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Successful People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies
Intellectual Takeout ^ | August 23, 2024 | Adam De Gree

Posted on 08/24/2024 12:50:30 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob
American government has gained vast powers under the guise of the War on Terror, and it now uses those powers against its domestic critics.

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Worth repeating.

For those who don't have time or inclination to read to the end, the article's main point is the analogy to Czechoslovakia escaping from communist dictatorship and becoming "Free" in less than 10 years.

The article depicts the actions of one intellectual as exemplar of a pattern of the thoughts of Czech society at large...and by analogy...American society today if we are to emerge free.

21 posted on 08/24/2024 1:04:29 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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To: discostu

No, you got it exactly wrong.

What we say is we WILL WIN because we will DEFEAT THE CONSPIRACY.


22 posted on 08/24/2024 1:04:34 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: DoodleBob

I know a conspiracy when I see one.

Crooks was no crazed LONE assassin.

A 20 year old-dietary assistant at a nursing home could never come that close to murdering someone under SS protection without some help.


23 posted on 08/24/2024 1:05:17 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think you may have been so put off (as I was) by the straw-man message in the beginning, that you may not have read to the end.


24 posted on 08/24/2024 1:07:09 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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To: DoodleBob

Everybody loves a conspiracy.

I generally don’t buy into conspiracy theories unless it’s obvious like the 2020 Election Steal.

The Left is certainly conspiring to bring about their wet dream of Worldwide Totalitarian Gov’t. That to me is obvious.

But things like the JFK thing will never die.


25 posted on 08/24/2024 1:07:12 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

The article is telling us there are conspiracies, but what we should do is ignore them and go on with our lives.

Looks very much like the author is working for the conspirators.


26 posted on 08/24/2024 1:08:06 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: DoodleBob

https://youtu.be/ctrJ0-TLUHQ?t=103


27 posted on 08/24/2024 1:08:31 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: reasonisfaith

BWAAHAHAHA

No you don’t. You’re all making excuses for why you’ll fail. sometimes you wrap it in tough talk. But every single one of you is really setting yourselves up for later, when you fail, when you don’t even take the shot, so you have a ready made excuse. “Them”. “They” stopped me. We couldn’t manage to beat “them”. “They” were just too powerful. It’s all excuse mongering your failure ahead of time.


28 posted on 08/24/2024 1:09:00 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: DoodleBob

Does that mean that successful people lack imagination?


29 posted on 08/24/2024 1:09:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just get emotional instead.)
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To: discostu

Ok. Thanks for participating


30 posted on 08/24/2024 1:10:23 PM PDT by stanne
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>>> Successful People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies <<<<

Other than the title’s reference to a Forbes article, a more suitable title for the author’s points might be:

Comfortably Ignorant People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies


31 posted on 08/24/2024 1:10:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: DoodleBob

Author draws a false dichotomy. Guys a fag.


32 posted on 08/24/2024 1:10:52 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: stanne

OK thanks for being completely unwilling to learn.


33 posted on 08/24/2024 1:10:57 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

a clever tease


34 posted on 08/24/2024 1:13:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: DoodleBob

There Are No Conspiracies but there are No Coincidences either. — Steve Bannon


35 posted on 08/24/2024 1:13:43 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: reasonisfaith

I took it as ultimately positive.

Rest assured, I LOVE conspiracy theories. At a minimum, they provide a lens through which to measure observable phenomena which are on the surface above an ocean of hidden reality...and ultimately, may focus some of the light of truth on those depths.


36 posted on 08/24/2024 1:14:12 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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To: Eleutheria5
I don't believe this for a minute.

Successful people are people READERS and that requires a good sense of internal Q&A. judgement, if you will.

Jesus said not to judge by appearance but (DO) judge righteous judgement.


John 7:24 “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” King James Version (KJV)

37 posted on 08/24/2024 1:14:44 PM PDT by knarf
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To: DoodleBob

If you really enjoy the world of conspiracies and like being around the guys with the most detailed information and expertise who seem to know everything about how the world REALLY operates and the explanation behind EVERYTHING then you want to hang out with the lower socio-economic, lower IQ crowd.

I am amazed at how the world’s secrets and conspiracies are so well known at flea markets and in trailer parks.


38 posted on 08/24/2024 1:16:23 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Eleutheria5

Exactly. They’re in on it.


39 posted on 08/24/2024 1:16:55 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Three conspiracy theorists walk into the bar . . . . same time . . coincidence? I think not.)
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To: ansel12
I am amazed at how the world’s secrets and conspiracies are so well known at flea markets and in trailer parks.

You sound jealous because you are on the outside looking in. Everyone knows we trailer park trash get the news before everyone else because we gots connections.

40 posted on 08/24/2024 1:18:55 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Three conspiracy theorists walk into the bar . . . . same time . . coincidence? I think not.)
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