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Top 10 Ways To Test Conspiracies

What Is a Conspiracy Theory And Why Do They Tend To Proliferate? Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? 

According to the University of Kent psychologists Michael J. Wood, Karen M. Douglas, and Robbie M. Sutton in a paper entitled “Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories,” a conspiracy theory is “a proposed plot by powerful people or organizations working together in secret to accomplish some (usually sinister) goal” that is “notoriously resistant to falsification,” and that has ‘new layers of conspiracy being added to rationalize each new piece of disconfirming evidence.” Once you believe that “one massive, sinister conspiracy could be successfully executed in near-perfect secrecy suggests that many such plots are possible.” With this cabalistic paradigm in place, conspiracies can become “the default explanation for any given event—a unitary, closed-off worldview in which beliefs come together in a mutually supportive network known as a monological belief system.” For example, the authors of this study report that “a belief that a rogue cell of MI6 was responsible for [Princess] Diana’s death was correlated with belief in theories that HIV was created in a laboratory, that the moon landing was a hoax, and that governments are covering up the existence of aliens.” The effect continues even when the conspiracies contradict one another. For example, the more participants believed that Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered. They call this process global coherence: “Someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive, and new conspiracy theories would seem more plausible in light of that belief.” Thus, “conspiracy advocates’ distrust of official narratives may be so strong that many alternative theories are simultaneously endorsed in spite of any contractions between them.”

Some conspiracy theories are true, some false. How can one tell the difference? The more the conspiracy theory manifests the following characteristics, the less likely it is to be true. Here are:

The Top 10 Ways To Test Conspiracies

1.Proof of the conspiracy supposedly emerges from a pattern of “connecting the dots” between events that need not be causally connected. When no evidence supports these connections except the allegation of the conspiracy, or when the evidence fits equally well to other causal connections—or to randomness—the conspiracy theory is likely false.

 2.The agents behind the pattern of the conspiracy would need nearly superhuman power to pull it off. Most of the time in most circumstances, people are not nearly so powerful as we think they are. 

3.The conspiracy is complex and its successful completion demands a large number of elements. 

4.The conspiracy involves large numbers of people who would all need to keep silent about their secrets.

5. The conspiracy encompasses some grandiose ambition for control over a nation, economy or political system. If it suggests world domination, it’s probably false.

6.The conspiracy theory ratchets up from small events that might be true to much larger events that have much lower probabilities of being true. 

7. The conspiracy theory assigns portentous and sinister meanings to what are most likely random and insignificant events. 

8.The theory tends to commingle facts and speculations without distinguishing between the two and without assigning degrees of probability or of factuality. 

9.The theorist is extremely and indiscriminately suspicious of any and all government agencies or private organizations. 

10. The conspiracy theorist refuses to consider alternative explanations, rejecting all disconfirming evidence for his theory and blatantly seeking only confirmatory evidence.

but ... It's always been that way

A phrase no one is unfamiliar with, I'm sure, but is that such a good thing? Rituals and customs are commonly set up and expanded upon over time by the Elite in control as a way to mold and conform a society. Just look at The Super Bowl and at what Christmas has become for huge glaring examples. Usually behind it all is the all mighty dollar and getting it into their pockets, along with enslaving and distracting a society at the same time. Just look at the Romans and the reasons behind the coliseums. Look at this shiny thing over here, while we do this over here, so you don't notice; A fully predictable and in your face tactic. So then why are so many people blindly following the herd and upholding a ritual that directly benefits the "powers that be" with money and control?
I mean there's the obvious answer that people are stupid, but really, people are a lot smarter than they know. Everyone is really smart about something, not to mention the dumbing down tactics involved throughout a person's entire life from the moment of birth to instill the message that you're not, and the complete and utter lies about history. I don't care what anyone says, People built The Pyramids. Yes, we are that intelligent and more, it doesn't take aliens, but I digress...

What this is, is a logical fallacy, the Appeal to Tradition. Appeal to Tradition is a fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that something is better or correct simply because it is older, traditional, or "always has been done." This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:

X is old or traditional

Therefore X is correct or better.

I've seen no better way to illustrate this, and I wanted to share it with you. The original academic study reference on which it is based is the snappily entitled “Stephenson, G. R. (1967). Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys. In: Starek, D., Schneider, R., and Kuhn, H. J. (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, pp. 279-288 

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The Origin of Enochian Magick

The road to knowledge has always been an elusive one and scarcely is it easily tread. Only those lithe of mind can navigate the oceans of information we find ourselves in; discerning, scouring the horizon for truth's dim glow. For such aspirants, the task becomes a balancing act of intuition and the forging of a logical congruence of one's own. Few seekers find their solace; some grow old and tired, and surrender themselves to the mystery. Some flock to the stale, modern notion of the Scientific Method; one that leaves little if any room for such things as sacredness or divinity. Others yearn to deepen their spirituality and gravitate to the religious spheres, often becoming plagued with cognitive dissonance as faith replaces logic. Less common is the mind that, unsatisfied with it's academic and religious conditioning, turns to occult wisdom in search of counsel.
John Dee, a man regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of the 16th century, was one such seeker. His quest for what he referred to as "radical knowledge", or knowledge of that which was beyond the normal understanding of reality, took him from a world of royal luxury and social status to the enigmatic and forsaken realms of what some call black magick. He's been described as the quintessential magician and his work has influenced everything from Shakespeare, navigation technologies, Elizabethan politics, to the current world of the occult.

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