How the hell do you do it?

[Jontg]

God, I've been spending too much time on ATS. I watch cooler heads try to reason with the woo, but it's like trying to shovel molasses--these imbeciles will swallow anything that isn't the official story, and the more facts you show them, the more they're convinced you're in on it! How the blazes do you people do this year after year without joining the NSA out of pure spite? Is there a pill for it? A meditation technique? Christ on a pogo stick, I feel like I just walked in from a rain of frogs--I'm not actually hurt, just exasperated and covered in slime and wondering if said slime is poisonous.

[TheDaver]

I wonder how anybody manages to do it without getting banned.

I went through three accounts there before finally giving up. Apparently I’m a “disinfo agent” working for the FDA and Big Oil.

Oh, the stories I could tell you…

Apparently, I’m going to die in my 30s from aspartame poisoning.

And the girl there who refuses to take any medication, and only sweetens her food with honey? She’s going to live into her early hundreds “like everybody did in the past”.

And the guys in the Science section are thisclose to making a car run on water, if only Big Oil would stop sneaking into their garages at night and fouling their equipment.

[~enigma~]

And the guys in the Science section are thisclose to making a car run on water, if only Big Oil would stop sneaking into their garages at night and fouling their equipment.
Speaking of...

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=32196

But...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4271579.html

[Jontg]

This (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=374381) is my latest battlefield--and I have to say, it's actually a bit eye-opening. The disagreement here is more than just two people with different data, it's two completely different paradigms.

[oglommi]

Why bother arguing with them. It's as futile as teaching my horse to read.... And I don't even own an horse.

[Jontg]

Unfortunately, I'm living proof (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=818917#post818917) that you're wrong--personally, I'm amazed that I managed to get out before I lost it completely. I know I'm an unusual case, and I know that the most I could probably do with such a completely memeoid opponent is push her even deeper into her delusions... but I can't shake the feeling that, if I quit or walk out on Amaterasu here, I'm just her opposite number; another dogmatic bovine who can't defend his claims with anything but rhetoric and gut feelings.
P.S. Technically, I still have a year to go on that prophecy...

[Par]

How the hell do you do it?


I inject quite a lot of heroin.

[alex04]

:boggled:God, I've been spending too much time on ATS. I watch cooler heads try to reason with the woo, but it's like trying to shovel molasses--these imbeciles will swallow anything that isn't the official story, and the more facts you show them, the more they're convinced you're in on it! How the blazes do you people do this year after year without joining the NSA out of pure spite? Is there a pill for it? A meditation technique? Christ on a pogo stick, I feel like I just walked in from a rain of frogs--I'm not actually hurt, just exasperated and covered in slime and wondering if said slime is poisonous.

well as i mentioned in the other thread -

How do they selectively pick what to believe? As in the chap from Apollo 14 - they'd call BS at him saying he went to the moon, yet they're quite happy to swallow the UFO story hook line and sinker. I seen the thread at ATS (on the UFO story*) and nearly peed myself laughing.

Consistency, isn't one of the tinhatters strong points:boggled:

[TheDaver]

Well that’s exactly it: These nuts believe what they want to believe, and cherrypick and fudge “info” to support it. Completely the opposite of the way the real world works. These guys are bananas.

For some reason I’m really craving a sundae right now.…