Why Do So Many People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- The internet is full of all sorts of wild claims about shadow governments, lizard people, and the shape of the earth. How can these stories inspire tin foil hats despite hard evidence against them?
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I like reading conspiracy theories like I like reading fan fiction. The better the story the more enjoyable. But like fan fiction I don't take them as fact.
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I do like to read conspiracy theories as fiction.
@@alghifary67 so you all believe whatever government tells you is true
@卐Children of the Rainbow 卐 well I do believe that powerful people are able to conspire, but I would never believe 100% the conspiracy theorists. I'll doubt both of them, but will prefer one side depends on how I conclude the "fact".
@卐Children of the Rainbow 卐 you have to apply logic to any situation which is where conspiracists fall short and project their own narrative to feel satisfied.
I was going to say "Because they're fun".
But then I realized some people genuinely believed it.
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One thing I've noticed about conspiracy theories is that they usually allow the theorists to feel like they're "better" than everyone else because they know the "truth" that most people are "too stupid" to understand. I wonder if people with low self-esteem or self-compassion are especially drawn to conspiracy theories? I could see it being a(n unhealthy) coping mechanism.
Well, I'd say that it's definitely common among Dunning-Kruger cases...
Also perhaps factoring into this is that unintelligent or unskilled people tend to over-evaluate their own intelligence or skill compared to someone who is actually intelligent (who tend to underestimate it) because they don't know how much they don't know, so to speak. Many of these theorists aren't--or at least don't come across as--the most intelligent of people.
Dunno dude, I have very low self-esteem and never figured that anyone was out to get me, just that silly stuff can make me upset. Feeling less than others sucks and knowing that even when you think you have under control something is going to come along and make you feel bad all over again. Today I'm okay, my coping mechanism is just not talking.
Yes, there have been studies showing such correlations. Furthermore, just look at Trump and his supporters. They not just believe that they are smarter, but they also believe in very illogical theories like the conspiracy where China is trying to make Americans believe that global warming is real to make US manufacturing uncompetitive.
Robert Baillargeon this is very much possible...
Shame we all now know hank is paid personally by the alien overlords and he has chosen his reptile brethren over humanity
Jeff Peng
What color are reptiles? Green. What's Hanks' last name? Green. What color is American money? Green.
What does this all mean? Eat your green vegetables.
It pleases our alien overlords.
Jeff Peng You should consider joining us. Once you are chipped life becomes so much nore relaxed.
Jeff Peng Yep
Jeff Peng *AYY LMAO*
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords.
I think covert narcissism might explain some conspiracy theorists. Specifically, the "other people just don't understand me" and "i'm different/smarter/better than everybody else" parts of covert narcissism.
I might just think that because I grew up with someone who was both.
Well aren't you the cutest little internet psychologist. Making assumptions and giving diagnosis based on two sentences from someone you've never met.
Local is a very good example of the Dunning/Kruger effect.
Here's my question. Is it a possibly that people keep pushing conspiracies because even if they spoke about one, or shared it on social media, and then subsequently realized that it was untrue, they won't make any corrections because of typical human nature, and not wanting to admit that we are wrong? I always wondered about this.
Ego and Trolling enters in to it sure
I think it's more likely that people who've been emotionally (and publicly) invested in a certain conspiracy theory for a while develop a defense mechanism that makes it impossible for them to realize they're wrong, no matter the counter-evidence.
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I would bet an equally large factor is loneliness
That would make sense. You can gather quiet quickly a large community around you 🤔
This especially applies to 2020.
Yes, loneliness have always fostered either deep, very deep, wisdom - or madness. Conspiracies have always existed if we care study the past. So what I see as key is to humbly and wisely help each other discern which is true conspiracies and which is not.
My dad believes in so many conspiracy theories from microchip to the end of times. He’s an engineer but wtf he thinks like a televangelist. 🤮
And narcissism
I am tired of conspiracy theories for one reason. People never shut up about them! Once they believe it, they will go on and on and on and on about it.
