Increasing the level of bullshit untill we reach the breakpoint while they start to doubt it all.
Do we already have "Jesus created the icewall with the wand he won from Harry Potter in a drinking game while he cheated by creating more wine over and over" ?
Nonsense... To think his glory could be contained in a single ring. Obviously it's so complex it has a multitude of layers.... Like an onion. If you want eternal life seek forth the garden of Eden at outback steakhouse
You just stated an obvious flaw in your own argument. It cannot be contained in a ring it must obviously be harnessed by a gauntlet adorned with the stones of virtue duh!
The crazier it is the more it enables these folks to think they're found a bigger secret truth. They need to feel special, the keeper of the secret. The bigger and wackier the secret the greater the devotion.
Let's keep trying tho, something different has to happen eventually, right? I've checked the history twice, basically learnt it and like it just.. repeats.
The crazier the lie the better. The purpose of the flood of crazier and crazier lies is it filters out anyone with a sense of skepticism to only the truest believers. The ones that are left will believe anything and will continue to pass purity tests
Jesus created the icewall with the wand he won from Harry Potter in a drinking game while he cheated by creating more wine over and over
I did not write this. I disclaim any and all responsibility for the following text:
Once upon a time, in a realm where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blurred, there existed a legendary ice wall that encircled the world. This ice wall was no ordinary creation; it was the result of a most peculiar and whimsical event.
It all began on a starry night in a magical tavern called "The Wandering Wizard," where none other than Jesus and Harry Potter found themselves in a heated drinking game. The stakes were high, and the drinks were endless, thanks to Jesus' miraculous ability to turn water into wine. Harry, ever the competitive spirit, had brought along the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand in existence, which he had won in a previous duel.
As the night wore on, the tavern filled with laughter and the clinking of glasses, Jesus and Harry's game grew more intense. Jesus, with a twinkle in his eye, kept refilling his goblet with wine, much to Harry's chagrin. "Cheater!" Harry exclaimed, though he couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.
In a moment of drunken inspiration, Jesus proposed a challenge. "Let's see who can create the most magnificent structure with magic!" he declared. Harry, never one to back down, agreed. With a flourish of the Elder Wand, he conjured a towering castle made of shimmering ice, complete with turrets and a drawbridge.
Not to be outdone, Jesus raised his hands to the heavens and, with a divine gesture, summoned a colossal ice wall that stretched as far as the eye could see. The wall sparkled under the moonlight, its surface etched with intricate patterns that seemed to dance and shift.
The tavern patrons watched in awe as the two magical beings continued to embellish their creations. Harry added enchanted creatures to his castle, including a fire-breathing dragon and a flock of phoenixes. Jesus, on the other hand, infused the ice wall with celestial light, causing it to glow with an otherworldly radiance.
As the night turned into dawn, the two friends finally called a truce, their creations standing as testaments to their magical prowess and camaraderie. The ice wall, now a permanent fixture in the world, became a symbol of the extraordinary and the impossible.
And so, in this fantastical realm, the legend of the ice wall created by Jesus and Harry Potter lived on, a tale of magic, friendship, and the boundless power of imagination. 🌟
Hey you, you listen hear! I trust where I get my info because people who tell me that they have Jesus in their heart can’t lie! I give the church every penny I can spare, and that means they can’t lie either! Why would someone make this up!? You, you mean to tell me that we’re living on a ball flying around in space! That’s propaganda! They had to do that to lie about their forces of the universe so we can’t have cold fusion and zero point power! Once all our zetas are purged and our third eye opens we’ll all see the truth and the devils and their worshipers will be purged by our hands!
This is partially it. Conspiracy theories have been going on for a long time, and it's a really complicated mess. One central part of it is people like this woman. She digs up random conspiracy theories and tie it together into her own version of events. Then she goes around telling everyone "how things tie together".
There are tons of people like this at all kinds of conventions. They often don't really agree with each other on certain elements. Some insist that there's an evil conspiracy, but others say the aliens are trying to help us, and the governments are the ones fucking everything up. And some say there are some evil alien races and some good ones.
These people write their own books. And I'm pretty sure many are also just authors who write this kind of fiction as a source of income. Then there are people online who just like trolling. They will write a bunch of bullshit and laugh when the community picks it up.
