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Conspiracy Theory Addiction Is Real
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Well let's find out whether or not your ideas amount to fact or fiction.
The experimental injection doesn't prevent infection or transmission. What is your reason for wanting others to take what doesn't work for you?
Now, do you consider yourself to be superior because you take what doesn't work for you and want me to take it, too?
Don't you care that others see that your thinking is that messed up?
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PART ELEVEN
Meeting unmet needs?
Need to be in control.
People who feel psychologically and/or socially and politically out of control are probably more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.
Having one or more conspiracy theories to focus on in some way and campaign about them gives a sense of being in control.
Raising awareness of, researching, and fighting for a particular conspiracy theory can also act as a distraction from internal pain.
If, for instance, someone has childhood trauma that seems too painful to face, spending every spare minute on a conspiracy theory is a distraction away from that pain and the negative feelings it gives.
It then becomes a coping mechanism, found subconsciously.
When people feel internal chaos, disorder inside, they will go to any lengths in an attempt to create order externally.
This is a factor behind many addictions and personality disorders.
For example, someone thinking they are in control of when they can drink again or take drugs another time feels a sense of order with those choices.
With internal disorder, that arises from such as trauma, toxic shame, and a failure of love in childhood, there is a yearning to understand things, including oneself.
By spending time trying to understand things in a consistent way it creates a sense of temporary order that is like pain relief from the internal chaos.
As well, conspiracy theories can often give an explanation for something that seems confusing, and for this reason that is frightening too.
So such as spending time researching on the internet not only acts as a distraction from emotional pain, it can give a sense of truly understanding what is going on.
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PART TWELVE
Need for understanding
COVID-19 and its consequences have heightened anxiety levels.
Any addiction can be a way of finding relief from high anxiety.
But if someone is addicted to conspiracy theories it can have the same negative consequences as any addiction.
The person may find over time that it stops working and so seek more and more.
It can also leave them feeling increasingly isolated.
One reason for this is that as addiction takes hold of someone, other people often tend to back away for self-protection.
Most addicts suffer from a growing feeling of disconnection from other people.
As someone gets deeper into any particular conspiracy theory they might find their sense of being different from others grows and with that, a sense of isolation can increase.
Need for understanding
COVID-19 and its consequences have heightened anxiety levels.
Any addiction can be a way of finding relief from high anxiety.
But if someone is addicted to conspiracy theories it can have the same negative consequences as any addiction.
The person may find over time that it stops working and so seek more and more.
It can also leave them feeling increasingly isolated.
One reason for this is that as addiction takes hold of someone, other people often tend to back away for self-protection.
Most addicts suffer from a growing feeling of disconnection from other people.
As someone gets deeper into any particular conspiracy theory they might find their sense of being different from others grows and with that, a sense of isolation can increase.
Right now your mind is screaming at you to go get help for your cognitive dissonance. I believe it wants you to acknowledge that your desire for others to take what doesn't work for you makes you look mindless.
Now instead of pointing out someone else's alleged fantasy, how about you and me talk about yours?
So, in your own words, and to the best of your ability, exactly what sense do you see in taking something that doesn't work? And why on earth would you want others to take it?
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Cognitive dissonance demonstration imminent!
Wait for it . . .
Yeah, I suppose you're very familiar with that. Anyone who takes something that doesn't work, and then wants others to repeat that kind of insanity must be a very, very lonely person.
You don't need understanding. You need therapy!
Right about now I'll bet he's getting the feeling that he's been betrayed. Fauci said the experimental injection is a roadblock to the virus when he knew that it wasn't since even the manufacturer knew better than to make that claim.
How does one reconcile that kind of betrayal in their mind? In this case, there is no reconciliation. The poster responds to liars by continually pushing the same lie; he chooses fantasy over reality.
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PART THIRTEEN
Attractions, Origins and Projection
The propensity to believe in conspiracy theories is strongly associated with the mental health disorder of schizotypy. [schizotypy - a continuum of personality disorders, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to extreme states of mind related to psychosis, especially schizophrenia]
For conspiracy theorists, the masses are a brainwashed herd, while the conspiracy theorists in the know can congratulate themselves on penetrating the plotters' deceptions.
Conspiracy theories are often presented as special, secret knowledge unknown or unappreciated by others.
Conspiracy theory rhetoric exploits several important cognitive biases, including proportionality bias, attribution bias, and confirmation bias.
The arguments often take the form of asking reasonable questions, but without providing an answer based on strong evidence.
The typical approach of conspiracy theories is to challenge any action or statement from authorities, using even the most tenuous justifications.
Responses are then assessed using a double standard, where failing to provide an immediate response to the satisfaction of the conspiracy theorist will be claimed to prove a conspiracy.