They make their whole personality that, it's sad if they weren't this annoying
One of my favorite sayings that I think fits here...
"If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
~Carl Sagan
Huge Sagan fan.
Thank you. I didn't know he said this.
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you
I was right. I'd thought to look for this before writing it myself ;-)
Fair point. Let’s be honest, the Final Solution probably would have sounded like one to the people in Germany at the time
Actually, that might be another reason we’re so paranoid. Granted, even in the 19th century, there were conspiracy theories of what I can only refer to as the ijewminati, but after the hell that was the 40s, governments hiding dirty secrets from their people was something that clearly happened once, so who was to say it wasn’t happening now?
Granted, I’m not saying the theorists are right, I’m just saying that it was quite possibly a sufficiently large blow to government credibility (not even a specific government or form of it, but groups of people working together at all) that some people effectively gave up on the idea of people being able to do good. Because when you think about it, a lot of theories have an unsaid premise that no one has spilled the beans, and that implies that people are okay with holding such a hideous secret.
Where the frick am I going with this? Even I don’t know
spindash64 i find adopting a philosophy of nihilism makes the whole thing much less troublesome lol
It's only "paranoia" if you're wrong.
Your profile pic makes this comment so much better
I personally think that conspiracy theory urges come also from how we are taught historical facts. Presenting us heroes as kids and good versus bad stories but growing up discovering all the levels, shades and true causes of certain conflicts or even agreements might influence us into finding a darker more twisted explication to a current event....
No matter how much you try to get a straight answer with straight forward questions about their findings, you can never get a straight answer. And they actually get deeper into the belief and start to think you have something to do with it. It’s annoying as hell.
5:49 Hank Green illuminati confirmed
Nice catch!
At least someone else spotted it!
What was it?
Ohhh
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It could also be that there are patterns in what seem to be random, and that there is no such thing as "illusory pattern perception." It could be that people are more sensitive to patterns, and see them when other people don't.
Kyle for real tho!
It's an interesting thought. I once had a professor who made the argument that humans are a pattern species.
The thing is that randomness can objectively be established, it is a mathematical phenomenon.
Can we take a second to point out the back of Hank's shirt collar was turned up the ENTIRE time?
I feel better now.
it's been turned up in most of his videos.
This means something. he's DEFINITELY trying to send us a message without THEM finding out!
It's a signal!
I was hoping I wasn't the only one to notice!
This is just what you want us to believe...
All very interesting - I think they missed something.
It is related to wanting to know - but basically make them feel like they are "aware", and are rebels or heroes for challenging some authority or establishment caused by some insecurity in a lack of understanding or control.
Technically this point was addressed in the wanting to understand patterns/cause effect - but the person's own personality or desire to feel "in the know" honestly is a huge factor (kind of like those people who thrive on gossip - it makes them feel like they know something someone else does not").
Regardless, the video was solid - thanks for doing scishow.
I don't know why society affords these people so much recognition and attention by calling them "conspiracy theorists".
Back in the day they were just called "crazy" and sent to the asylum.
I call them conspiracy myths.
I call them paranoid schizophrenic’s
This was the general consensus among the majority of the population until watergate... after that, a distrust of government really began to take off.
Oh yeah!
3:48 Oh, look, it's also the reason we have religion.
Studies have also shown, that more religious people are also more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.
Same reason we have Science. Religion was ancient mans attempt at understanding the world around him. Science is Modern mans study of the processes of the universe through theory, observation and testing
I think you missed the part about "If it's too hard to process, you might look for other explanations". Science isn't going "Nah, that requires too much thinking, we'll just go with the easy option that has no evidence."
Science is all about theory though and the one thing you don't do is rule anything out. Many renowned scientists were and are religious, living by this principle has allowed them to contribute a heck of a lot to the scientific community. So don't shame others just because they don't believe in the same things you believe in, even if others may ridicule you.
Excuse me, I don't "believe" in general. I know, or I think.
