The other manifestation of this fear is on a deeper and more intractable level. It has to do with differing levels of consciousness is humans, and the vast majority of humans are utterly driven by this fear.
Have you ever noticed the negative reaction is normies when you tell them, say, that the Moon landings were faked? The more evidence you provide, the more intense the reaction gets.
Same thing goes if you suggest to someone religious that the Bible is not quite what they think it is. The more examples you give them and the more carefully you explain them, the harder they resist.
Conspiracy theorists are not exempt, but only operate one level higher. Try to tell them it isn't all down to the Jews or the Freemasons or the rich or whoever else they have "figured out is really behind it", and they will object more and more aggressively and less and less objectively.
What is really going on? It's the same phenomenon in all these cases: fear.
You see, in each of these, the person's subconscious has quickly decided that what you're saying is plausible and, further, it is a threat not only to their worldview, but to their very sense of self. If they were wrong about these very basic things, then what else might they be wrong about? Has their whole life been lived under deep deception? What are they now vulnerable to?
Exposure to such information is as fearful to them as telling a child he or she was adopted and that their mommy and daddy are not who they think they are. IOW, it is terrifying.
With bears and COVID and Republicans, they have to keep reminding us incessantly that these things are to be feared. Without that, the threat dissipates and the fear is forgotten because it was almost totally phony all along.
The fear I'm talking about never fades. No one told anyone to be fearful of these things because it is self-generated on a primitive level. There is essentially no way to talk anyone out of it.
The basic conditions generating it can be altered, but that's a story for another day.
Same thing goes if you suggest to someone religious that the Bible is not quite what they think it is. The more examples you give them and the more carefully you explain them, the harder they resist.
Heh heh. Sure, there are many misunderstandings about the Bible, but how would you go about coming to the truth of the matter with a common agreement on the means of pursuit so that an outside party can objectively tell where any "resistance" might lie?
I like the fear angle, it's valid up until the point that you realize the truth is responsible for itself and will not deceive, so you need have no fear of exploring it. "Who fears is not perfected in love."
The subtle effect is that these people do not want the truth or, more precisely, will find or invent a way to reject any claims that cause destabilization as being something other than the truth.
You might as well try to decide which is the better football team in a game where both are cheating. The issue of "better" ceases to exist.
This is all subconscious and not subject to direct inspection. It has never been studied academically for certain reasons. Very few reflect honestly on themselves because very few even can.
It's quite common that people don't like pictures of themselves or the sound of their recorded voice. They find it deeply disturbing, and that's because it does not match how they think they look and what their voice sounds like to themselves.
That's gross physical appearance and easily shown to onesself. How much more difficult is it to to examine one's own consciousness, let alone one's own subconscious. And how objectionable would one find it? It is all easily avoided.
The other manifestation of this fear is on a deeper and more intractable level. It has to do with differing levels of consciousness is humans, and the vast majority of humans are utterly driven by this fear.
Have you ever noticed the negative reaction is normies when you tell them, say, that the Moon landings were faked? The more evidence you provide, the more intense the reaction gets.
Same thing goes if you suggest to someone religious that the Bible is not quite what they think it is. The more examples you give them and the more carefully you explain them, the harder they resist.
Conspiracy theorists are not exempt, but only operate one level higher. Try to tell them it isn't all down to the Jews or the Freemasons or the rich or whoever else they have "figured out is really behind it", and they will object more and more aggressively and less and less objectively.
What is really going on? It's the same phenomenon in all these cases: fear.
You see, in each of these, the person's subconscious has quickly decided that what you're saying is plausible and, further, it is a threat not only to their worldview, but to their very sense of self. If they were wrong about these very basic things, then what else might they be wrong about? Has their whole life been lived under deep deception? What are they now vulnerable to?
Exposure to such information is as fearful to them as telling a child he or she was adopted and that their mommy and daddy are not who they think they are. IOW, it is terrifying.
With bears and COVID and Republicans, they have to keep reminding us incessantly that these things are to be feared. Without that, the threat dissipates and the fear is forgotten because it was almost totally phony all along.
The fear I'm talking about never fades. No one told anyone to be fearful of these things because it is self-generated on a primitive level. There is essentially no way to talk anyone out of it.
The basic conditions generating it can be altered, but that's a story for another day.
Heh heh. Sure, there are many misunderstandings about the Bible, but how would you go about coming to the truth of the matter with a common agreement on the means of pursuit so that an outside party can objectively tell where any "resistance" might lie?
I like the fear angle, it's valid up until the point that you realize the truth is responsible for itself and will not deceive, so you need have no fear of exploring it. "Who fears is not perfected in love."
The subtle effect is that these people do not want the truth or, more precisely, will find or invent a way to reject any claims that cause destabilization as being something other than the truth.
You might as well try to decide which is the better football team in a game where both are cheating. The issue of "better" ceases to exist.
This is all subconscious and not subject to direct inspection. It has never been studied academically for certain reasons. Very few reflect honestly on themselves because very few even can.
It's quite common that people don't like pictures of themselves or the sound of their recorded voice. They find it deeply disturbing, and that's because it does not match how they think they look and what their voice sounds like to themselves.
That's gross physical appearance and easily shown to onesself. How much more difficult is it to to examine one's own consciousness, let alone one's own subconscious. And how objectionable would one find it? It is all easily avoided.
What is truth?
It is that characteristic of reality that only a handful accept they shouldn't try to dodge.