It's so ironic that people who buy the official bullshit on everything think they're "critical thinkers." You've never had an original thought in your life.
Classic Professor Karen Swallow Prior, bringing Pride and Prejudice into a conversation about conspiracy theories. ❤😆 Great video, thanks for being a sensible voice in scary times. ❤️
You're lucky. I wish I was raised to question more. I was taught to not believe everything I see and think for myself but those people today just believe what they're told and think I'm nuts.
@josh. What world are you referring too? Alot of people think lying will go well with them. If you're being honest, could you describe what world of conspiracies you grew up in?
@ what that person is getting at is we lose credibility as Christians when we believe old wives tales. People in the world suspect the Bible is “fairy tales”. We give strength to this when we believe and spread conspiracy theories.
Unbelievable that people were a whole lot smarter when we only had three TV news channels. Now, that we literally have all the information in the world in our hand via small computers( smartphones) we actually became stupider. Just seeking information, true or not, that just fits our worldview.
These kinds of people - this clueless, arrogant woman and the people in the comments smugly patting themselves on the back - will never get it. They believe whatever authority figures tell them to believe, and will never question it.
Great video. It felt like an epiphany when you brought everything together to say having a strong, healthy, and free imagination is key. That will definitely help me communicatebetter moving forward.
Thank you for this video. Sadly, I am surrounded by a lot of "Christians" who believe in these conspiracy theories and spread them around as "truth." I never considered that lack of imagination helps to fuel the spread. As someone with a very active imagination, I never really believed in conspiracy theories until, for various reasons, I had quit thinking for myself and just believed those around me. Thankfully, I am out of that now and have learned to think for myself, but my loved ones are still somewhat enmeshed in those beliefs. It is just sad that these theories have caused such divisions among us.
Excellent video! Interesting how critical thinking and imagination are so closely linked. Next time you are faced with a problem that you cannot solve , stop and use your imagination to picture what a solution would look like. You may be surprised at how that imagining can help!
A friend of mine sent me a video and asked for my opinion because she felt I read my Bible and might give an honest opinion. I told her that anything that causes you to fear or hate another person wasn’t from God because God does not give us the spirit of fear but of peace and hope and a sound mind. She listened. But it didn’t change her conspiracy mind. She is one of my best friend. We can no longer talk politics. The last time I visited her I told her how I felt about praying for Gods will and then calling God a liar. She screamed Noooo!! Screamed it. I knew then she was in the grip of something I couldn’t rescue her from. 😢
@scottrennie6896 she was watching false prophets. Spewing hate and fear. She sent me a link. I watched and gave her my opinion on those who wish to frighten you into believing them. Fear of God is from God. And it’s more awe than fear. Fear of man is from man. And man is corrupt. I shared 2 Timothy 1:7
@scottrennie6896 And hate that which is evil pertains to self. We are still called to love and pray for others. Feed and cloth. Orphans, widows. Neighbors. If we don’t exhibit the love of Christ to our enemy ( those who engage in behavior we hate for ourselves) we may hear those words. Depart from me. I know you not. That’s what fear of God leads to.
We hosted a conspiracy theory costume party. Greatest idea and greatest party ever by far. People dressed up as their favorite conspiracy theory. Absolutely incredible
I agree that this is a major issue in the church. BUT.... A major issue left unaddressed here is that in 2021, many things deemed "conspiracy theories", which those surveyed pastors were likely referring to, turned out to actually be correct... This includes a specific example you noted in this video, "government officials covering up the origins of COVID". You'd be hard pressed to make this claim in an honest manner with the information we now have available to us. Your encouragement to cultivating humility should also include a recognition of one's own personal errors in claims as to what you have written off as conspiracy theory when found to be incorrect. Thanks!
The mainstream view can and will be wrong. But that is hardly a reason to believe make believe. It is however a reason to think about everything. But believing conspiracy theories is not the same as thinking about everything and giving it the consideration it is due. Questioning is good. But believing without evidence or even in spite of evidence is not good.