WWEdeadman the Big Bang is a theory. You don't know what happened. Saying you think the Big Bang happened is pretty much the same thing as saying you believe it happened. They're just synonyms.
Boredom and lack of social skills is why. People who essentially have cabin fever because they don’t leave the house.
I.e. conspiracy theories are the new religion
some conspiracy theories that form communities around them really do work like decentralized cults!
What if this video is a conspiracy theory to turn us off from continuing our conspiracy theories?
AceAlbatros that was my very first thought
It's probably not meant to because the creators of this are not willing to look at all aspects of a conspiracy. Investigators have been chipping away at the JFK conspiracy for decades and more and more of it is found to be true. Some conspiracies are truth. But, some are not and you will never be able to convince a 'flat-earther' they are wrong. And there is, of course, the biggest conspiracy of all: religion.
There was a magic bullet! It was forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth!
Yep, real thing. Just like fake news will "explain" the FISA memo and what it means instead of actually reading a short 4 page document and let the watchers engage in cognitive processes for the first time in their lives. It's easier to discredit something by calling it a "conspiracy theory" instead of taking time to explain the arguments for both sides
You know, I've never met a "flat earther", seen a rally or a book on it. This will sound like a conspiracy theory But you sure that isn't just another distraction to keep Americans from doing anything that actually matters? I just have trouble seeing Any logic at all in the thought that we are on a flat world
I tend to believe political conspiracies more often because politicians have a certain history of deceit. Scientific conspiracies are hard to believe, for me, because scientists are just trying to science, there's a passion for truth in many of them. A desire to learn, even if the answer isn't pretty. I respect that. Yea science!
I wish they had talked about nine eleven... but im glad they talked about the moon landing... i used to know someone who had theories about both and let's just say the friendship didn't end well, purely because of those theories... and it felt like my fault... so im happy to see they at least talked about the moon landing...
Yes! I cannot believe people actually think the earth is flat!!! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?!?!
Epic Lord what do you mean “come to”? Do you think this is new?
vitamindubya idc how old it is. It’s still ridiculous. Lol.
I think that the people who "believe" that earth is flat only do it for the laughs.
wut'sit2yuh huh? Oh ok it’s not flat. Lol.
Alpha Tango unfortunately I think some people actually believe the trolls and actually believe it themselves.
I was listening to this in my car and just as the video ended I passed by a business called "Hank's"....
I'm on to you.
Do you think it’s the same thing that causes people to become overly religious?
This isn't something I've personally researched but it's something I've always wondered about. As someone who struggles with anxiety and depression I've found myself trying to debunk ideas of my own that strongly resemble conspiracy theories. It ranged anywhere from believing that my friends didn't actually like me and they just stuck around because they pitied me to thinking that every time I was rejected in a possible relationship that it had to be something bigger wrong with me. The common trend is that I never would accept the simple answer and needed there to be a more complex one (also normally finding a way to target myself in the process). While I'm doing better with these things nowadays, I've still strayed away from researching it personally because to some degree I fear I'd actually find something. I'm not sure if there's actually any terminology surrounding this specific type of thinking or maybe even the basis for a SciShow Psych episode. In spite of my fears I'd still be interested to get an answer.
Can you do an episode about why so many people aren't ok with just saying, "I don't have enough information to know the answer/form an opinion" ?
How about an episode about all the Conspiracy Theories that turned out to be true? Iran-Contra, Gulf of Tonkin, Watergate, Dieselgate, Operation Gladio in Europe (Ordine Nuovo/Propaganda Due, Tueries du Brabant, Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann), Operation Susannah, Opération Satanic, the Syphilis Experiments in Guatemala and Alabama, everything regarding the NSA, the Catilinarian conspiracy.
I see a great opportunity for a new CrashCourse series here!
+Marco I was just going to say that. Almost all of these 'theories' were uncovered by proper investigative journalism before the public at large ever became aware of them. Or they were exposed early on by one official body or another. Paranoid Joe Blogs had very little role.