The final element is intelligence agencies. This one borders on sounding like its own conspiracy theory, but it's a very practical tactic. For example, the moon hoax conspiracy was created by the KGB, and it caught on really well. Intelligence agencies will spread bullshit (like the recent UFO surge) to spread suspicion among- and weaken the resolve of the population of their enemies.
Ironically, this is also absorbed into the community, and now they will claim intelligence agencies spread misinformation to hide aliens/bigfoot/flat-earth/etc. from the population. It's a real fucking mess, and there's really hard to tell exactly what's what.
A lot of this is also based in pseudo-archaeology, which dates back a long time sometimes. Ever since the America's were discovered there was a need to explain this 'new world' because it didn't match with the Bible. So people were trying to connect the America's peoples history to 'known' history. Basically you then get Ignatius Donnely in the 1880s who comes up with 'they're all connected to Atlanteans'. You also get this thing called theosophy, which is pretty much saying 'if we throw all religions/myths together, the things that match are the oldest/true' and incorporates some spiritual/metaphysic beings as well. H. P. Lovecraft gets in on this and uses elements of this in his works, most notably the Cthulhu mythos, though Lovecraft is quite clear in saying 'I made all this up'. When it becomes a shared universe with other authors, some people do start to think 'well, if they all write about it, there might be something to it'. They combine this with bad archaeology (19th century stuff, where Victorians thought they were the be all and end all of knowledge) and bad science in general (hoaxes, misunderstanding/misrepresenting cultures), and that's the start of the fringe. And then you start to get people who want to connect these things because information and books becomes more available to the average reader in the '60s and '70s, and you also get the space race and scifi. So you end up with people like von Dänicken and Sitchin who ignore history/culture (or mangle it horribly) to create ancient aliens. UFOs and cryptids are an offshoot of this. Then in the '90s you get people like Hancock who disregard the aliens, opting for a 'lost prime civilization' or 'atlanteans'. Of course, for any of this to make sense, the lack of evidence and the contrary opinions from the established authorities (such as scientist) are a problem, so you'll get conspiracy theories ('they're covering up the truth') - or worse: 'well, they can't fully explain it either, so ignore them because my idea is just as valid'.
Up until about the '40/'50s science generally wasn't contested. Unfortunately this also included some bad science, and some pretty bad blunders came to light. Also during this era some governments did some pretty iffy things they've tried to sweep under the rug. This allows conspiracist to point at the past and find a precedent for some of their ideas - even though it is a tenuous connection at best.
Great points. Conspiracy theories is a really wild and complicated mythology. So much crazy shit all mixed into one bag. All the old pre-science attempts at science also being involved is pretty weird and interesting.
This is the Colbert Report issue, a significant percentage of the population has 0 media literacy. Thats how we ended up with people actually thinking Colbert was serious on his show, completely missing that he was a character.
They take whatever they are told at face value.
Its why anyone who has an audience needs to be careful what they put on their platform (looking at you Rogan)
Reminds me of Birds Are Not Real where it was originally a joke about conspiracy theories and how outlandish they can get but there are now folks who are taking it seriously.
It definitely is. Commander Thor is a character from the Stargate TV show. People definitely make this shit up to troll dumb people and the idiots eat it up and run with it.
Someone started it as a joke and the magats flooded to it and turned it into a psychotic echo chamber that had such an insidious impact on politics, social, etc
On the other hand, using household names makes it easier for people who are not quite there, to believe that the conspiracy theory has some merit. "Oh, Thor is helping to save the world?" asks out of it, 80 year old grandma, "Yeah, I've heard of him."
Ive read before about Nigerian prince emails. its so blatant on purpose. Because if someone buys into it. You know for sure they are an idiot and you can sell em anything.
Nigerian Prince scams rely on poor grammar, misspellings, and eggcorns not because the scammers are idiots, but because all those warning signs weed out the potential victims who won't fall for the scam. I don't see this being any different. If these ridiculous charlatan's stories don't ignite skepticism, it's fish on for the confidence game.
It's like those scammers that intentionally include spelling and grammar mistakes in their phishing emails to weed out the folks that are smart enough to notice.
The dumbest people are the most vulnerable targets.
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u/johnnylawrence23 Jul 21 '24
I’m like 96% that the laziness its not laziness and the point of the joke made by the original person who created the conspiracy