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UNCatTech said:
Interesting that they keep coming up with theories of ways to circumvent the election, yet the dems haven't shown any intent to not follow the normal process, while we have Jan 6th as evidence of which party is willing to do unprecedented things to gain and maintain power.
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They have a lot of 2020 political wet dreams leftover.
 
UNCatTech said:
Interesting that they keep coming up with theories of ways to circumvent the election, yet the dems haven't shown any intent to not follow the normal process, while we have Jan 6th as evidence of which party is willing to do unprecedented things to gain and maintain power.
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And with each passing conspiracy theory that fails to come to fruition, they never self-reflect and say "hmmm, these things I keep hearing and reading never turn out to be true. Maybe I shouldn't believe those sources any longer." Nope, they just dive headlong back into the right wing disinformation swamp.
 
Wheels81 said:
“Many people are saying…”
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“Name one.”

I mean, you’re obviously right that Trump will just dodge and weave and nobody will actually hold him accountable for making declarative assertions with no support for them whatsoever, but it would still be nice for someone to try.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
And with each passing conspiracy theory that fails to come to fruition, they never self-reflect and say "hmmm, these things I keep hearing and reading never turn out to be true. Maybe I shouldn't believe those sources any longer." Nope, they just dive headlong back into the right wing disinformation swamp.
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So true. I don't believe most of the cultist understand self-reflection.

Self-reflection might have saved me. 😎
 
UNCatTech said:
So true. I don't believe most of the cultist understand self-reflection.

Self-reflection might have saved me. 😎
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Maybe. It's tough if you're challenging beliefs you grew up with.

Never did much for me but I might have overdone it. Wouldn't be the first time or the first thing I did that with. My problem was largely not having any trust in anything, really. Were you able to blend in a new approach to how you view things or more a wholesale approach? Did much outside your political view change? I always wondered if it would have been easier in some ways if I had had a sounder base to contrast with where I was headed. Might have saved me some mistakes.
 
finesse said:
Maybe. It's tough if you're challenging beliefs you grew up with.

Never did much for me but I might have overdone it. Wouldn't be the first time or the first thing I did that with. My problem was largely not having any trust in anything, really. Were you able to blend in a new approach to how you view things or more a wholesale approach? Did much outside your political view change? I always wondered if it would have been easier in some ways if I had had a sounder base to contrast with where I was headed. Might have saved me some mistakes.
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Yes, many things in my life have changed, not all from self-reflection. Some from experience, some from maturity. But self-reflection really helped in several areas.

I've mentioned my brother previously. He is always the victim, everything negative in his life is someone else's fault. I believe had I stayed in the area near my parents and not had different experiences, which pushed me toward greater self-reflection, I had a high probability of ending up just like him.

I also feel very fortunate that being the follower I was and the seeker of affirmation that I was when younger, I'm very fortunate to have had some good people who lead me the right direction.

Just to add, I know I still am a work in progress. But I'm confident in the direction I travel.
 
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I think that kind of mentor relationship was a big gap in my life. I had it to a degree until my widowed mom married a Baptist preacher when I was eight. A guy in his early 20s ran a store a quarter mile down the dirt road I lived on. He was just out of the Air Force and would take to local kids to air shows at Seymour Johnson and such. He was also a rock collector and cut and polished stones, had a greenhouse where he grew exotic plants, had found a couple of thousand fossils and had taught himself to chip out arrowheads. Taught me how to have a curious mind. Moved before it grew although I half way kept in touch for 50 years.

After that, I moved about every three years and never had another long term association of , really, any type.
 
finesse said:
I think that kind of mentor relationship was a big gap in my life. I had it to a degree until my widowed mom married a Baptist preacher when I was eight. A guy in his early 20s ran a store a quarter mile down the dirt road I lived on. He was just out of the Air Force and would take to local kids to air shows at Seymour Johnson and such. He was also a rock collector and cut and polished stones, had a greenhouse where he grew exotic plants, had found a couple of thousand fossils and had taught himself to chip out arrowheads. Taught me how to have a curious mind. Moved before it grew although I half way kept in touch for 50 years.

After that, I moved about every three years and never had another long term association of , really, any type.
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Mentors often don't seem like mentors until later in life when you realize how they helped, at least that's how it has been for me. I never had that formal mentor relationship, but I have at least 5 people in my life that have helped to steer me the right direction.

I moved a lot as a child and never had any longtime friends. I'm sure that's part of why I struggle in social settings.

But as I get older, I am much more appreciative of the good things I did have and have been able to understand or move past the things that hurt me, most of them.

I'm glad to read that you had some mentors/good influences. It's something everyone needs.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
And with each passing conspiracy theory that fails to come to fruition, they never self-reflect and say "hmmm, these things I keep hearing and reading never turn out to be true. Maybe I shouldn't believe those sources any longer." Nope, they just dive headlong back into the right wing disinformation swamp.
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That's because conspiracy theories aren't about facts, they're about being able to square the dissonance one feels between one's beliefs with real world outcomes that don't match one's beliefs.
 
SnoopRob said:
That's because conspiracy theories aren't about facts, they're about being able to square the dissonance one feels between one's beliefs with real world outcomes that don't match one's beliefs.
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I think it is because of an emotional inability to deal with randomness. Many people are more comfortable believing that there are unseen dark forces controlling everything than the fear of believing in randomness and uncontrolled events.
 
Every time I find myself at the Charlotte airport on a Friday or Sunday, I can’t help but think, “How could so many Americans say the economy is bad? They’re all here right now, and they’re spending a ton of money to travel for the fun of it.”
 
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