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Originally Posted by mr dave
all the people who've ever talked to me about stuff like this have all shared one common trait... a complete inability to believe any of their theories without having someone else patting them on the head and telling them they're 'right' like it somehow matters. if they truly believed what they said, why would they need to propagate discussion with others?
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That's very vague to say, 'stuff like this,' stuff like what? Quantum Physics, Conspiracy Theories, what?
You're prepared to make a complete generalization about every person who has a conspiracy theory, and not hear them out.
Dave, we are a very intelligent people, and just because we are more advanced now than at any previous time, doesn't mean we are in a Utopian society. Should Copernicus have stayed silent about the sun being the center of our solar system, and begrudgingly accepted the fixed Earth theory. I'm not saying I'm Copernicus, or any one of the thousands of other people who have written about what I'm mentioning.
So, give me a pat on the head, and I'll be sure to look up every source on this matter that I've read from, and even those I haven't yet heard from, and pat them on the head, too. This is far from an original idea. Empiricism has it's place in science but, honestly, I don't understand the people who go around shunning every conspiracy theory, before they even hear what it is.
Some people read the facts and make their mind up from there. Some will say, 'Oh, here we go, another conspiracy theory,' and completely ignore it. That's fine. However, some people blindly attack the conspiracy theory, and actually spend more time arguing against it than they did learning about it in the first place. This makes no sense to me.
Please, Mr. Dave be objective, but when you dismiss some idea just because it doesn't quite fit into your view of the world so far, it comes across as very elitist, like, 'we already know everything in the universe, why is this character thinking outside the lines of what we already know to be true?'