Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Beijing4987]

Beam me up Scotty. No intelligent life here. We'll return in the next millennium, after the one cell amobeas evolve.

[Pistons]

Or do you mean that all analytics are conspiracy theorists?

Have you ever analyzed something and then thought to yourself: 'There must be a conspiracy ongoing in there somewhere'.

Well actually due to quantum physics, there is a subjective conspiracy in anything we analyze due to how observation is key to reality. So the generating force behind what you observe are actually conspiring against you at this very moment. And that is exactly why you have to read what I am writing here now.

[Pistons]

And in your very next post you answer your own question.

In the next post I was being an analyst. Not a theorist.

[TonyMontanaaO7]

Supported him so much that he too ran for president.

The funny part was when West stated that he would run under the Birthday Party, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday".

[McAdonis]

Anyway, we are getting beyond the point. My point is that rational people entertain conspiracy theories once in a while, mostly just as a thought exercise or maybe just for shits and giggles. Even if those athletes believe in a conspiracy theory here and there, that may not be pathological. The actual conspiracy theorists are the full time, habitual guys that have issues rooted in some intellectual, psychological, or emotional deficiency. My theory is that it is due to a lack of authentic, realized self worth or realized social value.

This British clinical psychologist puts it more eloquently than I can, the last being the the most pertinent here:

I agree with above. As do I with the two parts you excerpted from APA article. They offer generalizations that probably explain the subconscious motivations for 80 percent of the conspiracy theorist sympathizers and 100 percent of what you refer to as the pathological conspiracy theorists. However, we could make the same statements about people who fall for scams. Someone who works a minimum wage job (1) probably has lower levels of education, and (2) probably feels powerless and disillusioned. He is more vulnerable. He is exactly the type of person to save up a few thousand dollars to attend a seminar to be part of a pyramid scheme.

People who are desperate enough to see something will find ways to see it. A minimum wage guy fantasizing about wealth, will ignore the redflags when he hears about a get-rich-quick scheme. Middle-aged, socially awkward guy will ignore the redflags when a beautiful Eastern European girl half his age shows him attention. My main point is that emotions will always be a blindspot and even so called "winners" can be susceptible. As evidenced by Madoff scandal, many educated and powerful people also fall for scams.

In 2017, Robert De Niro appeared at a press conference with a prominent anti-vaxxer (he may have backed off the stance a little, but that is clearly not a case of being misquoted or trolling). De Niro clearly is a somebody. When he speaks, people listen, so I think we can agree that he is in that regard a leader of men. But De Niro's emotional blindspot is that he has a child with autism. https://www.vox.com/2017/2/15/146226...ess-conference.

[Pistons]

Hell, I even partake in coming up with these nefarious ideas myself sometimes.

[Pistons]

Mursenary Let me tell you one thing. The biggest alphas in the world know conspiracies are true. Because they are the ones coming up with them. Simple facts.

[Pistons]

The concept of a "conspiracy theorist" in our current culture points to people like you that, in response to certain events, allege all sorts of nefarious schemes by people in power, usually aimed at strengthening their grips on the masses. It has a negative connation only because when people such as yourself are asked for proof of your claims, you provide none while bringing out the exclamation marks and turning on the cap key. And if any evidence ever is provided it's almost always easily debunked, or is only some song and dance that isn't evidence at all.

But if you think this isn't so, then feel free to provide proof for the diabolical hoax you allude to above. And don't forget to prove who all is in on it, from scientists to politicians, corporations, and all the world over of course.

You choose what you want to believe in yourself. What you are asking of me demands personal information I am not willing to share online on a forum like this. But yet, I have quite a lot of first hand information of all sorts of things people like you would never believe. And you would call it a conspiracy theory. Heck, do you even know what lobbyists do for a living? It is a billion dollar industry that live on what you frame as 'conspiracies'.

The idea of nefarious is also questionable. As I mentioned already, I am cheering them on. The end goal is good. Some weak minded people like yourself just think their methods are evil in order to get there. And that is also why a lot of things has to be hidden from the public eye. As Machiavelli writes in his book The Prince.

[Pistons]

And you have to ask what a conspiracy theory is? That is beyond hilarious.

No, I want him to define 'his' definition of it. There is a clear difference here.

A conspiracy is the same thing as a plan. Just two sides of the same coin, and the framing is different.

[Mursenary]

Third set:

The final set of motives we would call social motives and those refer to people's desire to feel good about themselves as individuals and also feel good about themselves in terms of the groups that they belong to. And I guess at the individual level, people like to feel... Well, they like to have high self-esteem. They like to feel good about themselves. And potentially one way of doing that is to feel that you have access to information that other people don't necessarily have.

[Mursenary]

But Kanye West was a huge Trump supporter.

Supported him so much that he too ran for president.

[Mursenary]

Jim Carrey is anti-vaxxer. Maybe not in a physical sense, but alpha in the sense that he chased his dream, instead of playing it safe. Shaq, Stephen Curry, and Kyrie Irving are all flat-earthers. All elite level athletes so I would say alpha. Back in the day conspiracy theorists were just random guys in aluminum foil hats sitting at home. Now, the Internet has democratized the spread of information, so everybody who has Facebook or Youtube has a platform. It's the loudest and most persuasive who become the arbiters of truth. They drown out the scientists. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...y-theories-nba.