I seems we have a different understanding of the term "theory". I would say even a proper investigative journalist (or a proper historian) started with a "theory" about a "conspiracy". So while most "conspiracy theories" a probably a bundle of pish (or worse), some are legitimate theories, and some even turn out to be true.
Well, before exposing the actual conspiracy, they were possibly in some cases "conspiracy theories" at some point, unless no one even had suspected of anything until an "oops" moment that blew everything. But even if some people were really able to connect real dots and expose real conspiracies based on their theories, that does not make any random/typical conspiracy theory just as likely to be valid. That's just another instance of the "Galileo fallacy".
Conspiracy beleivers love to play this card "what about all the ones that were true". An interesting foot note here. As Rob Brotherton pointed out in one of his lectures when an audience member 'cleverly' tried to catch him out with this. No conspiracy theory has ever been exposed to be true by a conspiracy theorist. But rather whistle blowers such as Journalists, apposing Politicians, Police officers, field experts and other figures in authority. But NEVER conspiracy theorists. Ironically, people Conspiracytards consider to be part of conspiracies.
Conspiracies were/are real, and that fact fuels various theories. That's the case.
1:27
It is a picture of two bears high-fiving with a mushroom cloud in the back and you can't tell me otherwise!!
Those are garden gnomes
It’s from Fallout: New Vegas
Whoever has done more then 20 min of research would find the idea of lone gunman asinine and offensive. I suppose 11 cave men with 1 box cutter highjacked 2 airplanes flew them around for almost 3 hours inside the airspace of the largest, most advance military in history of civilization, took out 3 high value buildings, caused them to defy laws of physics during the collapse, stole all the gold and then took another 30 min trip and crashed into the accounting department of the agency that misplaced over $2 trillion the day before. Im glad its just my consciousness attempting to observe patterns in this obviously random set of events. By the way is there a solid proof of randomness? We can't even develop a random number gernerator
During this video, I couldn't decide if I should laugh or feel bad for these people.
This is very interesting and I'm surprised I've never heard of these studies before.
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This is really interesting. I'm not much for buying into conspiracy theories. I think it ties into victim mentality.
But, I notice myself seeing irrational patterns in my life, like experiencing life changing and temaltuous events at specific times of year. I have this whole thing about April and October screwing with my life in some way.
Just remember that your government never lies to you
Oh but people don't?
@The22Dude But disrespectful people would NEVER fabricate false conspiracy theories for their own purposes - like money, attention or maybe just for fun?
Amazing content! I've been searching a lot on the psychology behind conspiracy theories. I've been particularly puzzled by conspirationists with higher education. What moves them?
I think emotions and ego motivate smarter ones. They can have anyone pull a fast one on them. And mental illness.
My mom wouldn't let me get my flu shots because of conspiracy theories and now I have had a 10 year long phobia of vomitting as a result of coming down with one of those.
Ooh, me too, except I got my shots but caught norovirus instead I think.
wtf
@Leonor O i would have autism than being dead
@Leonor O he never got the flu maybe beacuse he never came with anyone with the flu and firt of all your husband is not the entire world there are many flu cases you can see just keep believing in this comforting lies is easy than self study and understand it
What are flu shots? There were no flu shots when I was a kid. When I was a kid people still got the chicken pox. There was no vaccine for that either.
Thank you for presenting this disinformation. The Group will be sending along the prescribed reward that was discussed. May the eye be upon you!
lay off the drugs
Plenty of Shekels in that reward.
"Wrinkled cos it looks cool"
It's actually not completely true. It is designed to look wavy, but it's crinkled because it was stowed away.
Surely it would have been folded up when stowed away back on earth tho? Take up less space after all. And having a crinkled flag must almost be criminal in Murica lol.
I think if the mainstream media was being honest there wouldn't be any need for conspiracy theories
Hank Green - Executive Producer/Host/Illuminati
Nice touch
The only conspiracy theory I adhere to is that Hank is deliberately messing up the collars of his shirts before filming to DRIVE ME CRAZY.