Which government officials covered up the origins of COVID? What new information do we have? There is still uncertainty, but currently it looks like more experts lean against the lab leak theory. (I don't really care which it is). And even if someone ends up being right when going against the consensus, it doesn't mean that their claim was initially sufficiently supported by the data. I don't have enough personal expertise to make a judgement on the origins of COVID-19. And which coverup conspiracy are we even discussing? I'm sure there are theories out there that the virus was engineered as a bioweapon.
@@shadowxaf "Crucial initial efforts were hampered by bureaucrats in Wuhan trying to avoid blame who misled the central government; the central government, which muzzled Chinese scientists and subjected visiting WHO officials to stage-managed tours; and the U.N. health agency itself, which may have compromised early opportunities to gather critical information in hopes that by placating China, scientists could gain more access, according to internal materials obtained by AP... But different leaders of both China and WHO, China’s quest for control of its researchers, and global tensions have all led to silence when it comes to searching for COVID-19’s origins. Governments in Asia are pressuring scientists not to look for the virus for fear it could be traced inside their borders... Most of the WHO delegation was not allowed to go to Wuhan, which was under lockdown. The few who did learned little. They again had no access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the wildlife market and obtained only scant details about China CDC efforts to trace the coronavirus there." -AP, "Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous", April 22, 2024
@@shadowxaf My responses seem to be getting deleted. Let's try this: "The hunt for the origins of C19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country." - AP, "Toxic: How the search for the origins of C19 turned politically poisonous", April 2024
@@shadowxaf I keep responding and my response keeps getting deleted. Go read the April 2024 AP article titled "Toxic: How the search for the origins of C19 turned politically poisonous". If you question whether or not government officials are covering up the origins after that, I don't know what to tell you.
Thanks for another great video product. I love the insights you all are sharing & the critical thinking you all are inspiring through this platform & method. Keep it up! :-)
Thank you for this timely release. More than "imagination" needed to sort through media manipulation; this is far too loose and subjective a prescription. Children in school as well as all adults should study the tactics of propaganda and practice critical reading & thinking. Also, Americans are very easily subject to conspiracy theories; why is that? There are historical and sociological aspects to understand. Here's what Google AI tells me when I search for "what are propaganda tactics?": Propaganda is a set of strategies that use psychological tactics to influence perception and appeal to emotions. Some common tools of propaganda include: Emotional appeals Propaganda uses emotional appeals to create strong emotional reactions that prompt the viewer to act without logic. Glittering generalities Propaganda uses phrases that appeal to emotions like love of country, desire for peace, and freedom. These phrases ask for approval without examining the reason. Name-calling Propaganda uses derogatory terms to describe an opponent or enemy. Bandwagon Propaganda uses the desire to be part of a popular movement or the majority to persuade people to adopt certain behaviors, beliefs, or products. Defining the enemy Propaganda dehumanizes the enemy by showing them as monsters or caricatures with exaggerated physical features. This helps form and maintain public opinion. Propaganda can be transmitted through many different media, including: news reports, government reports, historical revision, junk science, books, leaflets, movies, radio, television, and posters.
This video would be better if you gave your take on why people believe them, without blanket labeling them “deceptions” (0:13). You list some conspiracies which have proven true, and there are many others that could be listed (e.g. Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Paperclip, the Tuskeegee experiments, etc. etc.). Also, you claim that conspiracy theories often result from a lack of imagination, but ironically, most conspiracy theories which I’ve seen gain real popularity in recent years have resulted from the growing recognition that media lies on a regular basis (e.g. when the BBC interview was interrupted by victims of a “gas attack”, who turned out to be actors). So in a sense, it is the fact that people have started to question the accepted “stories” and actually started to think for themselves which has provided much of the impetus for the rise of conspiracies. This video could just as easily have been a criticism of those who trust the narrative stories spun by the media, and a warning against media’s “deceptions.” As for the harm which often results from fixating on conspiracies (which I acknowledge as a person who has himself suffered from such fixation), the Bible provides the answer: “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy. He is the one you are to fear; He is the one you are to dread” (Isaiah 8:12-13; see also Matt 10:28). Christians can suffer from conspiracy fixation just like unbelievers if their focus is not on God. The solution is to put conspiracies into perspective by having an eternal, Biblical perspective. Satan is behind all genuine evil conspiracies in the world (1 John 5:19), but “God’s kingdom rules over all” (Ps 103:19).
