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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:39 am Post subject: |
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A final characteristic of the paranoid style is related to the quality of its pedantry. One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.
Respectable paranoid literature not only starts from certain moral commitments that can indeed be justified but also carefully and all but obsessively accumulates :evidence.� The difference between this �evidence� and that commonly employed by others is that it seems less a means of entering into normal political controversy than a means of warding off the profane intrusion of the secular political world. The paranoid seems to have little expectation of actually convincing a hostile world, but he can accumulate evidence in order to protect his cherished convictions from it. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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You've just described the official government version"conspiracy theory" of 911 to a T.
Bravo. |
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Theme
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Study: the Inner Worlds of Conspiracy Believers |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
I personally strongly believe in and support the discussion of conspiracy theories and theorists because they are intended to be a misallocation of effort and an attempt to create learned helplessness in a democratic society. When people are induced to believe that 911 was a gigantic government conspiracy, that the moon landings were a hoax intended to fool the public, and that Kennedy was assassinated by a government plot, they come to believe that they live in a world where they have no control over the levers of power in their government, their economy, and their civilization. When that happens, they simply withdraw. From participation in their society and their polity. |
It is a fact that the final shot blew Kennedy's brains onto the Secret Service follow up car ( of which none of the agents moved to protect the president) and Dallas Police Department motorcycle riders BEHIND Kennedy. That confirms one of the shots came from the front. It is also known that Kennedy was hit from above and behind.
This took at least two shooters; therefore it was a conspiracy, the scope of which may never be determined, but a conspiracy nevertheless.
However, the use of describing the Kennedy Assassination as a non-conspiracy in an attempt to refute private research in matters of controversy or so called �conspiracy theories� is so reprehensible that it should render wholly illegitimate any text or narrative in which it is contained.
It is also insulting to those who understand and are willing to admit to themselves what happened that day.
Your continued harping about all of "us" being mentally ill is more than insulting and I am beginning to wonder about your mental health. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Gord! Is that you?  |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: Study: the Inner Worlds of Conspiracy Believers |
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| Theme wrote: |
| Your continued harping about all of "us" being mentally ill is more than insulting and I am beginning to wonder about your mental health. |
I have had such thoughts also, but ironically, projection can often be a healthy psychological defense mechanism. |
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