lpnmajor wrote:
If you cannot find facts to support a pet theory, just make them up. Repeat them to as many people as possible and some will believe them. Those people will repeat them to a number of others and some of THEM will believe it. Repeat this pattern often enough and eventually, enough people will believe them that they will become fact.
People believe things to be fact because;
a: They wish them to be true
b: They fear them to be true
c: They know them to be true, by verification.
If the majority of people believe something to be fact, it is, for all intents and purposes. This is what I call the "self verification" system. "I believe this to be true because everybody else does". Using the above method, ANYTHING can become fact. Scientific verification is not necessary, self verification is sufficient for most people.
Even here on this forum this phenomenon is rampant. People are using each other as verification. Many of the links posted are extensions of the self verification system. Stating " I believe this to be true" has no value unless accompanied by a link to a site where there are others who also " believe this to be true". Scientific verification not required.
I believe this to be true, I defy you to prove otherwise.
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Incredibly astute and extremely timely. Two things come to mind. The first one being...you won't get a lot of Amens shouted from the Hallelujah chorus corner of the choir. The second "might" be the reason why you aren't hearing a lot of Amens from that section of the choir and I would offer the opinion that it "might" be that a lot of folks are looking in the mirror to see if they recognize the individual they see looking back at them -- and they aren't happy with what they see.
That said, it is time to turn things around, is it not -- no more fueling one another, no more fiction, because we desperately want "our side" to be true, and therefore "right" -- actual facts being stated. Who knows what we might accomplish.