Thank you for the great video. I would like to show this to christian friends who believe in conspiracy theories, but they usually believe anything remotley against their beliefs is "of the world". I think for this reason, the video would benefit from using more scripture. This would let my friends know that God wants for us to not act out of fear. Would that be possible in future videos?
Secrets: Back in the 1970s, my then girlfriend somewhat mistakingly gave me the solution for "Wisconsin Sleeper" a tale of consequences running around the college environment at the time.
I am once again asking The Holy Post to please stop using AI-generated art. Surely, the ethical problems with AI imagery are known by those of you who are, yourselves, known artists.
The 'cure' is an imagination that can see the wide variety of possible explanations; humility is understanding that we don't know enough to be certain about any one of those explanations - especially about the ones that we have no real evidence for; and intelligence is adapting our view of things even completely changing our minds when presented with the much more reliable and likely possibilities (especially ones proven beyond reasonable doubt)
I think she's referring to how most conspiracy theories only have one explanation for their reasoning and don't allow for other explanations. Or it could also be that she's referring to how widely they get accepted without pushback.
@@bobbobberson5627 I look at the evidence, The evidence pretty much disproves any and all conspiracy theories until that evidence says otherwise. Conspiracy theories rely on secrets. The problem with secrets is that there is always more than one person who knows that secret but does not tell to certain individuals. Want to talk about 9/11 conspiracy theories, or the Jewish conspiracy theories, which is anti anti-Semitic, and so forth. Fine. You will find out that those conspiracy theories don't hold water to the evidence out there.
Qanon is basically political Gnosticism. Dr Michael Brown has done some good videos on this. Yes he’s more on the political right, but he can be spot on when it comes to the most extreme elements of Trumpism.
Would you able to explain in a nutshell what Qanon is ?? It doesn't make sense to comment on something if you don't know what it even is. If you wouldn't mind for the rest of us - please summarize what Qanon is
@@gmen7131Qanon is a movement promoting conspiracy theories which often originate online an anonymous source known as Q. Often these conspiracies will be in favour of Donald Trump and against his opponents, whether that’s liberals or non-MAGA Republicans. These conspiracies usually lack any academic validity and are hard to substantiate.
I have friends that believe conspiracies. Same people will say stuff in front of me that is not so much a conspiracy as just a bald-faced lie they are repeating. Easily proven wrong. I don't know what's more baffling... That my friends believe lies or that they apparently think I'm so stupid that I'll believe it too. The level of self-unareness is beyond my comprehension.
Most people, whether they are conspiracy believers or not, lack awareness of why they believe certain things. But generally, conspiracy theorists at least have arguments in favor of their theories. Those who reject conspiracies out-of-hand typically do so based on the fact that "everyone knows" the truth. Yet they themselves are unaware that they are simply following the herd.
@@danielfitzpatrick4873 The question is not about evidence. "Evidence" can be is one sided just like a supposed consensus in "trust the science". Critical thinking which is discouraged in public education is exceeding important. The following proverb could never have been more true "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge."
@@gmen7131 If the provided evidence is wrong or insufficient, then there should be a way to overturn it with better evidence. But this comment reads as, "I want my unsubstantiated claim to be correct, so I will stick to it regardless of the evidence."
I can see you have no idea of what the hell you are talking about. A lot of conspiracy theories have been proven right, but when you have a corrupt government running things no wonder many won't be brought to justice. Child trafficking does exist like so many other theories. Why don't you stupid ass do some research, because it's clear you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
One of the primary reasons people are so prone to believe conspiracies is because so many of them prove to be true. Do some research on proven conspiracies if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Pretty sure we went to the moon, climate change is real, the earth isnt flat, no one is committing genocide or replacement of white people, George Soros doesnt have infinite money, 2020 election wasn’t stolen, school shootings are not caused by crisis actors, & vaccines work and are healthy
@@suemajor6051MKULTRA, for example. That said, it’s needles in haystacks and many of the conspiracy theories (flat earth the most obvious) aren’t even plausible. There’s a great video I ran across from a metalworker debunking the “jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel” argument by showing quite clearly that metal softens long before it melts.
