Anger Management Issues + Superiority Complex = Conspiracy Theorist?

(Note: not all people who have anger management issues, or a superiority complex, or a combination of both, are conspiracy theorists, nor do all people that believe in conspiracy theories are people with anger management issues, or superiority complexes. This is just from my observations of the way conspiracy theorists act, especially towards people whom don't believe in their conspiracy theories.)

From my observations of conspiracy theorists, many of them seem to have two common factors:

First, is that they seem to be very, very sure of their theories,

And second, they become very, very angry when you tell them you don't believe, and sometimes even become irate when you present evidence that contradicts their beliefs.

It just seems to me that many conspiracy theorists have this combination of both being easy to piss off, and being very self righteous, and that those who disagree with them are always wrong, and/or less intelligent then they are.

For people whom have anger management issues, when things don't go their way, they will easily and quickly become hostile, and often times either not to accept responsibly for their own actions, or has misguided blame, and blames others for something that isn't that person's fault.

For people with a superiority complex, they often times have a negative view of those around them, and are either not concerned with the opinions of others, and believes that unless you share their own opinions, or beliefs, then your opinions and beliefs (or facts) are inferior, and irrelevant. They may also deep down inside actually feel inferior, and feel they have to assert their believed superiority over others.

Many conspiracy theorists I have come across appear to contain these traits. I have observed that they tend to go into long rants, in which they blame certain people (usually the rich and politicians) for all the bad things in the world (including imaginary bad things) and in their lives. When they're confronted by a person whom doesn't believe them, and even gives them actual facts that disprove their theories, they will continue to basically say the same thing over and over again, and often in a more hostile fashion, and either claim that the facts presented to them by a skeptic are either irrelevant, fake, or ignore the facts completely.

Some conspiracy theorists will make semi-threatening statements as well. They will tell the person they are arguing with that they are either a sheep, or that they are an actual dis-information agent, and that soon that "their time will come." This is basically a conspiracy theorist's way of telling a skeptic that at some point in time that they are going to end up being killed in some kind of revolution that they believe is coming, and is also a way to try to intimidate people into believing that, what in their minds is the truth, or silence them, because it just angers them to the point of rage that people don't believe them.

On their own, having anger problems, or having a self inflated ego, is not good.

Combining the two just might led a person to believe all sorts of crazy stuff.

Pseudo... Television

Ten years ago if you watched The Learning Channel, you could actually learn something from that television channel. Ten years ago if you watched the History Channel, you would actual see some real history lessons on that channel. Now if you get something useful and thought expanding from either channel, you've caught them on a special day.

It seems like so many channels that once presented actual stuff that's worth learning about, is now presenting mostly pseudo-science and conspiracy theories.

Where once crap like this mostly only showed on SyFy, is now quickly taking over networks who's original purpose was to show real science, and real history.

Now it seems that all these channels show either "reality" shows, or shows containing fringe science that a legit scientist would not touch with a ten foot poll.

Every one of these science networks is guilty of this, from shows about psychics, ghost hunting, UFOs, conspiracy theories, cryptozoology, the Apocalypse, pseudo-history, ancient aliens, and the list just goes on and on and on...

And The History Channel is the worst offender of them all, because just about everything I listed above, is on it's main line-up, or shown in re-runs.

In fact, finding a show on that channel with real history on it is about as rare as finding music on MTV (or what's called music, since many people don't consider it to be music).

I blame us, the people for this, since these networks give us what we want instead of what we need, and what we need is to expand our minds in the right direction.

Yes, I know that history and science are boring to some people, but I've always felt that real history and real science, once you've started to really learn the stuff, is allot more interesting then the fake stuff that's pedaled as being real.

How to handle a Conspiracy Theorist

How do you handle a conspiracy theorist?

If you know someone (friend, family member) who is a conspiracy theorist, sometimes it's just best to let continue to believe in the conspiracy theories they believe and not argue with them about it, because even reasonable people can become very upset and angry if you tell them that what they believe isn't real.

Most people who believe in conspiracy theories usually only believe in one or two, and in most cases, these beliefs do not affect their lives at all, and usually they won't bring the subject up at all unless someone else brings up the subject first.

Most of the time their most hostile arguments are actually on the internet in some message board forum, or the comments section of a news article or a blog. This is all that this is of course, just talk. Once they have vented, they'll just go back to their normal, everyday lives.

But what if their lives aren't considered normal?

What if they live in isolation due to their paranoia? Or have a total lack of, or even have no respect for the laws or law enforcement what so ever? Or engage in unproven, dis-proven, unhealthy, or even dangerous medical practices?

If this does occur then it might be time to get involved.

Many people might believe that isolating them is the answer, but really this might just led them to becoming more paranoid and more convinced of their beliefs.

