Can you imagine living your life BELIEVING websites like this (in the details)

OMG, @Dutchess_III, I couldn’t agree more. And to think that kind of hate and misinformation is fomenting in so many places we can’t see.

I recently had to block an acquaintance from Facebook, because she eats this sh*t up hook, line and sinker, then she posts and posts and posts and posts about it. Unfortunately she got real mean and pissy with anybody who disagreed with her, or attempted to show her alternative explanations.

She is definitely a quivering, blithering basket case of constant fear. She’s scared, angry and depressed all the time. But it was her mean-ness and irrationality (not so much her stupidity) that made me have to block her.

Lots of people believe them, I know at least two. Basically I just let them talk and then change the subject because it stresses me out that they’re stressed out.

But…how can they REALLY, honestly, deep in their hearts believe it…..and not want to commit suicide?

Paranoia and mental illness I think.

Where do you come up with that stuff?

Who you talking to @bkcunningham?

@Dutchess_III.

Where did I come up with the website?

Yes, @Dutchess_III. This is like pulling teeth.

I wanted to make sure I was answering the very vague question you were asking. Wasn’t sure if you were referring to my comments or the website or the post overall. My mind reading abilities were turned off at the moment.

I was perusing the Snopes “What’s new feed,” and this rumor was there and it originated on the “What does it mean” website which I posted in my details.

Why do you ask?

Freaky, man.
Some people just need to chill.

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face when the government throws you in one of the internment camps I am hearing them building.

(I don’t have another side of my face, filmfann. That is just a myth.)

I tried being paranoid for awhile tonight. I walked out on my deck and cut my eyes at my neighbors to see if they were “looking at me.” I wanted to see of someone was hiding behind my garage. I looked at my cat and said, “OMG! What if they’ve microchipped my cat!” Then I looked at my phone and just lost it. And came down to earth because it was too stressful and stupid. And I’ve only glanced through that website! Can you imagine seriously studying it?

Conspiracy theories are just so much more interesting than the mundane truth.

Not in MY world!
“Mom. I pregnant. Again.”
“Sigh.”
“With twins.”

I recently read this article, and I still can’t really wrap my head around it. The way I figure it, even if we suppose that conspiracy theories are true, what the hell are ya’ gonna’ do about it? Given that, why even bother worrying? Live. Enjoy your life.

I am being totally serious. Has this discussion already taken place? Or at least something very similar? I can’t find it in the archives, but I swear I’ve seen this exact discussion very recently on Fluther.

@bkcunningham I’m sure we’ve had this converstions before, but I can’t remember when the last time was. My memory is for shit, so it could have been last week for all I know! We’ve discussed conspiracy theory a lot here, that I do remember.

I have a feeling I’m being watched.~

I did that very thing for a number of years, and while the experience was a whole ‘nother level of terror and loathing, the scope of information dovetailed somewhat neatly with the study of cultural, political and economic imperialism that I engaged in during my A-list undergraduate education.

I don’t know that my experience is common, but I don’t see it at all as a waste. Rather, the end result is significant liberation from questions that have dogged me my entire adult life. It’s liberation from getting one’s energy sucked by the illusory belief that common political or topical discourse is at all meaningful or significant beyond the satisfaction of one’s own ego. In my case, it’a also led me to a taste of capital E Enlightenment. I’m not sucking the marrow of life, but I am much more at peace and I am cognizant of the difference between the world we imagine from our ego and the flow of life and consciousness that identification with the ego often prevents us from seeing. Colloquially, it’s trippy and fantastic, and for my journey I wouldn’t have it any other way, because it relates so strongly to questions I have carried without resolution for far too long. I’m glad I had the time I did to throw myself into the abyss of this stuff, because I think the intensity of the experience was paramount to making out the other side.

That being said, @Duchess_III, it doesn’t have to be your experience. Your slice of existence is meant to be different, I’m sure. You might even sympathize with my since worn out incredulity and concern that the population at large contributes to tragedies and outrages of this nature out of ignorance, willful or otherwise.

Addendum: That website is shit, by the way. There are a few that are much better. Well, it’s alright, I suppose. I thought it was worse.

That is nothing. This site is much worse. I guess that some people are attracted to negative news, I don’t know.