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I'm making this thread after talking to a literally mentally ill person yesterday and wondering "How do they hold this belief despite overwhelming, and even self-verifiable evidence?" I mentioned having a family friend who was an astronaut. This person then told me how NASA is a lie and the Earth is flat. I proceeded to be a normal person and exited the conversation ASAP while maintaining a polite demeanor because this person is a possible client for my office. But then I started wishing I could have asked themn "Then how do you explain time zones and analemma?" Because now the thought of whatever cookoo bullshit they came up with would probably be a real hoot to hear. So, GBS, what crazy rear end theories have you heard and what was the reasoning you have heard for them?
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:18 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 11:04 |
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the earth is actually hollow, OP
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:20 |
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i heard that u were a good poster op
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:21 |
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someone said your posting was good and I just started nodding along while they talked about Bayesian probability, admiralty law and the symbolism in The Shining
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:21 |
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social vegan posted:i heard that u were a good poster op That one isn't even defensible imo
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:22 |
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generally i start trying to suck my own dick
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:22 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:I'm making this thread after talking to a literally mentally ill person yesterday and wondering "How do they hold this belief despite overwhelming, and even self-verifiable evidence?" Wasn't some rapper trying to make claims via Twitter that the earth is flat earlier last week? Or am I making this up in my sleep-deprived brain?
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:25 |
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it probably would've been aliens at area 51 but after the last week it's literally anything a sovereign citizen says
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:27 |
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Tia tequila thinks the earth is flat
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:27 |
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LadyAmbien posted:Wasn't some rapper trying to make claims via Twitter that the earth is flat earlier last week? Or am I making this up in my sleep-deprived brain? ya his name is Snow
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:29 |
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LadyAmbien posted:Wasn't some rapper trying to make claims via Twitter that the earth is flat earlier last week? Or am I making this up in my sleep-deprived brain? That was B.O.B. who did a song about it where he also said Stalin was worse than Hitler and that's when I knew he was legit.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:29 |
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There's actually a scientific article explaining how even otherwise reasonably intelligent people fall for blantly bullshit conspiracy theories and stuff like the flat earth thing. It's basically a brain glitch. And of course the more facts you list to prove your point the more they'll say "those facts and scientific studies are lies" because the only way they have to back up their arguments is to plug their ears and scream like a child
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:30 |
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flat earth theory gets especially weird when it isn't "hey the earth is flat" but also "there are government agents who will kill you if you try walk past the giant walls of Antarctica"
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:31 |
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LadyAmbien posted:Wasn't some rapper trying to make claims via Twitter that the earth is flat earlier last week? Or am I making this up in my sleep-deprived brain? Both he and Neil deGrasse Tyson fell for the flat earth troll in a big way.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:31 |
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Cuckoo posted:There's actually a scientific article explaining how even otherwise reasonably intelligent people fall for blantly bullshit conspiracy theories and stuff like the flat earth thing. It's basically a brain glitch. This is an excellent summary of how I make love LadyAmbien posted:Wasn't some rapper trying to make claims via Twitter that the earth is flat earlier last week? Or am I making this up in my sleep-deprived brain? I wanna say this was Ice-T on Law and Order just parroting what Richard Belzer had told him
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:31 |
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oh man, can we talk about the "Russia tried to invade us with midgets and expermential aircraft and that is how area 51 happened" thing? that is my favorite one
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:32 |
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PBS Newshour posted:oh man, can we talk about the "Russia tried to invade us with midgets and expermential aircraft and that is how area 51 happened" thing? Please do, it sounds like a doozy!
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:33 |
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old and busted: flat earth the new hotness: concave earth
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:34 |
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I have a hardcore Jewish friend who claims Gregorian Chanting (and by that extension new age band Enigma) can conjure up demons who will possess your soul. I bring up the fact she's Jewish because she says the demons are from Christian mythology. So how does that even work? Didn't Enigma get to number 1 in the charts? Are we ALL possessed by Christian demons now? Are only those of the Jewish faith safe? (Because there are no Jewish demons so I'm told.)
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:34 |
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Pretty sure B.O.B. is just trolling everyone. His manager probably saw how much attention ICP got from the magnet bullshit and decided to strike at the right time with the right client.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:36 |
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I think Anal Emma went to school with me.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:36 |
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ChogsEnhour posted:I have a hardcore Jewish friend who claims Gregorian Chanting (and by that extension new age band Enigma) can conjure up demons who will possess your soul. That's hilarious because Enigma is some of the most harmless fluffiest New Age music around and Sadness (the song with Gregorian chanting) sounds like cheesy porno music. Sade, dis-moi, Sade, donnes-moaaAAAAAAGGGHHH
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:37 |
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ChogsEnhour posted:I have a hardcore Jewish friend who claims Gregorian Chanting (and by that extension new age band Enigma) can conjure up demons who will possess your soul. Well of course not. Demons are Buddhist. I read it in a Chinese News Release.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:37 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:Please do, it sounds like a doozy! so annie jacobsen wrote a book, called Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. The main hook of this book is basically "hey we are going to give you a rational explanation to what is really going on at Area 51." annie jacobsen went on NPR to talk about her book. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136356848/area-51-uncensored-was-it-ufos-or-the-ussr this is 46 minutes long, but its amazing. it starts out seemingly normal, and suddenly gets insane. you can tell the interviewer didn't exactly knew what she was getting into, and you can hear the stress in her voice once she realizes "i have to continue interviewing this person for another 20 minutes"
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:41 |
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PBS Newshour posted:so annie jacobsen wrote a book, called Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. The main hook of this book is basically "hey we are going to give you a rational explanation to what is really going on at Area 51." thanks, mr. craps!
