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Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133
Some of the things he says is incorrect, but some of things he has stated is cold hard fact. I think we should only look at the facts, and just ignore who is saying them. I am not talking about anything in particular either.
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Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Count the hits and not the misses.
The fact is he shouts tons of BS with maybe a few gems of truth...which can only be found by checking everything from other sources. You don't know what is true, and he doesn't care, at the outset. I don't ignore who is saying it when the person who is has a reputation of severe mental illness and compulsive lying.
Frankly, it's a waste of time. Why would I listen to him when I can listen to people who care about truth and accuracy that I would need to check his blather against anyways? Just to find (if it was physically represented) small gems of truth in literally cubic tons of crap and insanity. Just cut out the crap and find the gems.
The crap just induces fear and makes for poor decision making when people aren't as rigorous. The Miller's are a great example. They had literally problems themselves getting along with others and society itself. Instead of working on self improvement they listened to Jones spout how the world is out to get everyone...producing anger and fear to the point where they went out to get payback/revolution against the persecutors.
Jones talks a good bit about anger, fear (
to the point other conspiracy theorists deride him) and
revolutions...and given their instability it was like applying high heat to a pressure cooker while pointing the finger at imaginary demons. I don't deride him for finding a living on the backs of paranoid lunatics, even though I think he is an ******* for doing so, but he is pushing already unstable people to harm others. It also prevents them from getting help because these medications that would help are now "evil government mind control." It's sick.