Why Do "We" Embrace conspiracy Theories?

Tonington

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People embrace conspiracy because some of our species are hard-wired to flip the cognitive rubix cube until they get the conclusion they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones.

It works in much the same fashion as your dyed in the wool partisan.
 

Ocean Breeze

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flip the cognitive rubix cube


Very good. They should include that in Psychology 101.

( Well said, btw: )

 

YukonJack

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That was a marvelous addition to the content in this thread Jacko. Would you like me to correct all of your spelling and grammatical errors as well? :roll:

Please do, Tonington. But remember that - as it was brought up by various xenophobes, who repeatedly advised me to go back to where the Hell I came from - that English is my second language.

Perhaps you should wait with your high and mighty criticism of my skills in English, if and when you demonstrate similar or better skills in a language other than your mother tongue, which based on your spelling and grammar and sentence structure may not be English.

And drag along your pal POS (short for petros).
 

CDNBear

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People embrace conspiracy because some of our species are hard-wired to flip the cognitive rubix cube until they get the conclusion they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones.

It works in much the same fashion as your dyed in the wool partisan.
The funny thing is, they won't even know they're doing it.

The hilarious part is, people who do it, will say you said something well.
 

Tonington

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Please do, Tonington. But remember that - as it was brought up by various xenophobes, who repeatedly advised me to go back to where the Hell I came from - that English is my second language.

Perhaps you should wait with your high and mighty criticism of my skills in English, if and when you demonstrate similar or better skills in a language other than your mother tongue, which based on your spelling and grammar and sentence structure may not be English.

And drag along your pal POS (short for petros).

Shut up troll. By the way, the English language has some rules you are apparently unaware of. Beginning a sentence, much less a paragraph with a conjunction is not proper.

The funny thing is, they won't even know they're doing it.

The hilarious part is, people who do it, will say you said something well.

Yup. Funny how the brain works like that.
 

oldrebel

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"I can’t tell you how many times people ask me about the conspiracy of the Bilderberg Group. It is a conference I’ve occasionally been invited to and have attended once or twice.

If only the people who wrote the alarmist treatises on the Bilderberg Group were allowed in. They would be so utterly disappointed. It’s just a conference like dozens of others around the world. And anyway, the idea that a finance minister or a banker would say something with a group of 150 people that is any different than what he would say in public is crazy in today's world where everything leaks instantly. In my experience, they say the same fairly banal platitudes inside as they say outside.

So on the few occasions in my life when I’ve been inside centers of the conspiracy, I’ve been disappointed and relieved to find they were pretty much like the world on the outside."



Why do we embrace conspiracy theories? – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

I don't think the average person goes about obsessed by conspiracy theories, BUT when we see what is happening the world over, we begin to see the plot thickening and so begin to think there just may be something to a New World Order conspiracy.
There has been a definite escalation of restrictive laws in our own country. Many of our personal freedoms have been curtailed in recent years. All purported to be 'for our own good'.
We now have a World Health Org., World Trade, International Courts,etc. all designed to bring us under one umbrella. The EU was the first sucess of a plan for New World Order. Incidentally, It isn't working out very well, is it?
The powers that have tried to conquer the world in past times have finally recognized that they could not do it with military force. So the probability is that they have come together in one small group to accomplish defeat of the free world a step at a time through persuasion and deceipt.
It is not a happy thought, but if globalization and the enactment of laws to restrict our personal freedoms continues, I believe it will eventually lead to a 3rd world war - to end all wars. You can only back people into a corner so far, then they will come out fighting. Freedom is the one thing that people will fight for en masse.
 

MHz

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Ever since the words below were spoken what people say needs to be verified. The easiest way to find a real one is it has many lies surrounding it.
Ge.4:9
And the LORD said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said,
I know not:
Am I my brother's keeper?
 

Cliffy

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Ever since the words below were spoken what people say needs to be verified. The easiest way to find a real one is it has many lies surrounding it.
Ge.4:9
And the LORD said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said,
I know not:
Am I my brother's keeper?
And by whose authority can it be said that the quote is the truth? Because the bible says so? The Quran says so but you won't believe that book.

What I wonder is why, when presented with evidence of a conspiracy, people still call them theories. But it has been our history to persecute the messenger than to question the information.
 

spilledthebeer

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I don't think the average person goes about obsessed by conspiracy theories, BUT when we see what is happening the world over, we begin to see the plot thickening and so begin to think there just may be something to a New World Order conspiracy.
There has been a definite escalation of restrictive laws in our own country. Many of our personal freedoms have been curtailed in recent years. All purported to be 'for our own good'.
We now have a World Health Org., World Trade, International Courts,etc. all designed to bring us under one umbrella. The EU was the first sucess of a plan for New World Order. Incidentally, It isn't working out very well, is it?
The powers that have tried to conquer the world in past times have finally recognized that they could not do it with military force. So the probability is that they have come together in one small group to accomplish defeat of the free world a step at a time through persuasion and deceipt.
It is not a happy thought, but if globalization and the enactment of laws to restrict our personal freedoms continues, I believe it will eventually lead to a 3rd world war - to end all wars. You can only back people into a corner so far, then they will come out fighting. Freedom is the one thing that people will fight for en masse.




