Anonymous Coward User ID: 769657 United States 05/05/2011 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THE GULLIBLE MIND EXPLAINED: WHY LEMMINGS WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. The gullible mind explained [ link to www.naturalnews.com] (NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains: How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so completely without even asking commonsense questions about the reliability or factual basis of that information? These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority. Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions about information they receive from all sources, the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information from sources that occupy the role of apparent authority in society. Governments never lieBut how does this work inside their heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so. Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violate this imaginary honor code. Learn more: [ link to www.naturalnews.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1326056 United States 05/06/2011 08:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: THE GULLIBLE MIND EXPLAINED: WHY LEMMINGS WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. And you have an expertise in these matters? A doctorate in psychology? Or are you just a run-of-the-mill internet know nothing "expert?" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1353665 United States 05/06/2011 08:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: THE GULLIBLE MIND EXPLAINED: WHY LEMMINGS WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. And you have an expertise in these matters? A doctorate in psychology? Or are you just a run-of-the-mill internet know nothing "expert?"
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1326056There is a latent tinge of gullibility in your reply. |
Bowyn Aerrow
User ID: 1358310 United States 05/06/2011 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: THE GULLIBLE MIND EXPLAINED: WHY LEMMINGS WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING.
Interesting. Your subject line contains a myth (lemmings) which the gullible took to be "truth" while your body rant goes on about gullibility of the masses. I do hope you were being ironic here - somewhere. "My Dog, its full of fleas!" -David Bowwow
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.” - William S. Burroughs |
olaf "/ lol User ID: 1372378 Netherlands 05/06/2011 08:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: THE GULLIBLE MIND EXPLAINED: WHY LEMMINGS WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. oh sorry it is true i try while they beat me with a sattelite.
they even didn't dare to ditch there bird because it didn't came alive in testing his livability on screen after well weeks or even years of using it to talk crap. |