The best thing to do is to keep communication with them as much as possible, and to give little hints that what they believe is wrong.

If you believe that they are suffering from mental illness, it's best to, in the kindest and gentlest way possible, suggest to them that they seek mental health treatment.

If they are definitely mentally ill, and they are talking about committing acts of violence, then you need to contact the local authorities and have that person committed, because, as it has been shown in the past, people whom very seriously believe in conspiracy theories, and are seriously mentally ill, can commit huge acts of violence.

Fact is, is that you can not just leave a person who seriously believes in conspiracy theories alone. As tempting as it might to stay away from them, if they truly need help, isolating them won't help them at all.

Jenny McCarthy Posing for Playboy... Not Good

It was recently announced that Jenny McCarthy would be posing for Playboy again, and quite frankly, I don't like it at all.

It's not that I don't think that Jenny isn't a beautiful woman. In fact I think she is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

The reason I don't like it that Jenny is posing for Playboy again is the fact that she is one of spokes people against vaccines.

Jenny's son is autistic, and she firmly believes that he became that way because of vaccines.

Despite the fact that the enormous amount of research shows that genetics, not vaccines, are the most likely cause of autism, there are still millions of people whom still believe otherwise.

These people base their beliefs on numerous fraud research articles that most major medical journals will not publish due to a lack of creditable research. Most famous of these is the article that started it all: The article that was written by Andrew Wakefield and published in the British Medical Journal.

The article was controversial from the start, and in 2010 was removed from the BMJ for fraud.

He is also no longer allowed to practice medicine in the United Kingdom.

Despite this, Wakefield still claims his research is truthful, and that there is a conspiracy by public health officials and pharmaceutical companies to discredit his work, and that they paid bloggers to post rumors about him over the internet and inflate the reports about the death from measles.

Jenny McCarthy is one of Wakefield's biggest supporters, and continues to preach the anti-vaccine cause. A cause that has been linked to the deaths of thousands of people, mostly children.

It angers me that Playboy is giving her another pictorial, despite the fact that her ignorance and irresponsibility has led to so many deaths. I don't suggest that people boycott Playboy, but I do think that people should mail Playboy letters stating how disappointed they are that Jenny is getting another pictorial, and that they should rip out and mail back the pictorial to Playboy in protest as well.

Thanksgiving!

Today is of course Thanksgiving. A day to be thankful for all that you have in your life, a day to spend time with those you are thankful for to have in your life, and a day to eat massive amounts of turkey, watch football, and fall asleep while watching football.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Thrive: The Debunking

Last week I saw a trailer for a new documentary called "Thrive: What on Earth will it take" by Foster Gamble .

The trailer starts out fine at first, but within 30 seconds it goes from asking a perfectly legitimate question of whether or not humans can thrive, to pseudo-science, and eventually conspiracy theories.

First, they talk about some secret "code" and "hidden" designs in ancient art work concerning the torus, and how it keeps showing up in so many ancient sites around the world.

This of course means nothing other then different cultures thousands of years ago interacted with each, picking up the pattern from one another, and reproducing it. It has nothing to do with some secret ancient codes (not exactly a secret either since it's right out in public).

While this part raised a red flag to me, I wasn't ready to outright to dismiss it as being nothing more then BS.

Then goes into UFOs, and that the government is covering up the truth about them, and that they have crashed alien space craft.

This raised a few more red flags for me, as that is nothing more then an unproven and probably untrue conspiracy theory, and I felt it was going way off of what I thought this documentary was going to be about.

But again, I was not about to dismiss this documentary as being nothing more then BS.

Then they talked about crop circles being communications from aliens.

This is when I dismissed this documentary as being nothing but BS.

Crop circles, even the very complex ones, are in fact man made. There are multiple websites and videos showing how they can be made in only a few hours, using some rope and a 2x4.

Then they go into where they claim that machines can be built, using the torus design, that can produce unlimited energy.

I won't actually outright say is impossible, but most scientists in the field of physics agree that a machine that could produce unlimited energy (no matter what the design is) is so highly improbable that it is considered to be outright impossible to build.

Then it goes down hill from there.

They then begin making claims that this technology is being suppressed (along with knowledge about UFOs) by large corporations (banks, oil, energy, pharmaceutics) and the government (which is implied is controlled by large corporations) and implies that these corporations are responsible for all the troubles in the world today.

And of course they tell you to "connect the dots", something that many conspiracy theorists do in order to try to prove their conspiracy theories when they have a lack of real evidence (which is almost always).

In my personal opinion, you should not waste your time, or money, on this documentary, but if you do actually wish to see what I am actually talking, here is a link the trailer to the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk

And if you wish to read a much more in-depth debunking of this documentary, please click on the link below:

http://thrivedebunked.wordpress.com/