How about scripture, tradition and common sense !! Analysis was good but using ‘imagination’ to counter conspiracy theories is a VERY WEAK approach. And she used the word multiple times it wasn’t just a slip up.
I was confused by what she meant by using a healthy imagination to combat conspiracy theories too. I think if I read her book it would make more sense. I think she means get beyond the usual western/cultural norm of what we think of when we think of Jesus for instance (and remember he’s not a white man with blue eyes); instead maybe imagining new images and retelling biblical stories in new light that speaks to changing culture? I’m not sure but I think that’s what she’s getting at.
This is why critical thinking is so important!
True. Most people have no idea how to use the old noggin.
Absolutely. I think we should start teaching critical thinking as early as elementary school
It's so ironic that people who buy the official bullshit on everything think they're "critical thinkers." You've never had an original thought in your life.
Classic Professor Karen Swallow Prior, bringing Pride and Prejudice into a conversation about conspiracy theories. ❤😆 Great video, thanks for being a sensible voice in scary times. ❤️
I was weaned and raised in conspiracy theories. Breaking free from that world just to watch it become mainstream has been sickening.
You're lucky. I wish I was raised to question more. I was taught to not believe everything I see and think for myself but those people today just believe what they're told and think I'm nuts.
@josh. What world are you referring too? Alot of people think lying will go well with them. If you're being honest, could you describe what world of conspiracies you grew up in?
Thank you, another shit channel I can unsub from.
I’ll never forget when someone told me, “Why would the world want Christ, when His believers are spreading harmful lies?”
I wonder the same thing
Thanks for this service!
You made this conversation up.
So if we follow your reasoning we should never spread the Gospel. You are a deceiver 😢
@ what that person is getting at is we lose credibility as Christians when we believe old wives tales. People in the world suspect the Bible is “fairy tales”. We give strength to this when we believe and spread conspiracy theories.
Unbelievable that people were a whole lot smarter when we only had three TV news channels. Now, that we literally have all the information in the world in our hand via small computers( smartphones) we actually became stupider. Just seeking information, true or not, that just fits our worldview.
This is great! Thanks HP and Karen!
Zero mention of the term being used as a way to discredit dissenting opinions.
The pejorative “conspiracy theorist” was a term first used by the CIA.
These kinds of people - this clueless, arrogant woman and the people in the comments smugly patting themselves on the back - will never get it. They believe whatever authority figures tell them to believe, and will never question it.
Great video. It felt like an epiphany when you brought everything together to say having a strong, healthy, and free imagination is key.
That will definitely help me communicatebetter moving forward.
Thank you for this video. Sadly, I am surrounded by a lot of "Christians" who believe in these conspiracy theories and spread them around as "truth." I never considered that lack of imagination helps to fuel the spread. As someone with a very active imagination, I never really believed in conspiracy theories until, for various reasons, I had quit thinking for myself and just believed those around me. Thankfully, I am out of that now and have learned to think for myself, but my loved ones are still somewhat enmeshed in those beliefs. It is just sad that these theories have caused such divisions among us.
Excellent video! Interesting how critical thinking and imagination are so closely linked. Next time you are faced with a problem that you cannot solve , stop and use your imagination to picture what a solution would look like. You may be surprised at how that imagining can help!
So happy to see KSP here!
A friend of mine sent me a video and asked for my opinion because she felt I read my Bible and might give an honest opinion. I told her that anything that causes you to fear or hate another person wasn’t from God because God does not give us the spirit of fear but of peace and hope and a sound mind. She listened. But it didn’t change her conspiracy mind. She is one of my best friend. We can no longer talk politics. The last time I visited her I told her how I felt about praying for Gods will and then calling God a liar. She screamed Noooo!! Screamed it. I knew then she was in the grip of something I couldn’t rescue her from. 😢
Yet we are called to hate that which is evil. Who talking about fear?
