Jeff Peng What color are reptiles? Green. What's Hanks' last name? Green. What color is American money? Green. What does this all mean? Eat your green vegetables. It pleases our alien overlords.

Jeff Peng You should consider joining us. Once you are chipped life becomes so much nore relaxed.

Jeff Peng Yep

Jeff Peng *AYY LMAO*

I, for one, welcome our alien overlords.

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I do like to read conspiracy theories as fiction.

@@alghifary67 so you all believe whatever government tells you is true

@卐Children of the Rainbow 卐 well I do believe that powerful people are able to conspire, but I would never believe 100% the conspiracy theorists. I'll doubt both of them, but will prefer one side depends on how I conclude the "fact".

@卐Children of the Rainbow 卐 you have to apply logic to any situation which is where conspiracists fall short and project their own narrative to feel satisfied.

Well, I'd say that it's definitely common among Dunning-Kruger cases...

Also perhaps factoring into this is that unintelligent or unskilled people tend to over-evaluate their own intelligence or skill compared to someone who is actually intelligent (who tend to underestimate it) because they don't know how much they don't know, so to speak. Many of these theorists aren't--or at least don't come across as--the most intelligent of people.

Dunno dude, I have very low self-esteem and never figured that anyone was out to get me, just that silly stuff can make me upset. Feeling less than others sucks and knowing that even when you think you have under control something is going to come along and make you feel bad all over again. Today I'm okay, my coping mechanism is just not talking.

Yes, there have been studies showing such correlations. Furthermore, just look at Trump and his supporters. They not just believe that they are smarter, but they also believe in very illogical theories like the conspiracy where China is trying to make Americans believe that global warming is real to make US manufacturing uncompetitive.

Robert Baillargeon this is very much possible...

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Ego and Trolling enters in to it sure

I think it's more likely that people who've been emotionally (and publicly) invested in a certain conspiracy theory for a while develop a defense mechanism that makes it impossible for them to realize they're wrong, no matter the counter-evidence.

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Mount Average 100% agree

Well aren't you the cutest little internet psychologist. Making assumptions and giving diagnosis based on two sentences from someone you've never met.

Local is a very good example of the Dunning/Kruger effect.

They make their whole personality that, it's sad if they weren't this annoying

That would make sense. You can gather quiet quickly a large community around you 🤔

This especially applies to 2020.

Yes, loneliness have always fostered either deep, very deep, wisdom - or madness. Conspiracies have always existed if we care study the past. So what I see as key is to humbly and wisely help each other discern which is true conspiracies and which is not.

My dad believes in so many conspiracy theories from microchip to the end of times. He’s an engineer but wtf he thinks like a televangelist. 🤮

And narcissism

I was right. I'd thought to look for this before writing it myself ;-)

Fair point. Let’s be honest, the Final Solution probably would have sounded like one to the people in Germany at the time Actually, that might be another reason we’re so paranoid. Granted, even in the 19th century, there were conspiracy theories of what I can only refer to as the ijewminati, but after the hell that was the 40s, governments hiding dirty secrets from their people was something that clearly happened once, so who was to say it wasn’t happening now? Granted, I’m not saying the theorists are right, I’m just saying that it was quite possibly a sufficiently large blow to government credibility (not even a specific government or form of it, but groups of people working together at all) that some people effectively gave up on the idea of people being able to do good. Because when you think about it, a lot of theories have an unsaid premise that no one has spilled the beans, and that implies that people are okay with holding such a hideous secret. Where the frick am I going with this? Even I don’t know

spindash64 i find adopting a philosophy of nihilism makes the whole thing much less troublesome lol

It's only "paranoia" if you're wrong.

Your profile pic makes this comment so much better

Nice catch!

At least someone else spotted it!

What was it?

Ohhh

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some conspiracy theories that form communities around them really do work like decentralized cults!

it's been turned up in most of his videos.

This means something. he's DEFINITELY trying to send us a message without THEM finding out!

It's a signal!

I was hoping I wasn't the only one to notice!

Kyle for real tho!

It's an interesting thought. I once had a professor who made the argument that humans are a pattern species.

Epic Lord what do you mean “come to”? Do you think this is new?

vitamindubya idc how old it is. It’s still ridiculous. Lol.

I think that the people who "believe" that earth is flat only do it for the laughs.

wut'sit2yuh huh? Oh ok it’s not flat. Lol.