Video sponsored by the US Government
I think there is an additional component to this that was not addressed. While people are meaning making beings, a lot of that meaning making comes from a deep distrust in authorities that leaves a vacuum for answers. When sources are not credible or seem to conveniently fit a narrative, people try to come up with their own answers- as ludicrous as some of them may be.
🔰 *Hank,You Are Hiding Something !!!*
his muscles?
He's not wearing pants. None of them are...
He's a hermaphrodite.
Yep. Under his rolled-up-in-the-back collar:)
I wish I could unsee your misfolded collar, Hank! :D Otherwise, great job on the video, grats for the whole SciShow team!
Came for the video, stayed for the crazies in the comments
Fun ain't it ? hopefully death weeds them out ..Sadly stupid people are breeders
The crazies and normals in any comment section is what makes UA-cam largely appealing lol
For me, reading and contributing comments must win my time(over watching clips) by 4 to1 margin, lol.
4:20 a lone gunman who was killed in custody for reasons even more obscure than the assassination itself
This hits different in 2020
Many people also have a strong tendency to mark reasons for unpleasant events as mere conspiracy theories, even contrary to the evidence. It's just optimism versus pessimism, while the truth sits somewhere in between, seen only by the ones capable of cold analytical thinking.
This was a bit misleading because there is proof of many past conspiracies. A safe way to put it isn't to shame people for believing in different conspiracies (unless they believe in lizard people, in which case they're just insane) but rather to say that we don't know everything and that it's a good idea be stay sceptical.
Best explanation of conspiracy theories by far! ~Thanks
And that's how religions formed.
UrbanTarzan Duh I was thinking this myself
It's sad how you can take such a fascinating topic, the origin of human spiritual experience, and squeeze a big fat dump over it just because you don't happen to like organized religion.
And now I'm going paint with a wide brush myself by typing: What a Reddit-tier edgelord comment, 'Mr.' UrbanTarzan Duh.
Burniture There is no biological basis for a "spirit", it's part of your imagination
I smell a flame war
Shhhh.. just quietly agree with the religious people so we don't have a 200 long comment war in the future
*HANK DEBUNKING THEORIES ONE AFTER THE OTHER!!*
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Can you make a video about friendship?
Pattern recognition is the basis of how humans perceive the world around us. Literally every day of our lives is made up of routines and subroutines.
The removal of uncertainty, and creating our own hand-picked set of options gives us that sense of control. This is entirely the center of why people cling to certain conspiracies even when proven wrong. It’s our ego tricking us into getting defensive for something that we didn’t even possibly agree with until someone else tried to convince us.
For me, challenging my emotions and impulsive feelings with my understanding that I’m a flawed human is how I back down from that feeling of impetuousness.
I’m just trying to achieve one goal and pursuing another goal mistakenly thinking it’s the path I need to take. We all can find room to be better people, even if it’s just one interaction a day. Keep holding onto that feeling you get and let it grow into one of the best feelings in the whole world - the joy of making someone else feel joy.
Is there anyone here who reflected at least shortly on his/her own believes after watching this video?
Illjay So it is supporting the current scientific perspective reliably? good to know.
Probably not sadly, since this sort of thing only tends to make the folks who believe conspiracy theories cling even harder to their beliefs.
Adam Stansbury
Its very fascinating how one actually can help people get over these theories maybe that should be the next video :)
did you check the sources of well established studies in the describtion called studies?
also there is no unified position against this, or is there a group that says: c every single conspiracy theory is true?"
no there isn't they never said: "every conspiracy theory is false." they only cyted studies that said that for example patter recogniton relates to the likelyhood of somebody adopting a conspiracy theory, which is not controvercial at all and was reproduced in many different versions.
Its science, this is not politics or a religious or socipolitical discussion. yes they added some pieces of "opinion" like "the moonlanding was real"
there is no logical opposition to this video, or what did you mean?
also why wouldn't you reflect on your believes anyway everyone of us could always be false i never said "changed someones opinion"
No, I don't really have any. If there's a claim with no evidence to back it up, I disregard it completely.