@scottrennie6896 she was watching false prophets. Spewing hate and fear. She sent me a link. I watched and gave her my opinion on those who wish to frighten you into believing them. Fear of God is from God. And it’s more awe than fear.
Fear of man is from man. And man is corrupt.
I shared 2 Timothy 1:7
@scottrennie6896
And hate that which is evil pertains to self. We are still called to love and pray for others. Feed and cloth. Orphans, widows. Neighbors. If we don’t exhibit the love of Christ to our enemy ( those who engage in behavior we hate for ourselves) we may hear those words. Depart from me. I know you not. That’s what fear of God leads to.
We hosted a conspiracy theory costume party.
Greatest idea and greatest party ever by far. People dressed up as their favorite conspiracy theory.
Absolutely incredible
I agree that this is a major issue in the church.
BUT....
A major issue left unaddressed here is that in 2021, many things deemed "conspiracy theories", which those surveyed pastors were likely referring to, turned out to actually be correct...
This includes a specific example you noted in this video, "government officials covering up the origins of COVID". You'd be hard pressed to make this claim in an honest manner with the information we now have available to us.
Your encouragement to cultivating humility should also include a recognition of one's own personal errors in claims as to what you have written off as conspiracy theory when found to be incorrect.
Thanks!
The mainstream view can and will be wrong. But that is hardly a reason to believe make believe. It is however a reason to think about everything. But believing conspiracy theories is not the same as thinking about everything and giving it the consideration it is due. Questioning is good. But believing without evidence or even in spite of evidence is not good.
Which government officials covered up the origins of COVID? What new information do we have? There is still uncertainty, but currently it looks like more experts lean against the lab leak theory. (I don't really care which it is).
And even if someone ends up being right when going against the consensus, it doesn't mean that their claim was initially sufficiently supported by the data.
I don't have enough personal expertise to make a judgement on the origins of COVID-19.
And which coverup conspiracy are we even discussing? I'm sure there are theories out there that the virus was engineered as a bioweapon.
@@shadowxaf "Crucial initial efforts were hampered by bureaucrats in Wuhan trying to avoid blame who misled the central government; the central government, which muzzled Chinese scientists and subjected visiting WHO officials to stage-managed tours; and the U.N. health agency itself, which may have compromised early opportunities to gather critical information in hopes that by placating China, scientists could gain more access, according to internal materials obtained by AP...
But different leaders of both China and WHO, China’s quest for control of its researchers, and global tensions have all led to silence when it comes to searching for COVID-19’s origins. Governments in Asia are pressuring scientists not to look for the virus for fear it could be traced inside their borders...
Most of the WHO delegation was not allowed to go to Wuhan, which was under lockdown. The few who did learned little. They again had no access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the wildlife market and obtained only scant details about China CDC efforts to trace the coronavirus there."
-AP, "Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous", April 22, 2024
@@shadowxaf My responses seem to be getting deleted. Let's try this:
"The hunt for the origins of C19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months.
The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country."
- AP, "Toxic: How the search for the origins of C19 turned politically poisonous", April 2024
@@shadowxaf I keep responding and my response keeps getting deleted.
Go read the April 2024 AP article titled "Toxic: How the search for the origins of C19 turned politically poisonous".
If you question whether or not government officials are covering up the origins after that, I don't know what to tell you.
Thanks for another great video product. I love the insights you all are sharing & the critical thinking you all are inspiring through this platform & method. Keep it up! :-)
Thank you for this timely release. More than "imagination" needed to sort through media manipulation; this is far too loose and subjective a prescription. Children in school as well as all adults should study the tactics of propaganda and practice critical reading & thinking. Also, Americans are very easily subject to conspiracy theories; why is that? There are historical and sociological aspects to understand. Here's what Google AI tells me when I search for "what are propaganda tactics?":
Propaganda is a set of strategies that use psychological tactics to influence perception and appeal to emotions. Some common tools of propaganda include:
Emotional appeals
Propaganda uses emotional appeals to create strong emotional reactions that prompt the viewer to act without logic.
Glittering generalities
Propaganda uses phrases that appeal to emotions like love of country, desire for peace, and freedom. These phrases ask for approval without examining the reason.