Alpha Tango unfortunately I think some people actually believe the trolls and actually believe it themselves.

I call them conspiracy myths.

I call them paranoid schizophrenic’s

This was the general consensus among the majority of the population until watergate... after that, a distrust of government really began to take off.

Oh yeah!

AceAlbatros that was my very first thought

It's probably not meant to because the creators of this are not willing to look at all aspects of a conspiracy. Investigators have been chipping away at the JFK conspiracy for decades and more and more of it is found to be true. Some conspiracies are truth. But, some are not and you will never be able to convince a 'flat-earther' they are wrong. And there is, of course, the biggest conspiracy of all: religion.

There was a magic bullet! It was forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth!

Yep, real thing. Just like fake news will "explain" the FISA memo and what it means instead of actually reading a short 4 page document and let the watchers engage in cognitive processes for the first time in their lives. It's easier to discredit something by calling it a "conspiracy theory" instead of taking time to explain the arguments for both sides

You know, I've never met a "flat earther", seen a rally or a book on it. This will sound like a conspiracy theory But you sure that isn't just another distraction to keep Americans from doing anything that actually matters? I just have trouble seeing Any logic at all in the thought that we are on a flat world

Ooh, me too, except I got my shots but caught norovirus instead I think.

wtf

@Leonor O i would have autism than being dead

@Leonor O he never got the flu maybe beacuse he never came with anyone with the flu and firt of all your husband is not the entire world there are many flu cases you can see just keep believing in this comforting lies is easy than self study and understand it

What are flu shots? There were no flu shots when I was a kid. When I was a kid people still got the chicken pox. There was no vaccine for that either.

It's actually not completely true. It is designed to look wavy, but it's crinkled because it was stowed away.

Surely it would have been folded up when stowed away back on earth tho? Take up less space after all. And having a crinkled flag must almost be criminal in Murica lol.

Same reason we have Science. Religion was ancient mans attempt at understanding the world around him. Science is Modern mans study of the processes of the universe through theory, observation and testing

I think you missed the part about "If it's too hard to process, you might look for other explanations". Science isn't going "Nah, that requires too much thinking, we'll just go with the easy option that has no evidence."

Science is all about theory though and the one thing you don't do is rule anything out. Many renowned scientists were and are religious, living by this principle has allowed them to contribute a heck of a lot to the scientific community. So don't shame others just because they don't believe in the same things you believe in, even if others may ridicule you.

Excuse me, I don't "believe" in general. I know, or I think.

WWEdeadman the Big Bang is a theory. You don't know what happened. Saying you think the Big Bang happened is pretty much the same thing as saying you believe it happened. They're just synonyms.

Those are garden gnomes

It’s from Fallout: New Vegas

Fun ain't it ? hopefully death weeds them out ..Sadly stupid people are breeders

The crazies and normals in any comment section is what makes KZfaq largely appealing lol For me, reading and contributing comments must win my time(over watching clips) by 4 to1 margin, lol.

Illjay So it is supporting the current scientific perspective reliably? good to know.

Probably not sadly, since this sort of thing only tends to make the folks who believe conspiracy theories cling even harder to their beliefs.

Adam Stansbury Its very fascinating how one actually can help people get over these theories maybe that should be the next video :)

did you check the sources of well established studies in the describtion called studies? also there is no unified position against this, or is there a group that says: c every single conspiracy theory is true?" no there isn't they never said: "every conspiracy theory is false." they only cyted studies that said that for example patter recogniton relates to the likelyhood of somebody adopting a conspiracy theory, which is not controvercial at all and was reproduced in many different versions. Its science, this is not politics or a religious or socipolitical discussion. yes they added some pieces of "opinion" like "the moonlanding was real" there is no logical opposition to this video, or what did you mean? also why wouldn't you reflect on your believes anyway everyone of us could always be false i never said "changed someones opinion"

No, I don't really have any. If there's a claim with no evidence to back it up, I disregard it completely.

Oh but people don't?

@The22Dude But disrespectful people would NEVER fabricate false conspiracy theories for their own purposes - like money, attention or maybe just for fun?

Take my like and leave

+Marco I was just going to say that. Almost all of these 'theories' were uncovered by proper investigative journalism before the public at large ever became aware of them. Or they were exposed early on by one official body or another. Paranoid Joe Blogs had very little role.

I seems we have a different understanding of the term "theory". I would say even a proper investigative journalist (or a proper historian) started with a "theory" about a "conspiracy". So while most "conspiracy theories" a probably a bundle of pish (or worse), some are legitimate theories, and some even turn out to be true.

