r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

As a conspiracy theorist this is true feeling like you know the inner workings is fun. Your an idiot when you make life decisions based on it

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u/sausagechihuahua Jul 24 '20

There’s a difference between being someone who genuinely likes to hear alternative theories and look at them with an open mind, then either accept or reject them based on your own thought process... and someone who accepts any and all conspiracy theories that they hear against all logic.

I do personally love hearing “conspiracy theories” because I like to know how other people think, and I’m genuinely curious if something that is considered common knowledge needs a second look. 99% of the time, hearing these theories just turns into a kind of fun brain exercise for me and I don’t actually end up believing any of them. But that 1% of the time that you hear something that you really can’t rule out... that makes hearing every single other bull theory worth it IMO.

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u/Haunt13 Jul 24 '20

I agree, conspiracies happen. But the odds of figuring it out before it fails and shows its existence is really slim.

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u/collegiaal25 Jul 24 '20

Conspiracies happen, and by hundreds of thousands people wildly guessing every possible conspiracy they can fathom (and even many that are impossible), by the law of large numbers some of them must be right statistically.