That's what I'm talking about! Obviously Barry got brainwashed by Frederick Lenz. How else would you explain that Barry actually believes that his cult leader was able to levitate? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Somebody thinks they are sane? Now there's a real form of narcissism. It looks like several of the Rama cult members got together and conspired to convince us that their cult leader was the Last Incarnation of Lord Vishnu. There may be as many as 200 of these conspirators posting to the internet. Their new leader seems to be Barry. And of course where there was a lot of money involved those same conspirators will spend a lot of money on psychological programs to make the public look on those who might be figuring things out or speculating a scenario too close to uncovering their crime as "conspiracy theorists." Wow, some people get brainwashed by cults and realize it after awhile but some of them fail to realize when they've been duped by governments and corporations. It must have been a massive brainwashing effort lasting for over a decade to get someone like Barry_1 to actually believe in human levitation and post claims to a skeptical discussion group like <alt.buddha.short.fat.guy> and <alt.sci.skeptic>. Go figure. What a Divine Comedy. :-D Send in the clowns - tune in to listen to Alex Jones or Geert Wilders. LoL! On 05/21/2015 01:52 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re: Conspiracy theories as addiction, here's an article on the very subject. Interestingly enough, the article -- sane and surprisingly sanely written until you get to the last section -- appears on a class-A conspiracy site. Go figure. That said, doesn't this quote sound familiar? How many times have we heard the word "sheeple" used by conspiracy theory addicts here on FFL? The obsession with conspiracy theories has been compared to an addiction. Once one has delved deeply into this mindset, recovery—a return to balanced, sound thinking—is rare. What motivates a person to immerse himself in them in the first place? Conspiracy theories are a powerful source of pride and a wellspring of intellectual vanity. The theorist comes to see himself as thinking on a higher plane than the ignorant masses around him. He walks the fringes of society, watching his surroundings with suspicion. No one realizes what’s going on, he thinks. If speaking his mind on conspiracies causes others to recoil, he simply dismisses them as “dumb sheep” who cannot see what he sees. Every episode like this further reaffirms how special this inside information makes him. Why Conspiracy Theories? http://realtruth.org/articles/110203-001-society.html"; class="ygrps-yiv-238954404link-enhancr-card-urlWrapper ygrps-yiv-238954404link-enhancr-element Why Conspiracy Theories? A Magazine Restoring Plain Understanding View on realtruth.org Preview by Yahoo From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those who don't believe in conspiracies From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One big one announced today. You and I do this we go to jail. The banksters get a light fine. Their CEOs should be in prison and banks broken up. There isn't anyone who doesn't believe there are conspiracies. If you were to tell me this was a plot by a secret shadow government to help their reptilian overlords gain more power in the world then I would say you were speculating beyond what is required for a satisfactory explanation. That would be a conspiracy theory. Though not a very good one as it involves things we don't know anything about and have no knowledge of, like reptilian aliens and a government competent enough to pull off complex projects. Exactly. Conspiracies that stand the test of Occam's Razor have a chance of having happened, because one does not have to invent irrational and unprovable things to believe in them. Conspiracy theories require the person who believes in them to invest in things that cannot meet the Occam's Razor test (because there are simpler and more likely explanations) and require the believer to invest in the existence of complex "add-ons" to reality that cannot be proven to exist. The worst part about conspiracy theories IMO is that they are addictive. There have been many studies showing that the moment someone suspends belief in the rational and invests in one conspiracy theories, they are much more likely to believe the next conspiracy theory presented to them. Preferring irrational beliefs that cannot pass the Occam's Razor test becomes a habit, so what you wind up with is the people who flock to radio and TV shows that basically present nothing *but* conspiracy theories. And the audiences, having now put on the mindset of "believing the unbelievable" and "turning off their discrimination," tune in every day to find out the next unlikely thing they're supposed to feel all "elite" and "special" for "knowing." In other words, conspiracy theories are a drug, those who believe in them are junkies, and those who promote them are pushers.
