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Old_Zircon - 2019-01-03

I few weeks ago I met a couple guys who truly believed that the ancestors of the Moors had fully explored and mapped Antarctica 3000-4000 years ago.

A week later I met a guy who was 100% sure that humans were unable to carve stone before invention of electricity, and every example of stone carvings either made AFTER electricity was widespread or (in the case of ancient Egypt), we don't know how they did it (I think he was implying their stuff was made by aliens but I couldn't get him to commit to that).


The Moorsih Empire guys were OK, they were in their early 20s and were really enthusiastic to learn about everything, so even if they were poring through old books looking for "hidden secrets" or whatever, they'll probably pick up some real stuff along the way and hopefully outgrow it.

The electricity guy was an upper-middle class white guy with two kids and he is clearly never going to budge on anything and will always look for opportunities to argue about it (he was the one that found me and started talking about how the building where I work couldn't be from the 1840s because humans didn't have stonecutting technology in the 1840s). I felt sorry for his daughters having to grow up with that.





Anyway, they're both better than the guy who thinks the democrats assassinated Andrew Breitbart, I guess.


poorwill - 2019-01-03

This shit has a death toll: https://www.theweek.co.uk/71426/boko-haram-targets-geography-teach ers-for-assassination

I met a QAnon believer a few weeks ago. He was very, very seriously mentally ill.


Old_Zircon - 2019-01-03

earlier last month I read some article someplace and the author actually finally made the direct analogy between the normalization of mental illness, extreme politics, fringe beliefs, etc. and the rise of the pro-ana community in the early Livejournal days. I've never seen anyone actually make that specific comparison before, it's about time. For almost as long as I've been watching internet disease cuck everything up, I've always gone back to :same dynamic that gave us Anorexic With Pride."


badideasinaction - 2019-01-03

It's funny because I always read early internet flat-earthers as a parody of religion, and at some time poe's law took over.


Born in the RSR - 2019-01-03

Maaaan... remember when David Icke was the "out there" conspiracist? Such simpler times...


Maggot Brain - 2019-01-03

38:00

Reno is an international destination?


cognitivedissonance - 2019-01-03

I had a coworker come out as a Flat Earther, and the office mocked him mercilessly for it. I then dug deeper and learned that he left his church and founded his own, declared himself a doctor, and was working on a book about how only Flat Earthers go to Heaven.


SolRo - 2019-01-03

....yeah. I’d seriously consider changing jobs before Dr. Pope Flat-Earth shows up at work with a self-defense rifle.


Robin Kestrel - 2019-01-04

It would have been nice if he had approached this with an open mind, but he is clearly trapped in a globonormative thought prison.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2019-01-05

If humanity manages to survive the catastrophic changes of the next lifetime or so, there's every reason to hope that we'll become more sophisticated in our ability to process all the information true and false, that we have access to.

We all need to learn about Occam's razor in grade school. I think I learned about it in my early forties, from Lisa Simpson. Before that, I believed a lot of crazy conspiracy theories that I have since abandoned. THANKS, LISA!


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