Thank you for including the two bears high fiving that option was never there in fallout New Vegas and that's all I ever saw when I looked at it.
Is it just me, but everyone believes in conspiracies and no one believes in time travel
...this explains so much about why my brain is always trying to make up new 'theories about how the world works'.
To generalize all conspiracies this way and to not veiw each separately or not to exam the connection between some is foolish, arrogant, dismissive and absurd. To base whether something is true or not because of your opinion of a group of peoples opinions is asinine and will never change the fact that something is true or not true. It is either true or not, period the rest is ego.
Sounds like something a conspiracy theorist would say to cover up a conspiracy of other conspiracy theorists...
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Take my like and leave
This is more accurate than ever.
1:36 that fallout new vegas reference
😂👍
The best part of the internet is that everyone gets a voice. The worst part about the internet is that everyone gets a voice.
I'd love to know if the speaker has ever properly investigated any of these conspiracies himself or is he simply assuming that all conspiracies are not true? As in, 2 or more people never lie about something, and if they do, they get caught, like Nixon.
The sweeping generalisations convince me he knows very, very little about the actual subjects.
Ruaidhrí Ó Dálaigh I totally agree!
I was a 911 truther for a week. Then I watched debunking videos about 911 conspiracy and felt like an idiot after. Makes tons of sense when the gaps are explained. Never again trusting or following a conspiracy theory. Always listen to the debunking side.
Seems to me that you were forced to write this comment of yours by THEM.
I'm pretty sure there are conspiracy theorists watching this video right now.
It's not a theory if it's provably true.
You know what's not a conspiracy? That 'Specter' and the sort was just a way for large corporations to insert firmware level monitoring into older computers to sell that information tot he government.
This is funny considering sci show had to apologize to Monsanto via a video and remove a video on GMOs
What he starts saying at 4:58 is the single truest thing I think that I have ever heard.
One would have to be extremely naive to think there are no conspiracies and that all humans are morally infallible.
I never thought Hank Green would say the earth is flat
I was surprised there weren't more dislikes from conspiracy nut heads but then I remembered they don't watch science channels or anything about reality
@Jeffy Jeffy haha I know right! Far rather be a sheep than one of those whakos anyways
@Jeffy Jeffy I know right. I can't tell you how many times I have also been called a sheep for debunking and calling out conspiracy theorists and their foolish conspiracy theories. Lol 😆
@@chandlersleziak6416 Use the same method those conspiracy terrorists (yes, correctly spelled) do. Tell them "do research, sheep" before they do. It pretty often works - but not always, of course.
*Hank* :"You would probably be surprised.........."
*me* : No i am not not. Go ahead
now do an episode on why people still believe in religion
Yes please!
That would be a cool episode,but I think they would offend WAY too many people
Defiance ... Why is all religion bad? I agree that religions that have animal-headed half-people is weird, but you can’t jumble Judaism or Christianity into all the others. Christianity is founded on truth, reasoning, logic, compassion, love, respect, honor, knowledge, freeing-limitations (including not murdering, stealing, coveting, or envying someone else or their property,) and the like. Name one Biblical thing that’s bad (something in-context that it actually quoted in the text, not something some “label-only Christians” do that really isn’t right.”) I would like to see why you think that all religious people are automatically less knowledge-seeking or intelligent than atheists.
I believe science is great and it’s amazing what we’re learning about the micro- and macro-scale physics of the universe. Why can’t the history of “Let there be light!” (BIG BANG!) be the same? Why can’t the scientific community see the “separation of ‘day’ from ‘night’” as the period when the initial expansion of matter started separating (slowing) from the speed of light and forming clouds and eventually stars and galaxies? The non-specific nature of “Genesis” was written for people who didn’t yet theorize that gravity was even a thing. If the very first book of the Bible was a crash-course on quantum physics instead of what it is (especially at a time where people had less education than our middle-schoolers now have,) then it would have had a negative impact on the common spread and readability of it. (Also, no need to have fun exploring and discovering when you’re given the answer sheet right?) The current “scientific” explanations are both filling-in and mirroring the Biblical history better and better, not worse, as time goes on. We are fighting over something that isn’t as different as popular figures would point out, in my opinion.
