Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your Brain
Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainThere’s a popular game that has been sweeping the internets over these past five years. The object of the game is to achieve the highest number of points as possible whilst discussing the events surrounding the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on 11th September 2001. The winner in any given debate wins a prize and that prize is the self-satisfaction you feel knowing that you’re not in on the conspiracy that 99% of the world is in on. Remember you’re never wrong and if you can’t twist events to fit your viewpoint then you’re a “shill for bushco.”
The points system score as follows:
100,000 points - You place full blame on… Reptoids!
10,000 points - You can boil down all complex events and causalities on planet Earth to being directed by a small number of people in a small room: “Bushco/Bilderberg/Carlyle Group/Skull & Bones and whatever conspiracy du jour.
2000 points - You admiringly write of David Icke.
1000 points - You conduct your own experiment with a bunny cage
950 points – Beginning a sentence with “I’m not anti-Semitic but…”
920 points - Insinuate Israeli involvement with 9/11
910 points - You provide a link to Stormfront/IHR/Rense as “PROOF!!!1”
900 points - Usage of the phrase "So you believe the Official 9/11 story?"
850 points – You adhere to a false dichotomy.
820 points - You accuse non-believers of MIHOP/LIHOP to be quasi-Fascists
800 points - You use a grainy grayscale image that “PROVES MIHOP!!!11”
750 points - You fall victim to confirmation bias as you ignore or dismiss evidence that can’t be explained by your self-evident belief.
700 points - Accuse all structural engineers of being "in on the conspiracy!!!1"
670 points – Standard logical fallacy
650 points - You refer to yourself as a “Truth-seeker” without a sense of irony
620 points - Usage of the phrases "How convenient!" or "Very convenient!"
600 points - Beginning a sentence with "Nothing will ever convince me that..."
550 points – You have an overwhelming tendency to type “PROOF!!1” and “TRUTH!!1” in block-caps followed by exclamation marks.
500 points - Strawman argument
30 points - You link to a website that debunks "9/11 myths."
20 points - Extracts from an interview with a qualified structural engineer
10 points – You provide specific attributable eye-witness testimony
5 points - Extracts from an interview with an expertly-qualified structural engineer
2 points - You conduct mythological research of your own that stands up to professional scrutiny by the blogosphere and academia
0 points - Professional Peer-review sources.
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When people say stuff like this:
If I happen upon information that contradict my conclusions, I try to research it so I can put it into context and verify it. If I think it's turd, then its gone. If I think it's valid, then there's a reshuffling to accomodate it.
My point is, I decide what I think for myself.
I believe George W. Bush is not human, that he has reptilian DNA and is the current frontman for an enormous conspiracy that has been defrauding the world for millenia.
You might think that is the whack. However, from all my reading and research, those descriptions best fit the world I see.
I mean, if I didn't believe something, or did believe something, simply because other people did or did not, then I'm nothing but a fucking sheep and I might as well line up for a lobotomy and become some kind of science experiment because that would put my brain to much better use.
and they're 100% serious, without a trace of irony and not being paid by The Onion I just want to cry. Seriously, it's at times like that I believe there is no hope. Sorry to take a serious turn here but that comment (taken from a real live poster on a popular left wing discussion site) has been bumming me out all evening.
My brother-in-law is an admirer of David Icke so I have troubling times with the subject matter too. I read the post that you quoted from that particular messageboard four times to make sure it wasn't a parody; but indeed the poster was absolutely serious.
I'll write more later.