Name-calling
Propaganda uses derogatory terms to describe an opponent or enemy.
Bandwagon
Propaganda uses the desire to be part of a popular movement or the majority to persuade people to adopt certain behaviors, beliefs, or products.
Defining the enemy
Propaganda dehumanizes the enemy by showing them as monsters or caricatures with exaggerated physical features. This helps form and maintain public opinion.
Propaganda can be transmitted through many different media, including:
news reports, government reports, historical revision, junk science, books, leaflets, movies, radio, television, and posters.
Thank you holy post - very well done.
4:03 "Blasting their Secret everywhere" like the Tom and Jennifer Buck details that somebody leaked
This video would be better if you gave your take on why people believe them, without blanket labeling them “deceptions” (0:13). You list some conspiracies which have proven true, and there are many others that could be listed (e.g. Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Paperclip, the Tuskeegee experiments, etc. etc.).
Also, you claim that conspiracy theories often result from a lack of imagination, but ironically, most conspiracy theories which I’ve seen gain real popularity in recent years have resulted from the growing recognition that media lies on a regular basis (e.g. when the BBC interview was interrupted by victims of a “gas attack”, who turned out to be actors). So in a sense, it is the fact that people have started to question the accepted “stories” and actually started to think for themselves which has provided much of the impetus for the rise of conspiracies. This video could just as easily have been a criticism of those who trust the narrative stories spun by the media, and a warning against media’s “deceptions.”
As for the harm which often results from fixating on conspiracies (which I acknowledge as a person who has himself suffered from such fixation), the Bible provides the answer: “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy. He is the one you are to fear; He is the one you are to dread” (Isaiah 8:12-13; see also Matt 10:28).
Christians can suffer from conspiracy fixation just like unbelievers if their focus is not on God. The solution is to put conspiracies into perspective by having an eternal, Biblical perspective. Satan is behind all genuine evil conspiracies in the world (1 John 5:19), but “God’s kingdom rules over all” (Ps 103:19).
This is very good! Thanks for doing this!
And all this time I thought they were just dumb.
not the quotes around "prayer request". I fear some people have just been called out hard
AMEN! What A Word!!! God Bless You ALL at Holy Post! Thank You!!!
Thank you for the great video. I would like to show this to christian friends who believe in conspiracy theories, but they usually believe anything remotley against their beliefs is "of the world". I think for this reason, the video would benefit from using more scripture. This would let my friends know that God wants for us to not act out of fear. Would that be possible in future videos?
Secrets: Back in the 1970s, my then girlfriend somewhat mistakingly gave me the solution for "Wisconsin Sleeper" a tale of consequences running around the college environment at the time.
I am once again asking The Holy Post to please stop using AI-generated art. Surely, the ethical problems with AI imagery are known by those of you who are, yourselves, known artists.
I love AI Art, it is the future.
I'm not sure imagination is the cure - but rather the cause of conspiracy theories.
💯
can it be both?
The 'cure' is an imagination that can see the wide variety of possible explanations; humility is understanding that we don't know enough to be certain about any one of those explanations - especially about the ones that we have no real evidence for; and intelligence is adapting our view of things even completely changing our minds when presented with the much more reliable and likely possibilities (especially ones proven beyond reasonable doubt)
I think she's referring to how most conspiracy theories only have one explanation for their reasoning and don't allow for other explanations. Or it could also be that she's referring to how widely they get accepted without pushback.
I have never believed conspiracy theories, not even religious conspiracy theory.
So you just believe the official narrative always about everything.
@@bobbobberson5627 I look at the evidence, The evidence pretty much disproves any and all conspiracy theories until that evidence says otherwise. Conspiracy theories rely on secrets. The problem with secrets is that there is always more than one person who knows that secret but does not tell to certain individuals. Want to talk about 9/11 conspiracy theories, or the Jewish conspiracy theories, which is anti anti-Semitic, and so forth. Fine. You will find out that those conspiracy theories don't hold water to the evidence out there.
Great video
This lady’s second most popular tweet questions how Epstein operated w immunity since the 90s.
lol.