James Banks ... Umm, excuse me? How would we be able to read and understand it if it wasn't in our language? What good would it do for the Bible to be written in something we don't know? Why would any god (or the God) write his instructions and love story in Undine, Klingon, Wookie, etc? That doesn't make sense. The entire purpose of the thing is for it to be understood by everyone (which, at least for a long time, will require literally 100s of human-written translations.)
The Ten Commandments were originally given by God's hand per the text. Also, if you read the versions that highlight God's/Jesus' words by making them red/other color, then you'd see that there is a lot of colored text in the Bible, especially in the New Testament (2nd Half.) Things in this world decay, so in what way should you, I, or anyone else expect the 100% original source material to be 100% intact? ...especially 1000s of years in the future? That's not to say we should accept changes or allow the loss of the original meaning, but language changes and translations will always be necessary (written by human beings.)
[EDIT] P.S. The original texts were in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin mostly, so the only way anyone could read them anyway is if the reader knew 3 potentially extra languages. To require everyone to learn those 3 (while it is something to be interested in,) would be a high barrier-to-entry for someone being told the text for the first time. Also, having a language barrier like that opens the door for "spiritual leaders" to hide the text from the people and project their own opinions as "canon" when its really lies/deceit. Translations are amazingly great because then the "spiritual elite" can't hide the truth, which means everyone has an equal opportunity to study the book themselves and see what it has to offer and what they can learn from it to improve themselves and their surrounding community.
I think he hit the nail on the head with our human need for "certainty". We don't like not knowing something. We think we should be capable of understanding everything. When we run up against that brick wall of "not knowing", we just make something up we can all agree on. Sometimes that's a conspiracy theory, sometimes it's just doctrine like the earth is the center of the universe and everything revolves around it (including the sun). Or for that matter, what happens after death? We can't know, so we create all manor of religions that claim to have the answer. For me, it's all the same spectrum and all the variation is just different frequencies along the same arc.
Pause so Area 51 isn’t hiding aliens?
Actually, all of us are aliens and Area 51 is hiding the real humans.
If you label anything a "conspiracy theory" a huge number of people will instantly discount it. Now that's mindless and dangerous. Fear of being thought gullible makes you easily manipulated as sure as actually being gullible does.
I'd like to know why so many dismiss conspiracy theories when there is some evidence that supports em. I mean, doesn't prove them, but be skeptical of both the possibility of it being true and the possibility of it not being true.
The big problem is that most conspiracy theories don't just ask you to believe something that has some evidence to support it, most of them also demand that you *ignore* anything that counts against them -- for instance, not only do flat-earthers say that our world is a disc because they observe a flat horizon & don't see tall buildings rising at angles to each other, they also, in order to make their theory work, insist that all the scientists in modern history are lying to us about the distance to the sun, the function of gravity, & what lies beyond the "great ice wall", etc -- it just gets ridiculous -- & then, if you give them the scientific reasons for why the horizon seems flat to them, or why they don't see building rising at angles to each other, they just dismiss you as either a tool who's fallen for the OS, or accuse you of being a paid actor, lying for the "overlords" -- in fact, that's pretty much what makes them "conspiracy theories", & not just "theories"...
the lesson is:
Truth is never simple because it requires mental effot, reserch and an acceptance that our own ideas might be wrong in the end.
You might need to first examine the evidences and see if the evidences are concrete and strong or another soft pattern-recognizing speculations. That goes for both for and against the theory, honestly. Also remember that the less fantastic story is always more possible and executable than the wild crazy ones.
It is a good argument you got there. The reason conspiracy theories got so much evidence behind them might just be the fact that getting evidence that supports a conspiracy theory is easy but getting evidence that disproves it is not. Like if I said that area-51 was hiding spaceships how would you ever disprove it? And when evidence arrives you could just say that the government covered it up or the journalist was part of the whole thing.