Well, before exposing the actual conspiracy, they were possibly in some cases "conspiracy theories" at some point, unless no one even had suspected of anything until an "oops" moment that blew everything. But even if some people were really able to connect real dots and expose real conspiracies based on their theories, that does not make any random/typical conspiracy theory just as likely to be valid. That's just another instance of the "Galileo fallacy".

Conspiracy beleivers love to play this card "what about all the ones that were true". An interesting foot note here. As Rob Brotherton pointed out in one of his lectures when an audience member 'cleverly' tried to catch him out with this. No conspiracy theory has ever been exposed to be true by a conspiracy theorist. But rather whistle blowers such as Journalists, apposing Politicians, Police officers, field experts and other figures in authority. But NEVER conspiracy theorists. Ironically, people Conspiracytards consider to be part of conspiracies.

Conspiracies were/are real, and that fact fuels various theories. That's the case.

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@Jeffy Jeffy haha I know right! Far rather be a sheep than one of those whakos anyways

@Jeffy Jeffy I know right. I can't tell you how many times I have also been called a sheep for debunking and calling out conspiracy theorists and their foolish conspiracy theories. Lol 😆

@@chandlersleziak6416 Use the same method those conspiracy terrorists (yes, correctly spelled) do. Tell them "do research, sheep" before they do. It pretty often works - but not always, of course.

his muscles?

He's not wearing pants. None of them are...

He's a hermaphrodite.

Yep. Under his rolled-up-in-the-back collar:)

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UrbanTarzan Duh I was thinking this myself

It's sad how you can take such a fascinating topic, the origin of human spiritual experience, and squeeze a big fat dump over it just because you don't happen to like organized religion. And now I'm going paint with a wide brush myself by typing: What a Reddit-tier edgelord comment, 'Mr.' UrbanTarzan Duh.

Burniture There is no biological basis for a "spirit", it's part of your imagination

I smell a flame war

Shhhh.. just quietly agree with the religious people so we don't have a 200 long comment war in the future

I think emotions and ego motivate smarter ones. They can have anyone pull a fast one on them. And mental illness.

lay off the drugs

Plenty of Shekels in that reward.

It's not a theory if it's provably true.

Actually, all of us are aliens and Area 51 is hiding the real humans.

Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish what is and what is not a conspiracy theory.

It's your fault for making legitimate conspiracy theories that can actually make sense be generalised to jokes on the same level as thinking the world is run by cyborg demon space samurai zombie alien lizards.

Ruaidhrí Ó Dálaigh I totally agree!

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is he a rich white man(not being racist) but that was who was only accepted in it not no Jay Z or Beyonce !

Kristian179 what?

just addressing that it was such a thing but now they're disbanded but people nowadays like to believe that Jay Z,Beyonce and even JB is in it which is just not true !

Kristian179 What purpose does this serve?

Yes please!

That would be a cool episode,but I think they would offend WAY too many people

Defiance ... Why is all religion bad? I agree that religions that have animal-headed half-people is weird, but you can’t jumble Judaism or Christianity into all the others. Christianity is founded on truth, reasoning, logic, compassion, love, respect, honor, knowledge, freeing-limitations (including not murdering, stealing, coveting, or envying someone else or their property,) and the like. Name one Biblical thing that’s bad (something in-context that it actually quoted in the text, not something some “label-only Christians” do that really isn’t right.”) I would like to see why you think that all religious people are automatically less knowledge-seeking or intelligent than atheists. I believe science is great and it’s amazing what we’re learning about the micro- and macro-scale physics of the universe. Why can’t the history of “Let there be light!” (BIG BANG!) be the same? Why can’t the scientific community see the “separation of ‘day’ from ‘night’” as the period when the initial expansion of matter started separating (slowing) from the speed of light and forming clouds and eventually stars and galaxies? The non-specific nature of “Genesis” was written for people who didn’t yet theorize that gravity was even a thing. If the very first book of the Bible was a crash-course on quantum physics instead of what it is (especially at a time where people had less education than our middle-schoolers now have,) then it would have had a negative impact on the common spread and readability of it. (Also, no need to have fun exploring and discovering when you’re given the answer sheet right?) The current “scientific” explanations are both filling-in and mirroring the Biblical history better and better, not worse, as time goes on. We are fighting over something that isn’t as different as popular figures would point out, in my opinion.

