tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post6776206341518686447..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: False flags and Fort HoodGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-18211420510616017032014-04-04T08:11:39.973-07:002014-04-04T08:11:39.973-07:00Over the past few years I have realized that these...Over the past few years I have realized that these false flaggers are not just benign lunatics who mumble to themselves at bus stops, but rather are dangerous and ignorant elements of society, and that society itself will not progress until it has found a way to remove the impacts of these people.<br /><br />I have a relative who completely buys into just about every conspiracy theory you can name, from 9/11 being an inside job (albeit to achieve goals he cannot articulate--but still, it was an inside job!), to having seen chemtrails over his small town one morning and then falling ill with some respiratory ailment literally minutes later, to the Boston Marathon bombing being a government set up, to (most disgustingly for me) the Newtown school shooting being "completely staged by actors as a way for the government to take away our guns."<br /><br />They suffer from the same insular thinking and complete divorce from reality that religious fanatics have. The proof behind their beliefs is that there is no proof. <br /><br />If every bit of contrary evidence to their views can be dismissed because the people presenting that evidence are also part of the conspiracy, then the lunatics simply cannot be reached.George Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621243255715875548noreply@blogger.com