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Belief in Conspiracies Linked to Machiavellian Mindset

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posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 02:28 AM
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Originally posted by l_e_cox
reply to post by TribeOfManyColours
 

This information is twisted.

And bringing Machiavelli into just adds to the confusion because many people have no idea who he was or what he wrote.

You have to be able to confront evil to investigate this stuff. You have to be able to "think like a criminal" if you want to spot them. But you don't have to be one!

This "research" proves nothing and accomplishes nothing positive.
What I accomplishes is more and more isolation of free thinkers like us. The want us to turn to each other. When the sheep accept the condition these studies revealed. We would be pushed more and more in a corner. Until you are exterminated. And the people see you as part of the problem.



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 02:30 AM
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This text is becoming dangerous


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posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 03:27 AM
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Originally posted by HispanicPanic
HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

so what about people who believe in religions. HA this site is getting so ridiculously stupid everyday it makes me sick.


This site is an platform for threads to be created like this one. (You getting sick of the fast amount of news that fly's around your ears)
But yes what about people who believe in religions? Denial of holocaust?
Eu push law for Denial Holocaust So it is already active on the religion part



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 04:32 AM
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This just in from Dutch MSM source.

Jesus had a child and 9-11 was an inside job(headline dutch msm)

They sure do focus on the conspiracy theorists lately. Is there someone scared? :-)



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 09:11 AM
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Oh b.s. Most of the conspiracy researchers I've listened to are trying desperately, often at great risk to their lives, to shine the light on the powers of darkness that create corporate monopolies, war and mayhem (as Gen. Smedley Butler clearly stated 70 some yrs ago.) Shine the light on them, they scatter like cockroaches, as Kevin Smith of the Kevin Smith Show says (not the Kevin Smith director); or Mel Fabregas of Veritas, or Coasttocoast, and so many individual researchers such as G. Edwar Griffin, Peter Levenda, Wayne Madsen, and poor murdered Dorothy Kilgallen who knew too much too soon about the JFK murder.

This kind of "finding" is just a way to try and shut us up from any attempt at exposing the criminals who run this world. As for falling into the same trap ourselves, the founders of this country foresaw that trap and created 3 branches of governments along with various checks and balances. Not perfect but at lest the saw the danger and tried to do something about forestalling it.

Try again to shut us up about "conspiracies." Realizing that the world runs on conspiracy doesn't require any deeper thinking than clear common sense and skepticism of establishment authority. And it's too late to deter us by stigmatizing. We know too many of the names and we even know where some live.



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 05:54 PM
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conspiracy theorists. also known as truth seekers



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 06:08 PM
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Apparently social habitat wasn't taken into consideration either. This is another "experiment" with an end goal in mind. Basically, the researchers were told to prove 'conspiracy theorists' are crazy, and thats what they set out to do. The whole thing is bs, and I would like to disregard it, but the fact is, that ppl that don't even know me or us, is going to read this, and automatically ASSume that the info is correct and not read anymore into it. Just wish the info that I gave ppl was as readily consumed as this BS.



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 09:04 PM
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When someone gets too close to the truth, what is the best way to deal with it? Discredit the person making the claim; a la make all CT'ers look like crack-pots.

Those who can't debate the argument, debate the man instead.
edit on 22-4-2011 by mirageofdeceit because: (no reason given)



posted on Apr, 22 2011 @ 09:40 PM
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I for one would partake in covering up the landing of the moon if the circumstances presented themselves. Maybe be a secret government agent covering up alien landings or a hidden agenda.

With that said, I think that one you become a "conspiracy theorist" it opens your eyes to a new way of thinking. Your mind steps out of the box and begin to look at things with skepticism and bias. You don't believe everything that is presented to you by the media on a silver platter. You begin to question the very information that is provided to you everyday. You wonder what really happened? What are they not telling us?

If having an open eye for being lied to everyday and not trusting the media is a bad thing, then count me in.



posted on Apr, 23 2011 @ 12:03 PM
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The article is in itself of Machiavellian nature and only misleads and deceives the reader while not being totally wrong at the same time.

Thinking is generally linked to the brain. Stating the obvious here, but every thought is in some way linked to everything else in your mind and you can point out wacky connections in any combination you want and in any way you wish to focus peoples attention at. The actual punchline of the original post seems to be biased and not a real objective scientific study on the subject.



posted on May, 3 2011 @ 07:31 AM
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posted on May, 3 2011 @ 07:52 AM
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The problem with conspiracy theorists (other than unsubstantiated beliefs) is they think they got the whole world figured out, as if it can be simplified into a comic book style narrative with clear "goodies" and "baddies". Fact of the matter is, the world is chaotic and complex, with many powerful people with opposing self-interests, not some pantomime plot with the dastardly "PTB" orchestrating the world.
edit on 3-5-2011 by john_bmth because: (no reason given)




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