Internet that appears to encourage delusional thinking.

This article suggests people may inflame delustional thinking, which no one says it can not, but do you think ATS is the same? Are people just encouraging more silly fears in each other and making it worse. Why are people here in the first place?

Do people like to share their stories and inflame their beliefs so people take notice while half just stick around for the advice and helpfullness of others? Do we make it worse for other selves or do we have enough sceptics to bring use down to earth?

Sometimes these so called experts are so unbelieving that I am starting to think that maybe they are the problem, people are waking up from the Matrix, becoming spiritual, noticing the beyond and maybe a connection with The God. I know I have had wierd and different experiences that science can not explain so my question is, why are the so called experts in science so disinforming to sway people from a Higher Truth? Are they so intelligent that it makes them less emotional and for that fact they can not connect to the higher frequences of thoughts that some people sem to slip into? What are they afraid of why are they trying so hard to disprove. I feel like I have gone past the sceptic side of things and now it all seems like a these professionals are so stuck in their testubes that they don't see the big picture anymore and society as a whole is being conditioed to be spiritualess so we don't break out of the Matrix.



www.nytimes.com...

Although many Internet groups that offer peer support are considered helpful to the mentally ill, some experts say Web sites that amplify reports of mind control and group stalking represent a dark side of social networking. They may reinforce the troubled thinking of the mentally ill and impede treatment.

Dr. Ralph Hoffman, a psychiatry professor at Yale who studies delusions, said a growing number of his research subjects have told him of visiting mind-control sites, and finding in them confirmation of their own experiences.

“The views of these belief systems are like a shark that has to be constantly fed,” Dr. Hoffman said. “If you don’t feed the delusion, sooner or later it will die out or diminish on its own accord. The key thing is that it needs to be repetitively reinforced.”


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Every day I see people ranting and raving about how "awesome" something (completely ridiculous) posted on here is.
Things that five years ago would be laughed out of the park and were widely known as jokes, without even a smidgen of a chance of someone with a fifth of a brain being taken in are only a fraction of the kind of things people are spreading around.

A big 'community' is nice because there is almost always someone to let the person know how stupid they're being, but there are also a lot more people to come in and fall for/support/encourage the behavior, perpetuating the stupidity.

I don't know...




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Use the contrast of darkness and light to show you who you are and who you are not. Thats what your here to do. Those people who you are annoyed with show you who you are through that contrast. In their pitfalls and seemingly meaningless actions they light the path should you seek it.
i love you

Somtimes you have to wonder if the Blind are leading the Blind, or the gulible are leading the gulibes.

But a lot of people just like to get it off their chests, people expeience things they can not exaplain and our specialist interests may help each other. I don't think this ATS site is making people delustional but has a healthy balance of sceptics, believers and those in between.:

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So, now we're the terrorists for being terrorized and spreading our terrible experiences?

Geez.. psychology has come along way!

Well all learn that compassion one way or another. At one end or the other. Im glad that you came here with your bad experiance to get it off your chest Be aware of what leader you are ... and whos following you.

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There is nothing wrong with discussing theories or asking questions? It a good way of finding out information, discussing it and also just as important discrediting it. Its how mysteries are solved?? It is one thing to thing to find out information, how you process that information is up to the individual. Regarding silly posts, yes you do get some crazy posts some you just know are hoaxs or false but still you have to understand if the possibilty is there, then there is also the the possibly it could be true. If it were true then it must have an explanation - this is why discussion and theory is important so that in order to prove either way to back up that claim. ATS has helped me find information fast, helped me to understand and discuss subjects i am interested in and share my own findings. Make the most of now, who knows, we may not always have this luxury.

Regarding fear, you may be intersted in the post below from this wise ATS member:

www.abovetopsecret.com...&mem=CrowServo

Just in case people think I agree with the article, I don't I am just saying look at what the world has come to, every move every decision we make these days has got some professor telling us we are wrong. I add these theories to the bin of disinformation because they are afraid that we might find out the truth.

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"Internet that appears to encourage delusional thinking."

Actually a more accurate statement may be that the internet provides a safe place for delusional thinkers to be heard.

Read and watch everything only then make an assesment.Most things on ATS i outright call delusional etc are things i have researched before...even if i know im going to be watching some evangelical christian talk about the NWO and satanists etc etc for an hour solid, ill still watch before commenting...You always learn something even with the most deluded of theories...

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Are they so intelligent that it makes them less emotional and for that fact they can not connect to the higher frequences of thoughts that some people sem to slip into? What are they afraid of why are they trying so hard to disprove.

I believe the world is full of conspiracies and always will be. Some of them are to hide truths that can win wars, make people rich, make people powerful, you name it. Very often it's about dumb bullies stealing from their unaware, smarter betters. Unfortunately, these bullies outnumber the smarter ones and often label them as "delusional" or "crazy" as they wait for them to come up with something worth stealing from them. This is why it's important to keep the doors and windows of communication open between these "delusional" people so that when their ideas, theories etc. are marketed by the theives "stalking" them, as the article stated, they can prove to the people that matter to them that they weren't crazy after all.