Any minor errors in the response are heavily emphasised, while deficiencies in the arguments of other proponents are generally excused.
Claridge, G. Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health. Oxford University Press
Douglas, Karen M.; Sutton, Robbie M.; Cichocka, Aleksandra (7 December 2017). ''The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories''
Attractions, Origins and Projection
The propensity to believe in conspiracy theories is strongly associated with the mental health disorder of schizotypy. [schizotypy - a continuum of personality disorders, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to extreme states of mind related to psychosis, especially schizophrenia]
For conspiracy theorists, the masses are a brainwashed herd, while the conspiracy theorists in the know can congratulate themselves on penetrating the plotters' deceptions.
Conspiracy theories are often presented as special, secret knowledge unknown or unappreciated by others.
Conspiracy theory rhetoric exploits several important cognitive biases, including proportionality bias, attribution bias, and confirmation bias.
The arguments often take the form of asking reasonable questions, but without providing an answer based on strong evidence.
The typical approach of conspiracy theories is to challenge any action or statement from authorities, using even the most tenuous justifications.
Responses are then assessed using a double standard, where failing to provide an immediate response to the satisfaction of the conspiracy theorist will be claimed to prove a conspiracy.
Any minor errors in the response are heavily emphasised, while deficiencies in the arguments of other proponents are generally excused.
Claridge, G. Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health. Oxford University Press
Douglas, Karen M.; Sutton, Robbie M.; Cichocka, Aleksandra (7 December 2017). ''The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories''
Cognitive dissonance demonstration imminent!
Wait for it . . .
THERE it is!!
Now, what is it that happened in your life that has caused you to take an experimental injection even though you know it doesn't prevent infection or transmission.
You're obsessing over conspiracy theories in order to avoid coming to terms with the fact that the experimental injection you took doesn't do what you were told it does. Your obsession is so strong that you continue to believe that others should also take what didn't work for you.
Wait for it . . .
THERE it is!!
Now, what is it that happened in your life that has caused you to take an experimental injection even though you know it doesn't prevent infection or transmission.
You're obsessing over conspiracy theories in order to avoid coming to terms with the fact that the experimental injection you took doesn't do what you were told it does. Your obsession is so strong that you continue to believe that others should also take what didn't work for you.
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PART FOURTEEN
(A) - Who and Why?
Conspiracy theorists tend to be paranoid, they lack basic education qualifications, are inherently angry, suspicious, untrusting, with a deep need to feel special, and a view that regards the world as an inherently dangerous place.
They believe that powers held by heads of state or governments are second to that of small unknown secretive groups who really control world politics and that groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public and at the most dangerous level they believe that these same scientists are willing to murder and kill millions of people across the world for any number of conspiracy reasons.
People gravitate toward conspiracy theories that affirm/validate their political view. They feel special believing they know information that only they have worked out and that they are 'awake'.
There are habitual conspiracists who entertain a variety of generic conspiracies. Once they fall into the rabbit hole, the trap of these multiple conspiracies are ready and waiting to be absorbed by their willingness to 'be special' and 'woke'.
(A) - Who and Why?
Conspiracy theorists tend to be paranoid, they lack basic education qualifications, are inherently angry, suspicious, untrusting, with a deep need to feel special, and a view that regards the world as an inherently dangerous place.
They believe that powers held by heads of state or governments are second to that of small unknown secretive groups who really control world politics and that groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public and at the most dangerous level they believe that these same scientists are willing to murder and kill millions of people across the world for any number of conspiracy reasons.
People gravitate toward conspiracy theories that affirm/validate their political view. They feel special believing they know information that only they have worked out and that they are 'awake'.
There are habitual conspiracists who entertain a variety of generic conspiracies. Once they fall into the rabbit hole, the trap of these multiple conspiracies are ready and waiting to be absorbed by their willingness to 'be special' and 'woke'.
Well it turns out we know that you can't tell us why you want others to take what doesn't work for you. No offense, but even conspiracy theorists aren't that silly.
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The donkey told the tiger: The grass is blue.
The tiger replied: No, the grass is green.
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.
Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"
The lion replied: "True, the grass is blue".
The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him".
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence".
The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue"..
The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"
The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green".
The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?"
The lion replied:
That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that to come and bother me with that question
The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense... There are people who for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand, and others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.
When ignorance screams, intelligence shuts up. Your peace and tranquility are worth more.
The tiger replied: No, the grass is green.
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.
Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"
The lion replied: "True, the grass is blue".
The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him".
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence".
The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue"..
The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"
The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green".
The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?"
The lion replied:
That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that to come and bother me with that question
The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense... There are people who for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand, and others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.
When ignorance screams, intelligence shuts up. Your peace and tranquility are worth more.
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Are we all aliens? Is the sky green and the grass blue? This makes no sense