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A postscript to "what happened to me"
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 (July 18, 2019 at 1:07 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Or maybe if we supported him through this time when he is hurt and confused, he might make it through okay, and he might (in retrospect) see how the alt right is predatory. And he would then be able to help us better understand how the alt right operates by taking advantage of isolated people. I would, except he’s a dick about it. Why give him a pass? He’s said he doesn’t read responses. He’s only here to tell us his story. That’s not okay. 
Conspiracy theories are attractive. At least someone's in charge of what happens, even if you don't like them. And if you look at almost anything closely enough, there are things that don't add up. Most people chalk it up to people being so fallible that two people seeing the same thing will contradict each other sooner or later if they go into enough detail. To a conspiracy theorist, those discrepancies are an indication that 'things are not as they seem'. We'll never have ALL the facts on many significant events, and that's more holes to plug in with supposition on your conspiracy connection board. The feeling that you're sleuthing out the 'real truth' from your laptop and that you're among the select few who know 'what's really going on' is very reinforcing.
We like to think we skeptics are immune, but I'm not sure anyone can be sure they'll never be pulled down a rabbit hole when so often the entrance to the burrow looks somewhat plausible (he says, really stretching the metaphor).
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
 (July 18, 2019 at 7:23 am)wyzas Wrote:(July 18, 2019 at 12:05 am)Cecelia Wrote: I think Rob has been kidnapped and is trying to send us coded messages to rescue him. If only we had the cipher. Do you also know the Demi-Fiend?
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 (July 18, 2019 at 10:48 am)Cecelia Wrote:(July 18, 2019 at 7:23 am)wyzas Wrote: I know a Louis Cyphre. No, but thanks for making me look. I guess this means I now know "of" him.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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I think he started this before, but I noticed in the Maddie Maccan thread where he started basicly a raving monologue about a great brit government coverup. Unfortunately the evidence there is only conclusive to the fact that there is a child missing.
(July 18, 2019 at 11:57 am)wyzas Wrote: No, but thanks for making me look. I guess this means I now know "of" him. Aww, now I feel alone in my nerdy love for SMT.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 (July 18, 2019 at 1:07 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Or maybe if we supported him through this time when he is hurt and confused, he might make it through okay, and he might (in retrospect) see how the alt right is predatory. And he would then be able to help us better understand how the alt right operates by taking advantage of isolated people. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen unfortunately. I know someone similar like that IRL, and the best one can do to support them is just nod the head and feel for them. Arguing with them, or even trying to gently convince them they're wrong, is not going to help and gets tiring really fast. As far as they see it, they are absolutely right and no one else can practically prove them wrong, no matter the evidence you bring forth to them and no matter the questions you ask them that put things in clearer light. But maybe Rob's situation is more different than I'm thinking, and it isn't due to anything that's ingrained within his mind and is mostly due to external stress-inducing stimuli. 
Rob is one smart cookie. I think he can bounce back in time. Depression just has the better of him for now.
RE: A postscript to "what happened to me"
July 18, 2019 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2019 at 7:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Being smart can just as easily make a person their own brutally efficient mental jailer.
The first and most effective lies, are the ones we tell ourselves.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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