James Banks ... Umm, excuse me? How would we be able to read and understand it if it wasn't in our language? What good would it do for the Bible to be written in something we don't know? Why would any god (or the God) write his instructions and love story in Undine, Klingon, Wookie, etc? That doesn't make sense. The entire purpose of the thing is for it to be understood by everyone (which, at least for a long time, will require literally 100s of human-written translations.) The Ten Commandments were originally given by God's hand per the text. Also, if you read the versions that highlight God's/Jesus' words by making them red/other color, then you'd see that there is a lot of colored text in the Bible, especially in the New Testament (2nd Half.) Things in this world decay, so in what way should you, I, or anyone else expect the 100% original source material to be 100% intact? ...especially 1000s of years in the future? That's not to say we should accept changes or allow the loss of the original meaning, but language changes and translations will always be necessary (written by human beings.) [EDIT] P.S. The original texts were in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin mostly, so the only way anyone could read them anyway is if the reader knew 3 potentially extra languages. To require everyone to learn those 3 (while it is something to be interested in,) would be a high barrier-to-entry for someone being told the text for the first time. Also, having a language barrier like that opens the door for "spiritual leaders" to hide the text from the people and project their own opinions as "canon" when its really lies/deceit. Translations are amazingly great because then the "spiritual elite" can't hide the truth, which means everyone has an equal opportunity to study the book themselves and see what it has to offer and what they can learn from it to improve themselves and their surrounding community.

The big problem is that most conspiracy theories don't just ask you to believe something that has some evidence to support it, most of them also demand that you *ignore* anything that counts against them -- for instance, not only do flat-earthers say that our world is a disc because they observe a flat horizon & don't see tall buildings rising at angles to each other, they also, in order to make their theory work, insist that all the scientists in modern history are lying to us about the distance to the sun, the function of gravity, & what lies beyond the "great ice wall", etc -- it just gets ridiculous -- & then, if you give them the scientific reasons for why the horizon seems flat to them, or why they don't see building rising at angles to each other, they just dismiss you as either a tool who's fallen for the OS, or accuse you of being a paid actor, lying for the "overlords" -- in fact, that's pretty much what makes them "conspiracy theories", & not just "theories"...

the lesson is: Truth is never simple because it requires mental effot, reserch and an acceptance that our own ideas might be wrong in the end.

You might need to first examine the evidences and see if the evidences are concrete and strong or another soft pattern-recognizing speculations. That goes for both for and against the theory, honestly. Also remember that the less fantastic story is always more possible and executable than the wild crazy ones.

It is a good argument you got there. The reason conspiracy theories got so much evidence behind them might just be the fact that getting evidence that supports a conspiracy theory is easy but getting evidence that disproves it is not. Like if I said that area-51 was hiding spaceships how would you ever disprove it? And when evidence arrives you could just say that the government covered it up or the journalist was part of the whole thing.

And also people look for evidence that supports their beliefs and sometimes people just don't know enough in advance. You would be surprised how many people don't know that humans have been to the moon 6 times. For example my dad didn't know but what he did know was all the facts that proved they haven't been to the moon

Not all though. It needs to be proven. If it can be proven and it’s shown to be true, it’s true. But if it can’t be proven, it’s bullcrap

Why would you say that?

No... don't start a comment war...

late bronze mythology. Since most of it has only a passing familiarity with facts, it can't be called history.

Local Toast, I think you have a misunderstanding of how science works. You're supposed to start with the 'null hypothesis' that nothing weird is going on, and then look for evidence that conclusively proves you wrong. Conspiracy theorists and religious fundamentalists are the complete opposite, they start by assuming something IS going on, and then ignore all the evidence that could prove them wrong.

Don’t bring religion into this ✋🏻🙄

True

exactly

dka13 that one is true, have you ever seen a curved earth? Check mate.

People say they can see the earth curving when they look out at the ocean and see ships disappearing over the horizon. Well I can ALWAYS see the earth flatting. Checkmate you globe lobby shills.

If Earth were flat, cats would've pushed everything off it by now.

Benimation my 6 cat's just agreed with you.

No it's a banana obviously

Andrew Gari and here I thought that was just in the movie 'Interstellar!'

The scientific term "theory" is not what you think it is.

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Well at least then there are people controlling the world than the alternative of the world being a hideously complex mess.

Seems to me that you were forced to write this comment of yours by THEM.

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