)O( Hytegia )O(
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There's a certain wonder to logic. There's a reason it works. It has structure that supports itself based upon evidence, and allows one to draw conclusions based upon evidence and facts presented. It gives you a full length of thought from point A to point B to point C, painting a picture for you to view and to criticize as necessary.
Logic is an art. It is beautiful, and it works. With it, you can see the total picture of what is being presented.
It's structure is so sound, that logic can even be represented with a MATH equation.
Example:
a -> b -> c -> d
Therefore a -> d
(Inductive Reasoning)
a =/= b -> c -> d
Therefore a =/= d
(Deductive Reasoning)
Logic is structured. It paints a picture from beginning to end. It is... Logical.
But... If this is so, what makes the logical different from Conspiracies? Why are conspiracies called "illogical" by many, but believed by only the few?
It's simple.
Unlike Logic, which paints a clear portrait of events with solid facts linking them to be criticized, Conspiracies work differently. Their structure is so ambiguous, and so open, that any assumption can be made.
Unlike Logic, which paints a clear portrait of events, Conspiracies take points. Dots. And leave the mind to fill in the blanks. They take different events, different places, different people, claim a theme, and then leave the human mind to work at the suggested solution. There is no structure. No clearly painted picture to be picked at, and scrutinized. It cannot be represented with an equation.
It simply takes different points and asks your mind to make up an explenation - with suggestions. It takes nonsensical points and even goes so fas as to making points that don't actually exist... You mind makes them up.
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To illustrate this, I have constructed this picture of dots for you to connect... With a suggestion:
I have given you all the points, and made a suggestion. And, well, it looks as if I'm correct, doesn't it? All the points add up! It's INCREDIBLE!
Here is what your head probably had in mind for this picture:
That's the beauty of it. It does not take a clearly painted picture for you to come to this conclusion... All I've given you are points. And a suggestion to a solution - and I WAS RIGHT!!! So therefore, the picture MUST be a smiley face! There's no other possible solution!
... Right?
Then someone else comes along, and produces this idea:
Using the exact same points, they have come up with an entirely different picture altogether. A boat. A boat with some very VERY poor rigging. But still, it's a boat. All the points are connected. It's certainly not a smiley face...
But then someone comes along and produced THIS:
... Kids playing outside ...
Not a smiley face, nor a boat. But yet each dot is connected into a complete picture.
So - which is it? A Smiley Face? A boat? A city with children playing on it? All connect all the "Dots" and all seemingly fit. But each is an entirely different picture using the same points. So, which is it?
The truth is - it's none of them. The points were taken from this popular XKCD comic and enlarged:
In truth: None of them were right. They were just points taken from this comic strip, blown up, and the rest of the lines stripped away so that I could convince you that you were actually looking as a smiley face. All I did was take the points and leave your mind to do the rest. If anyone criticized it, they couldn't prove it wrong (because, after all - there's no lines to criticize it) andyou would always be right. You would always see those points as a smiley face.
That is - until you realized the fact that all you were doing is taking the points and making it up in your head.
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That is the exact illogical assumption of Conspiracies. They do not take the whole picture into account. They do not paint a complete and logical outline with evidence, to be scrutinized. All they do is take points in time - different places, different facts, different people, different events - and leave them up to your mind with a suggestion as to the entire picture. It relys on YOU to paint out the logic for yourself, and for your own mind to justify it's own logic.
It does not use all the facts. All the dates. All the reasons. It relies on human assumption of points.
In conclusion:
Next time you read something that only grasps at straws and claims a global conspiracy - it's not logical. It is not backed up by a testable strand of events, or historical accuracy. Real logic would paint a clear stream of events. Real logic would give something for the person to be critical of.
The reason why conspiracies seem to make so much sense is because your mind paints the picture, and you make the assumption that what you're seeing is the truth... No matter what the full picture is.
Use logic. Use reason.
"Believe nothing, no matter who has read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
Logic is an art. It is beautiful, and it works. With it, you can see the total picture of what is being presented.
It's structure is so sound, that logic can even be represented with a MATH equation.
Example:
a -> b -> c -> d
Therefore a -> d
(Inductive Reasoning)
a =/= b -> c -> d
Therefore a =/= d
(Deductive Reasoning)
Logic is structured. It paints a picture from beginning to end. It is... Logical.
But... If this is so, what makes the logical different from Conspiracies? Why are conspiracies called "illogical" by many, but believed by only the few?
It's simple.
Unlike Logic, which paints a clear portrait of events with solid facts linking them to be criticized, Conspiracies work differently. Their structure is so ambiguous, and so open, that any assumption can be made.
Unlike Logic, which paints a clear portrait of events, Conspiracies take points. Dots. And leave the mind to fill in the blanks. They take different events, different places, different people, claim a theme, and then leave the human mind to work at the suggested solution. There is no structure. No clearly painted picture to be picked at, and scrutinized. It cannot be represented with an equation.
It simply takes different points and asks your mind to make up an explenation - with suggestions. It takes nonsensical points and even goes so fas as to making points that don't actually exist... You mind makes them up.
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To illustrate this, I have constructed this picture of dots for you to connect... With a suggestion:
I have given you all the points, and made a suggestion. And, well, it looks as if I'm correct, doesn't it? All the points add up! It's INCREDIBLE!
Here is what your head probably had in mind for this picture:
That's the beauty of it. It does not take a clearly painted picture for you to come to this conclusion... All I've given you are points. And a suggestion to a solution - and I WAS RIGHT!!! So therefore, the picture MUST be a smiley face! There's no other possible solution!
... Right?
Then someone else comes along, and produces this idea:
Using the exact same points, they have come up with an entirely different picture altogether. A boat. A boat with some very VERY poor rigging. But still, it's a boat. All the points are connected. It's certainly not a smiley face...
But then someone comes along and produced THIS:
... Kids playing outside ...
Not a smiley face, nor a boat. But yet each dot is connected into a complete picture.
So - which is it? A Smiley Face? A boat? A city with children playing on it? All connect all the "Dots" and all seemingly fit. But each is an entirely different picture using the same points. So, which is it?
The truth is - it's none of them. The points were taken from this popular XKCD comic and enlarged:
In truth: None of them were right. They were just points taken from this comic strip, blown up, and the rest of the lines stripped away so that I could convince you that you were actually looking as a smiley face. All I did was take the points and leave your mind to do the rest. If anyone criticized it, they couldn't prove it wrong (because, after all - there's no lines to criticize it) andyou would always be right. You would always see those points as a smiley face.
That is - until you realized the fact that all you were doing is taking the points and making it up in your head.
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That is the exact illogical assumption of Conspiracies. They do not take the whole picture into account. They do not paint a complete and logical outline with evidence, to be scrutinized. All they do is take points in time - different places, different facts, different people, different events - and leave them up to your mind with a suggestion as to the entire picture. It relys on YOU to paint out the logic for yourself, and for your own mind to justify it's own logic.
It does not use all the facts. All the dates. All the reasons. It relies on human assumption of points.
In conclusion:
Next time you read something that only grasps at straws and claims a global conspiracy - it's not logical. It is not backed up by a testable strand of events, or historical accuracy. Real logic would paint a clear stream of events. Real logic would give something for the person to be critical of.
The reason why conspiracies seem to make so much sense is because your mind paints the picture, and you make the assumption that what you're seeing is the truth... No matter what the full picture is.
Use logic. Use reason.
"Believe nothing, no matter who has read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
