Brian H
2008-05-20 08:44:33
ML;
give it up. You’ll never wean an ME-er off fantastical conspiracy theories. It’s the Stuff of Life! Existence would be insufferably boring without them. The more intricate a theory you can concoct or comprehend, the higher your status and enjoyment of existence.
It may be somewhat effective, I suggest, to come up with even more elaborate and risible alternatives, in hopes of mock-shocking them into talking sense, but the risk is that they will simply take your exaggerated foolish idea seriously and run with it.
I think c-t addiction is something like obsession with pornography: even if your rational mind says this is all fantasy and pretense, you really wish it wasn’t — so you build imaginary worlds around it to live within.
