ABC News: Tornadoes Caused by Military? Recent Events Fuel Conspiracy Theories

[EvilMonsanto]

Run time: 03:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH7UuQZs5x0   Posted on YouTube: June 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: Sheilaaliens Views on YouTube: 2114   Posted on DU: June 03, 2011 By DU Member: EvilMonsanto Views on DU: 2032

 
Interesting to see what type of PHD backrounds some of these conspiracy theorists have

[Poll_Blind]

1. Creativity and intelligence have a lot to do with pattern-matching and pattern-finding. However...

...the same processes which enable us to be creative and "intelligent" in those ways, when cranked up past a reasonable level, become the basis for some common psychological disorders which our society deals with. It's why people like John Forbes Nash (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame) can have incredible insight into difficult concepts like game theory or differential geometry but who can also cross over into dementia as well, seeing cabals everywhere.

That is not meant to inflect on this particular topic one way or the other.

PB

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2. Kurt Gödel, father of the Incompleteness Theorem, went on to believe

wholeheartedly that his refrigerator was talking to him.

He had no interest in meteorology.

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[2banon]

6. But you're not factoring in reason (or rational) as subjective or subject to manipulation.

a frame of reference in terms of working knowledge or experience differs from individual to individual. Similar to the concept of what is considered as being Normal. General parameters as to what defines normal and reasonable thought is in part determined by Civil Society, but it is also determined by the State vis a vis the Media and other means, but ultimately controlled by the State for the purpose of maintaining power and control. An old adage, but true nonetheless. Any deviation from what the State has determined the parameters of what truths should be reported, well then watch out. Their henchmen vis a vis the M$M, or Internet Sock puppets will have a field day destroying or discrediting you and these deviant thoughts. generally referred to as Irrationa, Unreasonable, or simply Loony.

And if you're an activist or elected official that has the adacity to expose corruption, expect to be targeted.


By the way, I found this clip to be quite typical M$M bs, but I'm struck at the dishonesty of the title and wonder why it was posted?

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[teknomanzer]

14. Not dementia, you mean schizophrenia...

Dementia is degenerative and associated with old age.

[pscot]

3. Works for me

The only way to stop them is to cut the War Department's budget.

[EC]

4. They've been reading too much

Michael Crichton.



I'll bet that there are repub Senators and Reps that really believe "State of Fear" .

[AsahinaKimi]

7. I loved Michael Crichton ..

I read most of his books. One that comes to mind in this vein was Airframe. I also loved Congo, and my favorite being Jurassic Park. Sphere, Eaters of the Dead, Rising Sun were enjoyable also. Disclosure, Timeline, and I heard he had a hand in writing the movie "Twister". He will always be one of my favorites, and who can't forget The Andromeda Strain! The man was brilliant!

[AlbertCat]

10. who can't forget The Andromeda Strain!

True... everyone has forgotten it.


I think you mean, "who CAN forget ...."

It was a great book. You almost wondered if the place was real. But that was the early 70's and he was in his 20's.

He steadily went down hill. I thought "Jurassic Park" was tailor made for a Spielberg Screenplay.... before it was a novel.

"Twister"? Yuk!

Eaters of the Dead was great, wasn't it? My fave... but written BEFORE Andromeda! The illustrations by Ian Miller for it were amazing... if you can find that edition. He also wrote thrillers under the name John Lange. Try reading "Binary"

[spooked911]

8. hmm, conspiracy theorists are highly educated, smart people, some college professors

who know their topics extremely well, down to minute details...

yet, THEY ARE STILL FREAKING RAVING LOONIES!!!

Oh, yeah, nothing the media loves more than some good old conspiracy theory bashing.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. More complex than that. I recommend :Abducted, how people come to believe they've been abducted by a

liens by Susan Clancy.

Some certainly are, but there are ways in which people come to believe strange things, without evidence, and without necessarily being crazy. A lot of the book is based on harvard research, on how memory works, and how we process information. Confirmation bias, etc.

It didn't delve into conspiracy theories outside UFO's, but it covers material that is recyclable from one topic on how people delude themselves into believing X and by what mechanism it is done.

http://www.amazon.com/Abducted-People-Believe-Kidnapped-Aliens/dp/067402401X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307110613&sr=8-1

[spooked911]

12. thanks I will check that out

one problem in my view, as a conspiracy theorist myself, is that many things in our world just don't make sense, or are just too coincidental, in the absence of some sort of conspiracy.

[aquart]

13. Sad. They're still hoping we are somehow still in control.

[Overseas]

15. When you've been propagandized to ignore scientific evidence on climatic destabilization

you've got to stretch to make sense of it all.

If you don't want to believe 99.9% of scientists on global climate change then you really have to be inventive.

[watajob]

16. The most amazing thing here..

... is ABC treats this like real news?!