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Heretic and part-time (skinny) Santa impersonator
Conspiracy theories are ever popular to this day, and many originate from varied sources of proclaimed truthiness, to questionable provided facts, to simple paranoid delusional rantings and thoughts
but it might be fair to say that ALL suffer any attempts in credibility when subjected to even the most rudimentary evaluations of testable or repeatable experimentation that rely upon physical evidence as substantiation.
Some theorists employ simple vacuous arguments akin to You cant prove its impossible (kinda like god concepts), to absurd claims that actually demand no rebuttals of substance or evidence (The World is Flat; I said it, I believe it, and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise ).
Ok, well, if so, then you know who you are
For the rest of us (negating the irrationality of faith based beliefs at this point), most of us persist in requested requisite proofs and fact-based evidences to accept a claim as likely or probable fact.
And therein, lies the rub.
When we discount (or ignore) beliefs predicated upon explanations otherwise predicated upon faith (ie, what a person chooses to believe as true), most tend to evince (at least) an initially more skeptical viewpoint to all unproven or otherwise untestable claims as being put forward as undeniable fact.
The only thing that distinguishes our claim to being the most intelligent species on the planet, is presumably our own innate and unique capacities of reason, and similar current capacities to share divergent or shared observations/evaluations/conclusions with others akin to ourselves in evaluative erudition.
If the above sentiment can even be considered to be remotely true (as to why we are not just on a par with dolphins, chimps, or even fungi ), then why would so many lend fair, much less equal credence and legitimacy to claimants of ghosts (spirits/demons/witches/necromancers/lost souls, etc), ET (being here and now), hidden alien tech (Area 51 of course), Nessie (of Loch Ness infamy), black helicopters (with their troops of jack booted thugs, the MIB excused), JFKs true assassin(s), faked moon landings, Bigfoot, microwave mind manipulations the list goes on and on.
Just the same, it is worthy of note that contemporary examples of conspiracies swirl about even now
Just some currently popular claims:
Our President is some secret (operative word there as invisibly but yet obvious secreted) Muslim/Atheist/Jew/African that unilaterally hates anything American; Sharia Law is the latest sweeping scourge to be supported in State Legislatures nationwide; voter fraud is rampant as primary cause of skewed outcomes in democratic elections; scientific theories (always predicated upon the very latest available evidences) are just lies from the pits of Hell, and so on
Maybe, just maybe, aluminum foil serves a better purpose to cook fish sticks, that to craft some cranial defense hat from those invisible mind control enemies, and maybe just maybe
if you believe that aliens and/or Obama are trying to take away your guns maybe that hat will not protect you and seeking professional psychiatric help would be a better course to obtain a more satisfactory resolution?
Obviously, critique is invited
Some theorists employ simple vacuous arguments akin to You cant prove its impossible (kinda like god concepts), to absurd claims that actually demand no rebuttals of substance or evidence (The World is Flat; I said it, I believe it, and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise ).
Ok, well, if so, then you know who you are
For the rest of us (negating the irrationality of faith based beliefs at this point), most of us persist in requested requisite proofs and fact-based evidences to accept a claim as likely or probable fact.
And therein, lies the rub.
When we discount (or ignore) beliefs predicated upon explanations otherwise predicated upon faith (ie, what a person chooses to believe as true), most tend to evince (at least) an initially more skeptical viewpoint to all unproven or otherwise untestable claims as being put forward as undeniable fact.
The only thing that distinguishes our claim to being the most intelligent species on the planet, is presumably our own innate and unique capacities of reason, and similar current capacities to share divergent or shared observations/evaluations/conclusions with others akin to ourselves in evaluative erudition.
If the above sentiment can even be considered to be remotely true (as to why we are not just on a par with dolphins, chimps, or even fungi ), then why would so many lend fair, much less equal credence and legitimacy to claimants of ghosts (spirits/demons/witches/necromancers/lost souls, etc), ET (being here and now), hidden alien tech (Area 51 of course), Nessie (of Loch Ness infamy), black helicopters (with their troops of jack booted thugs, the MIB excused), JFKs true assassin(s), faked moon landings, Bigfoot, microwave mind manipulations the list goes on and on.
Just the same, it is worthy of note that contemporary examples of conspiracies swirl about even now
Just some currently popular claims:
Our President is some secret (operative word there as invisibly but yet obvious secreted) Muslim/Atheist/Jew/African that unilaterally hates anything American; Sharia Law is the latest sweeping scourge to be supported in State Legislatures nationwide; voter fraud is rampant as primary cause of skewed outcomes in democratic elections; scientific theories (always predicated upon the very latest available evidences) are just lies from the pits of Hell, and so on
Maybe, just maybe, aluminum foil serves a better purpose to cook fish sticks, that to craft some cranial defense hat from those invisible mind control enemies, and maybe just maybe
if you believe that aliens and/or Obama are trying to take away your guns maybe that hat will not protect you and seeking professional psychiatric help would be a better course to obtain a more satisfactory resolution?
Obviously, critique is invited