Can y’all please stop using the phrase “conspiracy theory” to mean any kind of bizarre fantasy, even ones that are literally impossible, whether it involves a conspiracy or not? Even a conspiracy hypothesis would need to be scientifically credible; anything that isn’t is a bizarre cultic belief. And using “false conspiracy theory” to mean such a cultic belief is even worse; it’s like calling transubstantiation a “false conspiracy theory” because the bread is still provably bread. To discuss myths, ie the beliefs of a given cult, as though they were scientific assertions is absurd. See the screenshot below? You might as well call the Golden Fleece or Ark of the Covenant “conspiracy theories”, because every irrational belief-system has magical or esoteric devices somewhere in its mythology. Stop pretending QAnon isn’t a religion; it has a prophet, unprovable mysteries that must be taken on faith, etc. And its adherents can no more be talked out of their beliefs than fundamentalists can be talked out of their belief in the Rapture or Techists out of their belief in the “Singularity”. 
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Not a Theory
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Words, tagged fantasy, language, psychology, STEM, The Implosion Begins on October 10, 2025| 1 Comment »
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