People believe stupid shit. DONT// *Part 1*.

I didnt think id write this post because i felt that id piss off just about everyone here. But who cares. This will get zerod anyway and i make most my HIVE from curation. haha. I havent been posting much lately so i might get lucky and this flies under the radar. lol

These last few days ive been a bit more active on Twitter since i dont have much time during summer to write my long winded posts. This one i wrote over a few days and its a 2 part post. At the time of proof reading, it has over 2600 words so i found it fitting.

I followed a bunch of crypto personalities during this time, regardless of if i agree with them or not so i get plenty of tweets to draw from. What i saw is that people in crypto are drawn to some very fringe ideas. Now, its important to state that all of us are wrong about something in life. No one is perfect.

But in this case im talking about people that take their stupid beliefs and ideas about the world and display them publicly with absolute conviction.

Usually, in a mocking manner, youd probably expect someone to call these people idiots or insult them in some way but in this case i will try and not do that often.
Assigning "Smart/stupid" label to someone just because they might say or believe something smart or stupid is wrong.
It oversimplifies things.
Those descriptions only work for insults and compliments. And in this post, they will be used as such in cases i deem warranted. ;)

Now ofc, you can say something stupid or wrong publicly, with absolute conviction, with the intention of getting someone to do something you want them to do but thats a whole other thing entirely. :)

In my 2.5 years in crypto i feel ive seen more fringe stuff then in my 10 years on Facebook.
Ive been a skeptic since i was 16 and i apply that way of thinking to everything i do. Once i learned how science works in a class we all had to take in college i established what "skeptical empiricism" means.
Even though i understood the concepts it took quite a bit to actually learn how to apply them in practice, "how to think".
There was this site where you would debate people on various topics that had a large community that was generally, what i would call, intellectually honest. Even if your position was absolutely wrong, you still had a chance to win if your arguments were more compelling.
I think i had more fun arguing absurd positions then the right ones.😅

Lets boil it down to this so i dont go on about needless things.
Usually id say:

in general "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

when talking about big claims, but since objectively defining what extraordinary means ill simplify it into

"claims require evidence". Evidence in the form of facts.

Another important thing is the burden of proof:

"Those that make the claim must prove the claim".

In connection to this you have "Hitchens razor" (loved that guy, RIP):

"what may be asserted without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence."

You still have some standards to abide and context is important but these are basically the core pillars of how i approach all topics.
In the case of arguing for one or the other position i also try and fully understand the other side.
You never want to be the guy calling something stupid and get caught with an argument you have no response to because you might have never heard it.
ALWAYS research what the other side has to say even if you really arent interested in it and think its dumb.

So... If anyone wants to disprove above claims, feel free to, but if accepted ill go forward and list some of the stupid shit ive been reading by our fine crypto community.

THE STUPID SHIT:

1. FIAT evil, BITCOIN gud. Bitcoin will replace fiat! Fiat will die!

Nah.
I dont want to go into why i think Bitcoin sucks as a crypto, ive said that a million times but what i will say is that bitcoin, or any crypto, will in no way be toppling fiat. EVER! I have no problem with that and you shouldnt either. Fiat doesnt have to fail or the monetary system fall apart for crypto to thrive. Thats one of the most established and accepted misconceptions there are in crypto. What will probably happen is that crypto will exist side by side with hundreds of other world currencies. Crypto will develop power structures of their own. It has already.
There will always be value in government backed currency and in banking. I really hate this position that stems from the anti-establishment agenda being pushed in crypto and the libertarian and anarchist nonsense. It makes us all look like a bunch of fringe weirdos.
I know you want people to "pump it" but lets stop drinking koolaid just because everyones chanting the same song in our little echo chamber. I feel more people actually believe it then are being deceptive with it to pump their bags. In this case being "smart" is the path to mainstream adoption.

2. Flat _fucking_ Earth

Its not flat. Its round like a ball.
Like your balls. Slightly squished on the top and expanded on the sides.
I hear you have a case of "eliptical sphereodism".
You should prolly get that checked out.

3. Fuck cops, ACAB, Defund the police!

That was the point when i realized that Roger Ver was an absolute tool. 😂 I dont want to preach about obvious stuff like:
In order for society to function you need security.
Because i find those things pretty obvious.

Sure, you have corrupt cops like in any civil service and twiddle dick assholes that act like theyre the alpha and omega but those are far inbetween. Same like with any job. Theres a funny joke by Dave Chappelle about women dressing in slutty clothes.

Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a whore!Now that would be like me, Dave Chappelle, the comedian, walking down the street in a cop uniform. Somebody might run up on me saying, "Oh, thank God. Officer, help us! Come on. They're over here. Help us!" "Oh-hoh! Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a police officer!" See what I mean? All right, ladies, fine. You are not a whore. But you are wearing a whore's uniform.”

I had a "friend".

He did not wear a whores uniform but he did look like he smoked a chimney in the morning, had some hash brownies for lunch and smuggled heroin up his ass across the border in the evening.

He always complained about cops and how they kept specifically targeting him on the street and stopping him. Catching him with weed every time. lol. I told him exactly what Dave Chappelle would have wanted him to know.
"Dont look like the most likely person that might be carrying drugs."

Comparably in the case of what Roger Ver wanted to say... If you wore a nice shirt, walked upright and didnt look and act like a thug, didnt provoke cops, didnt resist cops, didnt insult cops, the cops might bother you less.

And you might be less annoyed by them. And you would not talk about them. And you would not fear them.
Appearances do matter. How you act does matter.

4. Ancient civilizations.

A well liked individual on HIVE reminded me of this crap. There was this book i read years ago that dealt with this. It was called something like "Forbidden history" and i followed up on it online.
Its a bit blurry but basically what these claims relate to is questioning carbon and radiometric dating, geology and topics like that.

"How did this object end up below a layer of rock dated millions of years."

Stuff like that. Its all bullshit, hoax or easily explained but presented in a way that you think someones trying to hide something from you and youve just stumbled upon a "great truth". YOU. Youre the special one. haha Same shit conspiracy theorists do.
People simply like believing status quo defying claims. Makes them feel special.

5. Truthers 2020! Rocket fuel doesnt melt steal beams! WTC 7! 5G gon kill ya! Gay frogs! HARP brainwashing! Chemtrails! Ilerminati! Annunaki! Moon landing is fake

I know i forgot a number of stupid ones but these ones will have to do. Crypto is simply packed full of people that believe this crap. It would be interesting to explore why theyre so attracted to crypto. You have them on HIVE, you have them on Steem, you have them on twitter.
Its mostly all bullshit that has a perfectly fine explanations. Its this need to feel special, the need to know something others dont:

I am the one that posses the knowledge not many do. I am in the inner circle because my mind is open. I am special and youre just sheep.

No. Youre just wrong.

Did you know they burned down hundreds of cell phone towers in Australia, Europe over the 5G hysteria. (mostly 3G ones because they didnt know the difference between the 3G and 5G ones)?
And morons like David Icke encourage those things. Thats when retarded beliefs become dangerous. I mean 5G by all accounts has less effect on the human body then 3G does and 3G risks were insignificant. I mean they put the RF radiation in the same category of cancerous potential as baby powder. :D

End of part 1.

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