• Sandy Hook school and the Colorado cinema shootings were faked, victims didn't exist and the "families" are actors.
• Boston bombing was a false flag to distract the public.
• ISIS / ISIL don't exist.

Pretty much anything that has ever happened, seen in a different way and then "reported" by Alex Jones / Natural News................which is funny in regards to the Big Pharma thing considering Jones is pushing this Super Male Vitality claptrap.

Laura Palmer

Don't forget the JFK Lincoln thing!

ceadaoin.

Laura Palmer wrote: »

Don't forget the JFK Lincoln thing!

What's this?

MayoSalmon

There is defintley more to 9/11 than were led to believe

smcgiff

MayoSalmon wrote: »

There is defintley more to 9/11 than were led to believe

First of all, what have you been led to believe?

KKkitty

ceadaoin. wrote: »

What's this?

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp

MayoSalmon

smcgiff wrote: »

First of all, what have you been led to believe?

Towers collapsed due to planes crashing into them.

World Trade 7 collapsed due to fire.

US had no warning of imminent attacks.

Above is generally taken as fact.

ceadaoin.

KKkitty wrote: »

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp

How do people make this into a conspiracy? It just a list of coincidences some of which aren't even true.

Packrat

Recently read a book called 'Conspiracies; The facts, The theories, The evidence' by a guy called Andy Thomas.
Interesting reading, it examines how and why these theories appear, and the role governments play in disproving or failing to disprove them.

It also looks at how we sometimes wrongly categorise people who question the official version of a story as 'conspiracy theorists' which is pretty much like tarring someone a child molester in today's world. It destroys careers and the people are future fore toxic.

It examines several common conspiracy theories and suggests that while most are just that, - unproven or disproven theories, that some have a reasonable level of plausibility.

Governments and organisations have form when it comes to deception and duplicity unfortunately.

Then there are the utterly crazy.

COYVB

Conspiracy theorists would do themselves a lot more good if they didn't believe EVERY conspiracy theory IMO

Mountainsandh

I don't mind conspiracy theorists. I do get enough of it after a little bit, but I like seeing things from a different perpective, a different scale, and after all, that's what they have to offer. They lose me as they go, but I always find little elements that I think have the potential to be explored, and who knows, may lead to credible information.

They do highlight interesting, less well known aspects of some situations.

Laura Palmer

Insisting their theories are facts and that those who don't subscribe to them are sheeple is when they can **** off.

wp_rathead

I can put up with the conspiracy nuts - its the anti-vaccine people I can't stand - although the two often over lap

Calibos

Calibos wrote: »

His friend is entitled to his own perspective....but not to his own 'facts'.

Possibly the most intelligent thing I have ever read on the internet.