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:42 |
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A while back I stupidly got into a debate with some guy about the "electric universe" theory, particularly about the part where the sun apparently has a solid iron surface and there's a conspiracy in the "mainstream" science communities to edit images of the sun so people can't see the surface. He proves this by editing the edited pictures in photoshop to "undo" the coverup and still to this day hosts a website talking about it. The annoying thing with some of these people is they are relatively well-spoken and seem reasonable at first so they lure you in to debating it honestly, but as you go deeper and deeper they start leaking insanity until the argument devolves into them accusing you of being a government shill/plant and will just dig their feet in and say "prove that I'm wrong" until you give up.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:47 |
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You sound like the crazy person, trying to impose a viewpoint on a stranger. If your point is so universal and easily verifiable then why do you need to go to such pains to convince other people? Sounds like you are trying to seek validity to your potential delusional line of thought, and if it's a particular neurosis surrounding that thought then you might have become obsessed with alleviating the pain of your rational mind trying to intervene by building up a pathological scheme to rationally override apparent facts to the contrary, and potentially forming rituals that involve imparting that mindset on others. Be careful with certainty, it may not exist philsophically, and everyone's viewpoint may have a glimmer of poetic truth to it whether based in reality or fantasy.
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:You sound like the crazy person, trying to impose a viewpoint on a stranger. If your point is so universal and easily verifiable then why do you need to go to such pains to convince other people? Sounds like you are trying to seek validity to your potential delusional line of thought, and if it's a particular neurosis surrounding that thought then you might have become obsessed with alleviating the pain of your rational mind trying to intervene by building up a pathological scheme to rationally override apparent facts to the contrary, and potentially forming rituals that involve imparting that mindset on others. Be careful with certainty, it may not exist philsophically, and everyone's viewpoint may have a glimmer of poetic truth to it whether based in reality or fantasy. Yeah, yeah we all read Nietzsche's poo poo in Sophomore year,. Go to a The Cure concert about it or whatever you kids do now when dealing with this kinda stuff
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:51 |
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:You sound like the crazy person, trying to impose a viewpoint on a stranger. If your point is so universal and easily verifiable then why do you need to go to such pains to convince other people? Sounds like you are trying to seek validity to your potential delusional line of thought, and if it's a particular neurosis surrounding that thought then you might have become obsessed with alleviating the pain of your rational mind trying to intervene by building up a pathological scheme to rationally override apparent facts to the contrary, and potentially forming rituals that involve imparting that mindset on others. Be careful with certainty, it may not exist philsophically, and everyone's viewpoint may have a glimmer of poetic truth to it whether based in reality or fantasy. Actually quite in agreement with this. Certainty is overrated. Of course certainties like 'The Sun is in fact a supermassive mechanical grow-lamp.' seem quite a bit more unlikely still. The joke'll be on us though when a fuse goes out and we die in a global freeze. Our only hope will be that the Hollow Earth faithful were on to something as well. But do we have the technical aptitude to hijack the impractically-placed spaceport? Someone should get on this.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:53 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:Yeah, yeah we all read Nietzsche's poo poo in Sophomore year,. Go to a The Cure concert about it or whatever you kids do now when dealing with this kinda stuff I'm not a nihilist, I just don't think most of the things people think can be explained with logical language.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:55 |
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PBS Newshour posted:so annie jacobsen wrote a book, called Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. The main hook of this book is basically "hey we are going to give you a rational explanation to what is really going on at Area 51." This is amazing! Thank you for sharing it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:56 |
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:I'm not a nihilist, I just don't think most of the things people think can be explained with logical language. Shh, I'm just trying to keep the spirit of the thread going by being belligerent to all opposing viewpoints
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:56 |
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:You sound like the crazy person, trying to impose a viewpoint on a stranger. If your point is so universal and easily verifiable then why do you need to go to such pains to convince other people? Sounds like you are trying to seek validity to your potential delusional line of thought, and if it's a particular neurosis surrounding that thought then you might have become obsessed with alleviating the pain of your rational mind trying to intervene by building up a pathological scheme to rationally override apparent facts to the contrary, and potentially forming rituals that involve imparting that mindset on others. Be careful with certainty, it may not exist philsophically, and everyone's viewpoint may have a glimmer of poetic truth to it whether based in reality or fantasy. yeah except i can show you the radius of the earth with some simple trigonometry and a stopwatch and these dudes have some maps that look like the etchings of Middle Earth I did as a nerdy middle schooler
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:57 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:I wanna say this was Ice-T on Law and Order just parroting what Richard Belzer had told him To be fair to Belzer, Hulk Hogan gave him CTE
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:58 |
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:You sound like the crazy person, trying to impose a viewpoint on a stranger. If your point is so universal and easily verifiable then why do you need to go to such pains to convince other people? Sounds like you are trying to seek validity to your potential delusional line of thought, and if it's a particular neurosis surrounding that thought then you might have become obsessed with alleviating the pain of your rational mind trying to intervene by building up a pathological scheme to rationally override apparent facts to the contrary, and potentially forming rituals that involve imparting that mindset on others. Be careful with certainty, it may not exist philsophically, and everyone's viewpoint may have a glimmer of poetic truth to it whether based in reality or fantasy. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 17:59 |
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dad gay. so what posted:the earth is actually hollow, OP im the rainbow city hemorrhoid
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 18:01 |
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I like this new in-joke.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 18:01 |
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VikingSkull posted:To be fair to Belzer, Hulk Hogan gave him CTE I misread as QTE and now I'm imagining a fun Hulk Hogan/Richard Belzer adventure game
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Booblord Zagats posted:I misread as QTE and now I'm imagining a fun Hulk Hogan/Richard Belzer adventure game first one to get choked out wins!
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