The cause of a lot of suffering

[Baffle]

I'm reminding of telling people not to pick on teenaged Justin Bieber, and then he turned into adult Justin Bieber.

That's a real chicken and egg situation that we should probably leave to the scientists (who are very wise).

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Always seemed a bit strange, there's plenty of real knowledge if you want to feel special, and lots of it is niche enough to almost be a secret. As opposed to anti-vaxxer stuff, which is very mainstream.

The draw of conspiracy theories is that they do a great job of explaining why you've failed at life- it wasn't your own poor choices and lack of intelligence; it's "them" keeping you down because you know the "truth". (Of course, they can't just get rid of you because that would blow the whole conspiracy wide open... somehow.)

 

[Thaluikhain]

The draw of conspiracy theories is that they do a great job of explaining why you've failed at life- it wasn't your own poor choices and lack of intelligence; it's "them" keeping you down because you know the "truth". (Of course, they can't just get rid of you because that would blow the whole conspiracy wide open... somehow.)

For a lot of them sure...but then how does thinking the Moon landing was faked affect anything? Never got that one.

 

[Baffle]

For a lot of them sure...but then how does thinking the Moon landing was faked affect anything? Never got that one.

It's just a desire to be smarter than all the gullible normies.

 

[Thaluikhain]

It's just a desire to be smarter than all the gullible normies.

Again, if that's all they want, there's real information to be found. Some of them put a lot of effort into their conspiracy theory-ing, that would have gotten them somewhere if they'd used it better. Puzzles the will.

 

[Baffle]

Again, if that's all they want, there's real information to be found. Some of them put a lot of effort into their conspiracy theory-ing, that would have gotten them somewhere if they'd used it better. Puzzles the will.

Oh, it's because they're not very bright.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I think this bot its trying to tell us to ignore it's own posts.

 

[Drathnoxis]

On the other hand I can make a youtube video about how any breakfast cereals that have blue dye in them are actually using government produced hormones that make children trans and I could probably get some people to start destroying fruity pebbles and boycotting Post cereals. It's current, it's relevant to modern political discourse, and it gives people something to do.

Isn't this proving the OPs point that you shouldn't listen to what other people say because a lot of it is nonsense that causes suffering?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Isn't this proving the OPs point that you shouldn't listen to what other people say because a lot of it is nonsense that causes suffering?

The OP's point was about not listening to scientists, not random kooks on tiktok.

 

[Drathnoxis]

The OP's point was about not listening to scientists, not random kooks on tiktok.

I mean, that was the group they specified, but the rest of the OP is just as applicable. You could easily replace 'scientists' with 'theorists' and it'd work fine.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I mean, that was the group they specified, but the rest of the OP is just as applicable. You could easily replace 'scientists' with 'theorists' and it'd work fine.

I think the group being learned from matters significantly.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

*Reads the original post...*

 

[OttoFriesen]

I mean, that was the group they specified, but the rest of the OP is just as applicable. You could easily replace 'scientists' with 'theorists' and it'd work fine.

Scientists were just a pawn to illustrate the concept.

 

[OttoFriesen]

Isn't this proving the OPs point that you shouldn't listen to what other people say because a lot of it is nonsense that causes suffering?

He is one of those childish people who are quite young and take pride in opposing anything just for the sake of opposing. I could say, he was great and he'd say: "no I am not", it's that pathetic.

 

[SilentPony]

Scientists were just a pawn to illustrate the concept.

Or are you a pawn of Big Flat Earth and are here to cause the weak to waver and doubt? GIVE UP YOUR SECRETS HERETIC! WHOM IS YOUR LORD AND MASTER?!

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Or are you a pawn of Big Flat Earth and are here to cause the weak to waver and doubt? GIVE UP YOUR SECRETS HERETIC! WHOM IS YOUR LORD AND MASTER?!

I'M NOT IN A CULT, YOU'RE IN A CULT!

 

[SilentPony]

I'M NOT IN A CULT, YOU'RE IN A CULT!

That's exactly what a cultist would say...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

He is one of those childish people who are quite young and take pride in opposing anything just for the sake of opposing. I could say, he was great and he'd say: "no I am not", it's that pathetic.

Loudly proclaiming that you don't think vaccines work isn't the flex you seem to think it is. The polio vaccine eradicated polio but please go head and tell us more about how vaccines were made up by evil scientists because reasons you've made up, which are totally valid because of your lived experience of being an uneducated moron.

 

[Worgen]

I mean, that was the group they specified, but the rest of the OP is just as applicable. You could easily replace 'scientists' with 'theorists' and it'd work fine.

But what about anthropomorphic cows? If your science is so good why do they do magic?