She's having a laugh. Probably Jesuit trained
Qanon is basically political Gnosticism. Dr Michael Brown has done some good videos on this. Yes he’s more on the political right, but he can be spot on when it comes to the most extreme elements of Trumpism.
Would you able to explain in a nutshell what Qanon is ?? It doesn't make sense to comment on something if you don't know what it even is. If you wouldn't mind for the rest of us - please summarize what Qanon is
Operation “Trust” rebranded.
@@gmen7131Qanon is a movement promoting conspiracy theories which often originate online an anonymous source known as Q. Often these conspiracies will be in favour of Donald Trump and against his opponents, whether that’s liberals or non-MAGA Republicans. These conspiracies usually lack any academic validity and are hard to substantiate.
Sounds like a conspiracy to me 🤔
I have friends that believe conspiracies. Same people will say stuff in front of me that is not so much a conspiracy as just a bald-faced lie they are repeating. Easily proven wrong. I don't know what's more baffling... That my friends believe lies or that they apparently think I'm so stupid that I'll believe it too. The level of self-unareness is beyond my comprehension.
Most people, whether they are conspiracy believers or not, lack awareness of why they believe certain things. But generally, conspiracy theorists at least have arguments in favor of their theories. Those who reject conspiracies out-of-hand typically do so based on the fact that "everyone knows" the truth. Yet they themselves are unaware that they are simply following the herd.
7:48 How ironic that those who lack imagination can come up with such outrageous claims!
Because why would the mainstream media lie to us amirite??
Maybe they do. But it's not reasonable to say that something is false solely because MSM said it. There needs to be legitimate evidence.
@@danielfitzpatrick4873 The question is not about evidence. "Evidence" can be is one sided just like a supposed consensus in "trust the science". Critical thinking which is discouraged in public education is exceeding important. The following proverb could never have been more true "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge."
Under the Smith Mundt Remodernization Act of 2012 it allows the use of propaganda (not truth) on the people.
@@gmen7131 If the provided evidence is wrong or insufficient, then there should be a way to overturn it with better evidence. But this comment reads as, "I want my unsubstantiated claim to be correct, so I will stick to it regardless of the evidence."
I can see you have no idea of what the hell you are talking about. A lot of conspiracy theories have been proven right, but when you have a corrupt government running things no wonder many won't be brought to justice. Child trafficking does exist like so many other theories. Why don't you stupid ass do some research, because it's clear you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Because almost all of them turn out to be true.
Why not list a few?
This is actually painful to listen to
Conspiracy theorists *want* to feel better than others in some way. The inner God complex
Bc of lies
One of the primary reasons people are so prone to believe conspiracies is because so many of them prove to be true. Do some research on proven conspiracies if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Pretty sure we went to the moon, climate change is real, the earth isnt flat, no one is committing genocide or replacement of white people, George Soros doesnt have infinite money, 2020 election wasn’t stolen, school shootings are not caused by crisis actors, & vaccines work and are healthy
Examples please
For example?
@@suemajor6051MKULTRA, for example.
That said, it’s needles in haystacks and many of the conspiracy theories (flat earth the most obvious) aren’t even plausible.
There’s a great video I ran across from a metalworker debunking the “jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel” argument by showing quite clearly that metal softens long before it melts.
@@Justanotherconsumer Was that one known by the public before it was exposed, though? Even though some are true, I would say 99.9% are bunk.
How about scripture, tradition and common sense !! Analysis was good but using ‘imagination’ to counter conspiracy theories is a VERY WEAK approach. And she used the word multiple times it wasn’t just a slip up.
I was confused by what she meant by using a healthy imagination to combat conspiracy theories too. I think if I read her book it would make more sense. I think she means get beyond the usual western/cultural norm of what we think of when we think of Jesus for instance (and remember he’s not a white man with blue eyes); instead maybe imagining new images and retelling biblical stories in new light that speaks to changing culture? I’m not sure but I think that’s what she’s getting at.
@@jessicasmith6155 It's a great book. I've read it twice already!
Another woman that does not have a clue of what she is talking about.