I honestly think that a certain percentage of the population is complete idiots. I mean retarded. My friend John is such a case - He has water on the brain (
Hydrocephalus), and his brain stopped developing at about age sixteen or so. Basically he's a forty-five year old man who mentally is a sixteen year old. On the surface he's perfectly normal until you talk to him for more than ten minutes and you discover how shallow he is - He can only talk about his last marriage or working at the post office and that's it. I think there is a lot of people who operate like this, where they seem like perfectly normal people, but the truth is that they are mentally retarded to a degree that surprises us.
My point is there are some very dumb people in the world, and they tend to believe anything they read.
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Originally Posted by kane
I used to work with a guy that was a major conspiracy nut. Everyday he would talk about what was going on in the "real" news and how he was building a shelter. He would talk about how his daughter was in school and he would help her with her history assignments then take her to the internet and teach her "the truth" about what she was learning.
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There might be some truth to this. In high school - In the US - I was taught that in the mid 1940s the US stormed the beaches at Normandy, won the war, and saved the world from the evil Nazi empire. I've since become a huge WWII buff and I've discovered that what we were taught was completely wrong - by the time the US landed in Europe the war was pretty much over.