The Gullible mind

[Mr. Jones]

(NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains: How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so completely without even asking commonsense questions about the reliability or factual basis of that information?

These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.

Governments never lie
But how does this work inside their heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so.

Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violate this imaginary honor code.

The gullible mind explained

 

[rightwinger]

9-11 was an Inside Job

 

[B. Kidd]

Waterboarding does not work.

 

[G.T.]

A question to the contrary, is why do you swallow information to the contrary of anything Government says, without VETTING THAT INFORMATION, ALSO.

You're pretty gullible for conspiracy theories, it's a fact and most of your backing-evidence gets debunked for you. What does that mean? It means you're gullible and not vetting the information YOURSELF, but swallowing it like the lemming you're proclaiming everyone else to be.

Congratulations.

 

[Mr. Jones]

A question to the contrary, is why do you swallow information to the contrary of anything Government says, without VETTING THAT INFORMATION, ALSO.

You're pretty gullible for conspiracy theories, it's a fact and most of your backing-evidence gets debunked for you. What does that mean? It means you're gullible and not vetting the information YOURSELF, but swallowing it like the lemming you're proclaiming everyone else to be.

Congratulations.

All one has to do is look at the source this "official" information comes from, and they will see that they are known, proven liars with a vast history of lying to the American People. That's why I don't immediately believe a damn thing that comes from them or their controlled media.
As far as debunking anything, dream on. I have posted substantial proof that the public has reasonable doubt about the governments version of events for a long time now, and comes from credible sources, unlike most of you OCTA people who have to appeal to an authority that constantly gets caught lying.
How do you like the "official" new videos of the person who they say is OBL, but looks nothing like him? I mean how ridiculous do they have to make you look, before you wake the hell up?

 

[Contumacious]

(NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources.

"Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

–Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

All one has to do is look at the source this "official" information comes from, and they will see that they are known, proven liars with a vast history of lying to the American People. That's why I don't immediately believe a damn thing that comes from them or their controlled media.

In which case you an others of your ilk will have no problem documenting that proof.

Yet that documentation is never forthcoming.

 

[dilloduck]

I try to document the truth all the time but THEY delete and censor it. Bastards !
Just trust me----our heads are being filled with shit.

 

[Toro]

But there's a big problem with Loose Change and with most other conspiracy theories. The more you think about them, the more you realize how much they depend on circumstantial evidence, facts without analysis or documentation, quotes taken out of context and the scattered testimony of traumatized eyewitnesses. (For what it's worth, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a fact sheet responding to some of the conspiracy theorists' ideas on its website, National Institute of Standards and Technology. The theories prompt small, reasonable questions that demand answers that are just too large and unreasonable to swallow. Granted, the Pentagon crash site looks odd in photographs. But if the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile, then what happened to American Airlines Flight 77? Where did all the real, documented people on it go? Assassinated? Relocated? What about eyewitnesses who saw a plane, not a missile? And what are the chances that an operation of such size--it would surely have involved hundreds of military and civilian personnel--could be carried out without a single leak? Without leaving behind a single piece of evidence hard enough to stand up to scrutiny in a court? People, the feds just aren't that slick. Nobody is.

There are psychological explanations for why conspiracy theories are so seductive. Academics who study them argue that they meet a basic human need: to have the magnitude of any given effect be balanced by the magnitude of the cause behind it. A world in which tiny causes can have huge consequences feels scary and unreliable. Therefore a grand disaster like Sept. 11 needs a grand conspiracy behind it. "We tend to associate major events--a President or princess dying--with major causes," says Patrick Leman, a lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, who has conducted studies on conspiracy belief. "If we think big events like a President being assassinated can happen at the hands of a minor individual, that points to the unpredictability and randomness of life and unsettles us." In that sense, the idea that there is a malevolent controlling force orchestrating global events is, in a perverse way, comforting.

You would have thought the age of conspiracy theories might have declined with the rise of digital media. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a private, intimate affair compared with the attack on the World Trade Center, which was witnessed by millions of bystanders and television viewers and documented by hundreds of Zapruders. You would think there was enough footage and enough forensics to get us past the grassy knoll and the magic bullet, to create a consensus reality, a single version of the truth, a single world we can all live in together.

But there is no event so plain and clear that a determined human being can't find ambiguity in it. And as divisive as they are, conspiracy theories are part of the process by which Americans deal with traumatic public events like Sept. 11. Conspiracy theories form around them like scar tissue. In a curious way, they're an American form of national mourning. They'll be with us as long as we fear lone gunmen, and feel the pain of losses like the one we suffered on Sept. 11, and as long as the past, even the immediate past, is ultimately unknowable. That is to say, forever.

Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away -- Printout -- TIME

 

[Contumacious]

(NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources.

"Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

–Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)

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[American_Jihad]

 

[CausingPAIN]

A question to the contrary, is why do you swallow information to the contrary of anything Government says, without VETTING THAT INFORMATION, ALSO.

You're pretty gullible for conspiracy theories, it's a fact and most of your backing-evidence gets debunked for you. What does that mean? It means you're gullible and not vetting the information YOURSELF, but swallowing it like the lemming you're proclaiming everyone else to be.

Congratulations.

ahahah

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