Skeptic Project

Welcome to the problems of meta-cognition.

Yes, it make be absolutely hate Lost's ending. What a load of incoherent nonsense!

I can't think of any negative ways in which it has affected my life. My uncle and my dad like to spout a lot of new-age mumbo jumbo like sacred geometry. They've been doing it for a long time, and before I would just be like "yeah, sure... whatever". But after learning a lot about CT's, I also have learned a lot about pseudoscience and quack medicine, so it's nice to be able to engage them (on friendly terms of course) every once in awhile.

Edit: @Aaron

>>"For example, I struggle to have a conversation with family members who spew irrational arguments. Where I used to brush over the irrationality, I'm now finding myself correcting and challenging them."

I guess that's the same thing I have, with friends and family... I don't view it as a negative thing though.

I recall watching bits of Zeitgeist when it first came out, I didn't delve too far into it but I figured it was true. Just thinking like 'well, if this wasn't true surely someone would have pointed it out... I mean, no one would make a documentary about something fake, right?'. Boy was I wrong. I won't lie when I say that this website really changed my life for the better in the critical thinking aspect. Opened up a lot of doors and what not.

I might have overstated the case...I don't dislike National Treasure and DaVinci Code simply because they're about conspiracies, but they're not good enough movies to make me accept them for entertainment value, which is why I can't help shouting about the conspiracies in them.

Many people find this strange, but while I hate JFK assassination conspiracies with a passion, and I hate that the movie has made them mainstream, Oliver Stone's "JFK" is one of my favorite movies from an entertainment standpoint.

I didn't like JFK, the president or the movie. I'm trying to think of other fictional conspiracy films I do like, but I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I know there are some.

I do listen to Talk Radio though with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanity, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and a few other nameless people, including Laura Ingram. I guess I listen so that when I'm in the car, I'll get so angry it'll help me get through rush hour traffic faster by knocking other cars off the road.

Beck has gone a little wacko for Beck standards. His television show is really eery - he has these posters of the founding fathers, chalk boards with flow charts leading to dead ends, beige pants that don't match his shirt and jacket, and this nauseating tone toward patriotism that makes me feel really cold and uncomfortable.

At least Limbaugh makes the world sound dangerously exciting.

aaron, you shouldn't let that stuff bother you. You gotta be more laid back and relaxed about it, and open minded. And by open minded, I don't mean "Believe it", I mean accept that some people have some whacked out views. Almost every CT'er I've run across personally(internet is a different story) are harmless, decent people who are just a little kooky on politics. The most harm any of them have done to me is ask, "Wanna watch this DVD?" Hardly anything to worry about.

I would definitely agree with some of the others here, though. Neo-con radio and TV sometimes gets my blood boiling. I may not be a fan of news from the left either, but Neo-cons actually(and hypocritically I might add) promote violence.

Thanks for that, domokato. I'll send it to my Kindle and read it later.