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Re: OT: Global Climate Change Debate

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On 5/13/14, 2:28 PM, in article
C86dnc77cazuE-_OnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@bresnan.com, "GreyCloud" <mist@cumulus.com>
wrote:

>>>> 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]
>>>    -----
>>>    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.
>>>    -----
>>> 
>>> That is why you believe your conspiracy theories.
>>> 
> 
> This is snit's communist party propaganda.  Group think.
> And it is all a bunch of lies.

To not accept whacked out conspiracy nonsense is now your definition of
"Communism". Wow.

Who else wants to jump in with Owl and GreyCloud and insist they are idiots?


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  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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