You Gotta Have Faith

[poliphilo]

People mostly accept the version of reality that's presented to them by parents, teachers, preachers, journalists, politicians and other authority figures. They'll say, "you can't believe everything you read in the papers" but they mostly do. People have faith- a quality recommended to them as wholly admirable by the fraudsters and psychopaths who run the world.

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[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

No shit, Sherlock!

My mother is the primary case for this. If she gets a random email from some nutjob forwarded on by her nutjob relatives which jives with her view of the world, she INSTANTLY devotes herself to defending its truth FOREVER.

For example, an abortion of an email arrived about a year ago regarding the Queen of England and how she despised Michelle Obama who supposedly manhandled her and was rude and obnoxious to her. Supposedly the queen did a sekkrit queen-to-courtier message--something to do with placing her purse in a certain location--and later told the individual that she "never wanted to be in the same room with that obama woman again."

Even though I DISPROVED this to her via Snopes.com AND other media sources, she still clings to the fallacious "news report" which was in fact some email her brother who is a Rush Limbaugh worshipping nut forewarded on from some other Limbaugh loving moron.

It is really too bad that humanity is not hatched like sea turtles and that we can't rush to the sea, self-sufficient, immediately after cracking out of the shell.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If only Michelle Obama had treated the Queen with back-slapping familiarity!

In reality both women are far too canny to cook up any kind of diplomatic faux-pas.