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| From | Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate |
| Date | 2014-05-13 12:44 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <CF97C414.37309%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <gh94.a4tp3@rooftop.invalid> <lktp3u$aoh$2@dont-email.me> <hgnt803a.3@rooftop.invalid> <CF97B9C5.372F4%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <hgu00a3.gf@rooftop.invalid> |
On 5/13/14, 12:34 PM, in article hgu00a3.gf@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
<owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>> On 5/13/14, 11:52 AM, in article hgnt803a.3@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
>> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> wrote:
>>>> On 14-05-13 02:40 PM, owl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nope. It was on seeing your appeal-to-authority logical fallacy following
>>>>> your
>>>>> call for "logic" and "reasoning."
>>>>
>>>> Why are you even bothering with Snit? Your decision to respond to him is
>>>> doing nothing more than prolonging his stay in this group.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, I only popped in for a moment and thought I'd poke him a bit.
>>
>> You spewed your idiotic conspiracy nonsense... making yourself look the
>> fool. So be it.
>>
>>> I've
>>> got too much going on in real life at the moment to stay for long. No time
>>> for a circus. :)
>>
>> Bottom line: you know your whacked out conspiracy nonsense is completely
>> contrary to known facts. And you know it is offensive to those who died and
>> those who loved them, but you do not care.
>>
>
> Bottom line: you lash out at my opinion on those events because you cannot
> provide evidence to support the government propaganda.
>
<http://goo.gl/6LV04> [Slate.com]
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First of all, why do people believe conspiracy theories?
There are number of factors, but probably one of the most
important ones in this instance is that, paradoxically, it gives
people a sense of control. People hate randomness, they dread the
sort of random occurrences that can destroy their lives, so as a
mechanism against that dread, it turns out that it¹s much easier
to believe in a conspiracy. Then you have someone to blame, it¹s
not just randomness.
What are the psychological forces at play in conspiracy thinking?
Basically what¹s happening in any conspiracy theory is that people
have a need or a motivation to believe in this theory, and it¹s
psychologically different from evidence-based thinking. A
conspiracy theory is immune to evidence, and that can pretty well
serve as the definition of one. If you reject evidence, or
reinterpret the evidence to be confirmation of your theory, or you
ignore mountains of evidence to focus on just one thing, you¹re
probably a conspiracy theorist. We call that a self-sealing nature
of reasoning.
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That is why you believe your conspiracy theories.
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OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-12 21:40 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 12:25 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 08:11 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 09:35 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 18:40 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-13 14:43 -0400
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 18:52 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:00 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 19:34 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:44 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 19:52 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 13:24 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-05-13 20:35 +0000
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 13:55 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-05-13 15:29 -0600
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 14:29 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-05-13 15:28 -0600
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 14:30 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 12:01 -0700
Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-13 11:44 -0700
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