I think we have to clarify some of the claims above.

First regarding Jim Carrey, I would have been disappointed if it were true. However, he has clarified that he is not Anti-Vaccination but rather is anti government mandated vaccination and brings up concerns regarding toxic preservatives but not vaccination itself. That's a perfectly rational stance, hardly a conspiracy theorist position. His own tweet and supporting article below:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JimCarrey...ias-new-law%2F

https://medcitynews.com/2015/07/jim-...rnias-new-law/

Regarding the athletes, I'll point out to my previous post regarding alpha-men stating that physical attributes, while still a factor, is not the defining characteristic of an alpha. However, some clarifications for their flat earth positions. They were all pretty much just dicking around making fun of the conspiracy theorists.

Shaq:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/sh...-comments/amp/

Kyrie:

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bos...-just-trolling

Curry:

http://www.businessinsider.com/steph...-2018-12%3Famp

I'm sure there will always be examples of dumb jocks saying dumb shit but theseu cases were all just examples of them trolling the conspiracy theorists losers. Their trolling just furthers my position that conspiracy theorists are mostly society's bottom feeders hungry for any sort of validation.

Anyway, we are getting beyond the point. My point is that rational people entertain conspiracy theories once in a while, mostly just as a thought exercise or maybe just for shits and giggles. Even if those athletes believe in a conspiracy theory here and there, that may not be pathological. The actual conspiracy theorists are the full time, habitual guys that have issues rooted in some intellectual, psychological, or emotional deficiency. My theory is that it is due to a lack of authentic, realized self worth or realized social value.

This British clinical psychologist puts it more eloquently than I can, the last being the the most pertinent here:

http://www.apa.org/research/action/s...iracy-theories

Three types of conspiracy theorists:

-So people with lower levels of education tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories. And we don't argue that's because people are not intelligent. It's simply that they haven't been allowed to have, or haven't been given access to the tools to allow them to differentiate between good sources and bad sources or credible sources and non-credible sources. So they're looking for that knowledge and certainty, but not necessarily looking in the right places.

-The second set of motives, we would call existential motives. And really they just refer to people's needs to be or to feel safe and secure in the world that they live in. And also to feel that they have some kind of power or autonomy over the things that happen to them as well. So again, when something happens, people don't like to feel powerless. They don't like to feel out of control. And so reaching to conspiracy theories might, I guess, at least allow people to feel that they have information that at least explains why they don't have any control over this situation. Research has shown that people who do feel powerless and disillusioned do tend to gravitate more towards conspiracy theories..

[Paulie97]

I also believe Blackrock is behind, or at least have the leading role in the entire Reddit WallStreetBets story we are seeing now. And they want to bring down all the other hegdefunds competitors globally. As noone can still be standing. Maybe they have even agreed to bring down themselves at the end too. And this crunsh among all the hedgefunds are just one more objective that needs to be completed before the entire Agenda, which covid is a smokescreen for can be completed.

And you have to ask what a conspiracy theory is? That is beyond hilarious.

[Paulie97]

3. Define a "conspiracy theorist".

And in your very next post you answer your own question.

Basically, the capitalist system runners realized the original covid-19 was too weak and didn't last as long as to fulfill all the objectives. So it needed an upgrade. I kind of knew all along that this would happen. And it will go on with even more mutations throughout all of 2021, and most likely far into 2022 also. With new mutations that will require a second jab. If not nature fixes it, a petri dish will!

The concept of a "conspiracy theorist" in our current culture points to people like you that, in response to certain events, allege all sorts of nefarious schemes by people in power, usually aimed at strengthening their grips on the masses. It has a negative connation only because when people such as yourself are asked for proof of your claims, you provide none while bringing out the exclamation marks and turning on the cap key. And if any evidence ever is provided it's almost always easily debunked, or is only some song and dance that isn't evidence at all.

But if you think this isn't so, then feel free to provide proof for the diabolical hoax you allude to above. And don't forget to prove who all is in on it, from scientists to politicians, corporations, and all the world over of course.

[Sirioja]

Jim Carrey is anti-vaxxer. Maybe not in a physical sense, but alpha in the sense that he chased his dream, instead of playing it safe. Shaq, Stephen Curry, and Kyrie Irving are all flat-earthers. All elite level athletes so I would say alpha. Back in the day conspiracy theorists were just random guys in aluminum foil hats sitting at home. Now, the Internet has democratized the spread of information, so everybody who has Facebook or Youtube has a platform. It's the loudest and most persuasive who become the arbiters of truth. They drown out the scientists. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...y-theories-nba.

When I read about alpha here, aren't alpha guys those playing US football in US universities with many cheerleaders girls running after them, but only accepted in university to play sport for university when these guys are not even able to count their fingers. Even they may make big money in sport, but they will never invent hot water, but just alpha low level for brain.