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Oh man, so many just picking what to believe because it only makes them more comfortable or feeling to be special or in the in-group? ah, man...
But I worry that it may be largely correct, or correct for many instead of just a few. How many are just choosing to believe a story because it makes them feel special or in the know.Well, when you put it that way it doesn't sound like a great hypothesis.
The guy who came up with it is into revisionist history according to that wiki link. I mean, what a boon to have discovered that so many people had been fooled by the supposed existence of the Carolingian period! The practical benefits, assuming many people came on board, would be enormous! One's ego would benefit. It would be like discovering that Kierkegaard's writings were really authored by his brother Peter! Even if it weren't true, having tens of followers would feel great! Lol
That was a pretty long audio, and I listened in the back ground but wasn't always paying attention, because I like to read (more fast), so how would you yourself summarize what makes people believe conspiracy theories?
so how would you yourself summarize what makes people believe conspiracy theories?
Very interesting and makes sense. At first a mix of some actual things woven in a way that is entertaining.... but hooks come along and pull people in deeper.I think at first its a fun entertaining thought presented as reality
But as more pieces are presented a couple of things happen
The mind likes the 'whoa this could be true' moments
And if it's not really all that happy about the reality it is in
It might like them better than the 'Stop: this is true' moments.
It likes solving puzzles and riddles
And making connections
So the theory allows it to go into this mode
While the propagators can submit other little dots every now and then
As well, it forms a clique
Because minds like like-minds
So it's a bit like shunting someone into an addictive alternate reality
Than then becomes self propagating
And if you add political emotional incentives to all of these things
(emotion and "the need to be right" can be *quite* addictive)
(Most Conspiracy theories present an 'Enemy' of a sort)
It can really turn into a one-way street
Even when the creator of Ong's Hat fessed up
There was a subsection that wouldn't believe him
And then thought he was part of the conspiracy
He accidentally created something that went beyond his control
I find them extraordinarily dangerous. It's a subtle disassociation from Truth, (at first entertained for largely for entertainment sake) but it continues to the point where Truth is no longer recognized or even recognizable.
Also, one of the nice things about fighting a vast conspiracy is that it leaves you no time for self-reflection. Which is exactly the sort of thing you would need, to escape this kind of entrapment in a conspiracy theory.
I just "learned" about this conspiracy theory:
"The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. First published in 1991, it hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.[2] According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.
The hypothesis has never attracted any support from historians."
I know it's a risk to post one more conspiracy theory for folks to waste their time on, but I'm curious if any Christians believe this. If so, doesn't Nicaea explain it? "Illig's "three missing centuries" thus correspond to the 369 years between the institution of the Julian calendar in 45 BC, and the fixing of the Easter Date at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD."
Phantom time hypothesis - Wikipedia
For example we are lied about giants
I haven’t been reading about this so I don’t know but I do know that we are lied about true history. For example we are lied about giants, that they never existed but there is tons of proof that they did. Also there is lot of lies about wars and such.
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