And also people look for evidence that supports their beliefs and sometimes people just don't know enough in advance. You would be surprised how many people don't know that humans have been to the moon 6 times. For example my dad didn't know but what he did know was all the facts that proved they haven't been to the moon
Area 51 was once a conspiracy theory itself.
Replace "conspiracy theory" with "religion" and the video makes just as much sense. ;)
Why would you say that?
No... don't start a comment war...
late bronze mythology. Since most of it has only a passing familiarity with facts, it can't be called history.
Local Toast, I think you have a misunderstanding of how science works. You're supposed to start with the 'null hypothesis' that nothing weird is going on, and then look for evidence that conclusively proves you wrong.
Conspiracy theorists and religious fundamentalists are the complete opposite, they start by assuming something IS going on, and then ignore all the evidence that could prove them wrong.
Don’t bring religion into this ✋🏻🙄
People do conspire. That's a fact.
Some conspiracy theories are true.
Saying people don't conspire may be a conspiracy.
Not all though. It needs to be proven. If it can be proven and it’s shown to be true, it’s true. But if it can’t be proven, it’s bullcrap
Replace conspiracy theories with religion and they both seem oddly similar...
True
exactly
1:21 What's the term for when people DON'T see patterns that ARE there like the hot & cold cycles of the Earth for millions of years? Or...
Were the dinosaurs industrialized?
Or...
Was the last global warming cycle caused by aliens?
Stacy Smith When a cold to warm change usually takes thousands of years of gradual change, but then suddenly takes 200 years, you know it's different this time.
I'm on time
Honestly the narrative IS the conspiracy these days. But you are correct in asserting it is amazing how many believe
ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED
Just kidding
is he a rich white man(not being racist) but that was who was only accepted in it not no Jay Z or Beyonce !
Kristian179 what?
just addressing that it was such a thing but now they're disbanded but people nowadays like to believe that Jay Z,Beyonce and even JB is in it which is just not true !
Kristian179 What purpose does this serve?
Is there a way to make someone stop believing in those paranoid stories ? Or is impossible because whatever you say, it would be a "proof" ?
This guys funny... he creates a conspiracy theory on conspiracy theories. God forbid it's possible for 2 people to plan something that's unethical and can cause death....
Love it. Subscribed.
I was literally taught in school that the Moon Landing was a hoax.
The American School System at it's finest.
Andrew Gari and here I thought that was just in the movie 'Interstellar!'
Its a hassle when they believe it without valid proof and jump from one subject to other subjects but the most frustrating things is when they start to have anxiety or panick shopping even to the extent they spent lots of money base on that belief it will hv a negative effect on they daily life
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As a mathematician, I've got pretty crazy pattern perception. At the best of times, bathroom tiles are kinda trippy. When I'm deep in research mode, faults in brick walls seem to have patterns. I'm so glad my parents raised me with decent critical thinking because otherwise, I'd be a complete wingnut. As it is, I just see patterns in my friends' behaviours and convince myself they hate me, lol.
Is there an update? Seems like more and more folks are taking an even deeper dive...
Not to mention the fact that the media has incentives built in to promote or not promote certain facts, concepts, or motives which leaves huge gaps of information conspiracy theorist have to use their creativity or analytical skills to fill in. This has nothing to do with finding patterns it has more to do with incomplete information or competing interpretations of an Observation. This happens in every field of life and a conspiracy is usually drawn out by all observers or it was an accidental due to again incomplete information.
Wait, so the Earth isn't flat?
dka13 that one is true, have you ever seen a curved earth?
Check mate.
People say they can see the earth curving when they look out at the ocean and see ships disappearing over the horizon. Well I can ALWAYS see the earth flatting. Checkmate you globe lobby shills.
If Earth were flat, cats would've pushed everything off it by now.
Benimation my 6 cat's just agreed with you.
No it's a banana obviously
This was an excellent episode- very well-written and helpful, without being condescending. Thank you!!
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