What a LOAD of paranoid irrational CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The World Health Organization has taken action against things like Bird Flue and Ebola!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


With our modern airline network- such powerful pathogens could wipe out humanity if there was not somebody paying attention to rising problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


As for World Trade Organization.......................it is only as effective as its members allow it to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Past WTO debates centred on things like Yankees wanting electronic waste shipped back to place of origin..........so Yankees could be freed of cost to dispose of toxic waste laced with heavy metals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And Europeans and others shot down that Yankee idea because they were happy to SELL the hard to recycle electronics but they didnt want the waste back either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And Cdn govt had long ago decided that waste incinerators are A bad thing BECAUSE OF THE TOXIC CHEMICALS THEY SPEW!!!!


And yet as the cost of disposing of garbage got ever higher and cut into the supply of LIE-beral gravy- so a new incinerator was constructed in Durham Region!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


With all the usual assurances that it would be clean and green and beneficial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And then came the test runs of the new incinerator...............................and the TEST FAILURES because the thing was NOT BURNING AS CLEAN AS ADVERTISED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So there was tinkering and fiddling and more tests....................followed by CLOSED DOOR govt discussions of the test results!!!!!!!!!!!!


WHO CAN SAY if the incinerator is really burning cleanly at this time??????????????????


Certainly any tax payer who has read of the test failures and erratic performance and then the multiple CLOSED DOOR DISCUSSIONS will be DISGUSTED AND DISILLUSIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And now China has decreed it will no longer accept recycling material from the west.........................AND LOCAL GOVT IS PANICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Where will they dispose of their trash now??????????????????????????????


And how much will trash disposal cost in future?????????????????



And there is a proposal to INCREASE the amount of trash being burned at the Durham Incinerator from 10 tons per month to 15 tons!!!!!!!!!!



And an observant tax payer will recognize that how cleanly the incinerator burns will be regulated by what kind of fuel it gets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Wood and paper are relatively clean...............but various plastics and chemicals will burn DIRTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I guess we are headed for MORE CLOSED DOOR TALKS by govt about their incinerator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



WTO also argued over fishing methods with Yankees wanting sustainable methods imposed so that "by-catch" of other species would be substantially reduced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And what of South American fishermen shooting down that Yankee fishing regulation that would have reduced the by catch of other species and limited the massacre of sea turtles and sea birds and Dolphins???????????????????????????


Besides South American fishermen often LIVE on the By-catch and their empty bellies are MORE IMPORTANT than a mass of other species of fish that are killed in the nets and then too often just dumped overboard as TRASH before the juvenile fish get old enough to reproduce and restock the oceans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



WTO also regulated the dispute between Canada and Australia..................the Australians have their own unique species of SALMON and they did NOT WANT Cdn Salmon orf any sort and especially not farmed Salmon from being imported due to worries about the spread of various viruses Cdn fish carried that Australian Salmon have never been exposed to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So Australians INSISTED that any Cdn Salmon imported there must be COOKED - as that would kill the viruses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But Canada WON the right to import uncooked Salmon into Australia and to risk killing off the local species with imported viruses!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There is No New World Order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There is just a pack of cut throat business people who share a love of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And they are willing to cut each others throats as quickly as they would cut ours................for quick cash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our LIE-beral politicians are NOT NEARLY CLEVER ENOUGH to create a New World Order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But they ARE GREEDY ENOUGH to work against common sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

spilledthebeer

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Hahahahahaha....the WHO is a tool of the Lie-beral UN.


Oh Cannuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What delusional conspiracy theory has turned you against the WHO????????????????


And............does this mean you ACCEPT my statements about WTO and about sneaky LIE-berals and their crap incinerators??????????????


Oh well.................getting two out of 3 points accepted on this site is a PRETTY GOOD RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

TalkingTogheter

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Oh Cannuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What delusional conspiracy theory has turned you against the WHO????????????????


And............does this mean you ACCEPT my statements about WTO and about sneaky LIE-berals and their crap incinerators??????????????


Oh well.................getting two out of 3 points accepted on this site is a PRETTY GOOD RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Sie sind ein kapitalistischer Hass, weil Sie Liberale hassen.
 

spilledthebeer

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Du bist langweiliger als Musik.


Isnt that nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Muslims get to experience many new cultures and learn new languages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


While wandering the world looking for people to offend and stuff to blow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!