Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 05, 2026, 02:24 PMYou totally miss the point. People will only believe in conspiracies that really do not scare them.I disagree. People are scared by UFOs and aliens. People were scared by peak oil as pitched by the conspiratorical folks. Ruppert for example. GovCo knocked down the towers to hide peak oil! Pops at peakoil.com. gave up a decent career to grow food and tend pigs in Missouri. People invented conspiracies about Covid shots because they were scared. The exact favorite of one of the moderators at LATOC. They are TERRIFIED of the conspiracy, and BELIEVE it.
Quote from: K-DogJoe will sail De-Nile between the shores.Pops is EMBARASSED by not his denial of the conspiracy, but of falling for it and losing a decade of his life. He moved back to California, remodeled houses for folks, enjoys his monster truck and all the fuel that is available. His name was Pops, and he was a moderator on peakoil.com
Quote from: K-DogDefend his turf like a rabid guard dog. Reason flies away from him not because Joe finds an attractive deception to play with as you describe, but rather because Joe can't handle the truth.Pops handled the truth he was spoon fed by PhDs who scared him into doing something. He handled the CROCK he was spoon fed....he had a perfectly normal amount of IQ points....and bought sales pitch because he really liked the idea. He handled the LIE perfectly okay.
Quote from: K-DogThe truth is that most people are weak, and I have a Pulp Fiction clip about that. Weak at heart. Having the heart of a lion will wear your ass out.I agree. Most people are weak. And even more lack the ability to follow a path through the cloud of nonsense, stories, sales pitches and conspiractorial claims which the internet only increased exponentially with its growth. Heart is great. You can have a strong heart...and without a functioning central processor make a good sucker for every story that comes down the pike. I liked the days of Planet X and the Mayan calendar myself, it was popular on one of RE's old websites.