more often use intuition - their "gut feeling" - when making decisions.

Slightly OT, but we do have another brain in our gut.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection

That I knew, its only recently I found out about the gut brain.

AND the theme relevant to Caravanning here is .................

vince56 wrote:

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AND the theme relevant to Caravanning here is .................

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 General discussion. Lotsa stuff here that has nothing to do with caravans. 
Just a gut feeling. 

In my opinion

I believe that a gut feeling can go either way, depending on previous knowledge, you already had

To take just one conspiracy theory, that President Kennedy was not killed by Oswald, working on his own

Back in that time I was a teenager, living in England

I had a gun, (210 shotgun), and was an invited friend of a member, of a local gun club, so I knew just a little about guns

They had found the gun, which was suppose to have been used, to kill the President, and had not yet picked up Oswald

A man, (supposed to be high up in the British military), came on the English telly, with the same brand of gun, that had been found

This expert claimed, that this type of gun was known as a "Saturday night special"

It was not known to be able to shoot, the amount of bullets, in that time frame, at a moving target, very accurately

The official verdict is that President Kennedy, was shot by Oswald, who was working alone

My gut feeling, tells me that this is wrong, due to the type of gun, which was supposed to have been used

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had a gun, (210 shotgun), an

I have a gut feeling that it was a 410 shotgun.

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 You are correct rgren, I should have gone to specsavers, or at least, read what was written before posting

It was about 58 years ago, yes a 410 shot gun

 

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I've been doing some reading on the psychological characteristics of  people susceptible to conspiracy theories, interesting reading, I had a feeling there would be common characteristics and this certainly seems to be the case.

For those who are would like to read more here is a link to the article i am quoting https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/these-are-the-most-common-traits-of-conspiracy-theorists-345553

There's an enormous amount of reading material available, most of it echoing similar sentiments.

It's interesting that in times of crisis (Covid 19, US election) people are more likely to embrace conspiracy theories.

 

"Conspiracy theorists typically:

• tend to have a little less education.
• more often live in societies that have less successful democracies, which influences trust in others and in the authorities.
• belong to groups that feel they should have more power and influence.
• belong to special political organizations or religious groups a little more often.
• more often use intuition - their "gut feeling" - when making decisions.
• see connections more often than most people do, also where such connections do not exist, and they are more likely to see intention as the cause of events.
• are a little more narcissistic and paranoid than others.
• more often obtain their information from social media."

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 You forgot Gullible 

It was a 6.5 mm ex Italian military Mannlicher-Carcano with a scope sight, reputed to be reasonably accurate, accurate enough obviously.

-- Edited by Santa on Tuesday 3rd of August 2021 06:54:30 PM

Go here for interesting reading re the Kennedy assassination:

www.wanttoknow.info/assassinations/kennedy/kennedy-assassination-jfk-rfk

Plenty about the gun here.

Apologies all, the last few lines of my attempt at humour didn't eventuate, it was supposed to be a call on gut feelings in the caravan world.

Their was a conspiracy going around in our local council elections, that a dog had been put up to run in the election. Now the story goes, in info after the election that the dog got 216 votes. The possibly soon to be council persons name was written down as his initial only, so it was M. My Name. Now they wanted to known his first name, so it was put in as Milo. My Name. No one clicked and the day of the election he won 216 votes, he was 56 votes shy of being elected. His ticket was freedom for dogs, To stop being known as being in ownership of a said owner, so to be an independent dog in their own right, That dogs must be cared for properly, that is fed and housed appropriately, and the right to run free on the towns ovals. And that cats have to be registered, and not allowed to run free at all. This last one was he doesn't  really like cats, so wanted them hobbled. It was only found out on election day that Milo was a dog. It just tells you who could possibly be elected into council or govt. Most of his voters were in agreement  about cats.

-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 4th of August 2021 04:05:14 PM

Eaglemax wrote:

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rgren2 wrote:

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vince56 wrote:

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 General discussion. Lotsa stuff here that has nothing to do with caravans. 
Just a gut feeling. 

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 Yeh, the moral police are active already

 

I found some people are simply anti Govt.  Anti vaccinations, anti climate change, anti everything. 

One friend is anti vaccinations "you don't know what you put in your body". As he puff away at 40 cigs  a day.

Tony

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Mike Harding wrote:

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Whilst I think it important to reject the concept the Earth is being run by Martians selectively implanted amongst us and similar things it is a fact that sometimes conspiracy theories have some validity... as Richard Nixon discovered.

Or do you, Santa, reject every conspiracy theory out of hand?  

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What I'm saying is there is something in the psychological make up of  conspiracy theorists that makes them receptive to whatever lunacy is presented to them without any rational thought or investigation, if its on the interweb thing it must be true.

 

Hmmmm, Just like the link in the original post.

Just saying

 

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-- Edited by Sarco Harris on Saturday 7th of August 2021 08:55:47 PM

An interesting show on SBS tonight the history of guns! I'm not a gun owner but the program is informative.